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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1904
Page
6
A historical menu page outlines meals for Monday Tuesday and Wednesday including breakfast items like sliced oranges coffee and toast and complex dishes such as curried mutton with rice and baked apples. It provides recipes with measurements for popovers and ginger cookies plus notes on preparation and baking times.
Readable fragment shows a shopping note listing vegetable puree crackers chicken salad oatmeal bread apple jelly and coon. It presents a simple local goods cluster without context or quantities.
In a crowded police court a prisoner bench resembled a side show platform as Lewin Brown large man in custody and Abe Krauss a saloon keeper faced charges. Krauss fined 40 and Brown discharged after claiming inactivity and a weeks illness. Brown’s weight noted at about 400 pounds. Separately in BALONICA customs seized 54000 Mauser cartridges revolvers and blank Bolorean passes from a Bulgarian merchant in Berres.
In a Warrick County corridor, a local farmer questioned a state geologist about U S congress. The geologist corrected him that Congress sits in Washington and that John B. Cockrum is not a current member, while Hank Hemeway is identified as a congressman. The man expresses pride in Warrick’s native sons.
This photo shows Mise Louis Drew daughter of John Drew, with Fay Davis in New York. The young performer is a granddaughter of Georgia Drew and Maurice Barrymore, cousin to Monet Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and has acted two seasons. Her debut was with John Drew in The Second in Command, now studying with Empire theater stock company where Fay Davis is leading woman.
The article describes baking a pan for about an hour and a quarter and serving best the day after. It explains prune charlotte assembly with prunes, cream, and cake, plus a green velvet trimmed dress with gilt buttons. It also recounts the tradition of casting a shoe at weddings as a sign of ownership and authority, tracing origins to England Scotland and ancient practices among Israelites.
Burglars broke into the law office of John I. Dugan in Albant,Albany Insurance building Thursday night and robbed the safe of 2783 dollars plus some valuable papers. The office sits in the heart of the city’s business district amid slate and sparse details.
Advertises “Anti-Pain Pills” by Dr Mites claiming to prevent headaches and afflictions. Mentions common headache relief and pocket portable remedy with guaranteed satisfaction, using curious misspellings and garbled phrasing.
An advertisement touts a foot draft remedy for rheumatism claiming 1000 sufferers achieved cures. It offers free trial on approval with no cost unless satisfied, inviting readers to send names and pay one dollar only after benefit is received.
An advertisement promises miraculous cures for rheumatism through "Magic Foot Drafts" with claims that toxins are drawn from blood via foot pores. It offers a free booklet and a sample pair on approval from the Magic Foot Draft Co at 13 Uliver Ridge, Jackson, Mississippi.
Fragmented poem from an agricultural paper discusses a Kansas colt with odd features and a Louisiana planter unable to control horses. It mentions Chinese language laws, a Iowa stock raiser with a 40 by 12 mile area paying taxes in 19 towns, and a Pennsylvania man said to have married five wives and sired 26 children.
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