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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1891
Page
3
A poetic exhortation urges clasping hands and speaking true words before parting. It warns that fate and distance can erase loving eyes, so one should share earnest words now to avoid lifelong regret. The verse emphasizes tears, parting pain, and the fear of unseen fate taking someone away.
A first person tale recounts a perilous chase by Indians while crossing a ravine on a railroad project, the horse's leap saving life as comrades fire on pursuers. The passage then shifts to commentary on Roman excesses, citing Follia Paulina and Lollia Sabina with vast jewel displays and a modern Brooklyn seller’s notable holiday achievements.
The piece describes Chauncey Denen with a five year old hat and aquiline nose, Calvin Brice as short and stout with red hair, Mr. Russell Sage with chin whiskers and a silk hat, J Pierpont Morgan tall and black dressed, and concludes with an advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla promising relief from malaise and a return to health and cheer.
A columnist notes a laborious circus ad writer who jokes about needing bigger adjectives for Barnum shows. The piece then recounts Lizzie Ryder, age 16, adopted by the Osborns in Springfield Ohio, becoming Mrs. Tavenner that same day. It ends with a playful fly multiplication example illustrating rapid population growth.
A vivid miscellany blends a bygone wedding letter praising love transforming cards into destiny with quips about culture and patience. It quotes a glossy Albany Press signature, a Longman Magazine aside, and a playful village nursery rhyme as it closes with a bride’s wry payback and a mother’s pie recipe.
The Minneapolis Tribune notes camphor production is rising as a new Florida industry. It also mentions Edison claiming electricity could cure gout, and a Decatur NL saloon license trial where a prohibition opponent dropped a whisky flask while hanging his overcoat.
A fragment from an Epoch style page notes children and fashion cues with jokes about mustaches and still behavior. It mentions Simmons Liver Regulator and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, wind colic and diarrhea, priced at 25 cents per bottle, plus a brief note on travel insurance and horses clipped by machinery.
A roundup of incidents includes Rev. Howard Crosby of New York dying, Dr E D Lyon of Chicago shot by his wife over jealousy, William Garner of Mexico Missouri dying from hydrophobia after a 20 year-old bite, Miss Mary Christman of Lima Ohio sneezing to death from grippe complications, Norman T Gassett of Chicago a noted mason dead, Patrick Whoren ex police officer of Kansas City shot and killed, D S Morrison deputy clerk of Scott County Virginia wanted for 30000, H G and G R Krump of Philadelphia hotel owners facing 260000 liabilities after failure, Hugh C Miller of Brooklyn accused of arson causing six deaths, J B Burke Cumberland Gap Tennessee shot by Thomas Hurley and lynched, Captain W Dowell of Fayetteville Arkansas lent 3000 to a card game associate who vanished, prompting a cue for subscription.
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