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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1891
Page
3
A lyrical fragment records a secret romance voiced through multilingual lines of love. The speaker recalls tender whispers, a nightingale melody, and the sea sharing the same declaration Ich liebe dich allein, spoken across Flora’s domain and heard by distant shores.
Six year old Jean, hungry and ragged, asks a French public writer to pen a letter to the Holy Virgin. The scene unfolds in Gros Cailliou with Pere Bonin, moved by Jean’s plea, learning of Jean's mother dead from cold and hunger. Bonin consoles the child and vows to visit the mother, revealing a humane, poignant moment amid urban hardship.
A Paris writer known as Jean is linked to a touching tale through a letter never written. A mother’s deathbed plea inspires Bonin to vow honesty and Christianity, while a young man clings to a dream of guiding a cherished angel.
A Boston dress reform club plans a rain ready parade outfit with waterproof skirts and gaiters. About 290 women, including teachers and physicians, formed a style group aiming for novelty and individuality.
The piece recalls a variety actor on Washington Street in Boston wearing sky blue clothes with a purple velvet waistcoat and shiny black beaver, drawing crowds with his distinctive attire. It also mentions stories of Russell Sage impersonating a tax assessor to claim a dead cow’s value and praise for Ex-President Hayes at a Detroit parade. Proceedings from Indianapolis and public works notices follow, detailing street improvements and bids.
A long list of assorted 19th century items reports coal price changes heat deaths in New York, police cuts in Chicago, bankruptcies in Butler and Cincinnati, a Leadville silver fund, a birth in Greenville, fraud probes in Cincinnati, lumber debt in Chicago, leper patients at large in New York, racial political schemes in California, a Memphis robbery, wheat losses in the Northwest, a Arkansas convict branding claim, Polk widow near death in Nashville, government promotion limits, gas project in Ohio towns, a Pennsville farmers picnic violence, Denver suicides, Detroit factory fire losses, a Newark abbatoir loss, a Columbus Grove bank robbery arrest spree, and a sales pitch for Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
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