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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1894
Page
4
Meredith Nicholson reflects in the Boston Transcript on memory of Civil War banners and veterans. The verse recalls marching outfits, rattling caissons, and the enduring gleam of lost guidons along distant borders. The poem blends peace winds with battlefield echoes and national pride.
A narrator returns to Tombstone to find a booming mining boom and a restless crowd. The street scene explodes with shouting, pistol shots, and a mob that drags a murderer to a brutal public stoppage. A sister watches the horror from an adobe house above the jail, praying as the crowd roars and gold fever drives men to violence.
Fragmentary passage describes eerie sounds and a black figure looming as a mob’s force and its terror are invoked. The speaker, calling themselves Argonaut, hints at societal repression and public unrest without clear details or events.
A jumble of household advice and shop chatter appears, noting that bluing in rinse water fails to whiten, brooms bend when left on cars, and boiling suds extend broom life. It also covers vermin remedies, aluminum solutions for cracks, and window shade choices. Fashion items from SERN MAK SHOPS and jokes from Chicago Record and Puck snippets appear as a collage of period notes.
Miss G C Crawford of Limestone Del. writes of years of monthly pains and debilitating cramps. After seven bottles in seven months she reports relief and recommends Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription and home treatment from his Treatise on Diseases of Women. The remedy, described as a vegetable tonic and nervine, claims to regulate function, improve digestion, enrich blood, and aid sleep with a money back guarantee if it does not cure.
Mrs. Margaret Murphy aged 108 percent dies in New York. Other items note Mgr Satelli predicting A P A decline, Ohio K of P swindled by bogus sick benefit orders, Mrs Springer indicted for attempted jury bribery, and multiple deaths in and around Brooklyn Baltimore. A report on West Virginia unrest follows with 30 killed since the war and a novelty reception for Congressman Wilson at Phillips W Va. A fashion note discusses cape length trends per Harper s Bazar.
Thursday market report lists prices for smoked meats such as hams and bacon, lard and sausage, pickled meats, dry salt meats, and breakfast staples. It covers Southern fruits, bananas, cranberries, chestnuts, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, tomatoes, and canned fruits, with detailed prices for beans, corn, oils, dairy, and live poultry.
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