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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1899
Page
5
A brief verse urges new sailors to seize opportunity aboard the ship. It encourages bold action, steady hands, and confident navigation as they learn their craft at sea. The tone blends nautical cadence with admonition to press forward.
Pierre Fontaine a Paris factory clerk joins a radical league to seek wealth equality. He hides his criminal schemes and plans to detonate a dynamite bomb in Notre Dame. Babette discovers the plot and rushes to protect their son Paul as danger looms.
In a London Tit Bits report, Babette Fontaine dies after a failed bombing plot. Paul ard and the sacred edifice are cited, a blast tears a pavement hole, and a lunatic asylum inmate moans for Babette to return, depicting a grim aftermath.
In a nostalgic verse the narrator recalls a milkmaid singing by a cow and a lovelorn knight. The piece pivots to warnings about germs in streams and milk, urging the milkmaid to resist temptation. A playful reference to safer fare follows, ending with a lighthearted farewell to romance.
Mrs Julia Evelyn Capen Woodford widow of Gen Stewart L. Woodford ex minister to Spain died in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Born in Portland Missouri she was a daughter of Gen Henry Capen and recently figured in cable news related to events before the Spanish American War.
A satirical piece notes that girls seek novelty in marriage and lazily describe widowed or bored sentiment. The narrator questions modern romance and calls pessimism a default reaction when pondering the world. This humorous vignette relies on wry social observation and pointed irony.
Mrs Betsy Hill a Philadelphia widow watched her fiance a former gymnast defend her by whipping three men who insulted her He proved himself more than a match and Mrs Hill says she is proud of him.
A collage of witty exchanges from Chicago Post and Puck features a homely woman and a pug dog joke, a father explaining a word to his son, and Abner and Daisy trading light hearted lines. The bits showcase dated humor and rural speech patterns.
A speaker sits at a garden gate as a green lane winds toward London town. People pass with hope and energy, while the observer dreams alone, watching fortunes beckon and time drift by across the open dawn.
Lady Henry Somerset runs an industrial farm for inebriate women and claims over half of last year’s inmates were cured. Madame Dreyfus, wife of a famous prisoner, is introduced as a young, wealthy daughter. Mrs. Lyman cites a jewel gift offer of 8600 for St. Mary’s children. Annie Marion Maclean narrates a two week shopgirl stint earning 11.88 for 173 hours, averaging six cents per hour.
Ferns brighten the home and cost little, suggesting woodland shadows and cool breezes. They look graceful along porches and can be housed in sardinières or rustic boxes. transplant swiftly when taken from the woods to prevent wilting.
An old advertisement touts Hinod's Sarsaparilla as a standard purifier and true tonic for the blood. It claims the product sustains the physical system and notes Hood's Pills do not gripe with a brief price line for druggists.
A special train from Union Station departs at 7 20 a m on Sunday June 25 via Pennsylvania Lines and returns from Louisville Fourteenth Street Station at 6 10 p m the same day Fare listed as $1 50 round trip offering convenient service for travelers between Louisville and nearby locations.
The Vandalia Line offers a $66 round trip from June 24 to July 7 to the Pacific Coast with return validity to Sept 4, 1859. Tickets allow liberal stopovers in either direction and include a July 5 excursion from Indianapolis at 12:35 PM led by Prof. C F Patterson. Contact No 133 Commercial Club Building Indianapolis or the undersigned for reservations.
An Indianapolis reader quotes kidney trouble symptoms and backs the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. W. M. Hunt describes chronic backache and kidney weakness eased after using a box, with a brief note of a minor recurrence quickly relieved.
Thre is now excellent fishing at Eagle River Conover State Line Watersmeet Gogebic Marenisco Tomahawk Lake Woodruff Manitowish and other points in Wisconsin and Michigan reached via the Chicago & North-Western. Sleeping cars daily Special sleeper every Saturday 5:00 p m Returning Sunday evening arriving Chicago 9:30 Monday morning. Illustrated pamphlet sent free on application to A H Waggener 6 Jackson place Indianapolis Ind.
Almost everything white features in this season's looks. Ready made yokings for guimpes and trim jackets in wash goods. Circular flounces on finer wash dresses. Brown linen and crash skirts elaborate as silk. New tucked gingham and India mull gowns with lace and yellow ribbon. Puffing ready to use for yokes sleeves or waists. White cloth costumes with long skirts. Lace insertions with curved edges daily newer. White pique jackets with colored collars. New shirt waists with folded necktie pieces.
The current trend requires bon net pins and hat pins to be worn in matched pairs. Individual pins decline in use as people buy present or exchange pins in twin sets. Flower head pins remain popular, with amaranth, periwinkle, or white camellia designs noted.
Instructional fragment describes stripping mint leaves from stems washing and draining drying, then chopping very fine and placing into a given container with three heaped measures. A period is implied between steps. The text reflects kitchen prep language from a historic recipe page.
A Cincinnati and Baltimore double feature. Special train departs Union Station at 7 15 a m for Sunday June 25 returning at 6 23 p m. Also National League baseball Cincinnati vs Baltimore scheduled.
Reduced fares to California offered by the Chicago and North Western Railway for rapid travel and scenic routes. Chicago to Los Angeles round trip 64.50 dollars, tickets on sale June 25 to July 8 with return valid until September 4, 1899, for the National Educational Association annual meeting. Free illustrated pamphlet on request from A H Waggener, 6 Jackson Place, Indianapolis.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway offers round trip tickets to Denver Pueblo Colorado Springs and Glenwood Springs at one fare plus 3.00 for travel June 25 to July 11 with return by October 31 1899. The Colorado Special departs Chicago 10 00 am daily arriving Denver next afternoon and Colorado Springs the same day with one night en route meals in Dining Cars. The Pacific Express leaves Chicago 10 30 pm daily arriving Denver and Colorado Springs the next morning with no car changes. For details contact connecting line agents or anopils Ind.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming it calms teething pain soothes the gums and cures wind colic for children at twenty five cents a bottle.
Mrs. Lloyd Lowndes wife of Maryland's governor is drawn into a folklore fad as families request buttered bread for whooping cough. Anxious mothers from Annapolis to nearby areas seek relief, following a householder's superstition amid prevalent illness and two Lowndes sons affected.
A guided westward rail excursion departs Indianapolis June 28 at 11 45 a m aboard the Big Four Routes. Prof Woodruff and Prof Benton of Indianapolis lead the trip with through Pullman and sleeping cars, visiting major western cities and resorts. Berth rates are 13 in Palace car and 6 in tourist car, with optional return via Portland and Northern Pacific for 12 50 extra. Information and reservations through Prof J H Woodruff, 2036 Broadway, Indianapolis, or any Big Four agent.
Daily business lunch offered from 10 a m to 2 p m at Ormonde located at 16 W Pearl. Ladies lunch service available on the second floor.
Round trip fare $1.25 with special train from Indianapolis U Station at 7 30 a m and return from Batesville at 7 20 p m calling at Shelbyville and Greensburg in both directions Tickets and information available at Big offices 1 E Washington St and Ur station H M Bronson A G P A
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