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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1893
Page
3
A poem expresses a mother’s awe of Earthly joy through her son’s eyes while fearing the night of death. The speaker questions eternal bliss, arguing no heaven compares to the love and beauty found on earth and asks God to grant sweeter fate beyond this life.
A frontiersman recalls a near-death night in Devil's Pass where a rattlesnake defending the camp saved him and his companions from a lurking Native threat. After the incident he led 50 men back across the San Juan range to rescue the starving party, crediting the snake with their survival.
A Chicago Mail note describes a strict fin de siecle fad where a woman adopts a single color a preferred flower and a delicate perfume to unify her belongings and rooms. Sisters must not share or imitate these personal symbols to maintain social caste and exclusivity.
A collage of humorous and social notes recounts peculiar manners in Siamese salutes and a German Alsace ban on whistling the Marseillaise. It notes the Kongo river’s vast waterways, Georgia racial mixing anecdotes, a Georgia man’s marriage antics, and a Vegetarian piece on why people sleep in church citing hypnotism and familiar sounds.
To prepare ripe cucumbers in pickle select firm yellow ones peel thinly and seed. Soak 25 hours in strong vinegar drain. Make a syrup of 1 quart vinegar 2 pounds sugar and cassia buds. Boil cucumbers slowly in syrup until tender and transparent about 45 minutes. Gives an East India chutney like flavor.
A collection of humorous exchanges among children and a mother and teacher. Tommy uses a pun about a sting and stopping crying while Willie struggles to locate Afghanistan in geography. Bob jokes about arithmetic lines making 22 when digits stack.
Ten persons were killed Sunday when a church panic followed a fire at Parengamiento Mex. Liabilities reached 500000 dollars. The Morewood tin plate works at Elizabethport ND has shut down and workers are moving to Wales and Gas City Indiana. The Vulcan Ironworks in St Louis, once costing 1000000, is being sold as junk after employing over 2800 men at its peak. Geo Graham Geo Morrison and Frank Mills were arrested on the midway plaisance for counterfeit money. In Paris Kentucky a dynamite blast killed Houston Kelley and Eliza Dent as they slept after returning from a dance. Thomas Blas, a Lehigh Valley watchman at Easton Pennsylvania, caused a fatal crash by signaling wrongly then shot himself after.
Readable items list general daily wholesale prices for provisions meats lard canned fruits vegetables and dairy with numerous brand names regions and measures. The list covers smoked meats sugar cured hams bacon sausage pickled goods beans pears grapes and other produce with per hundred or per barrel pricing and shipper paying prices for butter and livers poultry and various staples.
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