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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1892
Page
3
A lively rural verse celebrates hazy days, blooming orchards, and the call to nature. It urges readers to escape the city, enjoy warm sun, singing birds, and river breezes, celebrating simple pleasures and country solace. The piece ends with a playful nudge to workers to seek sweetness in life.
Dolly Kenyon, deemed too young for the Hastbrook ball, slips out at night to witness the event and meets Mark Warrington, Mrs. Hastbrook's nephew. He invites her to dance away from prying eyes, and they share a spellbound waltz that seems to fulfill Dolly’s make believe wish.
The column surveys varied items from the era including the marquis of Queensberry’s distant ties to pugilism, a debut by Joseph K Emmet Jr, and a double burial of Peter Duffy and John Murphy. It notes Finland’s kiss customs, Mrs Coleman Drayton’s divorce prospects, Mrs Richard King’s Texas ranch, Paris dressmakers, and memories of Zachary Taylor’s era with Bettie Dandridge and Harriet Lane Johnson in Baltimore.
Advertises Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as original Little Liver Pills that regulate the system cleanse and renovate the liver stomach and bowels. Claims tiny sugar coated pellets relieve constipation headaches bilious attacks and other liver derangements with no pain and a money back guarantee.
Floods flood Ave Alexandria Mo submerging streets while Nebraska snows, Minneapolis fares drop. Kipling attacks aliens. Kentucky distilleries eyed by English syndicate. Peoria homeless from flood. Ky tax short. Catholics seek space at world fair. Chinese voice vents at Uncle Sam. Liquor sales debate at fair grounds. Memphis greets US 8 arrival. Concord joins bridge festivities. Cincinnati girl 15 fatally burned by apron fire. G A R says Louisiana commander suspended over color line. Cyrus Teed to house angels near Chicago. Indiana possible. Cleveland theater damaged by fire. audience escaped. Six tramps whipped for assault in Nevada Mo. Schnartons sue NY merchant for damages over eye injury. Baptist convention sees old men recall 47-year goings.
A collage of quips and snippets from diverse papers notes death by unable breath of an artist, social musings on money and amusement, Japanese bath etiquette, valuable sea otter fur, a sermon political joke about a candidate for legislature, and a tongue in cheek call to side with a minister in hot weather.
A historical ad touts CAREFUL LIVING and Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as a remedy for thin babies and weight loss. It claims the product aids in gaining weight and offers a free book with purchase, noting druggists everywhere carry Scott's Emulsion for $1.
An ad offers treatment for sexual ailments including seminal weakness and syphilis without mercury, promising cures from a Indianapolis physician M Abbett at 28 Virginia Ave. Also promotes financial loan notices and classified ads on the Sun newspaper pages inviting readers to browse rooms for rent and other notices.
A historical notice extols Carlsbad Sprudel Salts as Nature's remedy for various ailments with genuine bottles marked Hisner & Mendelson Co. Sole Agents. The page then shifts to a long price list for provisions, meats, canned goods, produce, cheese, dairy, groceries, and livestock, reflecting a dense mid-19th to early-20th century market catalog in the same issue.
Sec 2 and 5 of an 1891 Indiana act declare unlawful any connection or reconnection with gas service pipes or interference with valves and mixers without a written permit. Violations carry a fine from five to one hundred dollars upon conviction.
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