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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1892
Page
3
The Micker rows about coffee and bread his mother baked. Ang creates the impression of a weary Thatcher cooking the worst he ever tackled. At noon he enters the loud room, grabs a pie, struggles, and pays without a word.
A late yesterday trip from Des Moines on the Maple Leaf reveals a newly married pair navigating early domestic plans. The bride jokes about economy and gardens while the groom jokes about celery and quitting smoking. Their light quarrels and affectionate moments unfold amid curious passengers as they approach Kansas City.
A collage of short items notes fashion trends and social quirks. Headlines mention ammonia used to scent rooms and methods to keep shoes from sagging, a German merchant fined over a biblical quotation in advertising, a gin bottle shaped like a prize fighter, and Navy uniform changes allowing a cravat. It also covers stories of a Philadelphia clergyman paid with a penny, a Texas letter to a Schenectady post office, plus comments on beauty and love. It highlights Florence Cory as the first woman carpet designer and Cooper Union’s influence on female designers in household decor and textiles.
A collage of humorous quotes and anecdotes from Harper's Bazar Washington Star and Atlanta Constitution style items. Jokes about children religion umbrellas age and travel reveal social mores of the era. Includes a Maine teacher wish word and a pension century punchline.
A batch of brief items reports Red Smith lynched in West Virginia and Senator Vance critically ill near Asheville. Also noted are a Toledo-Cleveland collision killing a motorman, a Chicago embezzlement arrest, a Tennessee soldiers’ home opening, a possible streetcar strike in East Cleveland, demand for a ten hour day, a Carnegie iron factory merger, and various personal calamities. Other notes include elopement, a Detroit kidnapping case, a Kentucky wedding, boiler makers’ congress in Columbus, boundary claims in Mexico, a missing child and suicide, a Pittsburgh knife tragedy, and a Chicago club federation vote.
The excerpt links imitation as flattery with fame and folly, noting riches hide foolishness. It cites Colton, La Bruyère, Cervantes about time erasing memory and pain ending in death. A concise collage of literary maxims without narrative details.
The article highlights finer handkerchiefs to lessen pocket bulk, new glove shades including bright buff pongee and putty with red stitching, and notes the Windsor for town wear and the cravat for evening wear as the season’s popular neckwear choices.
An old advertisement warns that most contagious diseases begin with a sore throat and airborne germs. It explains how diphtheria and other illnesses can enter through the throat and calls for Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a remedy, offering small and large bottle sizes with pricing.
Mr William Selking of 18 South Meridian Street credits Stackhouse Medical Institute for relief from catarrh and related ailments after years of suffering. He details headaches, vision issues, nasal discharge, indigestion, and sleep loss before treatment, then says he is now nearly free of symptoms and endorses Drs Stackhouse and Newlin. Indianapolis notices, markets, and medical ad copy follow.
Sections 2 and 5 of an 1891 Indiana General Assembly act declare it unlawful to tamper with gas mains or service pipes. The measure requires written permits to connect or reconnection, control valves, and restricts use of natural gas for heating without mixers. Violations carry fines from five to over one hundred dollars per offense.
A Rice Lake Wisconsin Times notice from April 1 1892 reports a former patient praising Dr Snyder a Chicago specialist for obesity treatment. The letter shows initial weight 345 pounds dropping to 279 pounds in 60 days with measurements improving chest waist and hips. The writer claims no inconvenience during treatment and invites inquiries with stamped responses.
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