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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1891
Page
3
A humorous verse satirizes a family as father carves the duck at table. It describes anxious spectators, flying chips, gravy splashes, and the kitchen chaos that follows. The fragment references E VY Wright and the Boston Transcript.
A narrator recalls a chaotic social whirl created by Dolly and friends featuring a covert dove party for girls only and a winter poker habit funded by winnings. The scene shifts from formal tea gowns to a smoking room with chips, cards, and a risqué mix of casual mischief and moral misgivings.
In a late night poker session described with bold stakes and dramatic bravado, the narrator loses a final pot to a girl who shows four jacks while he holds a king full. The tale ends with the man owing a debt to Dolly, who wins more in five hours than he did in ten minutes.
A column recalls senator-elect Hasbrough as a tramp printer with one shirt, and jokes about his temperance while in Dakota. It notes Barney the Albany cribbace player’s enormous twenty-eight hand seen after twenty-five years of play. Also recounts opera singer Will Rising’s bereavement and Meissonier’s vanity, including a Florence glove anecdote.
A collage of fashion and culture items features English fabrics like ginghams and challies, Amelie Rives-Chandler's novel, Olive Thorne's anti birds-on-hats slips, Lady Colin Campbell in pale blue satin, and Worth urging nature-inspired color. Also noted are Welsh debts, Texas cattle sales, Japanese parliament Catholics, German paper-shoe artillery, London’s dirty streets commentaries, and light pieces from Kate Field and New York Week. Personal snippets include quotes on love and marriage and a Simmons liver regulator anecdote.
An old English motto praises bravery and loyalty. Miss Braddon flaunts style while diamonds dazzle. A tiny circulating daily print serves Emperor Francis Joseph. An ancient unprinted book titled The passion of Christ, with blue and white pages, dates to 1640 and belongs to the Prince de Ligne family now in France.
The passage notes Mrs. Cleveland's living era on 1000 dollars yearly, a solitary Chinese railroad at 81 miles costing 9000 dollars per mile, and 500 men operating in wives’ names in New York. It also mentions 600 fathers naming babies after Chauncey Depew, London skating days, 30 million barrels brewed in the US last year, 195,000 women in dressmaking, and Wood’s Sarsaparilla promotion set beside Hoad’s popular spring medicine health claims.
An advertisement touts a cure at the CHILESH HERE KE WE clinic claiming many residents from Indiana and Tennessee were healed. It offers a free prospectus, a symptom blank, and medical advice by mail with return postage, urging readers to send for information and a physician’s consultation.
On and after Sunday February fifteenth eighteen ninety three rains will run as follows Central Standard Time leave from and arrive at Union Station South Illinois Street.
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