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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1892
Page
3
Yesterday and last night a snowbound scene unfolds as a child wakes to a white world. They bundle up with Ned and carve a frozen shelter in the orchard drift, light a glow in a snow room, and pretend to be Esquimaux inside a gleaming snowy house.
In a Chicago Times excerpt a narrator recalls Aunt Martha who kept sacred valentines hidden in a trunk. The first poem dated 4 February hints at a lost beloved John, while a later note dated 1891 mirrors changing times. The reader ponders who John was and why no letters arrived, as the aunt’s life and longing remain sealed with the tokens.
A Brooklyn Eagle item comments on fashion, crafts, charity sleighrides in upstate New York, Chinese marriage license requests in California, ostrich plume exports from South Africa, and a Paris dressmaker’s hard workload. It also quips about marrying for beauty and a traveler’s odd spring in Louisiana’s Tammany parish.
An ad-like vignette touts headache cures with vivid imagery and a Boston Herald tip. It lists remedies and a self- pampering routine involving hot sponges, neck exposure, and relaxation to banish pain, claiming recovered muscle tone and a younger appearance as rewards.
Kate Field's Washington notes a reason why a woman's bonnet costs six times a man's hat while fashion foresees varied waists in many fabrics. A southern Oregon stonecutter woman for 20 years is highlighted as Annie Jenness Miller begins a lecture tour from Toronto to Boston. Julia A Carney of Galesburg earns recognition for a poem collection, as London lace returns in a current craze.
A scattered news roundup reports a solar sunspot event in Louisville earthquakes and weather impacts, a cake walk in New York, and a claim that Bob Ford is alive in Creede. Several injuries occur in a runaway near Leavenworth, a legal indictment against Edward Field in New York, a Texas official questioned over age, and an embezzlement acquittal in New Orleans.
A broad market column lists prices for meats, canned vegetables, fruits, dairy, cheeses, and staples. It notes the day as Thursday February 18 with various items and grade prices from Morgan & Grayte Bacon to Indiana lard, standard fruit and produce, and general groceries reflecting a firm market with slight changes.
A collage of quips and quotes from 19th or early 20th century papers includes timid confessions of love, social snobbery at church fairs, oyster bets at dining tables, and aphorisms on sarcasm and virtue. The fragmentary text showcases social norms and witty maxims of the era.
From the New York Recorder advice sheet. Do not store vinegar or yeast in stone cracks or jars as acids may attack the lazing and be poisonous. Glass is better. Nid gloves rip despite care. Use court plaster or strecon's plaster to mend by turning glove inside out and applying plaster over the rip after gathering the fabric.
The note explains a dinner table rule Pass to the ett and advises turning the knife edge toward the plate while arranging a well spread table. It reads as a brief etiquette tip from a historical column emphasizing proper utensil handling.
The Salvation Army encounters mob resistance in parts of Europe while attempting to preach. An advertisement touts Reid's German Cowzh and Sidney Cure as the cure for lung weakness and kidney troubles, claiming safety and universal benefit with no harmful substances.
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