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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1892
Page
3
A fragment from the Detroit Tribune recounts Maud Muller and I raking hay and gaining freckles as her face darkened, likening it to leather. The speaker notes her blushes never showed and comments on a boarder from Boston town whose arrival worsened her shameful perception.
A western tale recounts Big Joe’s brutal behavior toward an emigrant family and his decision to pursue them. He finds the family slain by Indians, including his own kin, after a night of fear and vigil. He dies after saving no one, his last words lamenting their fate.
A jumble of curiosities and wacky notes, including sunburnt girls, cantaloupe ice cream, Kirke White’s butcher’s heritage, the Carlton Club’s riches, ham and tomato sandwiches, a Brooklyn iron man, and a grotesque mosquitos device described as a two-saw and lance contrivance.
A collage of quips on family life and humor from the New York papers. Satirical lines on ball games and physicians mix with home remedies and fashion notes from Good Housekeeping including dental powders and eye baths and trends in velvet and crepe for early fall wardrobes.
The Milwaukee Journal notes that constant criticism wears on others and forced cheerfulness lacks life. It urges self-control, warning that any personal weakness will be noticed without self-promotion.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a purely vegetable, harmless tonic for women. It claims to regulate female health, ease period pains, strengthen digestion, enrich blood, relieve backache, and improve sleep, with a money back guarantee if not effective.
Fragmentary OCR item mentions eye glasses and anver sis with unclear date. The readable portion suggests a notice or ad about eyewear but lacks concrete names, places, or actions to fully specify.
The Reading railroad deal was set aside by a New Jersey court. In Coal Creek Tennessee miners began trials on Thursday and several miners were arrested. Sheriff Laumeister in San Francisco refused to hang Murderer John Mc Nulty until sentence by a competent court. Balloonist Gertie Carmo died near Detroit after a parachute failure at a Thursday flight. Oliver White, passing Osage Indian reservation, was bound to a stake by locals during a ghost dance. hair was shaved and clothes burned but he was unharmed.
A playful verse and assorted snippets note a Philadelphia girl Dora Shoemaker swimming a mile from South Bay beach to Pullman Island in the St Lawrence, followed by friends in a boat. The item also includes a quip about Gustave Doré and a warning on ear care for children, emphasizing gentle cleaning.
A recipe for gooseberry charlotte uses one and a half pounds gooseberries half pound sugar and slices of bread and butter. Line a mold with buttered bread, simmer gooseberries with sugar to a pulp, fill mold cover with bread then bake fifty five minutes. Turn onto dish sifted sugar is served.
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