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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1900
Page
5
A story in which a couple inherits a hundred dollars from Uncle Mason and, through thrift and support from a lawyer, invest in a distant country home for their future child. They plan a modest life, shun excess, and preserve the gift in savings while pursuing a dream of stability and a garden filled with roses.
A story fragment follows a constant worrier woman and her husband as they discuss a hundred dollar bill. Their dialogue reveals stalled plans, aging fears, and the couple’s frugal exchanges over clothing, home comforts, and social generosity. A strained dinner table compromise ends with talk of new carpet and lingering wishes.
A husband notes a surprising sum left behind after a death, a hundred dollars, seen as a neat windfall for a young couple with modest means. The narrator, a clerk earning nine hundred a year, and his wife Jenny, who handles chores and sewing, describe scrimping to make ends meet as they await this unexpected inheritance and its impact on their future.
Mrs Elsa Ringle, widow of a city school custodian, faced financial hardship after her husband’s October death. She persuaded the school director to keep his post and excelled in night study, taking the teachers’ examination and ranking second in a class of 36. She earned a five year certificate and expects a teaching post.
Parson Kelly offers quotable lines on women and motives. He questions a woman's motives when perversity sits beside her and reflects on beauty, loss, and lasting passions sparked from the woman’s side, awakening a man’s eyes and tender regard.
A jumble of clipped humor and dialogue from multiple papers shows street theater in brief lines. A barber apprentice answers questions about hair and checks. A Grace questions love in a domestic exchange. A waitress, mistress, and cook trade quick lines about meals and affection in magazine fragment style.
A compact introspective piece praising kindness to quell anger, noting married life, friendship, and self reflection. It suggests women act by faith while men by reason, comments on missteps in marriage, social circles, and readers who ignore prefaces while gas workers glimpse the lighter side of life.
A Southern girl quips about her father joining a South African campaign. She asks her mother, with childlike candor, if he might not return and whether they will get another father if he stays away. The exchange shows early perceptions of men and war in a Virginian family.
A poem notes a man addressing a maiden with merriment yet quiet responses. He wonders why she resists affection while diverting to talk of books plays and war rather than sharing sighs and smiles. The verse reflects romantic intrigue in a formal 19th century voice.
Dora Keith, once a Kansas City society leader, volunteers to go to the Transvaal inspired by Boer women nursing wounded. She would nurse the sick and wounded and even shoulder a musket. Keith joined the Red Cross at the start of the Spanish American War, fell ill, trained as a nurse in Philadelphia after recovery.
A Victorian estimate lists Queen Victoria as sovereign in Europe with annual income from the nation at £25,000 and revenue from the Duchy of Lancaster at $300,000. Estates span England Scotland France Italy and Wales, including the Koh i Noor diamond valued at $3,500 and a claimed total of $50,000,000 in money invented.
Features on fashionable buckles show Corinthian gold and oxidized finishes with grey remaining popular. Designs range from two full blown flowers to flower heads like fleur de lis carnation poppy and chrysanthemum. Antique and ideal heads such as Augustus Minerva Ajax and Apollo are also rendered in detailed decorative forms.
The current trend features a double bodice with two materials. A pinafore style suits most figures and is feasible for amateurs. Outer pinafore is cloth matching the skirt, inner corsage uses velvet or silk, with lace or panne yokes and sleeves in the same fabric.
Mrs. J B Van Tilburgh of 320 W Ohio St credits Doans Kidney Pills with curing years of sciatica and lumbago tied to kidney issues. She bought at Henry J Huder's and praises relief from back pain and nervous symptoms. Sold by all dealers. price 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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