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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1892
Page
3
A poetic fragment traces a youth who wore a rose and vanished after heartbreak. Years later the speaker meets him again, hidden in a crowd, with a masked seat and a lingering memory of love and betrayal. The verse explores sweetness and bitterness in life and the enduring ache of a first heartache.
A Scranton man recalls a fortnight in Lycoming county with rustic humor. A boy’s overloaded fiddles ignite mischief and explosions in a village prank, while a farmer’s oxen and a reckless ride end in a splashy creek mishap. A blundering bull encounter closes the odd tale.
A collection of miscellaneous items notes and curiosities including potato weights in New York cholera rags ban for Canada a railway fatality rate in 1910 Madrid birds dying in the street Ohio name origin Wyandotte term Glezah an eatery serving flavored hotcakes A Jackson Miss relise with stamps odd items including a human skull and a rabbit’s left foot water purity tests a Hong Kong pigeon language snippet a lost tame cat notice with a Chinese money tied to its collar and a reward offer.
A brief vintage ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming it cures symptoms and offers fair trial. It notes Hood's Pills act easily yet efficiently and mentions a price of $8.75 to Chicago via the Monon route, conveying promotional sales language.
The fragment blends salacious dialogue from a Brooklyn Herald piece with 19th century fashion guidance from the Albany Press. It cites flirtatious lines about kissing and screaming, then shifts to cautions on inconspicuous dress, suggesting avoidant styles, matching colors, and restrained decor to prevent a room from feeling crowded or flashy.
NSW reports Grandmaster Sweeney plans to enter the newspaper business in Chicago amid other wartime and social upheavals. The wire notes global unrest, indicts a W. F. Cowham collapse in Jackson Michigan, and sketches a string of sensational local and national events.
A Nobleboro Maine Sunday school talk prompted a boy to answer what causes harm to fruit saying worms. The speaker, from Ridgewood New Jersey, used the image of worm blight to teach that sin defiles the heart and children echoed the worm image. The Washington Star notes and the New York Bulletin republished the quip.
This passage describes making a coffee custard by heating milk in a double boiler, beating four eggs with sugar, stirring in, then adding cream and coffee before chilling and freezing. It also covers preparing a prune gelatin with prunes, gelatin, water, lemon juice, and cinnamon, then moulding and serving with sweetened whipped cream.
Mrs. Lizzie Zink of 4 Parrette street describes three years of catarrh with headaches, weight loss, and a persistent cough. After visiting Doctors Stadhouse and Newna in Newlin, she says the physicians diagnosed a curable condition and implemented care that restored appetite, weight, vision, and hearing, ending her nasal throat troubles and cough.
Publishers claim health cures through regular skilled treatment at STACKHOUSE Medical Institute in Indianapolis. They advertise chronic disease remedies, promising relief for lingering illnesses, nervous debility, curvature of spine, deformities from paralysis, harelip, cleft palate, and hernia cures without surgery. Out-of-town patients welcomed by correspondence. consultation fee listed.
Readable fragments show little change in grocery, provisions, and fats with prices listed for meats, canned fruits, vegetables, and staples. Purchases include dried beef ham, lard, canned peaches and apples, groceries like coffee and sugar, fresh pork loins, and a wide array of produce with regional prices and package sizes.
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