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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1890
Page
3
Flow dear to this heart is the old yellow pumpkin as orchards fail and berries fade. The poem praises the fruit of the corn and the pumpkin’s value for pies. The speaker seeks forgiveness for neglect and pledges to meet the pumpkin again when prepared as a feast.
A blunt narrator recounts how a cleaning woman with a glass eye, hired for her efficiency, adapts to new looks and attention. Her enhanced appearance leads to vanity, late nights, and ultimately her dismissal after taking advantage of the favorable luck. The wife blames the narrator as the story probes gendered reactions to desire and deception.
A fragment catalog lists Sarden's failed spray the struggle for life and a new song by the author of With all her faults I love her still. It notes bees in a glass honey box for store windows, blue drill pillow designs, feather collarettes, chamois leather cases for spoons, copper lamps with opalescent shades, and Hood's Sarsaparilla praised for blood-related cures. It ends with a Money to Loan notice and a 30 cent weekly word rate.
A short story scene portrays four tough men on a Battery Park bench recounting grim deeds from mutiny to pirate training. A lame woman confronts them, calls them out for their crimes, and forces them to flee, leaving them to seek another bench while misunderstood as villains.
Mia Billiard of New York thought she had lost diamonds and reported to police after a nap. She later found them in a flower pot, recalling the handkerchief tale as a dream. The piece notes census questions raise discomfort for women and mentions upcoming elevated train additions in New York after October 1 with hints of city life chatter.
In Springfield a lawyer father and his wife and six year old son rode in a car. The boy clutched his hat as the wind blew, the father took the hat back and later used a whistle to calm the child. The hat was tossed from the window and the boy urged his father to whistle again.
The article blends a portrait of George Vanderbilt and young Alexander Salvin with details from the New York Sun London letter about Alphonso XII’s daily routine at Ayete near St Sebastian. It pivots to a sensational health ad for Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy promising a $500 payoff if it cannot cure catarrh, listing symptoms and urging purchase at 50 cents from a druggist.
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