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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1891
Page
3
A poem excerpt narrates a shift from doubt to joy as the beloved arrival dispels gloom. The speaker, McSparran, describes how hope returns and life feels sweeter and stronger with the beloved. The tone is romantic and reverent as affection transforms experience.
In Ophir a Missouri miner Wash rises from penniless newcomer to a storied uncle of a forgotten mine. After years of failed blasting and strain, he dies at his tunnel mouth, his death triggering a blasting reveal of a massive gold pocket. The camp mourns then fades as Ophir becomes a memory.
Julia Marlowe visits Paris for gowns while Rosine is cited as Christian name for Sarah Bernhardt. Prominent actresses summer at Asbury Park and Edwin Bonth enjoys Rosalind cottage. Pauline Hall, opera singer, reportedly neglects facial washing for years. Kendals reportedly earned £30000 in America, equating to about $160000 lost to us. A New York business leader prefers theater for mental distancing and strategic thinking, praising stage glare for business ideas.
Enterprising merchants tout wraps and thin purple muslin for sea-shore gowns. A gleaming ves cap for Shouse maids, long tight petticoats, and Jersey linen fabrics are featured. Gloves grow shorter with a new finger nail impression showing the fit.
The article cites Frank Stockton as the inventor of a dish called the cold pink, a turkey white meat with cranberry sauce set in a china form, noting a $2 payment by a housekeeping journal editor. It also recounts an old sunburn remedy using pine gum arabic, camper, eau de cologne, and glycerine mixed and applied nightly.
A collection of curious statements notes habits of hair growth and baldness among African Americans, mildew removal from clothing with buttermilk, a mystery letter in the alphabet, nails growing yearly, a tailless calf in Dalton Georgia, elephant memory, headaches from tight hair, grasshoppers on a Kansas railroad track, and vendors who ripen bananas by body heat.
A fragment from Housekeeper’s Weekly and Street & Smith’s Good News features a child’s remark on a town’s crowded houses. A father’s reaction to a term report appears, and a child named Dot asks for moth paper to pack a cat’s fur shedding, reflecting domestic humor and midcentury tone.
Leander boat club wins Henley re gatta in London while Emperor William and Queen consider a US visit. A statue of Bobbie Burns unveiled at Leith, priests rise in Ireland as Patrician politics shift. Chile rejects Balmaceda debts. Victoria hosts a lawn fete. Russian grain plans stock military stores. Samoa’s revolution ends. King Malieboa and Chief Matagia burn the hatchet. Hood's Sarsaparilla touted for cure of blood disorders.
A listing promoting chiropody and manicure services by Dr. J. B. Morgan. It describes corn and bunion removal without pain, nail beautification, wart and freckle treatment, skin softening, and hair services by a corps of lady artists. Location Rooms 1 and 2, second floor, 182 North Pennsylvania St.
The Famous Sherman of S Meridian street, a popular caterer, has set up a grand pavilion at Fairview Park offering the season's delicacies and refreshments to visitors and patrons.
A quirky verse fragment recalls Richard offering a throne for a fighting horse and musing on wit versus wisdom. The older satire hints at clever lines and pennies saved, wrapped in playful archaic diction.
A quirky note from the era reports New Mexico offering grasshoppers to any visitor. Other items cover a fatal train accident in Olney Illinois, a household tragedy in Clifton Texas, a deadly feud in Logan County West Virginia, and various brief local incidents across the country. The mix includes a reform congressman race, woman blinded then restored sight, and a preacher’s lawsuit over salary following a revival.
A newspaper piece warns about missing children and the dangers of neglectful parenting. It promotes Dr W. Hale's Medical Dispensary offering guaranteed cures for many ailments, advertising private consultation rooms, mail treatment, and free consultations. The ad lists conditions claimed to be curable and asserts high success with testimonials.
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