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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1889
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press humor piece recounts a late night misadventure as Mrs Bowser cajoles her husband Bowser into remedies for pleurisy and other quips. He grumbles insists on sleep then roams the house in search of missing items, misplacing and reclaiming amid comic banter and household chaos.
A miscellaneous clipping notes oddities and facts: a lean man becoming fatter at age 36, Redheadville in Michigan named by a Redhead family, land in Utah for bison, London lantern history from 1414 to 1744, gas replacing oil by 1820, Pittsburg iron mill sheets, a New Jersey justice over a stuffed wolf case, 1886 US Bensamer and Bessemer steel and rail outputs, and a Cherryfield relic jug found in a chimney arch after a century.
A Munsey's Weekly fragment portrays witty exchanges among riders and bystanders. A man jokes about someone moving up for a seat while others banter over prices and fish. The dialogue, rich in period humor, evokes urban social theater.
An item reports Somp hunters near Bow 37 who wounded and captured a large bald eagle. The bird is described as very vicious, with a claimed wingspan of seven feet. The notice also mentions a gold quartz find near Jamestown New York after a duck kill, and a separate tale of Doug Claynose and a fox chase in Webster County West Virginia with one dog missing for days. Hazel Cowger aided in freeing a dog trapped underground after a fox hunt, where the fox lay dead after nine days without food or air.
Fretting tates the face. Silver-backed prayer books are among the catchy holiday gifts. Mrs. Frank Leslie critiques a cropped head style as inartistic. The old fashioned royal line remains a fashionable shade in velvet. Modjeska and Bernhardt popularize tobacco imagery. A blue wagon with yellow wheels on Fifth Avenue intrigues social pages. Next Newport season features a jinriksha for fashionable women. Carriage trends shift to two wheeled vehicles. Ushers at weddings decline. young men hired by the sexton become the new swagger.
The passage lists leading stage women Kate Claxton Patti Lillian Russell Agnes Booth Florence St John and other named performers with notes on appearance and elegance. It also mentions Modjeska and a remark by Wilkie Collins about Mrs Brown Potter regarding press treatment and acting vocation.
Fragmentary instructions describe emergency steps for fire, burns, eye dust, opium poisoning, arterial and venous wounds, and poisons. The mix shows unreliable, possibly unsafe remedies such as salt and mustard, forced movement, and cauterization with a cigar.
A Baltimore man is convicted of stealing a large amount of gold filled teats from the university museum. A Long Island church choir suffered Sunday without its organ after it was carried off the previous night. Ailments and cures, including rheumatism and teething remedies, appear in a jumble of ads and medical notes.
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