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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1900
Page
5
In a Chicago Times Herald excerpt two stories unfold. A town debates census pride versus growth and regional rivals while a fateful farce ensues over a misdirected coat and a forged note among lovers. Valentine and Marthe confront trust and deception with sharp wit.
Maurice receives a taunting invitation from Fifi an actress linked to his youth and another era. He muses on old days with Paul and champagne nights and contemplates visiting the actress and learning news about old friends, despite his married life.
The article portrays a charming frock in Wedgewood green dimity described as pretty with a leafy design. It features lattice style tucks from waist to below the knees, worn over white, giving a breezy porch-like image and a siesta mood.
The article describes heating sugar before adding fruit for jam and suggests rhubarb jam with orange, and a gooseberry jam with currant juice. Peel and cut rhubarb, cook with little water, then add sugar and orange rind. Gooseberries simmer with currant juice, then sugar, until jam forms. boil long and reboil if syrup separates after three days.
Quotations from readers and editors surface in a collage of city papers. Jests about golf tourism love letters and terms like hot stuff mix with regional parlance, showing a playful snapshot of pressroom banter and social foibles.
Mrs. Joseph M. Cohen of Utah becomes the first woman to sit in a presidential ticket nominating convention as delegate at large. She arrived as an alternate, then was chosen to take a seat representing Utah women. A practical politician, she campaigned in primaries for five years and joins the floor procession with her flag amid the convention tumult.
A quirky piece on social habits and idle observations. It notes shared soda water experiences, cramps remedies, fashion woes, and the humor of watching others work. The tone is playful and reflective about leisure, vanity, and the value of study as self-improvement.
Mrs Agnes Korndoerfer of Philadelphia has organized a women only association linked to the G A R. It will admit women who during the Civil War helped the wounded by making lint and bandages or delivering food flowers and supplies to hospitals and refreshment stations.
A note from the Saturday Evening Post recounts Miss Alice Brown's encounter with a gypsy girl who offered fortune telling. The gypsy described Brown as American and a writer, even detailing her life in America with surprising accuracy. Brown doubted the method, attributing it to telepathy and noting it as her first such experience.
A classroom dialogue from the Philadelphia Press features a teacher asking about the term buttress and a student jokingly answering it as a nanny goat. The exchange captures a light moment amid discussions of fortifications.
The notice warns that both maker and circulator of counterfeit salve are guilty and cautions against fake products. It stresses DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as the genuine original remedy for piles and skin diseases and urges buyers to ensure their dealer supplies DeWitt's. It ends with a recommendation to obtain it from all druggists.
Travel notice urging readers to book Atlantic Steamship lines to Paris through agent Pfisterer at 26 Virginia Avenue with telephone 1961, promoting secure accommodation and reservations.
The notice advertises Merchant's 30 Restaurant located at 50 NTL offering day and night service with everything described as first class.
To accommodate patrons a special train will depart Terre Haute Saturdays and return Mondays from Lake Maxinkuckee. The Big Four 11 45 a m train connects at Colfax. For details contact Big Four or Vandalia line agents. W W Richardson D P A.
B F Bye relocates his downtown office from 227 North Illinois Street to 403 North Illinois Street at the northeast corner. Both telephones remain listed as 1925.
Isidor Davidson gives notice to Seventh ward voters in Center township Marion county Indiana of applying to the Board of County Commissioners at the August term 1900 for a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in less than five gallons and allow on premises. The business location is 441 Massachusetts Ave first floor fronting north in a two story brick building S E 4 1/2 19 twenty one feet on Massachusetts Ave beginning 128 feet southeast of the northeast corner of square 19 in Indianapolis Center township Marion county Indiana Ward 7.
A dated excerpt jokes about marriage and courtship. It contrasts women talking back, chased by men, and the opinions of husbands with sharp witticisms. The humor targets married life and social behavior with a satirical tone.
An applicant CHAS GLITZENSTEIN seeks a license from the Marion county Board of Commissioners at the August term 1900 to sell vinous malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premise drinking. The business is at 17 East Market Street, first floor, a three story brick building fronting north on Market Street in Ward 7 Center Township Indianapolis.
Instructions describe making a rich jellied meat dish from beef shank and pig feet. Boil separate vessels with little water until bones release meat, then cool, skim fat, remove bones, chop meat, combine with pig feet jelly, season with salt pepper cloves and allspice, simmer and mold for a firm cold sliceable dish.
A brief note on serving summer salads with cold meats, recommending lettuce and tomato combos, and cold beets with seasoning including allspice, cloves, mustard seeds, peppercorns, oil and vinegar. Mentions simple French dressing as an alternative and cites Dr. Thomas as a household reference.
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