The Printer Poem by Cy Warman
A short verse honors printers and poets who toil unseen and preserve art. It laments fame’s distance while printers preserve names, sometimes printing the author’s own name imperfectly with a period.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
3
A short verse honors printers and poets who toil unseen and preserve art. It laments fame’s distance while printers preserve names, sometimes printing the author’s own name imperfectly with a period.
A narrator describes a bashful young couple Linda and Jim meeting near a cabin on a moonlit night. Linda reassures secrecy about her visit while Jim confesses affection and hints at moving forward, planning to marry and live on ten acres come fall. Detroit Free Press report of a rustic courtship tale.
Lillian Russell debuts Cleopatra with Lewis Morrison possibly quitting Faust to star in Hichelieu. The Japanese Venus dance provokes Philadelphia audiences. The Superba company visits two arenas this season felled by fire. A Norwich golf items scent decomposed products. Coghlans reconcile with Charles rejoining Rose. Mantell revives Romeo and Juliet. Sadie Martinet wins a higher salary over ankle exposure fears. Raymond Moore signs with B F Keith circuit.
The passage cites old remedies for nervous headache from Good Housekeeping suggesting removing a waist, knotting hair, bending over a basin with hot water on neck and behind ears to relax muscles and ease pain. It includes other quips from the New York Times and Detroit Free Press about wedding swords and canvas-backed ducks in brief, light humor.
A clipping cites the Grip River in Idaho and advocates damming it. It also highlights various social notes, such as clubs allowing ladies on dinners, city health rankings, and a peculiar legal case where kissing a stranger was deemed not an offense by Amsterdam judges.
Instructions describe multiple rabbit preparations including a salted water boil for onions, white sauce with rabbit stock, lemon juice, and a rabbit pie layered with pork stock and hard boiled eggs. Also outlines stewed rabbit a la poulette with butter dredging, stock, white wine, onions, cloves, parsley, and lemon juice.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune shows a poor widow approving a boy’s game with a rich banker’s son as Tommy confirms their plan to play leapfrog. Harper's Bazaar notes Little Nell dining with adults commenting on ladies’ and gentlemen’s bangs.
A barrage of local and national items: Cleveland pushes reform against vice. alleged bribery attempts at the Coughlin jury. Admiral Fairfax, 48 years in the U S Navy, lies dead in Baltimore. Ohio river trainmen threaten strike over wages. Geo Painter set for hanging, reprieved. Caroline Talbott, famed Quaker preacher, dies in Cleveland. Pope appoints Rev J P Donahue bishop of Wheeling. Lionel Stagge, Oregon National Bank receiver, is an ex convict. a blast at 54 Ave D New York injures a gas meter and kerosene flow. a Findlay incident involves glycerine and a well. Miss Stevenson stays in St Louis with Steve Wilsko. later a murder scene at her room ends with Wilsko dead.
Jan 18 reports market firmness with broad price lists across provisions and meats. Highlights include smoked hams, bacon, sausage, lard, dried beef, and various fresh pork cuts, with extensive figures from Morgan & Gray and Empire Mills. Also listed are vegetables, fruits, canned goods, groceries, and farm products with named brands and tonnage or per unit prices.
After Sunday January 7 1894 trains will operate on Central Standard Time schedule adjusted for the ending date. The notice specifies timetable changes effective immediately and outlines daily departures for the Central Standard Time zone.
The passage extols Tae Sun daily as superior reading material with the world's best illustrations state news short stories and miscellaneous content. It argues the newspaper offers spicy entertaining reading and urges people to read Tae Sun daily.
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