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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1890
Page
3
A rural tableau unfolds as a farmer dies inside while his wife waits at the barn yard gate. Jenny the brown eyed maiden returns with the cows, bringing quiet tension and a secret late homecoming. Speckle Bess and Brindle pass through the gate as mother finally understands Jenny's tardy return.
Jim Duncen known as Shorty is portrayed as short in stature and means, with a lively wit that pleases friends and provokes enemies. He drifts through jobs, loves a wealthy village girl Sue, elopes, faces family fury, and rises to influence in a silver mining syndicate after seeking opportunity westward.
Instructions describe making apple jelly from juice sugar and lemon juice with boiling and straining, then crab apple jelly by boiling fruit to pulp and sweetening with sugar and lemon juice. Also mentions Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic for bodily power and mental vigor.
A Flint barber keeps two razors handed down since 1705 and has shaved many faces from pilgrim whiskers to strangers. Mrs Marble in Dixfield hid a setting hen in a room, only to find her hen alive days later. Muskota style advice praises red color for complexion and Chicago homes appear plain yet refined.
A reflective piece argues that abuse is undeserved, leisure should be earned, and learning benefits those with practical sense. It urges frank friendship, warns sins catch up to everyone, and champions pleasant thoughts as true pleasures. It concludes with valuing discernment and wit alongside virtue.
A collage of humorous exchanges, jokes, and quotations from Punch and Washington critics, with snippets of city life and literary light humor. The Rochester Shoe stock note and a real estate pitch flank gossip on travel and ownership, ending with an ad teasing a real estate column in The Son.
The column critiques pricey fashion items from silk stockings to cashmere baby clothes and suggests thrifty alternatives like brown cashmere lined with white silk. It ridicules high costs, notes the trend away from black in dry goods, and includes an ad for Darbys Prophylactic Fluid with a testimonial from S P Greer about erysipelas cure.
Historical notices authorize grading and paving with brick and stone on multiple streets including Ruckle Street Bellefontaine Avenue Home Avenue Pine Street Market Street and Cincinnati Street. Specifications specify sidewalk widths bowldering curb placement sand bedding and concrete rights of way to the city engineer for final approval.
The itemized public works text outlines grading, paving, bowlder ing, and curbing for Michigan and Hanna streets and several other locations. It specifies brick paving on inner sidewalks, sand bedding, bowlder ing and gutter stones, varying widths, and detailed curb dimensions. Also included are bids for iron and wooden bridges over Pleasant Run and other structures, with submission rules and contract conditions.
The Sun advertises two offers to recruit subscribers and agents. Offer No 1 targets Indianapolis youth to recruit monthly or multi month subscribers, with a free safety bicycle for meeting fixed tier goals by October 1. Offer No 2 awards one bicycle to the agent who grows the list most before October 1, applicable to current Sun agents and new country agents, with monthly payments and commissions.
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