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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1893
Page
3
A poem from Harper’s Bazaar contrasts a society girl’s active life with the label The weaker sex. The speaker admires her stamina yet questions why such vigor is deemed weakness. The piece satirically challenges gender norms through vivid scenes of dances, sports, and social duties.
A marching column nears the Little Missouri crossing and discovers an Indians trap. A grassy 20 foot lane hides felled trees and thickets with 200 warriors, 100 archers, and 100 squaws ready to massacre the troopers. They turn away as scouts report the ambush on arrival.
A Detroit Free Press report quotes a warning spirit urging retreat and avoidance of conflict, advising to recross the river and return to the agency rather than engage the men. The fragment suggests a tense moment of flight or strategic withdrawal acknowledged by the paper.
Anecdotes about stage life and a London concert hall episode show gallery wit. An actor Taillade battles to lift a heavy Mlle Lagris and a coda shouts Make two journeys of it. A bad singer is cabbageed by a gallery prank and the crowd roars with laughter at the refrain Do not tell you.
A survey notes many women in various fields including 200 United States dentists and embalmers. Frances Hodgson Burnett works near London on a play. Miss Loch, head of Indian army nursing service, gave the army toast at a public dinner. Hunters Lady Hopetown, Mrs Alan Gardner, and R H Tyacke are cited for bold exploits across Victoria, India, and the Himalayas involving deer, cheetahs, panthers, and bears.
Instructions for a peach salad and peach pudding. Peach salad details halved ripe peaches arranged on ice with a sugar Madeira lemon juice cinnamon nutmeg dressing. Peach pudding uses baking powder flour butter peaches eggs milk vanilla sugar and bake until set, served hot with cream or vanilla sauce.
The article offers early hour vegetable prep tips soaking cauliflower cabbage and gal ad in salt water to kill insects then rinsing under running water. It also describes a method to prevent juice leakage in pies by inserting a brown paper roll in the upper crust and details a home remedy for body odor using oak barley borax and starch solution applied daily.
Silk towels are the latest bathroom luxuries. Sweet peas are worn as corsages by the summer girl. A pillow filled with wheat chaff cools hot days. Girls give pincushions made from their own combings. Umbrella straps bind umbrellas with fine leather and silver buckles. Baby pillows are decorative and not for cradle use. They are made from cambric handkerchiefs stitched at edges.
Virginia Democrats choose Chas T O Farall as gubernatorial nominee on Thursday. The report notes other international incidents and local crimes, including a Croatian gang arrest for harming children, grasshopper swarms in Fort Scott, a deadly labor dispute in Argues Mor tes, and a bank cashier’s alleged $196000 theft in Milwaukee. The piece also mentions social outings of Mrs Cleveland and Joe Jefferson in New Bedford.
Friday Aug 18 markets show prices for smoked meats hams bacon sausage and lard, with Illinois Indiana and California items. Fresh pork, dried beef, and canned fruits along with vegetables and staples like flour, coffee, sugars, dairy, and eggs are priced. Multiple firms and brands appear, including Morgen & Gray, with extensive commodity listings and per unit costs.
The New York Store announces a fourth week annex sale with 32,500 visitors already and a promise of 25,000 more if 4,500 bring 6 friends each. The message invites shoppers to explore half price hosiery, men and women wear, notions, silks, prints, and general sale items across aisles and departments with deep discounts on stock, including shoes, jewelry, and housewares, urging early Saturday purchases.
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