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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1891
Page
3
A cryptic verse questions a father figure who hides a key beneath the mat and leaves a light in the hallway. The speaker then asks who secured the burlesque show seats and who voted last an hour ago, presenting a playful puzzle about memory and clues.
Flora the mare, bought at a Stirling fair, escaped plowing duties and wandered toward Ben Lomond. A Highland family who cared for her learned she belonged to a former owner and faced hardship. Flora returned to the cottage and to the plowman, who finally returned her to Miss Calhoun after discovering the childlike attachment. The tale ends with lessons of faith and grace amid poverty.
A collection of wry lines about a hotel clerk named Halfacrum, a remark on marksmen and crumbs, advice to the troubled seek occult help, and a note on nature popping spring poems with snowballs and icicles. The items read like micro musings or cartoonish snippets from a bygone newspaper page.
An assortment of curiosities and anecdotes covers imports, cuisine, crafts, fashion, and social life. It notes coffee imports at 54 million, London reliance on American bacon, amber scarcity, maple sugar practices of Native Americans, a comic glove query, charitable giving, and famous women in society.
Instructions describe making camphor ice from white wax and camphor, a cabinet pudding with bread crumbs raising and citron, and a coffee jelly using gelatine with strong coffee. Includes steps for soaking gelatine, cooking custard, steam time, and serving with cream or hard sauce.
The advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female disorders including periodic pains prolapsus bearing down sensations and other weakness. It claims to restore health strengthen the entire system and preserve youth by improving uterine health and overall vitality.
A scattered list notes strikes in Chicago pirates, restlessness at Pine Ridge, grippe at St Omaha, grain thieves caught in Kansas City, a Pittsburg hotel fire with $20000 loss, miners stealing in Belleville. Travelin salesman Edward Monks committed suicide in Bowery. Dogs to be killed in Asbury Park. Detroit bar veteran D Bethune Duffield dead. Liddell killed by switch in Duluth. Joliet steel firm closed for lack of orders. Nashville asylum fire burns six. Ft Pitt glass works accident hurts many. Snow slide injures three near Crested Butte. Chicago to launch first big steel lake ship. Denver lacks a mayor as Wolfe Londoner’s election ruling stands. John Rey Smallwood, Virginia orator, to Europe for lectures. Lyman Goff declines Rhode Island lieutenant governor bid. Montague sentenced to hang for wife homicide in June.
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