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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1891
Page
3
A compact poem recalling a past life before parenthood. The speaker contrasts a lively domestic partnership with a sense of loss after the baby arrives, noting changes in voice humor and status as husband and named man. The verses reflect on companionship, shared outings, and the shift in authority at home.
A young poet wins love against a stern Notaire who forbade a poet son-in-law. The Notaire fears a theater scandal when a Paris press reveal leads to a legal clash. The plan: the Notaire will collaborate secretly, taking the blame, allowing the marriage to proceed and the play to fade from public notice.
Disjointed lines reference Browning burial at Westminster Abbey Cardinal McCloskey elevated in 1876 Salvation Army founded by General Booth in London 1863 Queen Victoria born May 24 1819 and related royal connections.
The century cites Miss Zeruiah Porter as Oberlin College’s first female graduate in 1838. It also recounts anecdotes about Gen Butler and a guardian drowning in a castor oil estate tale, plus California guest silver, and Mormon divorce classifications.
A fragment from a newspaper page mixes verses about a woman wearing roses with a theater doorway quip. A comic exchange follows as a husband and a passerby discuss hat visibility, then a quick jab from Puck about a dramatic, repeated job history in a flippant fashion.
Cooking notes describe methods to prepare an invalid friendly egg dish with two tablespoons boiling water and a fresh egg on buttered toast. Also included is a creamy omelet with eggs milk or cream and seasonings, plus old fashioned gingerbread using molasses butter soda ginger alum and flour baked in a hot oven.
A quirky dialogue excerpt features Miss Elsie preferring an opera over a park walk and requesting jam, with James and Bobby adding humorous lines. Dr Bill is mistaken for a snake doctor in a lighthearted exchange reported by a hometown page note.
Embroidery bands decorate skirts and soft silks form graceful folds. Richer fabrics replace thin materials for balls and parties. Floral muffs match floral bouquets for evening wear. Coat bodices with hip seams or coarselet fronts trend in fashion. Velvet collarettes in large stores pair with multiple costumes.
The clipping bundles varied items from railroad murders in South Baltimore to legal suits in Clamatic Mirror and Dunlop libel cases, with social notes on toast taxes at Pittsburg bound events and regional disputes over oyster pirate removal. Other fragments reference East Saginaw, Butte, Covington heirs, and a Louisiana style rheumatism ad.
In Indianapolis Indiana Nos 1 and 2 Fair Block at corner Trindect and Jackson Place offer reception and consultation in English and German. Those at a distance who cannot cut should send for a question blank. Consultation times Sundays 9 am to 12 m and 108:30 p.m. Sundays.
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