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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1899
Page
5
Florence and Tom discuss love and fidelity as Tom admits he loved Katharine Young but waited for fortune. Florence asserts there is one true beloved, while Tom reveals his yearnings and remorse for delaying happiness, recognizing his past selfishness and flawed theories of love.
A scene unfolds in which Florence urges Tom to confess his love to Katharine and live up to his convictions. She reveals deep fidelity and justice, hoping Katharine will forgive and choose happiness. The dialogue ends with Tom agreeing to ask Katharine, sparked by a hopeful rainbow moment.
Miss Cordelia Botkin, accused murderess, sparked a likely fatal altercation among her guards at Branch County Jail in California. The incident appears tied to rivalries over her favor.
A London Tit-Bits verse reflects on regrets and disappointments as common, noting many plans fail and light goes out yet people strive to do their best. It urges self-forgiveness, doing duty, and standing against evil as good persists despite hardship.
A Tule people belief notes babies cry without tears until three months. The Bank of England sits on land deemed extremely valuable. Britain and Ireland’s wealth is estimated at 60 billion dollars. Queen Amalie of Portugal is the sole royal woman known as a medical doctor. Experiments show a 19 knot ocean steamer drifts over two miles after engines are stopped and reversed.
In Oriental lore a century old Peking newspaper reports on long ago rulers. It notes Japan’s emperor owning about 3000 fine horses and forbidding betting. Siam’s king employs a bodyguard of 400 women described as the strongest and handsomest in the realm.
In a dialogue from the Providence Telegram a boy named Charlie asks to bathe his baby sister. Mamma explains the danger of drowning if left unattended and resists the idea, stressing safety and care. The scene then shifts to a promotional line for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
A columnist envisions the modern summer girl as healthy, confident, and disciplined, blending elegance with buoyant vigor. She respects elders, upholds religion, and travels safely with chaperones, while cultivating restraint, prudent courtship, and the influence to elevate men to higher ideals.
A 100 percent price surge for peanuts doubles the 1839 crop value to an estimated 3 to 4 million dollars, benefiting a small Virginia district. Also notes that golf was once banned in Scotland by act of parliament in 1841 to protect archery. Four Hungarians played a drunken chess game in a Budapest billiard room using wine bottles as pieces, kings symbolized by champagne.
A collage of humorous lines from Detroit Journal and other outlets includes a surgeon's wart study remark, a moth ball joke, and a late night exchange about what to eat, featuring a waiter and a reader’s quips.
A recipe outlines mixing two cups prepared flour with two egg whites and a yolk, lemon rind, melted butter, and milk to a thick batter. Currants are folded in, baked in two shallow pans, brushed with egg yolk and butter, and topped with sugar citron and almonds before a quick bake. An alternative uses plain flour with baking powder.
A sentimental poem by S. E. Kiser published in the Chicago Times-Herald expresses the speaker’s wish to remove thorns from a loved one’s path. It contemplates offering all pleasures and ease while balancing joy and sacrifice.
The article notes old nurses say 2 to 4 a.m. is the typical window for death in the sick. A French physician who studied over 25 000 cases finds most deaths occur at 2 p.m., not the early morning.
Instructions cover making baking powder from tartar soda bicarbonate and cornstarch mixed through a flour sieve. Also advises preserving jelly in glasses with wax paper to prevent moulding and storing for years. A wool blanket washing method uses borax in hot water to avoid shrinkage with repeated rinses and air drying.
The Chicago Record cites that a common housefly lays 120 eggs and 90 percent hatch. In one summer 12 or 13 generations form, making each female a progenitor of millions of flies.
A Fall Dinner for 15c is offered at Plaza Café located at 38 and 40 Monument Place. Also advertised are a rock-faced stone imitation for brick buildings and neckbands free on shirts with Progress Laundry contact Tel. 1121.
A newspaper ad touts a full meal for ten cents served daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ladies' lunch is on the second floor at Ormonde 16 West Pearl Street. The notice also cites the Old Reliable Union Co-operative Laundry and provides phone 1268.
An old patent medicine card promotes Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup for teething. It claims to soothe the child soften gums ease pain cure wind colic and relieve diarrhoea. Price listed as twenty five cents per bottle.
The notice urges travelers to contact the General Passenger Agent in Denver for maps views and descriptive material to plan a vacation route on the Colorado Midland Railroad. It emphasizes obtaining guidance on where to go and what to see before starting travel.
Fragmentary OCR note references Teenee Wide in ore with pin data for Qa dated 19 cents. Details are unclear but indicates assay or pricing context. No clear events, names, or locations discernible from the readable text.
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