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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1891
Page
3
The fragment reflects sorrow and longing with lines about hopes wasted and empty arms. It mentions God’s pity and nesting of darling ones, attributed to George Cooper, indicating a poetic meditation on loss and prayer.
An Irish coast tale recalls a lighthouse keeper whose life centers on storms wrecks and a lost wife and daughter. After a shipwreck and the faithful search, his daughter Bess returns with her husband and two children, proving the old man's joy and endurance.
The column mentions Mrs McKee and Mrs Harrison as fashionable figures, notes on widows wearing weeds, and hints of Hattie Blaine to wed Turkish minister Truxton Beale. It describes Mr Beale as a perfect gentle man and Miss Blaine nicknamed Little A by her family, reflecting light, intimate society chatter.
The piece highlights fashion shifts with shorter riding habits for ladies and announces a Japanese chameleon tapestry as a newly named fabric. It mentions full skirts reaching the ankle and upcoming innovations, along with blue and gold colorings on a new white house china set and marine bordered plates with tiny blue stars.
A Georgia tale reel from the Mont ezuma Record highlights an alligator killed on a river near Ance Slappery’s home. The beast reportedly contains a bateau and three colored men, one paddler too excited to lay his paddle. Fortune Farmer claims a 20 foot river monster with gray moss on its back. locals joke about the creature’s size and the fear it inspires.
A collection of terse anecdotes and observations spans across nations and school life. It notes Parisian building scale admired by Americans and Chili towns selling goods mainly in the evening, plus playful and poignant vignettes about girls from Milwaukee and Brooklyn and a classmate’s act of kindness for a graduating colored student.
The column blends light humor from Briggs and Griggs with snippets from the Detroit Free Press and N. x. Herald about a missing flannel shirt, the farmer’s boots, and charity mischief. It ends with a health note on cucumbers lettuce tomatoes and other foods and their cooling effects on the body.
An 1891-era notice hawks Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy for summer fatigue. A blended column describes Gen Alger and a minister, then promotes an Indianapolis excursion to Spencer Indiana by the Spencer railroad line. The trip touts mineral springs, electric lights, and health benefits for rheumatism and digestion, led by Fred Needham’s hotel management and Woods stables.
Father Kearney a well known priest died in Pittsburg while Gen Kelly a war era figure died in Oakland Maryland on Thursday Kate and Mary McGowan of Pittston Pa drowned Thursday while boating Liabilities reach 75000 against W EB Hollett Co Trinidad Colorado and 100000 for First National Bank Wyandotte Kansas An Italian woman murdered in New York by a countryman on Mafia dictation R BE Bryant of Livermore Falls burned to death in barn struck by lightning Thursday E K Haynes Monticello Ark stabbed by student Bob Baker Sub treasury scheme defeats Kaneas alliance Buffalo exhibit at world fair Foolscap term from foliocapo origin.
The Hale Medical Institute at 25 W. Washington Street Indianapolis Indiana announces new contracts guaranteeing cures and offering one year of medical advice after treatment. The institute claims broad patient testimonials and invites invalids to correspond with free mail diagnoses by its staff physicians.
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