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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1890
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press account describes a vast prairie fire marching westward, a 50 mile flame wall forcing wildlife and humans to shelter. The author recalls the escape, with horses secured, animals fleeing, and the landscape reduced to blackened ruin as smoke and heat drive a desperate retreat.
A humorous fragment recounts a nurse saying a baby is deformed with a single long finger. The father asks about the deformity, the nurse responds, and the boy is humorously contrasted with lamp cleaning skills. Other casual dialogue snippets follow, featuring Jason Janet and theater usher exchanges.
Olive Logan reports from London on fur abundance and the return of Guipure and point de Gene. Irish lace, bridal dresses in Limerick, and Chinchula fashion cycle appear again amid Beaver demand. Wood’s Sarsaparilla is praised for cleansing impure blood and supporting weak health.
A jumble of brief items reports on Fort Gratiot adoption, a 82 year old man, Green Bay police pranks, beer receipts funding coats, a Georgia editor resigning post in protest, North Dakota governor’s wife visiting a newspaper, honey yields from Arizona hives, a Boston word critique, a Texas gift scheme with cotton premiums, a new spider web social trap, and Cape Cod cranberry harvest tying school terms to harvest season.
The piece notes four million spent in London in three months seeking pleasure, trains cremation acceptance among clergy, rising male wedding ring fashion in England, and the enormous seven million daily factory output across England France Germany and Holland, questioning where such products go.
The princess of Walea told visitors at Sandringham village training school that her life ambition is to mind her own business. Lotta first appeared on stage as Gartrude in The Loan of a Lover at about age ten in Peta luma California. Mother Seton of the New York convent of mercy is the oldest Sister of Mercy in the country, over 90, and her father died in 1800. Her mother, a convert, founded the Sisters of Charity at Har m oitaburg.
Readers are urged to check Bargain Sales listings in The Sun for low prices on items. The advs suggest affordable deals and question why prices seem high elsewhere.
A Kansas City restaurateur recounted a prophetic dream about his mother’s death. He awoke at 2 am recalling friends would bring news of her passing, then received a telegram confirming she died Saturday night and was buried Tuesday, linking dream and event in a macabre sequence.
Persian and India carpets form raga patterns while Turkish and Saxony textiles introduce bold squares with colorful fillings. The Lonsdale ash bedroom unit sells for about 80, while decorative silk costs 61.5 per yard. English South Kensington art cottons provide affordable cushions and gowns with floral prints at 24 canta per yard.
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