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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1892
Page
3
A long poem fragment depicts a child seeking home and a lamenting family. A mother's plea echoes through a dim doorway while a corrupted crowd erupts in curses. A husband calls for his wife and a dying man pleads for mercy as a voice invites rest in the end.
A friend recalls Nell Kendrick’s brutal amputation of his arm after a workplace accident. The narrator frames the ordeal through fear, guilt, and vigil, detailing a fearful midnight walk home, a strange pursuit in the dark, and the final, grim return to a waiting surgeon.
Contained miscellany recounts a sensational quip about self harm timing, a Buffalo women’s dinner club, Mrs. Cleveland’s Lakewood cottage appeal, Emma Abbott’s charity gift, Boston girls’ charity minstrel plan, glycerine face treatment tips, a Danzig hoax involving a mother in law, and the arrest of a shopkeeper for a malice telegram trick, outlining social quirks and local anecdotes.
Rose Coghlan born in England is 89. Charles W. Couldoch, famed nectarlike American stage star, is vigorous at seventy. George C. Boniface Bowery-born admits sixty. Kate Claxton, tearful blind orphant, Louise, is forty four. Georgia Cayyvan Maine born 1858 remains vibrant at four years. Mrs D P Bowers premier tragedienne born Stamford Connecticut sixty two years ago. Mary Anderson Sacramento born 1859 not Kentucky as claimed by John W Norton. Maurice Barrymore born 1847 at forty five, not adolescent. W H Crane aged 47 nine years younger than Sturt Robson of St Louis Chronicle.
A man confesses to writing to a father for his overcoat and hat, not romance, while a neighbor jokes about a girl and coupons. Distantly, a mother frets about an after eleven o clock visitor and scissors to clip coupons, prompting plans to lock doors.
A compact collection of quotes from Cervantes Arneil Hugo Trollope and George Eliot. The snippets discuss diligence pride discouragement curiosity gentleness and the experience of first sorrow.
Reports detail soft coal deposits in Wyoming on fire, a Texas hideout, funds for a world fair, and waves of political chatter. Mentions Brigham Young monument in Salt Lake City, losses from Decatur fires, and varied local market prices across groceries and produce.
Passenger trains depart Indianapolis Union Station for St Louis at 11 38 am and 12 55 pm with 230 am and 11 00 pm connections. Trains connect Terre Haute Evansville Bloomington Greencastle and Terre Haute arrivals listed. Night and parlor car service available on through trains to St Louis with several arrival times to note.
Albert L Ruebsam of Middle Grove Til endorses Reid's German Cough Cure as the best remedy for coughs noting its safety for children and lack of irritants. The advertisement from Sylvan Remedy Co Peoria IL promotes various tonics and private medical services including sensational claims and private correspondence treatment.
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