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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1891
Page
3
A humorous portrait contrasts a wife who cooks well but lacks Latin and science with a man who values homely skills. The speaker admires her table setting, order, and neat work, admits her faults, and concludes they are glad they married after lingering too long.
An old Persian tale from Lights of Canopus recounts Suleiman the Sultan facing a ruby cup from a cloud offering the Water of Life. Counselors urge drinking for youth and rule, but Kumii the Dove warns of loss to his queen and kin, leading Suleiman to shatter the cup and refuse immortality. The story blends angels, djins, and peris with a moral about wisdom over endless youth.
A column of curious social notes satirizes mid day driving by women and fashion follies. It includes tales from Connellsville shoe maker families caring for many pets, Mrs Astor’s plain travel dress critique, a riddle age reply, a humorous German tale, and Mary Murphy the Philadelphia hotel cook who regained speech after anger at a waiter.
Fragmentary page listing fashion notes and household recipes. Mentions coat colors slates blues blacks, plain cutaway, and accessories. Includes jokes, baked apple dumplings, lemon tea cakes, literary notes on Burnett Jerome and Irish literature, bees and honey folklore, a Beziers breach of promise case, and McKinney Medical Institute hints.
A humorous suburban school tale centers on a new pupil and a bright teacher. A boy refuses to leave, saying his father waits for “the present” to take home, illustrating illusions and the saying that things are not what they seem.
The article describes Cleopatra yellow and tan gray outfits, navy men’s hose, light cloth platers with odd skirts, peaked spring data hats, white enamellon shoes as a season novelty, and a collarless double-breasted white pique coat in late fashion, noting price clues.
A fragment notes that garments washed without Pearline and scrubbed with soap tend to wear out quickly. The observation emphasizes rubbing and cleaning actions leading to fabric damage over time.
The note describes weight, origin near the Equator, lighter from merles, and oak as a preferred furniture wood. It advertises veneers for Sieboards and specifies showroom addresses at WH and ELDSA, 43 and 45 South Meridian St. It promotes Sea choice Sids-r2d weight B12 and up, with handsome styles at 24, 20, and 26 dollars.
The Common Council of Indianapolis invites sealed proposals on Monday evening, March 16, 1891, for grading and paving with brick along multiple streets including Michigan from Blake to Patterson, Anza from Locke to Mexican, Vermont from Agnes to Lightwater, Elizabeth from Patterson to Maxwell, Patterson from Mont to Maxwell, and many others per Special Ordinances 149 through 258 and 292. Proposals cover sidewalks as well as roadways. quantities and exact street lines are set by each ordinance.
City announces multiple bids for grading and paving with asphalt and brick on streets including Delaware Washinton Massachusetts Raney Ramsay Wabash Pennsylva Markets Market, Wall era Court Sterling Newman Stoughton larger projects on Coburn Virginia East street Broadway and more. Specifications require special ordinances numbers and bond approval. bids opened by Common Council, City Civil Engineer Mansfield.
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