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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1899
Page
4
The excerpt reviews Mrs M C W Oliphant autobiography highlighting a life of duty amid trials. It contrasts her gloomy childhood with her mother’s brightness, noting her writing in a shared living room and her reflections on George Eliot and Georges Sands.
In Mayville, Erwin Wardman and Alice Nelson part as she leaves to marry an heiress. His mother pushes a match to the heiress while social fortunes drive the lovers apart. Two years later Alice learns Erwin has wed the heiress and remains in the Nelson home town.
In October two years pass as Alice, now called Cecelia by friends, endures a fever and loss. She finds Erwin Wardman, son of the former household, recognizes shared memories, and becomes his nurse again. He reveals he knew her all along and they walk away together.
In a dialog from Emma C. Down in the New York Sun a witty maiden rebuffs a fortune hunter. She cites health, her molding board, and her creed of love over wealth, declaring she will marry for love alone.
Serpentine effects in braiding and Moorish cut-out work flourish in various trimmings. Many designs come ready serpentined, including velvet ribbons of all widths and bead embroideries. Fringe and tiny ruffled ribbons suit this style, with lace braids and even strapping adopting the same seductive kink.
The essay contrasts old time garments with modern styles. It notes paletots and redingotes regain favor yet differ in appeal. It observes the camera’s reduced fashion role and hints at golf gear entering daily fashion discourse while promoting One Minute Cough Cure via a cited editor.
Bosiea the pretty dancer joins the Grand stock company for a week while Della Fox cancels this season due to health. Becky Sharp stays at Fifth Avenue in New York through the week. The season features humorous props and animal bits, with Tim Murphy pondering his future roles. The Grand plans a public vote on last year’s top play to decide which title joins the stock lineup.
The passage reflects a patriotic speaker who values liberty more after leaving America and seeing the flag abroad. It contrasts kingly restraint with the idea that freedom is a potent but guarded word. A Kansas City Journal snippet also mentions Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil and a Cincinnati train fare advertisement.
The Lady Windermere's Fan at Grand opens Monday with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. A three day brightness reception runs at Park from Monday afternoon. Roland Reed’s His Father's Boy appears at English’s Wednesday night, Tim Murphy performs The Carpetbagger Thursday night, and The Butterfly extravaganza opens at Empire Monday afternoon.
Lamp arrangements in vases offer attractive decor with porcelain and metal varieties. Portrait lamps cost about 100 dollars, while Japanese bronze lamps feature rich color and mythological themes. Shaded lamps remain popular in Empire designs, with hammered brass openwork pieces and silk fringe curtains for a picturesque, oriental effect.
A collection of aphoristic lines from the Chicago Record, highlighting social cautions about gender, ambition, and public display. It notes dangers in a woman's smile, bets on marriage as payback, vanity in dress, and the woes of champagne culture, underscoring prudence and self control in urban life.
The piece contrasts Glendower’s boast with ads claiming women can cure women. It argues disease cure relies on medical training not gender, noting no qualified woman physician linked to proprietary firms. It cites Dr. R. V. Pierce with decades of female treatment and free confidential letter consultation from Buffalo, New York.
A collage of cheap wit and social jabs from old papers shows Meandering Mike admitting no honest earnings, a lazy lover lamenting a tiny income, and a sharp boy answering a race question with a cheeky line, reflecting period humor and attitudes.
Instructions for preparing a warm beef dish with stewed tomatoes and gravy, plus a testimonial touting One Minute Cough Cure from Rev. J. Kirkman of Belle Rive Illinois. Also notes neckband services from Progress Laundry with contact.
The Wabash Railway announces a weekly tourist sleeping car service from St Louis to Los Angeles leaving St Louis each Wednesday at 9 p m. The first car departs St Louis on November 1. For full particulars contact G D Maxfield D P A at 42 Jackson Place Indianapolis Indiana.
Fragmentary note describes covering aged brick structures with rock-faced imitation stone. Mentions Talbot block and RHUTE perhaps as builder references. No clear date or location provided.
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