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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1890
Page
3
A visiting minister recalls a fragile ill woman and her husband John. With scarce furnishings and fading strength, the couple longs for kinship in the country. The doctor arranges a hopeful move home as the wife finds comfort in the idea of traveling home together with her loyal husband.
Edward N. Wood describes a fatal collision as a crowd discovers a dead man named John. A driver recalls discovering the body and a woman nearby moaning in relief, whispering about going home together with Joan before collapsing.
Gossip on women shifting work away from certain fields to lighter tasks. Banana shaped sachets are sewn by hotel porches each morning, amid updates in ladies wear such as silk washing twirls. Glove fashions, custom embroidery, and a Germanic wedding ring tradition are seen as new keepsakes between spouses.
A scattered historical note set discusses colorless water, sunless basements weakening sight, and the first two U S interior secretaries Thomas Ewing appointed March 8 1839 and Alexander H H Stuart appointed September 12 1850. It lists prisoner deaths in the Civil War camps 29725 Union and 24774 Confederate, claims freckles stem from iron in blood, and mentions outdated health quackery about eating pencils and drinking vinegar. It ends with a detail that trains on the New York and Northern railroad carry telegraph instruments for messages in motion.
A Chicago News item recounts a London joke about an American who asked his body be cremated. At the crematorium, after thirty minutes the corpse sat up and pleaded for the door to be shut, saying he could not stand a draft.
The text lists home care tips for nosebleeds, whooping cough, eye irritation, convulsions in children, and dyspepsia. It also notes a recipe with tinctures to aid dyspepsia and mentions a clothing item order from Norbert Landgraf and location details tied to John Osterman's old stand.
A notice notes that sending your name and address to Swift Specific Co in Atlanta Georgia is required to obtain information about an appealing blood health treatment and diseases related to it.
A respected citizen away from the city reports swift relief after using Swift's Specific for a skin eruption that plagued him for thirty years. Roser Crease, Druggist, Falls City, Nebraska, endorses the remedy’s effectiveness based on his experience and patient outcomes.
The text notes Portugal's king raises about 30,000 hogs yearly. It also covers Russian students in Paris facing austere meals of black bread and cabbage. Dom Pedro considers Grenoble area as a temporary residence, citing high rents at chateau de Volson, with plans to bring his daughter and grandchildren when possible.
A Hastings resident recounts years of nervous debility and failed cures from physicians and tobacco advice. After trying a advertised vegetable remedy by correspondence, he improves, resumes work, and reports his business also flourishing, inviting inquiries about the treatment.
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