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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1891
Page
3
A nostalgic poem laments vanished summers and pastoral joys. The speaker pleads for bygone days to return, contrasting nature’s beauty with modern commerce and waning innocence. Poem credited to James B. Kenyon in Travelers' Record.
Herbert Maltravers confronts Marie Genere at a party after a broken betrothal. Marie, dismissive and fashion-minded, clings to status as he vows to move on. In time, Maltravers reveals a new wife Lucy, and Marie loses the symbol of their engagement.
A snippet traces the black patch fad from Tudor times to Bulwer’s era and hints at fashion’s urge to conceal flaws. It then offers a curious home remedy for earache using warm water and glycarine cotton, claimed to cure acute inflammation when repeated hourly.
In New York central depot a well dressed lady and her Lord Fauntleroy approach the outgoing train. A stern impulse from the mother follows as Fauntleroy swaggeringly scares a railroad official into door duties. The boy defends his behavior as jest while the crowd laughs.
A collection of vintage pudding recipes includes orange pudding with custard and meringue, brown ice frosting served cold, a Vanity Fair pudding steamed with a sugar butter and flour base plus sauce, and a lemon pudding using gelatin and custard like cream with lemon juice and beaten egg whites.
A nineteenth century ad promotes Scott’s Emulsion of cod liver oil, noting its availability from chemists such as Scott & Bowne at 182 South 6th Avenue New York and asserting druggists everywhere carry the tonic. It references the Wanted Help notices on the second page of The Sun.
A Boston fire killed a firefighter and caused $500000 in damage. hunting parties in the mountains near Carson. a Kansas City madman terrorizes streets. Mexican troops clash with Garza’s bandits in Texas. Chattanooga suffers major fire damage. a large search for a negro murderer in Leesburg. Santa Fe train derailment injures 13 near Newcomb Missouri. a crank threatens Vanderbilt. outlaw Bob Sims captured and lynched in Mississippi. multiple violent stabbings and shootings in Michigan and Philadelphia. notices for ads and a public works bid in Indianapolis.
Sec 2 of the 1891 Indiana act bans connections with gas mains and interference with valves or mixers without a written permit. Sec 5 imposes a fine from five to one hundred dollars for any violation upon conviction.
The Sun invites readers to place wanted advertisements in its second page liners. You can seek a domestic, a rooms for rent, a room to rent, help, or a situation. Your wants can be inserted free for three days and readers are urged to try again if the first attempt fails.
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