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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1899
Page
5
Jim seeks help from his cousin to win Connie while Jim’s feelings for Violet Hastings complicate matters. Tom contemplates guiding Jim after revealing Jim's pursuit of Connie has strained their friendship and caused a clash over money and romance.
A singer praised as among the best masters in New York and Paris has found great success in Paris and London. Her American debut is anticipated in New York near fall, as she attracts attention in artistic circles.
A narrator recalls a tense encounter with Connie and Jim detailing awkward tea time, pale nerves, and a pledge to tell Lawrence about a book. He recalls a glove left behind and a memory of a girl on a sofa, ending with a vow to keep Jim content.
Mrs Lelia Seton Wilder of Wilder Place near Decatur is appointed Alabama commissioner to the Paris exposition. A prominent state political figure and large cotton planter, she drafted the Nicaragua canal bill and is praised by Senator S P Rather as a powerful historical figure if she had lived in earlier times.
Pale yellow appears in lawns haustes and piques and in fresh shirt waists. Rich orange dominates silk waists plain or plaid and chemisettes worn under boleros. It flatters brunettes under brown or navy boleros.
Miss Viola Sanford at 12 years old leads an Charleston orchestra of men and women after directing an all girls group at the world fair. At the Atlanta exposition she received a pearl brooch from Charleston ladies and she notes a comic episode with a New York manager who misread her role as music director.
A mother narrates a child's view of her brother Will growing from a girllike dress wearer to a boy. The verse contrasts toy play and attire then and now with the girl’s discomfort at the change and expectations of gender conformity. The speaker laments Will turning a boy and the accompanying shifts in toys clothes and behavior.
A collage of humorous exchanges from Harlem Life and Chicago Tribune humor sections features a hot street car passenger apologizing to a lady, a judge demanding specifics from a witness, a man recounting being struck by a chair, and a ribbon counter buyer noting a pale man. The lines capture social foibles and the era’s playful editing style.
The guide outlines packing perishable items for a picnic including ice in a tin box with flannel, butter and cream in tumblers, mayonnaise dressing in an airtight jar, and ready to mix lobster chicken crab or salmon. Lettuce kept in water, bread sliced thin, sandwiches packed in oil paper, hot items like eggs if needed, tomatoes with bacon onion mushrooms, Spanish omelette in minutes, coffee boiled and stored, lemonade made from juice and sugar near a spring.
A former senator from the Midwest weds a widow who was reluctant at first. He wooed with boyish ardor and offered only a gift a book. She accepted the edition titled Paradise Lost, then added Paradise Regained to their shared library.
A speaker recalls buying costly roses for his wife and the uncertain joy they bring. He reflects on a past affair, a faded note with a young man’s photo, and the uneasy pleasure of roses kept as memories. Then a switch to a new article praises honey flavored by deliberate cultivation, illustrating refined tastes at breakfast.
The article argues that after white, black is the most fashionable color for women. It describes black as cool diaphanous and soothing, able to create a dainty gauzy look when the material is right and universally becoming.
An advertisment proclaims Dean's Ointment as the sole cure for any skin itch all over the body. It promises immediate relief and lists a price of 50 cents at any drug store.
Special train leaves 7:00 a.m. from Vandalia and returns from Terre Haute at 7:30 p.m. The round trip fare is $1.00, offered on account of the dedication of St Benedict's church.
The Union Pacific will sell a greatly reduced round trip fare of one fare plus 2 dollars for the NEA meeting in Los Angeles July 11 to 14, 1899. Service via Omaha or Kansas City includes palace sleeping cars dining cars and free reclining chair cars. Agents Sherman and June in Cincinnati and Indianapolis provide tickets and information and the Overland Route illustrated book.
During late June and early July the Missouri Pacific railway plans round trip tourist tickets to selected Colorado points. Tickets are valid for return until October 31 and priced at one fare plus 80 cents. Full information and folders available at stations.
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