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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1892
Page
3
A colorful verse describes a self confident dynamiter with a red hair persona and disdain for moneyed power. The speaker boasts of danger and independence while asserting strength beyond typical struggle in a gritty monologue.
A comic tale from a Detroit Free Press feature where Mr. Jones lies about a night at a poker game and a sick friend, Mrs. Jones probes the truth via telephone, fear and guilt rise, and plans for quiet revenge unfold as the story hints at a future chapter. The Chicago Tribune vignette adds a scholastic, reflective closing scene with Mr. Ka Jones and Miss Kersmith.
Chenille leads the season as fashion trims. poke bonnets rise in modish shapes. tete de veau gloves, new bangle vines, and gold-thread embroideries appear on wraps. Changeable silk umbrellas with color-matched handles trend. dancers adopt miniature check-books for dance programs. a spring gown features emerald velvet and fawn tweed with gold coin buttons.
A simple remedy for a traveler s eye irritation. Place one or two flaxseeds in the eye they swell and exude a gluey substance that covers the eye and helps wash out the foreign material. Keep a small vial of seeds in your purse for aid on the road.
A home cook describes simmering any inexpensive beef until very tender. The method uses slow cooking, salt and pepper for seasoning, and serving while hot with a simple knife and fork ready. A bowl or cup may hold the finished meat for easy serving.
A Michigan boy muses on grammar death rumors as Prof. T W Harvey of Harvey's grammar dies. A New Orleans snowstorm mystifies residents while a family laughs at the flakes. Mandy, a Black caregiver, grins as the scene unfolds with a microscope and shawl in the yard.
A quirky note highlights an egg shell pipe accent as a novelty for smokers and forecasts a flower season in millinery. It observes fashion shifts with black slippers appearing slimmer than colored ones while suggesting luck symbols like horseshoes and clover leaves are fading from popularity. The piece notes that small fish motifs, three in number and trout-shaped, become a fashionable choice for pins rings or bangles for the elect.
A brief fragment notes 93 women writers in the New York Woman's press club and a Bonham Texas street scene where a woman sews buttons on men’s wear. It contrasts past good society with today’s dinner-party sizes, and includes a quip about a museum exhibit. It ends with a line on poor down trodden woman.
A collection of brief curiosities notes that wood fibre undergarments appear in use, Paris carpenters work after sundown, dogs are faithful when well fed, London theaters are fumigated after performances, New York’s L roads move 500000 daily, Alpina Michigan hosts 27 secret societies, ebony is so abundant in parts of Mexico it is used as firewood.
Willie boasts about his dog being smarter than his brother and twice as capable of walking with the dog having twice as many legs. Jimmy quips the dog would win by that advantage. Johnny Fiz zletop recalls a teacher threatening a scolding. His mother questions the logic of the boy’s claim.
A historical remark contrasts ancient exorcism with modern science, urging careful life choices and education to combat illness. The author hints that consumption germs possess the devil, and cites a pamphlet on health practices and Scott’s Emulsion as guidance. Free.
The page lists varied items from Chicago gas disputes to ill health in Minnesota and New York, street car tie ups in Stillwater, and back pay demands. It mentions public figures and events including Davis seeking more exhibit space at the world fair, anti gambling law in Virginia, andRockefeller’s funding of Chicago varsity. Several local incidents, trials, and a bank case in Delamater are noted along with violent crime in Little Rock and a sensational libel claim involving Bob Ingersoll.
Provisions list prices for smoked meats, lard, produce, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and staples from Morgan & Ray and Central Packing, detailing hams, pork, beans, canned goods, and farm supplies with unit prices, weights, and multiple vendors across a busy February market page. Includes dairy, poultry, fish, and an assortment of groceries and medicines, reflecting wholesale and retail contrast.
Prohibits making or aiding any gas service connections or reconnections and interfering with valves or mixers without written authorization from the supplying company. Outlines penalties of a fine between five and one hundred dollars for violations under this act.
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