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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1893
Page
4
A nostalgic verse laments the vanished old school exhibitions and their simple raw performances. It contrasts past scenes of boys and girls reciting classics with modern attire and stagecraft. The poem mourns deserted schoolhouses and overgrown doors as memories of Bingen, the Hines, and old times fade.
Betsy, a farm maid, and Joshua, a bashful farmhand, endure months of silence until a doorway moment prompts Betsy to ask if marriage is real. A ride to fetch seed corn becomes the turning point as Joshua agrees and the couple share the journey. The passage then shifts to a separate social note about a white dinner and its elegant, all white decor.
Ex-President Harrison is a daily Cape May Point bather. J Coleman Drayton, Astor’s separated husband, lives quietly at Bar Harbor with his children despite her wide-brimmed sailor hat and sunlit tanning summer girl. Mrs John Jacob Astor mourns her father-in-law but attends in gowns. Newport’s men shortage makes hen dinners and Dutch luncheons popular for married women.
The text touts a leading cigarette described as the most popular and strictly high class with no connection to any trust. It emphasizes quality and distinct branding aimed at discerning smokers in a premium segment.
A vintage recipe note from the New York World describes sandwich techniques and fillings. It details bread aging, crust trimming, and precise cutting, with methods for chicken cheese sardine salmon ham and vegetarian leaf additions to Elevate everyday bread and butter sandwiches.
Worth knowing urges weekly hot water flushing of tubs basins and sinks. It warns against storing soiled clothing in sleeping rooms and advises daily refrigerator checks. It promotes disinfection with copperas and lime and borax to prevent contamination and pests as a guard against typhoid fever.
A collection of light notes on household items and trends. A nut and raisin spoon shaped like a shovel with silver detailing, four cornered green cups for drinking chocolate, lace cushions trimmed with ribbon, satin tufted fans, a diamond pincushion with lace top, and Felix novel sleeves made entirely of three inch lace frills for summer dresses.
The page notes Lotta presenting a new play and Hilda Thomas thriving in comic opera. Mrs Langtry plans a U S tour next season while Roland Reed has a 16-year-old daughter. Joe Jefferson to perform for 12 weeks and Paderewski earns 3000 dollars per London show. New York theatre season described as the dullest summer in years for the metropolis.
A traditional mixture uses sea salt half ounce camphor half ounce and ammonia one-half ounce in a quart bottle with hot water left 24 hours. When bathing, a teaspoon of the shaken solution added to the basin cleanses the skin and imparts a perceived beneficial effect.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic for wasting diseases and convalescence. It claims to build flesh and strength, purify blood, aid scrofulous and skin diseases, and asserts a money back guarantee if no benefit or cure is achieved.
Since March two hundred forty five pensioners have been dropped from the rolls. In St Louis six hundred shoemakers strike over a ten percent wage cut. Adlai ising Frisco sails by bay as guns salute. President Cleveland ends his fishing cruise and proclaims rheumatism gone. J B K Plain, a Washington lumber merchant, commits suicide by leaping from a roof. The Union bank and the Greely national bank in Greely Colorado close after Denver failures. In Virginia whitecaps beat A M Rogers of Chicago nearly to death for an alleged assault on the 11 year old daughter of the station agent. Bank cashist A W Little shoots and kills Gens Johnson in Kansas City saying You shan t hound me any more.
Markets steady on Thursday July 20 with broad ranges for meats vegetables and canned goods. Notable prices include ham bacon sausage dried fruits and vegetables from Morgan Gray Adel regions with California and Indiana offerings and a long list of staples such as butter cheese flour sugar and canned fruits.
Dr. Jordan of 26 West Washington Street promotes Lung Renovator as a remedy for lung disease and consumption, citing widespread use. The piece also outlines a gas safety act restricting connections and alterations to gas mains and valves and prescribing fines from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
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