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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1890
Page
3
The verse fragments lament playful misreadings and malapropisms of mother earth and a lovestruck owner. The melodramatic scene features a nest without an egg and a talking horse callow with irony. The tone mirrors satirical old newspaper verse about nature and folly.
Captain Delan learns Avenel Granton died after a picket wound while a lettered mystery unfolds. He discovers a photograph and love letters to a woman, then confronts Miss Hissa Maria and Elsie about Vida and the true lover Granton, exposing a torn past and a hidden betrayal.
The article describes washing Madras curtains in clear water and soap suds, making a pocketed pasteboard background to hold letters and papers as a mantle or shelf décor, and installing a Louis XVI frieze to coordinate with existing wallpaper. It notes fashion shifts from frugal furniture to refined wall treatments and suggests affordable wall accents.
The piece compares cab and omnibus fares in Paris London and St Petersburg noting 8 to 10 kopecks per mile in Russia cab hire cheaper in Europe than America. It describes two story omnibuses asphalt streets smoother rails unnecessary and predicts noiseless omnibuses replacing rattling streetcars in New York and elsewhere. It mentions Paris London and Brussels Berlin and uses period phrasing.
A verbose clipping notes changing roles for women emphasizing tract distribution and saloon lectures, and mentions Empress Frederick gaining court influence in England, with references to Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice, and Ascot races. The piece fades into ads for candles, medicines, and Rochester shoe house promotions.
A jumble of curious facts notes sparrow heads bounty in Ohio, a hollow spring steel tire, Italy’s travel book system, watermelon as a stomach cooler, and late night sleep aids. Lunacy statistics rise in England, cucumbers linked to sleeplessness, and a cold chicken with lemonade blamed for restless nights.
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