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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1891
Page
3
Excerpt from the Springfield Republican praising zephyrs bringing fragrant blooms and a lovers flame. The verse extols a radiant beauty, evocative skies, and a heroic beloved who lends strength to the beloved in life and courage. It notes music, grace, and a sublime passion surpassing heavenly harpers.
Alice Branden navigates two suitors John Harte and Henry Sewell while studying phonography. Henry plans to propose but a stray eyelash marks the moment, Sewell’s scorn leads Alice to reject him and confirm her love for Harte. The tale ends with a twist as fate determines the match.
A wired collage mentions a quip about Balaam from Puck, a Chicago rescue scene, actress Rose Coghlan’s meal drinking claim, and fashion notes on London society ladies. It notes a two month marriage, a danger scenario, and two women in white with pink flower wreaths at an event.
A collection of brief notes mentions 40000 Russians lacking food, a St Paul physician vaccinating 200 people with mucilage, Savernake Forest estate selling for 4 million dollars, and a Bond Street jeweler estimating 750000 dollars of queen jewels at a drawing room. It also notes odd fruit sizes, local crop produce, and fashion trends with drapery and long coats becoming common.
A collection of quirky notes from the era includes a remark on Americans lacking real friends, a hen that fought a hawk for John T. Watson’s brood, and a New England superstition about picking up nails for luck. Also recounted is a London ad claiming a donkey can be “well educated and a gentleman,” plus a Springfield, Ohio street scam where two riders and a young woman sold colored middlings as a corn cure, fooling about 300 people.
The excerpt presents a mosaic of letters and anecdotes. It lampoons resignation habits, derides public figures, and offers quips about journalism. It mentions John Wanamaker Harold Hagonp Major Richards Anna Shaw Mrs Oscar Wilde and James Fennimore Cooper's daughters in Cooperstown.
A fragment lists curious tips such as using licorice to deter ants, drying wet shoes with oats for a quick fix, and rubbing the mucilage side of postage stamps on hair to prevent sticking. These ad hoc notes reflect practical hacks once circulated in domestic guidance columns.
A promotional passage argues that medicines backed by a money back guarantee reflect honesty and confidence. It stresses that a reliable guarantee requires trust in the local dealer and direct backing by the manufacturer, claiming Dr. Pierce’s products will work or the money is returned.
A string of incidents reported Tuesday includes Nimick & Co. in Pittsburg facing liabilities of 1 million dollars after a failure, a row of business blocks burning in Pittsfield with 100000 dollars loss, a large New York tenement destroyed with a child burned to death, Behring Sea sealers unable to pass revenue cutters, Gustave Blum a New York jeweler suicide at Grand Union Hotel, a fatal gas-tank explosion in Rochester killing two, Howell Lumber Co. in Omaha assigning, Thomas Hinckley shooting and killing two men in Tacoma, Sedalia cloudburst causing damage and John Dillard and wife killed by lightning, drunken sailors and deputy marshals fighting in San Diego, William Brennan and wife shot by Policeman Ryerson in Jersey City, Sam Gillespie shot by a mob in Love, Nebraska while aiding a rescuer, Edward Trauk of Rochester suicide in police station, a Kansas City knife wound suicide, and two robbers slitting Gheorge Newberry’s brother and three children in Joshua, Texas.
The piece argues that deaths from accidents and illness are often self-inflicted through negligence and delaying medical care. It urges immediate professional treatment and cites Dr. Hale's Medical Dispensary, claiming success with numerous chronic diseases and urging readers to consult Dr. W. H. Hale at 254 West Washington Street.
The Sun promotes its liners section offering half cent per word for ads. Readers are urged to use the cheap liners to advertise buying homes selling real estate or other wants through the Sun's popular classifieds department.
A fragmented notice states that if artificial gas is desired for lamination, the company will, on application, attach men tes and put on burners free of cost. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or locations.
A 25 year specialty offers home treatment for syphilis gonorrhea and gleet with no operation. It claims cures for varicocele and stricture caused by abuse, with patient discreetly treated. Medicines are sent securely from observance by M Abbett MD of 223 Virginia Ave Indianapolis.
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