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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1892
Page
3
A Boston Journal excerpt mocks a highly educated young woman who boasts broad knowledge in math science and history yet lacks practical cooking and household skills. The satire frames her erudition as impressive yet impractical, highlighting tensions between intellect and domestic expectations.
A westbound sleeper crew recalls odd meals and a soap sandwich prank. Irish Mike, a tyrannical porter, is outwitted by Lob and peers. Mike eats a soap sandwich, drinks beer, and becomes sick, ending his harsh treatment of clerks. The firm dismisses the prankster, but Mike’s demeanor changes after the incident and he returns to the boys with improved conduct.
Tourists ask shepherds near a hut to sleep overnight. The shepherds reply that they sleep in the hut at night and require daytime occupancy. A muddled verse-like exchange follows about a funeral and a matinee, mentioning Molly Fizzletop and Tex Sittings in a joking or garbled manner.
A London inquest heard Martha Roberts died of blood poisoning after using a cobweb to stop a hand wound. Separate notes describe Mrs Richard King’s distant Corpus Christi ranch with 100000 cattle, 3800 cowboys, and 1200 ponies, where 1000 cattle orders are swiftly fulfilled, illustrating a patriarchal ideal amid modern home improvements.
An old World article notes Dante’s marriage to a harsh wife during exile and his disinterest in meeting her mother of six. It recalls Col. A. B. Norton of Dallas vowing to shave not until Henry Clay’s election, and praises M Gordon of Paris police for his flamboyant moustache, desk work, and floor-walker hair.
A Torrington teacher tested a pupil on the word better asking if medicine from a doctor would make him well. The boy answered dead. The next day a ward man checked on the boy and the teacher asked what his papa is. The boy replied a democrat.
The report notes umbrellas with gutters, New Yorkers carrying them, and small bars offering water and napkins with drinks. Bar tenders now present water crosses in a saucer and tout watercress as a curative aid, claiming medicinal virtues for many ills.
A passer-by asks an organ grinder about business and the musician replies it is a regular grind. A small boy watches seals and questions if the seals bark at a sealskin sack carried by a fashionable observer. The note ends with no change in pocketbooks.
In traveling a clean sheet on the car floor provides protection for dresses. Light soled shoes benefit from two thick pieces of the same material. Place the shoe on paper, trace the sole, cut out, and insert for a cork like sole, more comfortable. A New York Times point of view note.
A survey item notes the old warship Iroquois has been taken out of service at Vallejo. Other brief items include Anna Dickinson’s improvement but inability to pay a New York hotel bill, a Chicago grand jury tackling the Reading combine, and various labor and crime notices across cities.
The report notes a mass expulsion of about 10,000 foreign Jews from Odessa while a Buenos Aires skating rink collapse kills 380. In St Petersburg Gen Gresser dies, and Gen Baranett died similarly after an injection of a quack remedy vitaline. Santos suffers yellow fever depopulation as coffins vanish from streets. Millbank in Paris seeks to drop the Drayton matter following a duel with a French diplomat.
The text links beauty to plumpness and health, warning that thinness may show as a sign even without symptoms. It promotes CAREFUL Living and Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as a remedy, offering a free book detailing these ideas and related health insights.
A terse legal record notes dentist David L. Davidson involved in a matter with Marion Bisek, referencing cdr and OUI in the fragmented OCR text. The entry reads as a brief court or disciplinary notation with no full context or outcome provided.
The piece promotes Carlsbad Sprudel Salts for gout indigestion liver troubles and similar ailments. Warns of counterfeit bottles bearing “Hisnerd Mendelson Co., M. ., Sole Agents” and notes city markets with additional outlets on the fourth page. Also lists varied provisions and groceries with prices from meats to canned goods and produce.
The act prohibits any person from connecting or reconnecting gas mains or service pipes without written permission, turning on or off stopcocks or valves, enlarging mixer orifice, or using gas for heating without mixers. Violators face a fine from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
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