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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
8
A Galveston News poem reflects a mother’s quiet joy and concern as she tucks her sons into bed. The verses celebrate warmth and light in the home, the blessing of young children, and a prayer for guidance as they grow toward life’s uncertain years.
In Hartford ten boys join transports to the Philippines and a village romance tests courage. Nan Strictland scolds Curtis White for avoiding war, but a peril on the road reveals true bravery as Nan saves two children and professes love for a brave man.
Coilier's Weekly notes Gauteng women as equal patriots in the Boer War. Mrs Joubert reportedly woke Gen Joubert at Majuba Hill to warn of English forces. Kruger used Johannesburg barmaids as spies, feeding him English plans and fortifying his counter moves with secrets from London. Spies enabled matched troop and armament shifts.
Capt. 8. Evans of California says Filipinos like excitement and war as he returns from Manila where he served on Gen. Otis staff. He argues Aguinaldo's exit would end the conflict and that both men and women back continuation of the war.
Washington reports the French reciprocity treaty was defeated as the president said a senate majority opposed its passage and he would not press it. The treaty will expire by limitation on March 24. Harriet Evans of Hinsdale Indiana writes that One Minute Cough Cure relieves her children’s croup immediately.
Mrs Le Moyne describes meeting Robert Browning in London with the Duchess of St Albans during a visit. She recalls Browning praising and correcting her recital of Meeting at Night and Hervé Riel, and notes his gift of £100 from the publisher to the Franco Prussian war widows and orphans fund, tears in his eyes.
Instructions for making apple dumplings with flour baking powder butter and milk, plus guidance on cooking meats. Steam dumplings 45 minutes and serve with sauce or cream. Warns that rapid boiling hardens meat and recommends simmering. provides time guidelines: ham four hours per ten pounds, pork leg 20 minutes per pound, beef and mutton 15 minutes per pound, pickled tongue 2.5 hours for four hours.
A chorus of old quips and jokes about temperance and honesty. Weary Willie admits years as a cautionary example and explains he drank to endure the strain for show. The verse touches on letters, family, and a mix of quips from various papers like Tit-Bits and Yonkers Statesman.
A dialect poem from the Atlanta Constitution laments labor in spring and summer. The speaker imagines happiness if duties of plowing and hoeing were removed, wishing for freedom from farm tasks and imagining playful, carefree outcomes. The piece captures rural life and seasonal toil through vivid dialect imagery.
A verse voice celebrates March with a wild northeaster and rainy wold. The thrush sings to the gale as the speaker longs for an April day with greener hills and spring flowers.
To wash brushes, dip into hot water with a lump of soda, move bristles up and down until clean, avoid soaking wood. Rinse under cold water, shake dry, and air dry upright away from sun. To clean a comb, scrub with hot soda water and soap, rinse in cold water, and dry with a soft towel.
The cup which cheers has become popular in France for domestic functions and Paris gatherings, with tea also winning Italian soci ety. Italians now chat over tea cups and the dainty accessories of the cozy meal, sharing similar satisfaction to readers in Chicago.
A fragmented note describes a rise in umbrella sales over the past year, surpassing combined totals from the previous five years. Analysts caution against overinterpreting the trend as a cultural shift toward an umbrella nation, noting scattered conjecture rather than solid data.
The ad lists ladies lace shoes in finest kid and vici leather, dark and light colors, with turned soles and coin toes, closing prices around 1.69 to 2.50. Includes children and misses options in chocolate or black with various closures and styles, offering values from 0.69 to 2.22.
Mens spring overcoats in new covert shades and mens suits in cassimere and wool at bargain prices. Young mens three piece wool suits down from 4 5 6 ranges to 2.98, children s double breasted wool suits sizes 3 to 12 and 3 piece vestee suits at 1.50. Stock featured includes black clay worsted cassimere linens and plaids with values from five to ten dollars.
Special prices on medium weight jersey ribbed men s underwear shirts and drawers seconds of 50c garments 25 dozen men s undershirts and 25 dozen Canton flannel drawers ends of 25c to 35c lines on sale while last Boys shirts laundered percale with attached collar and cuffs all sizes 25c Men s shirts finest percales with two collars and cuffs Eureka dollar shirts all at 1.2.02 Mens suspenders 124c Sox sale men s black seamless 12 14c grades pace palz 6
Children’s overcoats in tan covert cloth sizes 6 to 13 priced for spring. Men’s work pants in hairline cheviots and black worsteds on sale. Spring caps for men and boys in new plaids and mixed worsteds. White painters overalls with bibs offered morning only, all sizes at 25 cents a pair.
Cape items in black braided Spring Weight style priced at 148 dollars. Golf capes offered in pastel shades tan and ecru. Spring jackets available in all shades at 5.98. Last call on printer jackets with bargain prices near 5.00.
Catalog page advertises ladies gloves kid skin in black and colors with clasps and hooks, mittens in double wool and lined kid at low prices, ladies hose cashmere and wool at 19 to 19 1/2 cents, patterned lisle hose, misses and children's hosiery, and silk umbrellas marked down from 1.60 to 1.28. Multiple named items and price points listed.
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