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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1900
Page
5
Nellie Prettyhair a Cherokee child helps a drowning man named John Dillon on the Claremore reservation. After his death his will makes Annie Trueheart Dillon the heiress to a $1,000,000 estate on condition she adopt the Dillon name.
A Buffalo Evening Post piece portrays a rough hobo calling himself someone's baby as he begs from a tidy matron. He tells a sorrowful tale to evoke pity, but she strikes him with a mopstick, ending with a grim quip about the future if he stays.
In a fashionable New York hotel Mark Lyttleton lies dying as Colonel Orford mourns his oldest friend. He asks for protection of his orphaned daughter Ethel and to swear he will care for her after his death. Orford vows to find her schooling and a safe future.
In a seaside romance, Caril Orford must choose between Essie Howard and his ward Ethel Lyttleton. Essie returns incognito to reveal she accepts loving Ethel and freeing Carll to wed Essie if he chooses. The scene unfolds with resolve, forgiveness, and a hopeful betrothal.
A commentator argues that the black and gold craze grows daily yet is a passing fashion. Expensive gold cloth and embroidery will stay rare, while cheaper imitations threaten the trend's longevity.
A cryptic note reads Everybody Bhouta read and male use ot Ta, leaving unclear meaning. The fragment suggests a misrendered message possibly referencing a person named Bhouta and an event or instruction labeled Ot Ta. Further context is needed for clarity.
A collage of humorous lines from 1900s papers features a confession of love, a poke at traditional gender roles, a miser with gold, a night watchman’s schedule, and a wife hiding sofa pillows, all amid light banter.
The article promotes hair maintenance through washing with soap and warm water, drying properly, and biweekly care. It warns against borax and dyes, suggests tonics like bitter apples with rum, olive oil shampoo for damaged hair, and quinine tonic for growth, while stressing separate brushes to avoid scalp diseases.
Boston climber Miss Annie S Peck returns from challenging ascents in the Jungfrau Funffingerspit 29 and other peaks in Mexico Switzerland and Austria. She recalls fear on Grass Glockner and Zugspitze and says she climbs for the joy of the ascent not just the view. She also served as official U S delegate to the International Congress of Alpinism in Paris.
The text humorously weighs male and female behaviors and social roles. It contrasts sleep styles, bachelorhood, love at first sight, and emotional restraint with sharp, satirical observations about fear, diplomacy, and motherhood. It portrays women as emotionally volatile and men as rational, using exaggerated common tropes.
A poem contemplating aging and memory as a speaker recalls a daughter growing from childhood to adulthood. The piece contrasts past tenderness with current distance and asks if old candor can return someday. The Chicago Times Herald attributes the verses to reflections on changing relationships and time.
A vivid paragraph details a tan felt hat with a three inch gold braid band, tan velvet trims, and a large owl feather pompon. It notes a high crown, full brim, and a bouquet of brown tips filling the space between brim and crown, arranged slightly to the left.
The article advises to immediately exclude air from burns using cotton wool soaked in sweet oil or Vaseline. It notes mothers in the country cover burns with flour and mentions mixtures of sweet oil and molasses for serious cases. It also references Dean's Ointment for scald head and urges that keeping air away helps tissue recovery.
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