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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1893
Page
3
A quirky verse fragment ponders melancholy days and autumn treats. It blends playful language about pumpkin pie with dreamlike imagery of pirates and apples as it wanders through craving and spice. The fragment centers on dessert longing and seasonal mood.
Diary style report describes Civil War clash with 100000 troops in pursuit of Richmond. A night scene unfolds with Grant shifting left flank while Lee delays, and a fatal misfire when a civilian woman is shot by mistake. The entry ends with the eerie quiet and lingering horror of war.
A humorous snippet shows Johnny tripping over orthography during a Poe reading, with the sly remark that he was spell-bound. The exchange casts a light, quaint moment capturing schoolroom wit and literary mischief.
The Chicago circus drew 2 121 794 attendees last week. A string of disasters followed as fires burned Vermillion South Dakota and Champlain Detroit, while London saw large labor demonstrations in sympathy with miners.
A collage of social musings and labor notes from major papers. The Atchison Globe remarks on old maids and town gossip, Chicago Record details Paris shop girl salaries and commissions, while the Fur Trade Review notes Paris retail workers and beauty as a hiring factor.
A collage of quips from periodicals features a joking half dollar freshly minted in Chicago, a clergyman with sharp parish jibes, a patient farmer dismissing critics as mouthpieces, a scheming wedding plan with demi-train gowns, and a bantering exchange about whales mouths and tall tales from various papers.
A comic quip from the Chicago Record contrasts social habit with wealth. It notes friendship preservation by distance and wealth by lineage, then suggests bachelorhood as a marriage plan and jokes about stirring sympathy through a broken romance.
A guide advises washing powder from pores with cold cream and a glycerine lemon lotion. It recommends applying powder before dressing, evenly to face and exposed areas, avoiding powder puffs, and removing powder from eyelashes. It warns against touching up after dressing to prevent lines on neck and gown.
A Vernon Texan item describes two absent minded men. One wrote with a cigar in his mouth and only realized the mistake after lighting the cigar. Another hurried man left a package on the ground to run faster, then reached the depot surprised the package was not with him.
Readable lists of meats, bacon, sausage and lard along with canned fruits vegetables dairy and general groceries. Prices cover butter eggs lard flour corn meal oats and animal products with regional items and standard brands noted. Market vendors include Morgan & Gray Empire and Rivera with varied unit prices for beef pork pork products and produce.
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