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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1891
Page
3
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a tender moment with Gini and the late poet Philip Bourke Marston. The speaker describes touch, a shining wedding band, and a pitying voice like distant summer rain, evoking deep emotion and recollection.
A Kansas City locomotive engineer recalls a century old Clark Missouri crossing with a spectral female voice guiding him. He followed the voice to save a child once, but later caused a fatal run over an old man despite warnings. The eerie events, questioned as superstition, end with the engineer resigning rather than publish the tale.
A humorous collage from a 19th century paper features a Mediterranean joke about washing the Italian shore, a barber’s assistant mix up with pugilist McAuliffe, and a widower teasing his daughter about Susanne the housekeeper getting married. Miscellany notes praise fashion trends and grooming products for women.
Don Pratt faced a long ago clash with Ulysses S Grant over critical coverage. Pratt published harsh remarks about Mrs. Grant, provoking Fred Grant who warned Pratt to stop. The exchange ended with Grant vowing to kill the first who mentions his mother, after which Pratt ceased mention of Mrs. Grant ever again.
A Chicago world’s fair note describes fashion reviving interest in photos on china and watch dials. It notes carbon pictures on china and costs seven dollars for a sweetheart photo on a cup and ten dollars on a plate. Montana to supply the copper silver and gold nail for the women’s building project led by Mrs Potter Palmer.
In a brisk overview the piece notes approaching cold weather and scarce butter while foreign Christmas goods arrive. It claims 8 000 houses under construction in Philadelphia and cites a Paris census showing 4 507 Americans living there. It jokes about London pickpockets and mentions eucalyptus as a fever disinfectant. A Me Augusta family owns a crow that travels with them to city visits.
Col George B McClellan, growing to resemble his famed father in looks and demeanor, wins popularity in New York despite shyness. After his father's death he signed over his inheritance to his mother, moved to NY, became a reporter, and now serves as Brooklyn Bridge treasurer while enjoying a contented, hopeful life.
Instructions describe enhancing puddings with rich milk or vanilla, and applying beaten egg on tops before baking to create a glossy shine on pies and cakes. Apple filling uses grated apples, sugar, egg, lemon juice and rind, cooked and layered between cake levels. Cake batter details include eggs, flour, baking powder, sugar, butter, milk, and a note on cream of tartar usage.
A patient from 86 Hadwick Street reports chronic illness improving after treatment by Drs Stackhouse and Newlin at Stackhouse Medical Institute in Indianapolis. The ad promotes specialties in catarrh and ear throat nose stomach diseases and offers mail consultations and symptom blanks.
The decree prohibits any person from making gas main connections or interfering with valves without a written permit from the gas company. It also forbids enlarging mixer orifice and using gas for heating without authorization, with penalties on conviction from five to one hundred dollars.
Sam Jones and Sam Smal, famed revivalists, spark uproar in Rome Georgia by branding the city a hot bed of sin. The circuit judge summons them to testify before the grand jury about local societal conditions. An advertising aside promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a cure for lung distress, linking health to sanctity and religion. For sale by all dealers.
Eardys Detective Agency at 244 East Washington street Indianapolis offers investigation of criminal and civil cases for bankers, insurers, merchants and the public. They boast correspondents across the United States, Canada and Hag and cite Albert Fall, W. H. Henderson, La Follette, Langenberg, Taggart and others as references to their competency and integrity. Chief H. C. Wessler and Assistant Thomas McMillin oversee operations.
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