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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1900
Page
5
Grace Atwell, a Boston girl under 22, has studied and enacted 50 parts in five years. She began as an understudy at the Boston Museum, a famed training school, and this season she is the leading lady for Joseph Haworth. Munsey's Magazine provides the image.
In a Washington Star tale Mrs Jobson receives violets and chocolate from her husband Mr Jobson. Believing mischief afoot she frets until he reveals two twenties and ten found in his vest pocket, money she had stored for the bank, and the couple enjoy an evening of gifts and theater.
A playful verse recalls a winter wind flirting with Marjorie’s skirts and ruffly hose. The speaker notes the breeze as a tease that cannot truly harm or hide her charm, ending with a whimsical line about the wind and Marjorie’s passing.
A kitchen note describes making a hard sauce by creaming quarter pounds of butter with one cup of sifted sugar, chilling on ice, then adding a raw egg white and heating briefly. It advises white butter, warns under sugar can ruin curd ling, and suggests limited brandy with extra sugar, finishing with nutmeg.
A quirky, opinionated passage weighs in on theater managers profits and fame. It contrasts father son bonds at college with actors exposed as pretenders and jokes about tongue origin and social pretensions. It ends noting a labor movement jab about a walking delegate.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch quotation notes that mental tranquility may come at a cost and praises a dinner as compensation for a woman's efforts. It asserts women sacrifice meals to fund beauty recommendations, remarking on the social dynamics of domestic labor and appearance.
The article notes the short skirt shedding rainwear stereotypes and becoming a versatile shopping skirt for any weather. It highlights matching hats jackets and boots as style essentials for women embracing this adaptable garment.
Louise Hepner once hailed in Indianapolis as the Salvation lassie from The Belle of New York becomes involved in a stage tragedy. William Hepner plans to seek a divorce and court injunction to bar her use of his name. He alleges he directed friend George Leslie to serve her abroad, then she and Hepner fell in love upon return.
San Francisco to New York journalist Winifred Black stirs Denver society with her sharp satire. A forcible writer, she is widely known among newspaper readers, and her piece on Literary ghouls appeared recently in The Sun.
A detailed description of a new shirt waist featuring extensive tucking from neck to belt, a center box plait for buttoning, and a bolero front that extends into underarm and shoulder seams. Jaunty revers and airy bow at bust charm, appealing to those preferring dainty, less severe styling.
Fragmentary note on February born girls wearing amethyst as a sign of true love. Mentions Greek roots and ancient beliefs about amethyst cups preventing intoxication, with garbled text about origins.
A mock dialogue among patrons references Africky villains, a traded brindle bull, and a boastful cynic after a salary raise. The Washington Star and Chicago Record quotes appear as détaché snippets illustrating humor and cynicism in urban talk.
A Indianapolis citizen testifies to a remarkable local endorsement. Mrs. M. J. Terrence reports back pain and kidney discomfort relieved by Dean's Kidney Pills after physician visits and other remedies. The advertisement urges readers to buy at 26 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY, agents for the United States.
A fragmented advertisement lists fabrics including dress goods and ginghams in multiple c and 8c 10c grades, flannels and cottons in assorted patterns, damask and sheetings, muslin, and cotton batting. Prices and details are irregular due to OCR text quality, with numerous garbled sections.
Four eggs with butter onion milk ham and seasonings make a basic omelet. Beat yolks with milk ham and onion, fold into whites, cook in butter. Cheese omelet adds grated cheese before folding. Chicken version fills plain omelet with minced chicken in warm cream.
Retail prices for smoked meats like hams and bacon sorbet. dried beef hams and shoulders listed with varied weights and prices. Fresh pork loins cottage hams ham butts tender loins onions potatoes sweet potatoes cabbage lettuce tomatoes celery and oranges also priced. fruit nuts canned goods and groceries priced. fish and game listed with unit prices.
A dated price table lists harness and belting costs, shoe stock, tallow, salt, oats, flour, oil, drugs, cheeses, butter, live poultry, eggs, and coal retail prices. Includes per unit figures, ton and barrel prices, and regional marks across multiple goods.
William Frederick Willeens gives notice to voters of the Eighth ward Center township Indiana that he will apply to Marion county commissioners at the March term 1900 for a license to sell intoxicating liquor in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking. The business location is 747 North Noble Street in Indianapolis at the southeast corner of Noble and St Clair streets in Gillespie's subdivision. He also applies for pool table privileges in the same room.
Othmar Khellek seeks a license to sell intoxicating liquors in the Marion county Indiana March term 1900. The business is at 217 East Washington Street in a first floor room facing north in a brick building on lot 5 square 63 Center Township Indianapolis. He also applies for pool table privileges in the same room.
A subscriber in Wayne township Marion county Indiana gives notice to voters of the Twelfth ward that at the March term 1900 he will apply to the Board of County Commissioners for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking privileges. The business location is a first floor room 2234 by 40 feet facing north on Washington street or National road in a two story brick building on lot Win Harris.
The notice informs voters in Seventh ward Center township Marion county that Morris Harrowette seeks a 1900 license to sell vinous malt and spirituous liquors in a first floor room of 72 Massachusetts Avenue Indianapolis. The same room may host a pool table privilege. Public action by the Board of County Commissioners is anticipated.
A note from the Seventh Township requests state approval for a license to sell alcoholic beverages at a location described as southeast corner of a block on Alabama Street in Storm Jana Ter township, Marion. The notice lists the premises fronting a street intersection and specifies the site as a room on the premises.
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