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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1892
Page
3
A fragment notes a World headline about a song that flows through the heart and a challenge to McClosky with the line You can lick him if you try, reflecting period newspaper tone.
A narrator recalls meeting a ghostly, pale faced figure wrapped in yellow calico beside a quiet canal. The apparition follows, moves with a floating step, and vanishes outside a churchyard wall after a chilling stare. A host links the vision to a recluse buried nearby fifteen years prior.
A sketch of high society habits in New York with mentions of Mrs Gould and Mrs Astor, remarks on their fashion and jewelry, a luncheon party setup with four tables, and a critical jab at opera audiences seen as stylish non-music lovers.
A sewing machine capable of stitching leather up to five eighths inch thick. A method to produce barrels and other items directly from the tree without staves. A woman invents a dish washing machine that washes rinses and dries with a crank. A new addressing method places place and state first followed by the recipient and street address.
Nebraska sent 30,000 bushels of corn to starving Russians as part of a relief effort. The shipment reflects wartime humanitarian assistance coordinated with national agricultural support programs.
Diane de Poitiers bathed in rain water while Teabeau de Bavier used porphyry tubs with asses milk or strawberry juice. Anne Boleyn allowed a nobleman to sip her health from tub water. Marie Zetwertynoska bathed in Malaga wine sold rebottled. Marie Antoinette favored baths in a thyme laurel decoction. Heady social imagery from the Chicago Herald notes New York’s grand ballrooms and Florida hotels serving poached eggs, plus London dolly shops and William Spitzer’s ornate Boston sleigh.
The English Queen travels with a special sleeping couch while Sarah Bernhardt brings her own bed linen an eiderdown quilt and a vast pillow collection. The items are packed last to go and first to be unpacked upon arrival. A man married to Bernhardt’s maid supervises packing unpacking and guards the gowns and jewels.
A humorous exchange notes two sopranos in a choir, praised for talent yet warning of discord when they are not singing. The quip contrasts harmonious performance with internal tensions, reflecting light newspaper humor from New York Weekly and New York Press.
A historic note suggests using blotting paper dipped in oxalic acid or oxalate potassium to fix ink on dresses. It also mentions cigar ashes as a remedy for ringworm and scarlet fever, citing lime and alcohol content. A physician warns horseradish can irritate the stomach and an overdose causes lingering unpleasant sensations.
There is ease for those far gone in consumption not recovery ease. There is cure for those not far gone. There is prevention better than cure for those who are threatened. Let us send you a book on careful living and Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil, even if you are only a little thin. Free, Scorr & Bower, Chemists, 12% South Sth Ak.
A blaze at the Cahaba mine near Blocton Alabama is burning as reports note widespread damage. Other items include 103 typhus fever cases in New York with five deaths and various local incidents from New York to Memphis involving crimes and legal actions.
Readable list of market goods with prices for meats canned vegetables fruits and groceries. Items include pork products, lard, canned fruits and vegetables, dairy, spices, drinks, and farm produce with regional price spreads and measurements. Names of vendors or companies not clearly identifiable in the fragment.
Classified postscript under For Sale Miscellaneoua column invites bicycle and other items for sale. concise ad space available.
Weary and hard to breathe with catarrh, a patient from the Weer Market area credits Drs Stackhouse and Newlin for a notable relief after several years of illness. The Indianapolis clinic advertises remedies for catarrh and chronic ear throat and lung diseases with a $1 consultation and $5 monthly treatment until March 1, including free medicines and mail treatment options.
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