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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
5
A collection of brief maxims from Carlyle Shakespeare Sir John Girshiel Shelley Milton and Steele. The quotes warn against evil tongues self respect study ignorance repentance and the dangers of careless speech. Each line presents a compact moral or warning.
A reflective Dublin University Magazine poem contrasts joyous wedding bells with solemn funeral tolls. The verses move from bright sunshine to rain laden sorrow, voicing life’s cycle from birth to death and the hope that death leads to rest.
In a London solicitor firm tale, Nevil explains how his uncle Jerry, a senior partner, plans to leave wealth to him but instead schemes undermine the family. Nevil reveals the offhand cruelty of the uncle and the strain it puts on Nevil and his kin.
Nevil recounts Uncle Jerry’s farewell Christmas speech and a failed scheme to make him heir. He admits funding the lavish gatherings and Jerry’s lodging while hoping for a large windfall, only to learn of Jerry’s marriage to Susan Hobbs and a hollow, unshared fortune in Chicago.
A decorator criticizes cluttered interiors and urges plain walls as a backdrop for well chosen pieces. He warns against mixing too many woods and styles, recommending a single, harmonious scheme to achieve peaceful, useful beauty in the home. For a Cold in the Head Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
English tastes favor ginger scented stewed apples with port. A plum and apple fruit salad uses powdered sugar curacoa. A novel baked apple dish fills cores with a paste of brown sugar butter and flour then bakes with water. Old fashioned cornmeal mush boosts breakfast with leftover fried crisps as garnish.
The poem laments aging and time's passage as the seasons unfold. It contrasts youthful memory with the cold, ruthless hand of age and suggests that true youth remains as long as memories stay dear. The verse ends noting indifference to Christmas time and market scents.
A bemused captive views lavish quarters aboard a swashbuckling figure while newspaper men gander at the scene. The dialogue shifts to gas bills provoking social wit and a joke about a golfer delaying his wedding for another round.
Provident housewives prepare a rich christmas plum pudding to mature for weeks. The recipe uses suet flour bread crumbs currants sugar lemon zest candied peel and warm spices with six eggs and brandy, boiled in a floured cloth for five hours then rested and served with optional brandy flame.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note discusses ribbon collecting and use among women, noting how ribbon purchases shape charming, practical trifles. It describes fan cases made from satin ribbons with fringe, possible embroidery or painting, and decorations with spangles, beads, or jet.
The Pittsburg Dispatch cites a top pharmacist advising women that only cleansing agents like soap and water benefit hair and scalp. Rubbing in mixtures by hairdressers is warned as useless or dangerous if the attendant is careless. cleanliness and health are the best drivers of a fine head of hair.
A newspaper notice describes a shirt-waist box with a top tray and roomy lower drawer. It stands 26 inches high and fits winter flannel spring silk and summer wash shirts. Available in denim art ticking repp corduroy velour, priced from 6 to 11 cents.
A testimonial from Mrs. M. J. Terrence of 1631 Shelby Street praises Dean's Kidney Pills for back and kidney pain relief after trying doctors and other remedies. The ad notes the product sells at 50 cents a box, with Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo as sole U.S. agents and urges readers to remember the name Dean's.
The article describes a Tin Wedding luncheon where guests sat at four per table, each with a tin quart centerpiece of bride's roses and tin dishes for sandwiches nuts olives and candies. Tin cups, pate-pans, timbale molds and tin candlesticks complemented the silver service and personalized tin spoons.
A thoughtful youth at Glen Echo tried to aid a fellow rider by removing a large spider from a young woman's back hair. He startled the woman and others when the spider dangled from her hair, causing a shriek and a scene in the car.
An ad touts Dr Bull s Cough Syrup as a reliable remedy for coughs colds hoarseness bronchitis and other throat and lung ailments claiming it will cure you with this old faithful remedy.
The Morton Place Laundry run by Fr Meyer, proprietress, operates from 3901 1908 cope at Old telephone 27712 in Indian.
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