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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1894
Page
3
A nostalgic poem excerpt from Overland Monthly praising a mother’s presence as a sanctuary. It contrasts crowds, temptations, and sorrow with the peaceful rest found where mother is, invoking faith, love, and guidance. The piece centers on devotion, home, and the mother’s healing influence.
A remote hamlet narrows to a deadly feud that shatters a century of kinship. Rives and White, once allies in battle, duel with knives over a mule dispute. Years pass without change until a second, fatal confrontation ends with both men dead in a bloodied street.
A fragment from a Southern newspaper recalls a lethal rural scene with justice, lawyers, principals, and witnesses mentioned along with their children. The text alludes to ambushes, horseback riders, and shotgun slugs, evoking a violent aftermath without full context.
Old time health tips describe Lanoline for sunken cheeks and camphor or alum for pimples. Advice covers hot water face cleansing, scalp care with borax camphor mixtures, freckles with nitre starch and glycerine, and lip care with vaseline. Cautions warn against excessive vaseline and sign of casual acquaintances.
A man with two cork legs endures a sour mood over skating and cold feet as a streetcar conductor jokes about his condition. A Chicago book store clerk answers a misrouted order for many books to furnish a house for a visiting girl from Boston.
A child sobs as an almanac predicts rain on the Fourth of July, while a separate memory recalls Little Fred kept indoors during a icy day. He later escapes danger, misreading the thaw as melted risk. The pieces reflect cautious parental guidance and childlike misinterpretation.
An engaged couple banter over money and etiquette as they read the evening paper. The groom jokes about spending twenty dollars for a snit, clarifying it’s for a business suit, while his fiancée teases about asking her father. The pair, four months engaged, share playful remarks about their future.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a sole medicine for weak women and female complaints. It claims to build up overworked or delicate women, guarantee a cure or money back, and notes it strengthens nerves, aids digestion, enriches blood, relieves pain, and promotes restful sleep.
Samuel Mather, Cleveland banker, dies. Waddington faces brain congestion. Queen Lil seeks damages from the U S over dethronement. Widows Finn Emmet and W B Mix wed in Albany. Santa Fe Colorado workers unpaid since October. Riot in Carrara Italy with gendarmes attacked. Italywide riots feared. Mrs Edward Hoffman murdered in Sieterville W V. husband commits suicide. Herman Sigel, longtime editor, dies in Milwaukee. Bridegroom Andredo Santana shot in Brooklyn by rival suitor Domingo Figaro. Scranton school board tries to bound Martin Joyce. he teaches with revolver at desk. Archbishop Purcell creditors in Cincinnati hear Satolli letter. hostile sermons target Catholic prelates.
Markets firm and sugar advances noted. Prices for bacon, hams, sausage, lard, fresh pork, and clamor meats detailed with brand names like Moore Empire Morgan & Gray. Produce and fruits list includes apples, bananas, and oranges. miscellaneous items cover coffee, opium, syrups, and dairy products.
Health tidings claim Birs infuse youthful vigor stop seminal wasting cure impotency bad blood catarrh weak eyes nerves kidneys by mail one dollar Tae Park Drug Co Nos 175 and 177 Sycamore St Cincinnati or 85 cents at La Virginia Avenue
Dr F M Abet t located here since 782 offers treatment for nervous diseases in young men unfit for marriage relations. Middle aged men with debility regain vigor. Schet diseases treated for both sexes with pleasant remedies. Shortest possible period of cure promised with study and experience. Specific medicines available by express with stamps for reply and free consultation.
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