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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1893
Page
3
A grandmotherly figure tends a household with daily care. A child’s voice coos and clings to her apron as water and love bind them. As evening falls, a new heart stir arises at the gate, and love claims the home.
Seaberry NY rustic Lem Lawson, famed for oddities, faces a copperhead scare after grabbing a garter snake. He dashes to Ike Frazier’s bull, mounts, and races ten miles toward Black Lake, finally collapsing drunk at Dr. Longside’s door before resuming the wild ride through Busck Lake and back to the settlement.
A hot day drives Georgie to use a palm leaf fan as dust swirls. A bee-like red hot fly slips in through an open door and Georgie traps it, then releases it saying it burned. The scene ends with the playful mislabeling of the bee as a hot fly from Youth's Companion.
A collage of brief items notes humor from a Detroit Free Press piece about a girl in a hammock and a Boston visitor, schooling on book misreadings, plus gossip about Swedish women workers and Siam royalty with tiny feet. Other vignettes cover honey parties, Wall Street squeezes, Berry Wall in a streetcar, cholera prep in parishes, and a Scots English quip on Shakespeare.
Spiced peaches known as sweet pickle peaches use 3 quarters of a pound of brown sugar per pound of peaches, whole cloves mace and water, with peaches studded by cloves. Simmer to soft, refresh with vinegar, then pour over peaches for canning. Southern housekeepers prefer cling-stone peaches for better shape.
A list of social graces praised by the Christian Observer outlining how to maintain an erect carriage a sound body a calm voice and a tactful demeanor The piece emphasizes yielding to others opinions and feelings keeping a pleasant memory for faces and events and listening without irritation or rudeness.
The piece presents a quaint humor exchange with a Reverend Primrose and a scholar. The little joke contrasts perceptions of happiness in marriage and weather knowledge, concluding with the scholar’s umbrella cue when clouds cover the sky.
A Chicago sash and door plant burned for a $30,000 loss. Sevierville faced cloud-burnt ruin to property and crops. In Connellsville workers fled to Europe as 900 Italians and Hungarians departed. Fall River mills cut wages 10 to 15 percent. An Oakland threshing engine explosion killed Geo Noble and wounded two others. Ann Arbor road suit costs settled. New York bank closed for deposit drops, with $60,000 excess liabilities. A Cincinnati thieves’ safe theft totaled $1,709. Drowning claimed Geo P Witherbee and five crew members near White Hall. Suicides in St Louis included Adam Temple, W.S. McAllister, and Mrs Elizabeth Bruckner amid despondency. Fred Deveaux starved in jail. Insanity noted.
The notice lists numerous market prices for meats such as hams, bacon, sausage, lard, and various pickled and fresh meats. It also covers fruits, vegetables, canned goods, flour, butter, eggs, dairy, and imported groceries with specific weights and price per unit, reflecting a comprehensive wholesale pricing sheet. It mentions brands and suppliers like Morgan & Gray and Empire, and includes commodities such as dried beef, smoked meats, and lard in tierces and barrels.
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