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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1891
Page
3
A fragment from James Whitcomb Riley expresses sorrow and offers comfort despite sharing no child who has died, placing the speaker in sympathy with others under a somber mood.
A New York News feature narrates Mrs. Arnold’s life woven with sorrow and resilience. From joyful marriages to the deaths of a husband, child, and finally the mother’s long vigil, lavender and pinks perfume memories as she counsels others and endures faith’s revival.
The passage describes velvet bodices and plaid skirts with silk lined caps, double breasted jackets, long agal-skin capes on tall slender women, and strings of pearls for debutantes. It notes fur trimmed cloaks, peacocks feather edging on cloaks, and baby christening processions with two white dressed attendants carrying prayer book and infant, in white.
A collection of aphorisms and witticisms from Napoleon Twain Jerome Jerome Howells Lub otk and others. The lines explore truth in history poverty social perception misperception and the stubbornness of memory with a mix of humor and insight.
Sir W Beott notes that a calm kindly humor aids longevity and strengthens life. He argues that gentleness often proves more powerful than harsh words, shaping character and actions through steady, supportive conduct.
A colonial style column quotes rebukes for careless street behavior and a London observer’s fable on pity versus honesty. It notes a Delaway Street tenement fire in New York with no recovered body and a $25 reward offered by anxious parents. The piece also discusses corn bread names across American regions and references Indian bread tradition.
A jumble of lines from period humor and fashion notes spans lovers debating marriage over “rocks,” Turkish rugs as gifts, rich women in lace veils, and a Paris frock frenzy. Cartoonish exchanges from Buffalo News and Boston Transcript mingle with light family quips from Harper’s Young People, all reflecting turn‑of‑the‑century society.
We pay the printer to give you good advice about health and to lead you to careful living. If you would go to your doctor whenever you need his advice we might save our money. Let us send you a book ON CAREFUL LIVING, free. Scott & Bowne, Chemists, New York. Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil, $1.
Legal notice from Indiana General Assembly 1891 prohibits any person from making connections or reconnections with gas mains or service pipes or altering valves without a written permit. Violations carry a fine from five to one hundred dollars upon conviction.
A jumble of brief, unsettled items covers deaths, accidents, crimes, and curiosities including poet Whitman dying in Camden, Gen John R Kenly dead in Baltimore, a mine collapse in Plymouth Pennsylvania, a royal assortment of violent events, and assorted notices. The column also advertises Want Ads and local services.
The Board of Public Works of Indianapolis invites sealed bids by January 4 1892 for improvements including graveling and paving Columbia avenue sidewalks with brick, double walk-stones, bowldering crosswalks, and a 260 foot sewer pipe. plus a brick sewer project near Meridian Street. Specifications on file in the Public Works Office. The board may reject all bids. A W Conpoirr, President.
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