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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
3
A distorted excerpt attributes phrases to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, musing on love beyond life and death. The text hints at devotion, authenticity of faith, and the dream of eternal union, conveyed in poetic, archaic diction characteristic of 19th century sentiment.
Volney Beckner, born 1748 in Donderry, a son of a sailor, demonstrated extraordinary courage aboard a Port-au-Prince to Burone voyage. When a young planter’s infant fell overboard, Beckner killed a shark with a knife, saving the child before perishing with the beast, leaving a noble, lasting legacy.
A collage of brief clippings about charity efforts, child mispronunciations, and odd historical notes. Highlights include Dorcas society donations to Africa, a child's mispronunciations, and curios about pallid superstitions, hygiene lore in Paris, and church wealth. The tone mimics a light miscellany page from a late 19th or early 20th century paper.
A column discusses decor trends with small butcher plates, the flag design by Mrs John Ross in 1762, gloves for shopping, and light gray as a fashion color. It notes women omitting initials on calling and invitation cards, a rise in popularity, and a New York artist’s view on studio models paid about $1 a morning. It ends with a critique of prejudice and envy blunting intelligence and justice.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a natural, mild cleanse for the entire system. It claims they are small sugar coated tablets that relieve liver and digestive ailments and act as either a laxative or cathartic depending on dose.
Bill Nye teams with Stuart Robson for a stage comedy described as an oddity that should play well with audiences. Mrs Garfield declines literary work, stressing a private life focused on family. Stevenson’s mother preserves scraps about him in a large scrapbook, with a quatrain on his fame. The column also previews Mrs Burton Harrison’s social life notes, plus culinary and home tips and a plug for Hood’s Sarsaparilla as value.
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