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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1893
Page
3
Poem fragment reflecting love’s evolution from roaming youth to settled maturity. The narrator contrasts love’s wings and roaming dawn with later desires for home, hearth, and a tranquil, forgiving heart. The piece cites Alfred Austin as the author.
In a rural Virginia scene the storyteller Stepto recalls a forbidden love with Miss Daisy on a plantation. He hides after a slave owner’s anger, lives eight years in woods near the river, and later finds freedom, family, and faith while Miss Daisy lies buried.
A Boston Transcript feature by Mollie B. Pratt details Stepto's life in reflective, tranquil prose. The piece describes nature’s quiet beauty with dew on golden tints and distant cricket sounds, creating a peaceful scene around his memories.
An 1880s Spokane scene depicts the hanging of Bill Stebbins for the murder of his second wife. The sheriff conducts the ceremony with calm ceremony as a crowd watches in the jail yard. Stebbins speaks briefly to the sheriff, asking for a handshake, while the officer remains professional and unmoved before triggering the death by rope.
The article argues women should avoid self denial and indulge in wholesome meals, tea, chocolate, beef tea, lemonade, and buttered toast with mutton chops. It contends beauty, pleasant clothes, reading, and recreation aid happiness and family well being, while men sometimes overindulge.
Peaches are peeled stoned weighed and slowly heated in a porcelain lined kettle to extract juice. Stir often with a wooden spoon, bring to a boil for 45 minutes, then add sugar at 12 oz per pound of fruit. Boil five minutes remove scum, add lemon juice or pineapple for flavor, stew ten minutes until smooth, jar and seal with waxed paper.
A domestic vignette shows Mollie crying while mamma scolds her for making the baby cry. Mollie explains she only tried to make him smile with a glove stretcher. Miss Whippey confronts Thomas about truancy and implies punishment unless he reports to his father.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure and tonic for puny children and weak health. It claims to purify blood, build flesh, aid recovery from grippe and pneumonia, improve digestion, and address liver and blood related diseases including skin issues and earlyConsumption. If it does not benefit, money back guaranteed.
The report lists a sequence of dramatic events: a girl queen of Holland reviewing troops. Thomas Lynch, famed Chicago distiller, dead after years of fighting the whisky trust. a holy land firm selling river Jordan water for baptisms. nine men in Butte City and Neobrara jailed on cattle theft charges with ranchers threatening lynching. Jules H. Burwell accused of misappropriating $50,000 from a carriage firm. indictments against fourteen Kingston farmers for shooting a traveling man in white caps. in Kansas City Catholics clash with A P A members after a meeting, with an A P A detective and a Catholic exchanging shots and one wounded.
Condensed items report Mrs Astor pays no less than 25 for shoes Modjeska the actress has educated five nephews and nieces sixty thousand Italian women lead Rome flower aristocracy opposing divorce as a religious offense.
Saturnpay reports markets steady with advances in potatoes and a wide array of meat, canned goods, and produce. Prices cover smoked meats, bacon, lard, poultry, butter, canned fruit, flour, sugar, teas, coffee, and live stock with multiple brands and firms listed for Indiana and California markets.
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