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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1892
Page
3
John Kendrick Bangs reflects on nostalgic days with his mother and father as confidants. He recalls joy, tears, and a guiding memory that brightened troubled times, imagining a life where happiness would endure like a sunlit estate. The verse brushes themes of longing, memory fading, and the ache for days past.
In Nicholas I’s Russia near Novgorod Count Vladmir Worobjoff, heir to a vast estate, marries a slave singer after his mother the Countess Olga objects. A forged church book prompts a legal battle. a clever lawyer exposes the tampering and the estate is awarded to the countess and her children.
A miscellany from Chicago Mail including claims about China’s coal, literacy, gender roles, and a Triad society, plus a note on an electric iron, canal length, and imperial beliefs. It also offers domestic hints on preserving fruit, tea, coffee storage, oysters for invalids, and a creamed oysters dish with simple preparations.
The excerpt notes a taste for simple pleasures and changing trends in a village culture. It mentions pudding from cold potatoes, a new popular song, a cigar smoking photograph device, a form of polite smoking in hosts' parlors, and the early bloom of the golden rod. It closes with a Ruskin quote praising independence from language in high thinking.
The HNWH Isaac Borden of Fall River Massachusetts says he believes Lizzie Borden killed her parents. Nine business blocks burned in Tekoa Washington on Thursday causing a $40000 loss. The reported capture of the Dalton gang at Paris Texas is denied by the governor. J H Meade Co New Orleans grocers burned out Tuesday Loss 125000 insurance 100000. A lone highwayman held up a state coach near Amargo New Mexico Tuesday and robbed it of the mail and 1000 in money. Geo Davis a Cleveland commission merchant is sought by creditors alleged to be 65000 short and shipped. Two freight trains collided near Marshalltown Pennsylvania on Thursday About 20 cars piled up four men killed, hardly any sheep escaped. While listening to a freak at Columbus Ohio Thursday night the pavement gave way beneath 50 people and they fell 50 feet. Several were hurt. James Leach the freak cannot recover.
A collage of quotes on women and society reports a Atchison Kansas reader noting a wife seeking new clothes after hire, a Scribner's Magazine take on declining deference to women, and fashion trends with jet beading. Witty exchanges from Detroit and Arizona sentiments add humor on gender roles and suffrage debates.
An OCR filled page fragment promotes Hlocds Sarsaparilla claiming large sales and cures, with prices and distributors noted. It includes other ads for beverages, seed, and groceries, plus stock market and harvest excursion notices and various local business offerings.
An advertisement from North Indianapolis offers a hernia cure claiming to treat all ages with no pain or business interruption. It promises no payment until cure and outlines prices from 75 to 325 depending on injury extent, stating a guaranteed cure and no need for trusses or ointments.
Under the direction of T M Culver MD with 18 years experience offering hernia care. Offices in Fair Block rooms 9 and 10 opposite Union Bereat. Hours 9 to 12 noon 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 evenings. Sundays 2 to 4. Write for circulary. Indianapolis.
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