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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1891
Page
3
A moonlit night frames a mermaid ghosting the foam with golden hair and blue eyes. She has no feet and wears no shoes, a straight black hair and a plain mackintosh. She carries an umbrella awaiting rain, as the tale playfully notes its own improbability ending with a monetary line.
Aunt Minnie recounts a tale of love, betrayal, and rage leading to a fatal outcome. Halbert Vain gifts a diamond bracelet and is drawn to Beauty Bell, triggering Minnie’s jealous fury. A confrontation ends with Vain mortally wounded by his own bloodstained heart, and Minnie learns Beauty Bell is his cousin. The tale closes with a warning to temper and prayer.
The article surveys inexpensive wedding presents including FOLLIES and needles at five dollars, sets of four strainers in leather cases for milk tea wine and cocktail, and comments on fashion return of long waists and uncomfortable bodices. It critiques corsets and basques while noting dainty leather pin pocket-books.
Ezra Kendall the comedian and former N News reporter profits from "A pair of kids" while veteran actor manager John A. Elisler reflects on a vast career. Critics praise Jefferson, Floren ce, and Mrs. Drew as great performers. Mentions of mine ownership, skate feats by Benjamin Capin, and Senator Gorman's strict routines close the item from the New York Continent.
Excerpts from Boston Bulletin and Somerville Journal contrast minstrel stereotypes with social vanity and urban manners. The Washington Post notes awkwardness in a streetcar with ladies, while the New York Times questions modesty in hosiery. The collection yields biting quips on fame, aging, and propriety.
Philadelphia has 84 shoe factories. Last year 350 medicines were patented. Decoration Day and Fourth of July both fall on Saturday this year. Arsenical poison from wallpaper and furniture has left several prominent Boston residents near death.
An Indianapolis physician Dr J Jordan claims the largest practice in treating catarrh consumption asthma heart diseases and lung ailments. He offers to diagnose without questions and markets Dr Jordan's Lung Renovator as a superior remedy sold by druggists nationwide with circulars available upon sending a stamp.
A collection of brief statements on women’s roles and norms including violin learning by Mrs. Cleveland, peasant societies in China pledging not to marry, Madagascar’s queen avoiding public baths, a Hawaiian queen fond of poetry and English, women barred from Japanese parliament galleries, and Washington’s push to curb lobbyists. It also mentions Anna C. Fall becoming a lawyer, a quip about a Fall in law, and a philosopher’s view on women’s independence shown by public dining and streetcar etiquette.
In a fragment from the Pittsburgh Bulletin a boy and his guardian argue over a fishing pole and a referenced family dispute about letting a boy have the rod. The exchange involves a stern parent and a reply about a supposed jag and past remarks by Sol omon.
The Chinese Herbs Remedies are herbal products from earth, offered as curatives for numerous ailments. The firm cites witnesses and a Wisconsin chemist to claim effectiveness for catarrh, bronchitis, female weakness, dyspepsia, consumption, and more, with free examination and confidential mail or in person treatment.
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