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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1893
Page
3
A fragmentary verse from the Atlanta Constitution recalls cotton trading in Bibyitle and the cash drought. The speaker notes banks, Congress, and market weakness, with a satirical bend about Cleveland, fishing, and repurposing labor to dig up the cotton. The piece blends regional speech and historical references.
A Detroit Free Press humor item recounts a seaside cottage girl negotiating meat choices with a butcher. She cites cost, pot size, and stove limits, proposing a spinich dish and bantam eggs to fit the small stove, while scheming to influence her landlord. The tale ends with doubt over achieving a larger stove.
A collection of reflective lines about thoughts, marriage, Cupid, roses, riches, and time. It contrasts what women say versus do, and encourages focusing on past actions and future ambitions, noting old beliefs as backward.
Janauschek writes a new play while Lotta collapses for the season. Ida Girdelle praised as the greatest lady high kicker. Lottie Para Collins reports American tour dresses costing 4000 dollars. Otero the Spanish dancer arrested in St. Petersburg for nude dancing. In New York theatres over 1000 girls work as ballet dancers with pay from 10 to 15 dollars weekly, while many earn little more than a living.
A summer flirtation yields a country wedding in a corn field near Lake Bluff Minnesota. Maryland social life features watermelon parties at watering places with graceful eating awarding a prize.
A picturesque yearly rite in Haut Vienne has all local girls lining the St Juniennles Gom bes cross near the church. Each hangs a garter on the cross while praying for a good husband, creating a garter-covered look like flowers from a distance. A southern girl is seen at the seaside with an artistically knotted silk handkerchief on her head, sometimes using a bandana rather than silk.
A historical recipe describes peeling stoning and weighing peaches then heating in a porcelain kettle to extract juice. Boil 45 minutes with frequent stirring, add sugar at 12 ounces per pound, boil five minutes skim. Add lemon juice or pineapple, simmer 10 minutes more, jar and seal with hot waxed paper.
A 1900s style note describes rain exposed complexions and new fall colors green or violet. Bonnets rumored to wear misaligned ledges reveal flowers beneath the brim to hide chignons worn low. A leather umbrella chatelaine promises a practical belt hook and buckle strap, lightweight and ready for use.
Core apples before paring and there is less danger of their breaking. A spoonful of vinegar in the water for meat or fowl makes them tender. Dip a mould in cold water before filling with cream or jelly. Heat briefly after turning out contents. Ground tea yields more aroma when hot water is poured. A waterproof paper for preserving jars can be made by brushing paper with boiled linseed oil and drying.
A Sunday school scene captures a teacher asking why Noah went into the ark and a boy replies, borrowing an umbrella caused the flood. The exchange frames children as quaintly practical, with the punchline about an umbrella.
Typewritten music and an electric cloth cutter debut as new devices. French builders pioneer plaster floors while a steam bicycle emerges as a German invention. In Mexico City steam railroads provide funeral cars, indicating evolving transport and industry.
A broad assemblage of brief items reports a Palatine banker assignment, a vast natural gas find near Lexington, cholera deaths in Russia, indemnity talks between France and Italy, a tramp’s exposure near Marshall, a proclamation opening Cherokee Strip, a fatal sawmill explosion in Stanton, police and court officials suspended after an embassy attack, a labor strike at Swift & Co in Kansas City, a lynching scare near Oakland, Ohio guards at a fair, cadets at West Point, state receptions, rumours about Wright's disease, anarchist warnings in New York, Mayor Carter Harrison’s prospective marriage, and a Larned fire that cleared a house of ill repute.
On the fourth page markets appear firm with slight declines in some lines. Items listed include meats such as bacon and hams, dried beef, lard, and various pork products from Morgan & Gray, plus a wide range of produce like Indian peaches, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and oranges. Currency-like prices for canned fruits, seeds, dairy, oils, and fuels populate the column, reflecting a dense, itemized grocery market listing typical of the era.
Greenfield’s City Marshal Jeff C. Patterson, long afflicted since 1864, credits the Stackhouse System at the Stackhouse Medical Institute in Indianapolis for rapid improvement. He describes years of declining health, failed treatments, and eventual cure under Dr. Stackhouse and Dr. Jate Gill Allan. Treatment by mail offered, with diseases diagnosed by syringom blanks and free mailed information.
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