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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1893
Page
3
A fragmentary verse voice pleads for labor and daylight over vigil and night. The speaker, weary and branded with trouble, seeks amid weaving threads and fate a hopeful, steady light and a forgetting of Ire’s fretful memories. Frank Walcott Rutt is the signed name.
A young heiress recounts her privileged upbringing, flirtations, and a doomed romance with the devout Mr. Fletcher. After jilting him, she pursues marriage with Aunt St Clair’s choice, yet returns to aid him on his deathbed as guilt and love collide.
A widow recalls a shattered marriage and a priestly warning as she recounts fleeing to America after her husband’s death. Years later she shelters John Fletcher’s sister, a found infant, and tends her as a chance for atonement while living in seclusion at Verdhill.
The Vassar and Smith women prepare for an intercollegiate debate. A San Diego woman is noted for walking barefoot at home by diet order. A Chicago saleswoman flirts with a dress claim that leads to engagements, while a witty shopper notes marriage status.
A collage of humorous quips and social musings. China’s small maid societies and a Happy Hollow girl in a weekly trance mix with advice from Greek philosophy and octogenarian life theories. A Cassave boarding house landlady scolds a late border over breakfast, ending with a meek reply.
A quip-filled exchange mocks football dangers as a passerby learns of a player who has lost an ear and a hand. The mom affirms her son was a college quarterback, prompting a wry remark about football’s supposed inevitability of harm.
A recipe fragment outlines pickles hardened with alum after brining, and a vinegar cookles mix of sugar molasses lard eggs saleratus ginger water and vinegar. It also details ham toast with chopped boiled ham eggs cream pepper custard and toasted bread dipped in hot water.
Lehigh officials refuse arbitration claiming sufficient manpower. A Baltimore and Ohio train derailed near Cumberland Maryland Monday leaving seven tramps buried in the wreck. A New York grand jury indicted McDonald of Fort Wayne and other Madigan Square Bank officials. Sovereign named master workman of the Knights of Labor as Powderly vows to stay and support him. Mrs Endley of Macksville Indiana eloped with her husband’s beardless crippled assistant but were captured at Marshal Indiana Monday.
The May 29 issue lists extensive meat and produce prices, including smoked meats, fresh pork loins, bacon, and a wide range of canned fruits and vegetables. Also shown are dairy, butter, eggs, and grocery staples with unit costs and bulk lot figures.
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