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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1891
Page
3
The scene features a shy woman beside the sea who blushes as stars gaze, while a narrator and companion Tom Hail enjoy gumdrops in Tarpec’s Bazaar. No words are spoken by her or the speaker, leaving the moment unvoiced and intimate by the sleeping shore.
A tale of Mary Gale and Walter Romeyn ends in tragedy when a wounded, crippled narrator confronts a moonlit bridge. He murders the horse and rider in a jealous, fatal plan, leading to Mary's grief and her death beside her husband.
A design note describes a New Orleans room with pale yellow walls and ceiling, a broad pale gold band near the mantel, yellow matting, fox-skipp rugs, and yellow silk accoutrements. White linens, yellow embroidery, and brass rods create festooned window treatments for an artistic, bright look.
A Illinois woman reportedly snatched a marriage license from her intended in a ruse and later returned it to the county clerk with the inscription decidedly not wanted. The tale recalls Harriet Beecher Stowes 1565 lament on womens limited professional choices and the calling of service as a valued, yet undervalued, vocation for women.
A collection of quirky portraits and home recipes. It mentions the Duke of Portland, Dr. Salman of Cambridge born in 1790 as the oldest living surgeon, and Col. Cockerill described as a fine specimen. Also includes orange pie suet pudding and Italian tomato sauce recipes. A humorous exchange among children ends with a pun about Herod and back yard chores.
Patented remedies priced at 1.00 per bottle for Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription, 25 cents for Pleasant Pellets, sold only through authorized druggists with a money back guarantee. Beware of imitations. unauthorized sellers may offer lower prices. Benefits claimed include blood purification and cures for scrofula bronchial and lung ailments.
A string of fires hits San Francisco Lowell Albany and Bloomington causing totals up to 100000 plus. Other misfortunes include a bank embezzlement arrest in Boston a fatal shooting in West Overton and peculiar daily happenings from hunting mishaps to locked children and a curious note on licorice and a new water glove invention.
The Sun promotes its popular free Wanted Help columns inviting readers to use telephone number 8, postal mail, or office at 79 East Chest for assistance and requests.
Provisions from the 1891 Indiana General Assembly act declare it unlawful to connect with another’s gas mains or service pipes and to alter valves or mixers without written permission. Violators face a fine of five to one hundred dollars upon conviction.
J M Balfour and Co announces a special inducement to trade at 205 West Washington Street. They act as agents for Bram and Fitts manufacture in Illinois offering their dairy butterine products to retailers and merchants.
Notice from the Department of Public Works Indianapolis requests resident property owners on affected streets to petition for sprinkling by contract by August 1, 1804. Board presides over street cleaning plans with costs assessed against abutting owners under Indiana law.
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