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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1891
Page
3
A short poem celebrates spring as buds swell and cattle graze while honey bees hum and doves court in a woodland by a bright stream. It notes birds chirping in nests and on the wing as the warm season begins in a tranquil landscape.
A Good Words tale retells a Spanish monk Fray Antonio El Moro who finds a radiant Venus statue. The statue is buried after his death in a mountain cavern, with eerie moans and rumors. Quarry workers later pull the statue over him. it falls into an abyss with his corpse, and a priest performs rites amid legends of an evil spirit.
A fragmentary period piece blends Lord Tennyson's pay per word poem with a stream of assorted notes. It mentions Senator Tugius on opportunity, Tolstoy defending a accused man in Krapinan, Tolstoy’s notes for a novel, and various curiosities about Tolstoy, Italy’s horses, Corncob pipes, royal misprints, a Yorkshire discovery, Cherra Poonejee rainfall, Derrick the hangman, an Indian prince in Paris, and a piano mattress that plays operatic airs.
A garbled old column sketches stereotypes of French, English, German, and Spanish women with quips on marriage, manners, and mood. It notes Merritt L. Termald’s appointment as assistant botanist at Harvard and parodies fashion with buttons and celluloid trends. Also touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla and dental ads urging reliable work at Browz’s denti parlor.
A chaotic inland scene includes widespread Mississippi valley flooding, reports of multiple violent acts with several lives affected, and scattered crime notes. From Chicago air ship plans to a Nebraska court martial, and a bank treasure tale in Pittston, PA.
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