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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1891
Page
3
A fragmentary verse recounts a chance meeting and the ache of separation. The speaker recalls locked eyes and a rose leaf touch, and how memory trails him as a homeless ghost. Images of firs, sea paths, and a dreamlike longing fill the stanza.
In Pine Creek country Uncle Morg and Aunt Peggy rely on Buster the mule who rules the Binder household. His mood decides their plans from visiting kin to driving or staying home. A railroad agent, a preacher, and a sharp contract swindle test the mule’s legendary authority.
The text portrays the Austrian empress as diligent in language studies and reforms in agriculture while the Russian czarina is celebrated as a popular, charitable, refined figure. The czarina is noted for her elegance and love of dancing.
An eminent physician links stiff hats to baldness and catarrh while another argues soft hats cause the same. Dexter sightseers scroll a roof sermon by salvationists and tracts. Havana cock-fights lure Cuban gentry with birds. Also: Hagland in Oldbury uncovers a life club shell game masking murder. Paris waiters revolt over facial shaving rules. A Palmyra man quietly spreads wealth, giving $15,000 weekly and $118,609 total to six children, aiming to keep fortune modest.
In fashion notes from Chicago Pest, velvet ribbon accents in mesh inserts showcase new undergarment styling. Gold-wrought plastrons echo Flemish stomacher history, while jet trims gain lightness and facetting. Long open jacket bodices, waistcoats as contrast, and metallic lace wristbands with gems are among the latest novelties.
The text surveys counts of cotton spindle figures in Massachusetts, the value of metal in coins, copper purchase for cents, tea freight costs from Yokohama to New York, and express shipping per mile. It notes Southern troops totaling 601,500 with colored troops count at one-fourth, estimates $50,000,000 of government paper money lost, and $1,000,000 in greenbacks lost at Atlantic coast vessel sinking.
Saw mill and twenty residences burned in New Orleans with losses around fifty thousand dollars. Jones, a farmer in Holmes Gap Alabama, nearly killed by White Caps Wednesday night. J N Leonard & Co silk manufacturers in North Hampton Massachusetts assigned Friday liabilities about one hundred thirty five thousand six hundred. Apache Indians near Tort Bayard New Mexico on the war path. several people reported murdered. Wreck on Illinois Central at Centralia Missouri killed one and injures many. R H Stapleton book agent murdered by Indians in Indiana Territory. W D Newcomb escaped. Win Ke Turner of Chicago attempted suicide after losing about one hundred thousand in two years. Dre McLaughlin Sinclair and Williams of the medical institute at Opaia Nile arrested for murder of Izabella Beaver after alleged operation.
An odd historical notice shows a stamp collector seeking a wife with a rare Mauritius penny stamp from 1847. The quirky advertisement, quoted from a 1689 Flying Post, mentions eating live geese and other risqué tasks for entertainment, with a two-pence admission.
Cedar City readings note livery and hack services at Woods stables. Insurance advice appears from Traveler's and includes a poster by Carl Moller at 161 East Wash Street.
A New York magnate, despondent over an incurable consumption, is persuaded by a friend that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery can cure the disease. The tale extols the remedy as a cure for consumption and numerous scrofulous and skin ailments, praising its curative powers.
The Brightwood Board of Trustees invites sealed proposals by June 7 1891 for grading and gravelling two alleys between Depot Poplar and between Austin Stewart from Brinkman to Bloyd. Plans on file with the Town Clerk. Specifications mandate center elevations three inches higher than gutters with embankments two feet wide and ten inches of gravel. A second set of bids due June 22 1891 covers additional alleys from Gale to Shade and Depot to Lawn plus James to Rural. The town reserves the right to reject bids or alter grades without raising contract prices.
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