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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1894
Page
3
A playful dialect reminiscence from W J Lampton recounts an informal spelling night at a house. Mandy Jane attracts attention as the prettiest girl, and couples exchange light jokes about a proposed wedding while the spelling lesson yields humorous slips. The speaker insists love remains true regardless of how it is spelled.
A crumbling antique piano in a busy store window draws a crowd as a frail elderly woman, once famed, is helped onto the display. She sings and plays with haunting emotion, moving onlookers to tears before the piano sells and the curtain falls.
The passage describes making chopped beef meatballs fried in lard and baking ginger cookies. It lists ingredients such as butter brown sugar molasses flour ginger cinnamon and ground allspice. Instructions cover mixing heating and cooling dough, adding soda, rolling out and cutting before baking in moderate heat.
Kerosene is advised for many uses including removing frosted feet pain and rheumatism, treating chilblains, removing stains from fabrics, cleaning lamp chimneys, and brightening glass. It is also suggested for dandruff, window care in freezing weather, and aiding hair growth with regular application. Damages from glazing and lamp parts are addressed by boiling with soda and kerosene then polishing. Source: Detroit Free Press.
Household News offers a buckwheat cake remedy detailing pure buckwheat, rye-free, with galt and a yeast starter. Mix cold water, buckwheat, and a yeast cake, let stand warm overnight, then add saleratus to counter bitter notes before baking. If too thick, thin with water.
A quaint fashion snippet highlights a new veil named Sally along with dress goods, table linens, and Eid gloves with large buttons. A Western paper jokes that a woman announcing an informal reception signals no food, while Raya of the New York Times notes a weekly sewing task in a provincial town.
A list of brief items notes Lillien Russell's engagement to John Chatterton the singer. Other items report wage strike settlements for L and N switchmen a 2 year old death in Providence and the fate of a known jockey, with various social and political notices and a rail incident near Grinnell Iowa.
Thick market column lists Smoked meats and hams with prices from 8 to 18 cents per pound, bacon clear sides and backs, sausage, lard, and pickled meats. Fresh pork, dry salt meats, vegetables, fruits, flour, meal, canned goods, and dairy prices fill the page along with European and domestic fruits and oils.
A mother asks why Tommy mopes and suggests Charley Pinafore, while Tommy jokes about yesterday. He then asks a dentist for Willie and a candy store for his own stomach ache, reflecting playful 19th century humor from Chicago Record and Harper's Bazaar.
An advertisement asserts that using Dr Sage s Catarrh Remedy will cure catarrh permanently or earn the buyer $500. The offer promises payment if the remedy fails to cure, and mentions steam or electric power components and manufacturing terms.
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