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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1894
Page
3
Frank B Stanton laments laziness as a creed while praising nature. He finds joy in grazing livestock, birds, bees, and bells, arguing the simple, peaceful life beats greed and hunting. The speaker exalts quiet contentment over wealth.
Violet, 26, a romantic collector of souvenirs, falls for Horace Vanderhoff. He proclaims feeling, but she reveals an engagement to Horace’s uncle, Max, a lapse that ends with Horace confessing plans to marry Augusta de Million. Violet, moved, evades further entries in her scrapbook as the moment passes.
London fashions tighten sleeves and hats while Miss Helen Gould curates a personal library chosen by herself. The piece reflects on beauty, taste, brains, and manners as true charms, citing Jane Hadings on lasting qualities beyond looks. It also references home made jars and quirky notes from publishers.
Instructions describe a cream biscuit dough using two eggs sweet cream and flour with salt, mixed and rolled thin then cut. Also a tongue toast recipe grates cold boiled tongue, blends with cream and egg yolk, heats through, and tops buttered toast slices fried on a hot platter.
A collage of brief items from various locales reports social quips, political notes, a bishop consecration, a discovery of jicama root touted as curing smallpox, and local disasters. It mentions Galusha Grow’s Pennsylvania lead, Gov. Hogg’s deer shooting arrest, Hartford bishop, City of Mexico scientist, an oil sky flame in Oil City, Prohibition vote faint, Mansfield riot sentences, Blossburg mine explosion with dead and missing.
A New York vigil ends when a man kneels by a window for two days and nights, dying of Bright’s disease. The coroner confirms the death. the piece advertises Warner’s Safe Cure as a remedy and urges kidney care amid rising sudden deaths. The column touts medical endorsements from physicians in Europe and America.
The city market lists extensive prices for Virginias and Californias, ham, bacon, lard, and canned fruits. It details fresh pork items, vegetables, butter, cheeses, and dried meats with figures by Moore Wise Empire and Morgan & Gray, plus miscellaneous groceries and tea-like items.
Prof Halligan secured photographs for U S government archives and offers them to Indianans through The Sun as he highlights the famed Midway Plaisance with its crowd of odd folk and distinctive architecture, a centerpiece of the World’s Fair.
The Sun presents Number five of Prof Halligan’s portfolio showing the Midway and its people. Readers will view the Moorish Palace Exterior and other scenes including Exterior Beauty, Ladies of Beauty, Johore Bungalow, and the Ferris Wheel area. PMID.
Supt Freitag will write on the fair features with authoritative detail. The article will accompany striking Midway pictures, making Number Five a valuable purchase worth many times its ten cent price.
A Fourth Page Sun coupon offer invites readers to cut out daily coupons with directions and explanations and present them at The Sun Counting Room for a small sum to receive books that will adorn any home, promising exclusivity unavailable in other papers.
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