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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1899
Page
5
Lady Laurier, wife of Canada's prime minister, runs the social side of Ottawa ministry life and serves as a vice president of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her devoted care helped preserve an illness plagued life, while maintaining a modest household within limited means.
A sprawling, fragmentary family legend traces an opal’s influence across generations. An ambitious great grandfather falls for a cousin, breaks an engagement, loses wealth and status, and passes the gem along through a chain of relatives amid misfortune and comic reversals. The jewel’s supposed malediction weaves through engagements, injuries, stock drops, and mistaken fortunes, ending with a teasing reflection on fate and luck.
A narrator recalls ill luck linked to an opal in a family curse stretching back to great grandmother and Aunt Cornea. After a turkey on a train and stolen money, a fateful sale leads to a dealer revealing the so called opal is a cat's-eye, ending the superstition.
A romantic verse in a vintage style describes a sunny morning scene with a beloved woman. The speaker expresses adoration, admiring her dark hair and bright eyes. A quivering, lyrical vow of exclusive affection follows as imagery of cornfields and flowers frames the moment.
The Kansas equal suffrage association elected Miss Anna L. Diggs as its president last week, marking a notable leadership choice in the women's rights movement.
A mosaic of humorous clipped dialogues from Brooklyn Life Harlem Life and Tit Bits. A mother frets over her child in lower grades while editors tease with a portrait mishap and a sharp chat about certificates and character. Puck notes a coldly beautiful woman with hay fever.
Roast saddle of mutton seven to nine pounds with currant jelly. Garlic is tucked into each end where ribs join and, if needed, hung in a cool place three to four days. Roast in a hot oven for thirteen minutes per joint, then baste with warm sherry and season with salt and pepper. Serve on a hot platter with currant jelly on top and in a separate dish.
A Pittsburg Dispatch item recalls a four year old girl conversing with a well loved doll that had lost an arm exposing sawdust. The child reassures the toy and scolds it for misbehaving as the scene hints at a domestic toy mishap.
A local sale offers Smyrna rugs 30x06 with fringe in a wide color spread, priced at 1.4. Nottingham lace curtains and draperies with coin spots and figures, 36 inches wide, yards long, shown at special prices. Also offered are bread boxes in heavy tin, basting thread, rubber dress shields, and Kleinert’s feather weight and best shields with silk options.
A photograph shows the late Mrs. Baker, a descendant of Shakespeare’s wife line, who long served as custodian of the Hathaway cottage at Stratford-on-Avon, marking the passing of the last kin in that branch.
Velvet dominates current fashion notes with stitched velvet as the height of elegance. Velvet folds replace satin, velvet hats top trends, and wide or narrow velvet ribbons are popular. Crinkled plush and imitation broadcloth are grouped with velvets, while satin antiques and panne share the sheen. Figures in satin broche use velvet motifs, and velveteen designs appear in rich patterns at four a yard. Velvet buns trend as winter heads coverings replace summer satin.
A Boston Courier verse reflects a preacher who endures years of toil in a slow harvest district for a yearly four hundred dollars. When the stipend rises to six hundred, he pleads that two hundred more would kill him, highlighting greed and moral strain in clergy compensation.
Cut stem end to level peppers and remove seeds. Blanch ten minutes, drain. Mix half cup chopped cooked veal with half cup breadcrumbs, half teaspoon onion juice, tablespoon melted marrow, and egg yolk into white sauce. Season. Chill peppers and bake forty five minutes in hot water or stock.
A lecture notes the shift from tiny baby ribbons to inch wide ribbons for lingerie trims. It describes how madame uses wider ribbons through emporiums and laces, forming bows and corsages, and how wide ribbons serve millinery, loops, drapery and strings while edging wide trims.
A collection of humorous reflections on money status and male swagger, noting sneezing bravado and moon imagery. It contrasts aging men with the irreverent charm of the boy next door, ending with a playful New York Press bite about perception of great men.
A Smolensk custom conducts a marriage lottery with a substantial prize, funded by gate receipts of around half a crown per ticket. Winners must not abandon the bride, may share or gift the prize if already married, and couples may split the prize if there is no mutual approval. The lottery occurs three to four times yearly, sometimes awarding up to $5,000.
Do not soak clothes overnight as dirt sets when water cools. Inspect soiled pieces and rub soap on the worst spots. Use hot water to cover and soak until stockings and woolens are washed and out of the way. Then wash white clothes first followed by colored items.
The article explains practical ways to store and present table linens. It suggests rolling linen around a round wood or flannel core, keeping pieces neat and avoiding excessive folding. A tablecloth ironed with two lengthwise folds, then rolled, looks better than crisscross fold lines on the table.
An old ad invites covering brick buildings with rock-faced stone by H. B. Shute at 34 Talbot block. It promotes Merchants' Lunch for 25 cents at Union station restaurant and urges travelers to use Frank Bird Transfer Co. agents at the Union Station main entrance to speed baggage delivery in Indianapolis.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims to soothe the child soften the gums relieve pain cure wind colic and treat diarrhoea. The price is twenty five cents a bottle.
Daily business lunch from 10 am to 2 pm at Ormonde 16 W Pearl St. Ladies' lunch on second floor. Progress Laundry at Tel 1121 offers neckbands put on shirts for free.
In New York Miss Rosalind Secor agrees to marry Thomas R Dewar, a wealthy London merchant and politician awaiting possible lord mayor candidacy. the pairing signals marriage into a prominent social leadership circle in the metropolis.
A town letter extols Morrew’s Kidne y Pills as a yellow tablet remedy aiding backache and kidney trouble. It cites a Springfield chemist and a box factory worker's testimonial as proof, noting tablets come in wooden boxes and cost fifty cents at drug stores.
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