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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1891
Page
3
A fragment from Munsey's Weekly analyzes love and social pressure in a lyric style. It contrasts romantic longing with practical restraint noting the speaker earns twelve dollars a week and spends three thousand a year, highlighting economic constraints on marriage.
A dinner party at an ancient manor gathers to hear ghost stories. Holst, a medical student, suspects superstition and plans to debunk the haunt in the blue chamber. He locks the room, confronts a spectral figure, and is shot when a real intruder fires, dying after a staged fright by Victor and Anna.
Incomplete OCR fragment describes a man found with discharged pistols and hair ratted, life gone. One week later Victor was taken to the asylum in Buffalo as life details remain unclear.
The piece blends anecdotes about Indian children showing affection in schools with a Chicago Herald report of a Bay City vagrancy arrest where a man produced $65 and soap, mocking the tramp label. It also notes Finnish bathing customs and criticizes New York State Senator Irwin’s homely appearance, yet affirms his parliamentary skill and oratory.
A Detroit traveller recalls visiting a London theatre and sitting in the pit among a drunken bargee and two fishwives. A light above drew laughter as one fishwife removed a bottle from her lips, prompting the narrator to flee the dreary scene after a curt two penny experience.
A mixed fragment lists days with character traits and fortunes tied to sneezing each day. It then names color terms and hues such as Nickel gray and Lemon, plus various French color forms like Coquelicot and Parme. The text resembles a miscellaneous list of colors and fortunes.
The piece describes spring fashion with white and silver window furnishings and an imported glove featuring a novel fastener. A single press closes the glove by engaging one button into the opposite hole, while turning the top button releases all others.
Dr J B Jordan claims the largest successful practice for tuartarrh consumption asthma heart disease and throat and lung illnesses in the United States He offers to diagnose without questions and promote his Lung Renovator remedy sold by druggists across the U S Canada England and Germany Send a stamp for details and treatment of chronic diseases including lupus and cancers with no substitutes advised.
Census figures show one fifth of native married women are childless. Rev D E Roberts of the Unitarian church Kansas City preached on Stand put and keep mum. Hats bring in high earnings for trimming ladies with up to eighty dollars weekly. England hosts Sunday night smokes as entertaining world wide. A mutton dish recipe blends minced onions cucumbers and capers with sage and butter, broiled slowly then served with spinach or mashed potatoes.
Late of the University of Pennsylvania and Bellevue Hospital lists numerous conditions treated successfully including ague asthma bronchitis cancer diarrhea dyspepsia gastritis lumbago pleurisy paralysis rheumatism skin diseases and female disorders. Notable entries include fever sore throat uterine disorders and joint diseases.
An English and German language consultation is offered free of charge from 3:30 p.m. to noon. Remote participants unable to call should send two questions by mail. The notice mentions Yam. tolgm and lomtelgem To m and refers to Sandsye in Fa. m. with details unclear.
The traveler’s register states that on and after Sunday February 2 1891 trains will run under Central Standard Time with departures from and arrivals at Union Station South Illinois Street.
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