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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1892
Page
3
A nostalgic verse reflecting on a mother’s kiss as a healing power across generations. The speaker recalls a rosy boy with a wagon ship and a child’s woes easing when mother kisses it and makes it well. The poem celebrates the enduring maternal bond through time.
A battered wife, Mary Lawson, endures a week of hardship and her drunken husband Jim returns at night pleading for entry. She resists, hides a pistol, and contemplates a future free of his abuse, while maintaining a quiet vigil for their children. In the night, Jim sleeps beside her memory of happier days, and Mary remains hopeful an angle of forgiveness may finally rest on him.
A list of 569 submitted recipes notes prize recipients with ingredients such as currants suet and citrus. Instructions describe drying currants blending dry ingredients beating eggs and brandy then adding to dry mix. The batter is packed into greased molds to yield six pounds and boiled for storage or serving with sauce.
A collage of brief notes and curiosities ranging from a Philadelphia shop sign urging service over mending, claims about Philadelphia’s churches, and a costly Alma Tadema piano to a novel dust gun, Agra’s salt desert, the first Union flag at Cambridge, Malta beggars, and trade hints like five-lord bargains.
A famed gambler challenges odds with 15000 enineas and loses after a decisive odd count. A separate asylum patient believes he is dead until a doctor proves bleeding, sparking the man’s claim only dead men do not bleed.
A collage of comic snippets from Harper's Young People and other pieces. Tom laments a sleepy foot and compares it to his father’s shaved chin, while tales recount a brooklyn grammar school report on girls, a teacher’s question about heat and expansion, and a boy self-punishing with a back-spanking remark in a playful, disjointed style.
Reports from New York, Lakewood New Jersey, Lebanon Kentucky, London England, Richmond Virginia, Fall River Massachusetts, Waynesboro unknown, and Greenville Ohio recount a ventriloquist found dead in the street, a dying sufferer recovering, feuds brewing with armed men, a murder suspect in custody, a wounded non union worker, a large barn and smoke house theft ring indicted, and Dr Briggs heresy appeal dismissed by the state synod.
An 19th century column laments women’s dieting and tight corsets while noting the princess of Wales repairs time with wigs and makeup. It contrasts natural figures with cosmetic art, then praises the English queen’s patience and enduring elegance amid grief.
Earthen pens wait for porcelaine kettle. Tomatoes keepers by wrapping in paper in a cool dark place. Fruit jellies improved by one third apple juice. Tomato butter recipe uses seven pounds ripe tomatoes three pounds brown sugar one pint ginger one ounce cinnamon half ounce cloves. boil three hours. keeps without sealing.
The Thursday market report shows prices steady with minor changes in provisions. Groceries canned goods drugs paints and oils hold firm while smoked meats, pickled and fresh pork, salt meats, and seafood list varied prices. Several items such as short backs, boneless limbs, and canned fruits display shifts, with notable lines for salmon, trout, clams, and vegetables amid Columbus Day observance.
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