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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1894
Page
3
A rustic ballad recounts a suitor recalling his mother’s wisdom about romance. He narrates courting through winters and a proposal, noting how his mother’s counsel shaped his choices, and that he finally wed his sweetheart after her approval. Names and place details are from the lyric voice.
Grace Adrian, once adored heiress in Richmond, rejects Landsing Howard then tears his heart with a parting farewell. Years later, after war and travel, Howard seeks a governess for his children and Grace arrives in mourning, revealing a past confession and rekindled tension.
Grace, once loved by Landsing Howard, agrees to become a governess and mother to his two children. He reveals they both died in the war and asks why she never married. She admits lingering sorrow, and he forgives the past, securing her for the children. New York News notes the reunion.
The Bath Independent tells of Squire T- a wealthy jovial figure in Bath, Maine who ate a costly sandwich worth a $100 note between two buttered slices to win a bet after others claimed he had not fulfilled his promise. The incident ends with a remark as the clock strikes midnight.
A collage of brief items notes fashion cautions from New York World about modest dress and frugality, three women killed by a train in London Ohio, opera singer Fursch-Madi dead in Warrenville New Jersey, Pittsburgh Chicago electric railway plans, Mount Hamlin peak in Alaska, an underground river in central Kansas, a deadlocked Democratic convention in Canton Mississippi after 1100 ballots, British ship Senegal lost with two presumed dead, Massachusetts sugar trust case, and John and Jasper Atkins hanged in Winnsboro for murder of William Clamp to take his wife and daughter.
A dated notice from Buffalo New York advertises a plain language treatise on pernicious solitary practices and their ruinous effects. It claims to restore health and happiness through home treatment and offers the book by mail for 10 cents postage. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY.
Creedon narrates his fighting recovery from muscular rheumatism before the September 26 clash with Fitzsimmons in New Orleans. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills, prescribed by Dir John D Hopkins, with restoring strength after illness and climate change, enabling him to train in Jacksonville and resume boxing. The pills are touted as boosting nerves kidneys and liver while building new blood and tissue for athletes.
An old advertisement extols Mrs Winston’s SooThinG Luxor as a reliable teething aid for children. It claims soothing gums easing pain and curing wind colic with the price noted as twenty two cents a bottle. The piece also lists varied market prices for groceries and farm produce from a Saturday city market.
John W Macy sues Elmer McNees in Randolph County Indiana to appoint an administrator for the missing Elmer McNees who has been absent since 1871 and presumed dead. The proceeding, filed in November Term 1894 in Winchester, requires McNees to appear by November 5, 1904, else be heard in absentia. Alonzo Nichols, Clerk, Randolph Circuit Court.
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