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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1893
Page
3
An old West Branch hunter Hiram Blake recounts using a log pen trap and two water traps to catch a clever bear that raided his camp for a week. The bear outsmarted logs and rails, but Blake's second water trap finally halted the beast, leading to a brutal hand to hand fight and the bear being trapped in the final setup.
Public health pamphlet-style line urging readers to consider why they take medicine and noting illnesses from impure substances. Mentions Hood's and vegetable-based remedies in a dated, promotional tone. Includes garbled words but preserves theme of medicine for health and safety.
Fashion items from the New York Sun recount polite society habits in 1786. Card games on Sundays dinner visit at seven. Cork bustles and stooping in streets. Husbands unseen with wives. Gentlemen patching and perfuming before ladies. Young ladies invite suitors. Assemblies end at eleven. Ladies favor porter over tea in afternoons.
A Victorian tone survey describes that new clothes are out of fashion for weddings, with warnings about the air of fakery. It highlights geranium red bengaline for vesta on black gowns as a bold trend, luxurious satin ribbons for millinery, and coats bought before dresses. Sleeves dominate the current sleeve style, and outer wraps must feature wide sleeves from cuff to shoulder.
Ronway Oct 9 markets show steady provisions and oils with a long list of meats, produce, canned goods, and staples. Named firms include Morgan & Gray and Empire, with prices for bacon, lard, dry goods, butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, flour, and poultry in detail.
Clarence jokes that young kangaroos are sad for lacking pockets yet the joke shifts to a boy’s plan to become a bricklayer. He reasons that bricklayers have many days off when work is scarce, a witty child’s view of labor and luck.
A machine exists that can produce men's boots in ten minutes. The item reads like a collection of quirky facts and curiosities spanning technology, nature, hospitality, and culture. It notes a Chinese flower changing color with light, a New York hotel offering a dish washing machine handling 1000 dishes per hour, and a whale with a surprisingly small throat. It also mentions an Italian company touring Italy to perform Cavalleria Rusticana entirely by whistling.
A Baltimore work plant failed Monday as Count de Lesseps sinks rapidly and 30 new yellow fever cases arise in Brunswick. Editor Bir William Smith of the Quarterly Review dies in London. Seven thousand workers quit at Olneyville Woolen Mills. Emma Goldman convicted in New York. B and O workers accept wage cut terms. Frank Ellison jailed five years after assaulting the President. Wall Street booms on repeal bill hopes. Charles H. Smith arrested in Cadillac as suspected train robber. Mesa hotel cupola used for gambling. building burned. Rio joy as diplomats plan marines to shield people from Peixoto troops. James Campbell kills wife and shoots guest in Youngstown. Powder car explosion on P., Ft. Wayne, and C. near Alliance burns engineer and fireman. Sheffield Mayors discuss strike. government possible. Countess Clancardi gives birth to a daughter.
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