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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1891
Page
3
A reflective monologue on love and duty shaped by a mother’s memories of a lost love. The speaker wrestles with fate, gender roles, and moral restraint while cherishing her child and seeking guidance from God and heaven.
A sensational tale recounts a luxurious steamer crossing the Atlantic at alarming speed crashing into a fishing smack and later an iceberg where a cocusty belle survives aboard a seal prince who proposes marriage as a condition for rescue. They marry on land but live unhappily after. The excerpt closes with fashion notes from Philadelphia and Paris on spring ribbons and hats.
A Sunday School anecdote recalls Robert, eight, admitting he prays only at night to keep watch in darkness. He quips he would not trust a boy who cannot look after himself in the daytime, prompting a motherly exchange about love and behavior.
Two stylish girls discuss the silk walk and silk foundation garments in a Washington Post account. A third woman with a high back hat and fluttering feather demonstrates the rustling sound and corkscrew wriggle of silk fashions as an onlooker notes the delicate cadence.
The article notes prattiest novelties such as tall slender vases two to three feet high and silver wash basins with repousse patterns for luxury households. Paper quilts for the poor use brown paper sewn in sheaves, covered with chintz, cretenge, and patchwork for warmth.
A seamstress died from blood poisoning after using a dirty metal thimble marked with verdigris. A wild goose struck an Alameda electric light nest, breaking the glass and bending the brass rod. A Kansas City letter carrier slept by an open window and woke blind in the moonlit room. Owners now shoeing doga to protect floors with maid of chamois leather gols.
Five hundred families wintering at Chautauqua as tourists begin journeys after New Year. Americans are common at European resorts while Tampa vies with St. Augustine as a fashionable destination. Florida tourists may pick oranges for 45 cents per dozen. A pine knot fir, burning in an open fireplace, is a feature of winter resort hotel living.
A collection of brief notes cites Victoria’s lack of servants, Berlin beer at four dollars per barrel, Dayton workers riding free, new season up trends with umbrellas and seal-skin sacques, souvenir spoons as a fad, porcelain-handled gentleman’s canes, auctioneers’ fees in France and Holland paid by buyers, and a New York firm releasing about a million cheap novels yearly.
Russell Sage once a school teacher and Rufus Hateh a former Indianapolis organist are cited as examples of modest wealth among millionaires. Col Gordon of Missouri is described with a six foot beard. Sidney Dillon and George Gould of New York reportedly carry at most 50 cents and inform guests of lunch expectations.
A roundup of violent deaths and unusual incidents across states includes Alfred Cole in Kentucky, A H Lee in Pennsylvania, and John Sams buried by a snow slide in Colorado. Reports detail a new Lansing party, a Chicago Times building project, a $5,000 poetry prize, a whisky death in Springfield, and a dynamite blast in Altoona.
An item promoting Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children cites relief from teething pain colic and diarrhoea with a 25 cent bottle. It also includes vintage printer ad for Frank H Smith and Burford's engraving and a classified appeal offering ten words free for three days in a help wanted column.
Maria Dawson of Belmont Avenue reports dramatic relief after treatment by Stackhouse and Newlin medical directors in Indianapolis. She suffered from chest pain coughing and bleeding after months of illness and now sleeps well and gains weight following the doctors cure. Office hours and rates noted include a $1 consultation and mail treatment options.
Advertisement offers treatment for catarrh and all nose and throat diseases for five dollars per month until January 1. Medicines furnished without extra fee. Any patient starting now will be billed at the same rate until cured.
An advertisement argues against substituting inferior products and promotes Scott’s Emulsion of cod liver oil. It claims pharmacists will not offer alternatives and invites readers to obtain the book On Careful Living for free. The ad notes Scott’s Emulsion is sold by all druggists for $1.
Rec 2 and 5 of the 1891 Indiana General Assembly act declare it illegal to connect or reconnect gas mains or service pipes without a written permit, to adjust valves or mixers, or to use natural gas for heating without proper equipment. Section 5 imposes a fine of five to one hundred dollars for each offense upon conviction.
A paragraph promotes Tum 3ur liners promising buyers for items like violins, guns, stoves, pianos, horses, wagons, dogs, and trinkets. It advertises low rates and testaments by city residents. It also pitches a help wanted insertion with a free ten word ad in Tax Jun.
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