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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1899
Page
5
On a rural homestead Viasta and her family endure a looming cyclone. Albrecht, his mother, and the younger children scramble as dark green clouds gather and a menacing roar approaches, prompting a hurried search for shelter and safety.
Viasta, a Bohemian settler girl, watches a distant cloud rise as Albrecht Hollub prepares to ride away with another girl after a wedding dance. A yearned-for closeness ends after a quarrel over dancing, leaving Viasta to endure silent waiting as the ominous cloud grows on the prairie afternoon.
Harold Starr and Minnie Starr of Webster Virginia wed at once after fleeing a wealthy farmer father who threatened disinheritance and shot Starr in the back during a dawn escape. Doctors removed the bullet, and the couple married with the paternal alarm fading into relief.
The piece recalls Josie Mansfield once famed for the Stokes Fisk murder case of 1872. It notes her long decline into paralysis while living with her sister in Philadelphia, and mentions her 1891 marriage to Robert N. Reade and subsequent quiet life. Doctors attribute her condition to mental worry.
A Lansing era feature profiles three of Michigan’s heaviest women, including the Sleppy sisters of Constantine and Lucy Havens of Galien. Weighing 397 400 pounds, they toured nationally and were courted by a German Forepaugh troupe. The Sleppys face poverty as their father’s blindness and loss of home leave the family strapped for income. Havens, age 21, spurned offers from Ringling Bros and a dime museum, choosing work at a county poor farm over lucrative but distant gigs.
Viasta and Albrecht survive a cyclone that devastates their farm as family and animals seek shelter in a dug-out. The arklike shelter fills with 12 people and fowl, while Viasta clings to Albrecht and finds solace in his protective words. Destruction of homes and crops follows, but the couple’s courage remains.
A poetic exhortation urges opening the mind to cheerful thoughts to banish gloom. The verse says the mind paints the hour with bright colors and time's chalice should overflow with buoyant hope while tears are dried.
Practical kitchen tips including cleaning a spice mill with raw rice, using a horse-radish grater broom, keeping a kitchen broom for pavements, preferring stone jars for bread, softening hard water with wood ashes, avoiding grease in jars for pickles, weekly drain pipe cleaning with lime water or chloride of lime, using clam shells to scrape pots, and dousing grease spills with cold water to prevent soaking.
The column surveys summer dress fabrics and trims with low prices on crash suiting at five cents a yard. It notes quill trimmed gray felt golf hats for travel and crystal buttons for bodices, comparing full fronts to shirtwaist jackets in a fashion economy.
Daily service from 10 am to 4 pm, Basin Lunch offers a full meal for 100. The menu includes a simple midday option and a set price, inviting groups to share a warm, hurried lunch.
A collage of brief dialogue and wry quips from multiple papers. Children argue about paying fares in a playful omnibus game while a Lay Figure muses on heredity. A joke about an unconstrained sheep thief shadows the humor and dating of a kiss promise gone awry.
A mob led by Henrietta Brenner attacked a car driven by a striking employee in New York. A brick shattered a window. a passenger sustained serious injuries. Brenner was arrested and held pending the victim’s wound outcome.
Poetic lines from the Atlanta Constitution describing longing and closeness across oceans. The speaker vows to hear a call and come, sending a warm clasp in the dark despite distance. The passage emphasizes soul kinship, faithful devotion, and metaphorical light as a message.
A collection of wry reflections on innocence, forgiveness, and charity attributed to the New York Press. The speaker notes that certain acts puzzle even the devil and that true charity is only valued when not available to give.
The Texas Colorado Chautauqua Journal echoes Lew Wallace’s charge that schools overwork children. It argues for a childhood of the soul with free air and gentle study, citing a Boston protest by a city physician against overworked youngsters in harsh schoolhouse conditions.
Piano sale notice announces upright pianos available with ten dollars down and monthly payments at Wuischner's store on Pennsylvania Street. Local shop promotes affordable terms and ongoing options for buyers seeking new instruments.
Local ad lists prices for assorted textiles and home goods at Star Store.ca. Items include cottonade yardage, shirting cheviots, towelings, damask, ginghams, and linen items with new reduced prices. bargain counter stock and small hardware and novelty items priced to clear.
An advertisement touts Dr. T. Felix Gouraud’s Oriental Dream as a 50 year tested beauty cream that removes tan pimples freckles moth patches and skin blemishes while claiming harmlessness and a recommendation by Dr. Lt. A Sayre. Distributed by FERD. T. HOPKINS at 31 Great Jones St New York and sold by druggists and dealers in the U S Canada and Europe.
Simple kitchen guidance outlines stuffing a boned leg of mutton with bread and mushrooms, then roasting and serving with a mushroom gravy. Also describes a fricassée style chicken pie with puff pastry diamonds baked atop for a heated finish.
The article advises women and children to store lace in dedicated boxes with multiple blue tissue layers, rolled and not folded. It suggests adding sachet powder, preferably a scent from orris root, to renew fragrance, and to wrap lace carefully to avoid contact with foreign substances.
Nathan Wood recounted a story about women's business capacity at a Woman's Suffrage Association of New England meeting. He cited Ellen H. Richards of MIT as the woman trustee who proposed a detailed sewer plan for Vassar, persuading the male trustees to adopt it.
A recipe note explains compotes called fruit salads use mixed fruits with blended flavors. It describes pineapple with oil strained, gelatine dissolved into juice to form a creamy consistency, then poured over fruit and served cold.
They note women swear with their eyes when a man steps on their gowns, though they would be shocked at the insinuation.
A brief local notice documents a mutation or alteration of rock-faced masonry at a public work site. Details specify inspections planned by city engineers and a timeline for repair without naming individuals or firms.
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