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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1891
Page
3
The fragment notes rain as foretold by poplars flashing amber grain in a windstorm with lightning tangled in rain. The line attributes the mood to Thomas B Aldrich, suggesting a reflective poetical scene.
In a moonlit room a newlywed woman confronts fear and fate as a silver Eros figurine falls from a shelf. She suspects a hidden omen of broken love, questions her husband Leslie, and recalls a past assault that shadows their quiet home.
In a Minneapolis Tribune item a five year old girl learning the alphabet is quizzed by a gentleman. The child correctly answers A and Q but falters later, ending with a humorous remark that after T comes a man to see mamma, reflecting a charming domestic scene from the city. Three children in Prussia are noted for fair hair and blue eyes and New York charity groups send city poor children to the countryside for fresh air. A widow in South Minneapolis keeps a five year old girl as a pledge of her departed spouse.
The piece lists earnings of famous authors including Tennyson George Eliot Victor Hugo and Mark Twain detailing income figures for copyright prizes Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Innocents Abroad as well as Longmans history of England. It shifts to fashion trends noting waterproof fabrics white lace and velvet jabots glossy hair white neckties and a domestic focus for society women. It ends with a series of light quotes from New York newspapers.
Instructions for grape blackberry and dewberry cordials add sugar spices and boiling steps with safe dosage notes for children and adults. The item notes a Kansas woman with 600 descendants and 17 166 immigrants at a barge office over seven days. Also mentions travel to Europe, a couple’s playful New York Philadelphia marriage, a San Francisco man claiming monkey language, and Francis Wilson’s large New York area home with a top floor theater.
An assortment of vintage classified lines notes Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants promising pain relief and wind colic cure, priced at 25 cents a bottle. Other items include livery services Woods' stables, floral shop Betterman Bros., wallpaper Carl Moller, and a Concordia excursion to Terre Haute via Big Four on Sunday June 14.
A cloud burst at Chillicothe Texas on Thursday drowned four men and left another man missing. Widespread flooding along the Red River swelled water levels and displaced many residents, with thousands of acres under water and ongoing suffering among homeless families. The incident followed earlier wrecks and the death of Charles W. Gettier, a prominent railroad man, whose body was found in the river, thought to be an accident.
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