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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1894
Page
3
Eilen Brainerd Peck writes of autumn in New England with Aunt Jane baking pumpkin pie at harvest time. The verse invites visitors from the sunny South to travel in fall to savor the pie and the season as fallen leaves and moonlit nights arrive.
In Havana a young narrator recalls meeting Pedro Jarez amid bodegas and a cigarette shop where soldiers abduct a girl. Pedro rescues Miralda, the cigarette girl, by arranging a royal marriage to Count Almonte before the governor and a priest. The count is punished as Miralda becomes Countess Almonte and the ceremony ends with a volley of musketry.
A miscellany of moralizing notes and quips on manners. Miralda the countess and widow faces a higher tribunal before marriage. A Philose motto on managing temper and social perception shares counsel from Philo. Odd quotes lampoon tramps, mothers, and theatergoers with wry humor from Detroit Free Press, Galveston News, and New York Press.
The Atchison Globe ponders gender norms and marriage in a tersely philosophical collection of lines. It suggests couples conceal ideals, love justifies actions, and women pursue or resist maiden names while men claim financial outcomes and social standing.
The season favors waist and hip length ermine capes with matching drum muffs for opera outings, day receptions, and high teas. Tulle and chiffon collars in purple and new blues lead the fashion, with yellow making an appearance. Narrow trims on coats and gowns replace wide fur, and silk gowns show fur at the foot amid jet passementerie. A cautious holiday note hints at giving a quarter and hoping for five in return.
A Buffalo New York newspaper excerpt suggests using leftover beef or lamb by simmering in water with half an onion until tender, thickening with flour, and serving over potatoes. It also notes frying cold meat in butter with flour-thickened gravy as another serving idea.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the cleansing remedy for blood purified treatment. Claims include curing scrofula eczema eczema and skin ailments like boils gland swelling and tumors through blood purification.
Noisy sale at Schrader's store promises big bargains as all stock must go due to business closure. Island City and Linton Lump coal price lists appear, with extensive Thursday market notes on provisions, vegetables, fruits, dairy and canned goods across several markets and shipper prices.
The act prohibits making or causing any connection or reconnection with gas mains or service pipes, manipulating valves or appliances, enlarging mixer orifice, or using gas for heating without mixers, unless a written permit is obtained from the concerned gas company. Violations carry a fine from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
An advertisement touts Crescent Salve as a sure cure for eczema tetter and skin diseases catarrh bunny old sores and piles priced at 250 per box with a request for a 2 cent stamp to obtain a sample box.
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