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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1892
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press poem by Josquin Miller reflects on the hidden battlefield inside a mother's heart. It contrasts grand combat with the quiet endurance of mothers who bear and raise children without fanfare. The piece honors silent strength across a life from infancy to death.
A camp scene describes a hot dusty march into a high Rincon pocket. Troops settle for supper beside stunted mesquite as a distant storm approaches and rains, then settle under a moonlit, star filled sky. A sentinel on patrol contemplates debts and bacon, while a harmless scorpion prompts relief.
Streaks of dawn creep over mountain tops and slopes lifting shadows from valleys. A rosy flash over the eastern range accompanies the Arizona canaries singing and the bugle rings reveille. The day comes alive with life and bustle, ending the peaceful night and the toilsome march.
A spring morning tale follows a farmer who finds his horse dead and laments it as unlimited gall. A cab driver in a Third Avenue dry goods shop buys gloves and jokes of Vimash. A Berlin man visits his doctor, admiring bric a brac and asking about inherited items from patients.
A collage of quirky lines notes a variety of facts and curiosities from different locales. It mentions progress in India where fifth boys are in school and fifteenth girls, a Connecticut brass bandit offering two new funeral dirges, a German firm supplying red cloth for cardinals, and a life tree in Jamaica whose leaves may regrow after cutting.
Fashion commentary suggests shawl popularity will return with summer stockings featuring open work insteps. Tailor-made white cloth gowns emerge as a summer staple while seal-skin coats persist until June with wraps throughout the season. Women of fashion adopt a haughty stance, with festooned skirts in muddy settings, a high stepping gait, and delayed deliberation shaping a refined look.
Little Shayers asks about Nettie the kitten now grown into a cat and escapes the rumor mill as auntie steers the chat toward school and a boy’s view on growing up. The lighthearted exchange reveals how a child imagines change and maturity through simple, humorous dialogue.
A compact collection of aphorisms noting kindness as a universal language. It links acts of goodwill to lasting esteem and suggests discontent stems from imagined happiness of others.
Tests in London indicate the purest air is found between thirty and forty feet above street level. Observers suggest the finding reflects urban air quality, hinting at broader implications for city living.
An advertisement extols Dr Ehr's Remedy as easing the broader effects of catarrh rather than the condition itself. It cites a 25 year track record and thousands of hopeful cases, asserting proof comes by refunds for unsatisfied customers.
The news item reports Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis in very poor health. It also notes various unrelated events including a Frisco car crash injuring 18, a minister's conversion in New York, antisocial incidents in Arkansas and Illinois, and other sensational local snippets from crime to society.
A miscellany notes idle sayings on marriage and virtue, giant Gippsland earthworms, a Boston childminder thriving on daily or weekly care, tiny Sydney Drew Jr’s travel trunk bed, plus diet advice on candied rose leaves, dandelion salad, icewater, washing strawberries, silver knives for fruit, and pickles as unwholesome in old times.
A vintage advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion cod liver oil as easier to take than traditional oil, claiming it is half digested and absorbed quietly to build strength, with druggists stocking the product nationwide at $2 per bottle.
Stackhouse Medical Institute at 208 North Illinois Street Indianapolis offers specialties in catarrh and diseases of the ear throat lungs and stomach with office hours 9 to 12 a m 3 to 5 p m and 7 to 8 p m Sundays 3 to p m only Consultation and examination 1 Successful treatment by mail Send stamp for symptom blank.
John Trost of Mt. Jackson suburb Indianapolis testifies to dramatic relief from neuralgia rheumatism and malaria after treatment by Drs Stackhouse and Newlin. He recalls years of pain sleep loss and poor appetite and says the doctors cured him within months. Indianapolis April 14, 1892.
The article highlights services offering treatment at very low charges and providing medicines at no cost to all patients, aiming to widen accessibility. It emphasizes affordable care and universal medicine access as core goals of the program.
A series of 19th century patient testimonials from Mrs. Matiah Dawson Mr. Jasper Copenhaven Miss Mamie Sweenes Mr. J. J. Kindley and Miss Gertie Carter praising Dra Stackhouse and Newlin for relief from catarrh headaches dizziness nervousness aches and other symptoms after treatment.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture in Indianapolis until 10 a.m. on May 6, 1922 for all materials and labor to erect finish and complete an agricultural building machinery building nine sections of show horse barns ten sections cattle barns eight sections of speed barns and one sheep barn at the new fair grounds northeast of Thirtieth street and Monon railway. Copies of drawings and specifications may be seen at the board office Builders Exchange Auditor's Terre Haute and architect offices in Lafayette and Peoria. Each bid requires a certified check or bond for 75 percent of the bid. The board reserves right to reject any bid by order of J M Bones President and Leon A Bagley Secretary. J F Alexander & Sons Architects Lafayette Indiana.
Market pages list extensive prices for meats canned vegetables fruits and dairy. Entries name Morgan & Gray Central Warehousing Co. various hams lards and fresh pork items with per pound and per bushel rates alongside dairy Butter and Cheese prices and live poultry bids from shippers. Market notes also cover vegetables fruits and staples with multiple regional varieties and package sizes.
The Sun features a crowded room for rent column, offering numerous rooms with varying prices and locations. Readers are urged to browse the listings to find suitable accommodations and compare nearby amenities and access.
H C Schergens Jewelers at 151 East Washington Street advertises watches clocks and silverware for sale.
Section 2 and 5 of an Indiana General Assembly act approved March 9 1891 prohibit any person or entity from making or restoring gas connections or interfering with valves or mixers without a written permit from the affected gas company or corporation. The text also bars using natural gas for heating without mixers and outlines penalties or case-by-case enforcement.
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