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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1894
Page
3
In a dated verse from Chicago Mall, a narrator recalls Jimmy Keyon's sister surprised by Bill McKee. A playful tale unfolds as Bill imitates a kiss causing the girl to blush. they linger under sumach flags, then marry six months later and raise a child, with the speaker noting a hidden theft he never spoke of.
The tale follows Bishop Samuel Wilberforce relaying a haunted house incident. A priestly specter recounts a confession that would alter an estate's entail, noting the paper was hidden in Young's Night Thoughts. The bishop finds the book and the faded document, forever sealing the secret.
The column surveys fashion notes praising a neat Melbs jacket and plain skirt, endorsing wool fabric and pearl buttons, while criticizing dull black. It also discusses serving food, citing a cook who browns hash in cups to please children, and remarks on artificial violets as affordable corsage accents with real perfume.
A collage of jokes and quips about finances and social whims. It includes a pun about paying for the opera, a theatre house dialogue, a gag about George Washington, and a macabre crowd reaction. The piece then shifts to birds noting the secretary bird of South Africa and a Florida anecdote about drunken berries affecting northern robins.
A collage of quick notes reports and anecdotes from public life naming Mrs Parnell Countess Warwick Queen Victoria and other figures. It mentions a Shakespere garden a rod of royal favorites a Brazils rebellion progress a fatal shooting a slave of politicians a miners entombed search and a pistol fight leaving one dead and others wounded.
John L. Steel of Cape May County recounts twenty six year battle with rheumatism and paralysis. After trying doctors and medicines without relief he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pure People with restoring mobility. He reports regaining use of limbs, discarding a crutch, and improved appetite after completing twenty boxes. The account includes affidavits and notes the pills are not a patent medicine.
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