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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1895
Page
3
A whimsical verse imagines a fantasy castle beyond the yellow moon where water pipes hold champagne and a wall of ten neighbor hen houses blocks intrusion. The speaker longs for a balloon voyage with a companion to abandon daily toil and scribble dreams in ink.
An old veteran Col Joe recalls a Malvern Hill night duel with a Yankee picket and a spectral encounter. He describes crawling through rain and darkness to learn enemy movements, then retreating with his guard and leaving a Yankee ghost near his fire. The tale ends with mixed opinions on his actions and a nod to spirits.
A compact collection of humorous lines from various papers. A western man in New York leaves without tipping only to be reminded of the waiter. Another quip notes flattery versus truth in romance. The items reflect light satire from Harper's Bazar Texas Siftings and the New York Press.
The article details fur cleaning methods for Ermine, seal, sable, chinchilla, squirrel, monkey skin, mink, and long-haired varieties, recommending soft flannel, flour, bran, and corn meal treatments. It notes knotted fringes on towels as correct, plus popular hematitched and drawn work. It also cites doylies selling well and discusses table setting debates on carving cloth and decollete dress propriety.
Flower collars are decorative ribbon bands covered with small blossoms and tied with a large back bow. Examples include hedge rose embellishments on pink satin, and violet satin bands adorned with Parma violets and finished with matching bows.
Debs and his associates are to be released on $2,000 bail. In the house, Friday, Mr. Grosvenor denounced the A. P. A. Waxelbaum & Son, Macon, Ga., lost $500,000 by fire, Friday night. Mary G. Stevenson, daughter of the vice-president, is dead at Ashville, N. C. Denver police board has shut down on the living pictures now exhibiting there. E. O. Quigley, wholesale counterfeiter of municipal bonds, has countested in New York. Just $4,450,000 in gold was exported, Saturday, and now another bond issue is among the probabilities, Wm. Pitt, Thos, Buck and Joseph Erminer, boys who ran away from the Utica, N. Y., industrial school, have been found frozen to death. An attempt to reorganize the U. S. mutual accident association, New York, on a stock basis, resulted in a stormy meeting of policy-holders, Friday. Question may yet get into the courts.
Saturday market listings show steady prices across meats, lard, sausage, pickled pork, and bacon with moon light to firm rates. Southern fruits and canned fruits plus eggs, butter, and dairy price ranges are detailed by product and supplier, including Messina lemons, Mission bananas, and Crawford peaches. Local farmers and shipper prices cover grains, beans, oils, and wines with a wide array of commodities priced for buyers.
A Webster City woman reports stroke and paralysis in 1892 94 and a dramatic recovery after treatment at the Wilson National Surgical Institute. She credits doctors and associates for improvement and urges others afflicted to seek care, inviting inquiries and outreach.
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