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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
3
The Boston Transcript poem describes a gray eastern night with five white stars and a crimson nest. The speaker recalls love in celestial imagery as the figure in white robes descends from the heavens, while onlookers doubt, yet the speaker asserts the beloved is with him on earth tonight.
In Mapleville a young pastor Rev Joseph Maury faces disruption as a vacation ruse reveals his double life. A penniless wife arrives seeking her missing husband while a second wife confronts him, ending in their two marriages to the same man. Deacons confront the scandal as Maury returns with a new companion.
In Mapleville Deacon White and other deacons confronted Joseph Maury as wife Nos. 1 and 2 reveal they never met him before. A detective identified Maury as "Trickey Joe" Morton, clearing up the scandal with a powerful sermon the following Sunday.
A collage of scattered topics including a Georgia judge likening debt payment to hogs and hominy, widows of a Brooklyn fire department sending word upon remarriage, a Boston hair straightening controversy, and London winter misery with ships and birds dying. Also a Clarke County Georgia graveyard rabbit tale, Depew retirement hint, a southern girl alleged to steal objects, Edinburgh church bazaar for ladies, and a Hood's Sarsaparilla promotion.
A vintage column mixes kitchen hints with social notes: an orange basket candy idea and a robust Virginia eggnog method with dry cut-leaf sugar, yolks, cream and brandy. It also notes the question of a woman's age, mentions Wilson Barrett’s daughters turning to dressmaking, and reports a Philadelphia widow’s will leaving $385 to each daughter Martha Jane Russell and Elizabeth Kamnerly amid accusations of cruel treatment.
General claim that Simmons Liver Regulator confers immunity to malaria is supported by popularity and southern usage. The ad also promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain, claiming it softens gums eases wind colic and cures diarrhea, priced at 25 cents a bottle.
The Traveler's Register notes new train times effective Sunday January 4 1891. Central Standard Time schedules show departures from Union Station on South Illinois Street with updated arrival and departure patterns.
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