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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1893
Page
3
A fragmented verse about June featuring swallows, insects, and changing moods. It invokes young men, serenading, night and day scenes, with imagery of collar drooping and haying. The piece reads like a lyrical homestead snapshot.
Grace Derry, Grace, two suitors Will Blake and Harry Curtis, duel romantic gestures beside an orchard and seaside meadow. Will proposes with a ruby ring, Grace rejects. Harry later offers a diamond ring in a moonlit ride. Both men improvise similar schemes, sparking questions about love and coincidence in this Boston Globe recount.
A Boston Budget resurrected tale describes a driver with a big bag aboard a streetcar and a tough man in slugger style who refuses to pay a fare. The conductor threatens to dump the bag after five minutes and ultimately removes it on the sidewalk. The man denies ownership and protests the move.
The Boston Globe notes Edwin Booth's long standing tobacco use did not impair his speech while warning temperaments vary. The New York San reports Walt Whitman lived in poverty late in life and relied on anonymous monthly aid from admirers in New York and Brooklyn, a generosity he kept discreet though grateful for each contribution.
A brief item from the Chicago Tribune notes a boy’s quip about Cork as the largest floating population. A YA reader at a Virginia industrial school imagines a classmate’s odd view of Indians. Wide Awake summarizes foreign news with a child’s humorous mishears.
Mrs Whitelaw Reid owns a white silk fan embroidered with colors and pearls. Levi P Mortons faces valued at about 70000 dollars. The infanta's pasa for the world fair is a gold alloy piste in an engraved case. A recent dinner featured Dresden candle-sticks at each place and a candle lit at seating. The longest lasting candle was said to promise manifola good lick.
A historical ad touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for skin diseases and blood disorders including eczema scrofula and boils. It claims to purify blood build flesh and strength especially in weak scrofulous children and to work year round. The pitch guarantees satisfaction or money back and markets as superior and cheaper than other tonics.
News bursts from a turbulent week with the Viking ship arriving in New York as famine and bread prices hit England. Reports detail fires, drownings, a Chicago police shooting, a fatal selfinflicted wound, mass layoffs, fires in Wisconsin and Minnesota, a nightclub tragedy near Louisville, and labor union proceedings in Chicago.
The page lists wholesale prices across regions for bacon ham sausage and pork cuts, dried beef hams and shoulders, lard and breakfast meats, and canned fruits vegetables seeds and spices. It includes fruit and vegetable prices by item and weight, plus select dairy and canned goods pricing. Names of firms and locations appear alongside the listed prices.
An extended Branchville feature touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as life saving for Chas I Struble of Homestead Farm. Affiliate statements from Struble, his sisters Annie and Mary, and local merchants claim rapid recovery from locomotor ataxia and rheumatism after nine boxes. Official affidavits and local endorsements accompany the tale.
The timetable lists daily passenger trains from Indianapolis Union Station to cities including Cleveland Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati with multiple daily departures. Services extend to Shelbyville Greensburg Elkhart Benton Harbor Marion Wabash and many others, with ticket offices at East Washington Street and nearby avenues.
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