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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1893
Page
3
A Boston Journal verse urges giving support and praise to the living not after death. The speaker questions the value of applause once life ends and asks for a final word of encouragement while still alive to hear it.
Nahum Briggs contends with a stream of prospective tenants seeking to lease his house. A purse of suitors arrives including a moralizing elder, a finicky couple, a goldchain aunt, and finally widow Barbara Wylie with two children. He rekindles past affection as they tour the home and he contemplates rent.
In a brisk Boston Globe vignette, widow Barbara accepts Nahum Briggs’s marriage proposal after a playful bargain about one boarder. He offers to let the house and proposes tomorrow, sealing a life of domestic partnership rather than a rental.
A collection of statements on women in farming and dress reform from a 19th or early 20th century Boston Globe style note. It contrasts cleanliness with fashion, cites female centenaries counts in England, and references Lucy Stone's injunction to strive to improve the world while critiquing cosmetics.
The excerpt notes a vivid autumn sky with deep blue overhead and turquoise horizon, distant hills, and bare branches. It contrasts solemn proverbs about true religion with a BostonBulletin quip about vanity, urging readers to look up at the sky in clear weather.
Select six large smooth tomatoes and scoop out the seeds. Mix chopped ham, mushrooms, stale bread crumbs, parsley, salt, cayenne, and melted butter. Fill tomatoes, top with crumbs, bake thirty minutes, and serve.
The Newburyport News quotes a Newark boy saying a line about cold and frozen as a curious prompt. The Waasington Star notes a frackled faced pupil who disrupts class by bending a ping in a chair and stealing merit cards while singing I want to be an angel in Sunday school.
A round up of items notes the St Paul street car strike ending and mentions a brewing revolution in Harti alongside various other brief world and local incidents affecting health, crime, and politics including a Pittsburg anarchist murder verdict and Col Albert Scott acquittal.
A New York medical college professor addresses a ladies and gentlemen audience warning of bank and mercantile failures and personal hardship. He extols Warner's Safe Cure as a supreme remedy that gently yet powerfully restores health and hope for men and women run down or suffering.
Markets firm with no changes listed. provisions include dried fruits, meats, produce, flour, and dairy. Prices show Morgan & Gray and Empire brands, with varied staples like bacon, ham, sugar, potatoes, apples, pears, and butter across regional items and quantities.
Makers of Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy offer $500 if they cannot provide a complete and permanent cure. The advertisement asserts even the worst cases respond to this remedy.
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