This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1891
Page
3
Fragmentary verse describing moon above pines and a river with a camp scene. A tale of wealth, leisure, and a hoarded book, reflecting on loss and wandering in a western setting. Includes faded lines about Nell on English meadows and a grave with laurel wreaths.
A local troupe stages The Rose of Picardy with a fond wife and dash ing husband, a bewitching child, and a brutish Percy Risk. Rehearsals at members' homes degenerate into delays, petty squabbles, and improvisations as actors improvise props and lines amid nervous energy and comic missteps.
The article describes front draped panier skirts with bell backs, soft diagonal striped light cheviots in tanbark and pearl white, trimmed with brown velvet and silver cords. It notes fashionable women and actors wives shaping stage careers, plus light vignettes from daily life and society dialogue, including a wartime telegram anecdote and a Chicago visitor’s remark on land values.
The Philadelphia Record notes folk remedies for eye strain and general weakness affecting vision. Tips include avoiding reading while ill or traveling, using slippery elm water externally, strong black tea for eye issues, and limiting needlework. Also offered are salves and salves for skin and hand care with ingredients like tallow, salt, cologne, tincture of belladonna, spermaceti, almond oil, camphor gum, heated and poured into molds.
A chaotically mixed local and world items page notes a beer dispute in Kansas City, Illinois camp life for soldiers, milk shortages in Galesburg, deaths and political pivots, weather hopes in New York, and various business and transport notices. The fragmentary items include a Minneapolis millionaire death, a New York rubber dealer bust, a New York political forecast, a London fair related topic, a Denver photographer appointment, a Pittsburg wind wreck, and assorted ads and trivia.
In a mixed notice, Sullivan and Herod invite citizens to judge politics by personal health and promote Heids German Cough and Kidney Cure as a safe quick remedy. Separately, Indianapolis Public Works announces a proposed levee along White River from Chestnut to Ream Street with costs assessed to benefited properties. A public hearing on remonstrances is set for August 20 1891.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.