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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1899
Page
5
Miss Bernice Castello of Missouri took to the lyceum stage with a novel livelihood idea. She combined singing with impersonations of characters from James Lane Allen's "A Kentucky Cardinal" and carried the performance through from start to finish, drawing imitators after her success.
Returning to England after two decades in India Major Anstey visits his ward Celia Durant at a Notting Hill seminary. The 17 year old ward, rumored to be a beauty, greets him with a guarded kiss as their guardianship unfolds amid his memories of love, duty, and age.
Miss Deta Stacey daughter of the late Gen Stacey and a friend of William Tecumseh Sherman recalls her girlhood amid Apache rising events. She and her family, with troops, were besieged for days before rescue from Fort Grant. Her brother Cromwell Stacey served in Porto Rico and is now brevet captain in the Philippines.
Anstey's birthday plans are upended as Celia Primmins declares her affection and confronts his romantic entanglements with Lancelot Lowther. Josephine Primmins visits, hints Celia intends to elope, and Celia then reveals playful yet serious wedding mischief.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as delivering value and quality in medicine, claiming superior money’s worth and dependable health benefits to consumers.
The Woman's municipal ownership league of Chicago led by Mrs. Minano Stearns Fitts issued cards to men seated as women stood on streetcars. The card urged men to stand for seats and vote for municipal ownership, signaling men are responsible for civic ills while women demand protection.
A collage of humorous exchanges and pithy remarks from Washington Star Tit-Bits and similar mags. Quotations feature Mr Rafferty and Mr Dolan on courage and recklessness, Sharp contrasts on women, and a shipwreck survivor dispatch urging gentle news to his wife.
Vesta Raven Lindblom daughter of Robert Lindblom once prominent on the board of trade until his failure marries Count Charles Ake Pauli of Stockholm Lindblom reorganized Lindblom & Co. with her uncle and achieved success though her board of trade membership request was denied.
Practical advice on repurposing scraps and leftovers to save money. From making poultices from sleeves to using meat drippings instead of lard, reusing cups and stale bread, saving coal and egg whites, and turning scraps into croquettes and breakfast dishes.
A humorous exchange between a husband and wife as he offers to bring ping from town to save her a trip, highlighting domestic convenience with a witty mishearing in a Chicago Daily News quip.
The lace revival in Ireland began during the 1845-46 famine, with thousands of women earning substantial sums. Irish lace ranges from cobweb Limerick to Carrickmacross, aided by government grants and church convents as key introducers of the craft.
A ex soldier from the First Infantry won his fiancee through wartime correspondence styled by scarce materials. She finally surrendered after letters written on wrapping paper and beef labels, and other odd scraps. They wed last April and now live happily.
A promotional piece extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for difficult childbirth, claiming it strengthens the mother’s body and benefits both mother and baby. Mollie E. Grimes of Flomaton, Alabama credits the remedy with a smoother birth and greater health, praising the medicine and its pellets for appetite and relief.
A collection of pithy maxims on ambition, gender, charity, confidence, economy, and courage. The Chicago News quotes observe how fate, public office, and honesty shape perception, with sharp quips about greatness and friendship.
Cotton shirt waists for winter are being released by manufacturers in French fashion. Styles include cotton corduroy thick Mare seilies and embroidered heavy duck with colored figures and heavy machine stitching. Rev J Kirte man of Beile River HL touts One Minute Cough Cure for bronchial lung troubles.
The Vandalia Line offers round trip tickets to St. Louis Fair for 7.50 with sales Oct 1 to 6 and return valid through Oct 5. Five trains run daily.
An old nurse ad promotes Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup for teething children noting its soothing and diarrhoea relief. Local ads list rock-faced stone covering, neckbands, laundry services at Progress Laundry, sewing machines, harness and trunks, a deli lunch at Ormonde, and Union Cooperative Laundry with phone 1269.
D. H. Baldwin & Co manufacturers at 145 147 149 N Penn announce their Pianola model and invite inquiries.
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