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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1891
Page
3
Fragment from a courtship note quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer. A wife reflects on memories, longing, and the enduring feeling of being married, while contemplating time apart and the ache of distance. The prose evokes a fairy tale dream of happier days.
A first person tale recounts night blind lumbermen Jerome and Laronde crossing Little Beaver Creek near Bytown during a dusk storm. Both go blind, cling to a rock, await dawn, and survive after drifting jam stock downriver then reaching the shanty for treatment. Also includes home remedies and advice on health and teeth care.
A London paper describes Mary Anderson as queenly, notes stylish women use silver-foot bath bowls costing 100 dollars, and mentions European origin of spoon collecting as a souvenir. It cites a progressive view on beauty standards, and a Londonarea woman near Trasburgh VE who has not allowed any person to see her by day for nearly 40 years, moving about veiled and only at night.
A collection of quirky vignettes and commentary from a New York Herald page. Scenes range from dances and Delsarte studies to Paris lights, curious ads, and a Bangor couple’s city tour. Also noted are a candy accident in Washington and reminiscences about journalism in Boston.
The account surveys sleeping customs across cultures. Chinese rest on low hard beds with minimal coverings while Germans use feather beds. Europeans and Americans seek downy pillows. Laplanders sleep in reindeer skin bags. East Indians favor porous bags to deter mosquitoes. The Japanese lie on rush mats with a wooden headrest. Russians favor stove-top hotbeds and cold baths each morning.
A collage of brief items includes a 17 inch wide rose from a Philadelphia hot house, migrant workers in American camps near Santiago earning 10 to 20 dollars daily, a Sonoma vineyard buying 10,000 paper bags to cover vines, and Britain India territorial data. It also reports Maryland fruit canneries overwhelmed with small fruits, a Westminster cherry shipment, and Pennsylvania Lines train schedules from Indianapolis to Chicago with tourist fares. Also listed are remedies for teething and various services from Woods stables and a chiropodist manicure parlors, with dental work from Dr. J B Morgan See Brown.
A flood of brief notices reports losses and deaths Sunday across multiple states and towns. Incidents include yachts, fires, shootings, drownings, and a bank of domestic tragedies with named locations such as Boston Milwaukee Philadelphia Missoula Butler Tarcola Rockland Wilmington Pittsburg Lake George Duluth and Newton.
An 1891 Prescott Ind letter from Lizzie Landwerlen describes near death, recovery after Dr Hale's treatment, and public skepticism dispelled. The note praises Hale's medicine, notes renewed health, and claims confidence in a cure for invalids. The letter is vouched for by Dr Hale of Indianapolis.
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