The Missing Step
A clever architect builds a perfect house that awes neighbors but his late sneaking ends in disaster when he steps on a step that isn’t there, rousing the house as he reaches the top stair. Buffalo News.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1892
Page
3
Fearful Vengeance Aboard Train in Indiana
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a crowded passenger coach scene where a wild-eyed man claims his wife is running away with another passenger. He contemplates violence but ultimately lets vengeance pass, allowing the couple to depart unseen at the next stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Detroit
Ree Press
Womanly virtue valued over athletic charm in a rural view
A Philadelphia Times excerpt argues that true desirability rests in feminine domestic virtues over athletic appearances. It contrasts Juno type ideals with independent fashion, praises home making and sociability, and notes small town flirtations and party planning in Atchison and Cod items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oman
Philadelphia Times
Hottest Place in Town Involved in Chicago Laundry Prank
Three men in Palmer House argued over the hottest Chicago spot. They settled on a big laundry, and one man tried to enter to see it on a hot day. A frightened office girl warned him away as the curious man persisted. A brick house toppled as he bolted away in a comic misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer House
Chicago
Chicago Inter Ocean
Wealthy Baron Hirsch and a Return to Simple Dress
The Free Press notes Baron Hirsch’s wealth and simple attire while recounting Searles’s appraisal of Hopkins relatives as about $2,000 each from her estate. A Bel fast, Me., grocer tale shows a judge’s approval allowing a ten cent payment on a wheel dollar. Brush, ex warden at Sing Sing, recalls Ferdinand Ward as sly and untrustworthy, despite Ward’s prison compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Hirsch
Searles
N. Y. Sun
Brush
Luncheon Etiquette and Table Manners Notes
A Buffalo News snippet lists foods served with hulls on strawberries radishes olives and other items. It discusses proper serving with salt on lettuce forks for mayonnaise, peeling large fruits, and a sugar tongs mishap. It also notes debate over handling wings and legs at fashionable luncheons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo News
Fire Sweeps Delia Ohio Stores Citing $200000 Loss
A blaze in Delia Ohio destroyed four blocks of stores and offices Friday, causing an estimated $200000 loss with partial insurance. The scrambled news also reports Crespo’s apparent advance toward victory in Venezuela and grim details of a dyn amite grave desecration in Wise County Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delia
Panama
Crespo
Valencia
Wise Court House
Tennessee
Ira Mullens
Never use a spoon when a fork will do at dinners
A New York Herald piece extols fork use over spoons and handling a goblet by the stem, praising refined dining manners. It condemns touching food with knives or spoons when it can be eaten with fingers and mocks hunger at fashionable meals, urging old fashioned gentility and restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Simple Desserts From Soda Crackers And Jam
A compact recipe method uses lightly browned soda biscuits spread with raspberry or strawberry jam and thickened with beaten cream. Includes a ice cream cake variant with sugar butter milk flour baking powder egg whites and yolks with vanilla, baked then cooled.
Cure for Catarrh Promises Health Without Great Cost
Mrs. Lizzie Zink of 208 Fayette street reports three years of catarrh with chronic headaches coughing and weakness improved after treatment at Stackhouse and Newlin Mexican Institute No 203 N Illinois Street Indianapolis Ind. The interview promotes their chronic disease treatments by correspondence and offers consultations and exams for $1 with hours daily and special cases including nervous debility and hernia cure without surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Zink
Fayette Street
Drs
StackHouse Mexican InstituTe
N.llinois Street
Todianapolia
Ind
Hamilton
Os W. Oblast
Indianapolis
West
Ohio Street
Brubaker A M D Offers New Private Treatments
ALS Brubaker M D announces successful cures for skin and nervous disorders using a new system. He claims permanent cures for catarrh and unique methods for sexual irregularities with a French approach. Treatment is personal and guaranteed, with mailed home treatment and private consultations at Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
Market Report Fragment from Historic Saturday Listings
Saturday market notes show prices across meats, canned goods, fruits, vegetables, and staples. Strong hogs and beef values, steady oils and drugs, with berries and dried fruits trading. produce like tomatoes, beans, and apples listed along with seafood and dairy items and even seeds and lawn grasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
California
Rejiabie
Morgan & Gray
Jenglish
Liege
Link
Dlerers
Lsc
Ral Packing Company
Johnson
Yarmouth
Polk
Standard
Prine
Cordoba
Bana Hee
Java
Columbia River
Sacramento River
New York
Limburg
Berus—Cilover
Alsyke
Alialta
Timothy
Isney
Castor Oi
oll_bergamont
Coplom
Quibine
Daisam Eopatba
Garner
Ume
W.S
SNBC
Arass
Laxative Gum Drops Promoted For Indigestion Relief
An advertisement promises Laxative Gum Drops cure indigestion and relieve gas with no medicinal taste. Two drops are said to be a gentle cathartic suitable for all, including the delicate, with no pain or griping. Boxes cost ten or twenty five cents, mailed if not in stock.
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Telesuone
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Pennsylvania St
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Lodianapolis
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Lockport
Invianapolis
Pennsylvania
Samuel Laing
E. Court St
Boynton
Frank Hoestess & CO
East New Yorkst
Gimeriduan ST
Grovno Ficor
Estaurant
LEE Hanshaw’s
W. Washington St
A. C. Haynes
J. W. Coringson
W. H. Maxdensall
BR. I. Kendrick
Wherrell
Gold Institute
Indianapol8
Washington and
Tennessee-sts
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France
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Ly Ueinsreessllegal
Institute of Shortbham
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College Journal
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Thorpe Block
East Market Street
Indianapolis, Ind
Delaware Street
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North
W. G. Wasson & O
Indianapolis Brewing CO
Jdsyorn
Borbos
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Browning & Son
J. French
Streft
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