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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
3
A compact reflection on love as enduring power across changing seasons. The speaker cites vivid images of bloom, danger, and memory to suggest love's sovereignty. Though quoted from B Williams in Harper's Weekly, the core idea remains love transcends time and hardship.
A surgeon father in a prosperous English city shelters a trusted lawyer friend named Edwards who sinks into paranoid delirium driven by horse racing losses. A suspenseful night ends with Edwards attempting to kill a young narrator, who secretly foils the plan by convincing him to seek a hidden flute, leading to arrest, confinement, and the man’s death in a private asylum.
In a Brooklyn Life style vignette, Fitztop asks a girl if her father was a pirate during a clan gathering. The old sea captain is urged to leave the mansion. The girl denies, calling the father a Treebootes figure as the exchange turns reflective. A church fair cake remark closes the fragment.
In a New York Sunday school, Johnny Long recites Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, prompting laughter from children and mild disapproval from adults. The incident ends with the decision to preapprove future verses to avoid irreverent selections.
A recipe from Harper's Bazar describes a cleaning fluid made by dissolving four ounces of white casila soap shavings in a quart of boiling water, then cooling with four ounces of ammonia two ounces each of alcohol and glycerine and a gallon of water. Used diluted for clothes and undiluted for stubborn stains, it cleans collars and grease. also suitable for painted walls and woodwork when mixed with water.
The Indianapolis Board of Public Works invites sealed proposals to clean specified streets including Meridian Washington Wabash Delaware and Massachusetts from October 7 1891. Costs will be charged to abutting property owners with the city not paying for street or alley crossings.
The advertisement warns against cheap imitations and unauthorized dealers. It lists genuine guaranteed Dr Pierce medicines with fixed, long established prices and a money back guarantee for benefit or cure. Dealers are urged not to substitute inferior products for higher profit.
News brief notes several incidents across the country including a saw mill boiler explosion in Tionesta Pennsylvania killing three men and a fatal Cleveland area railway wreck with multiple casualties. Other items report weather extremes, religious and immigrant community actions, and personal tragedies.
Garnet tones shift to blondes and brevettes while satin kid shoes appear in metallic greens frays and yellows. The Ivanhoe black glace shoe gleams with gold embroidery as daywear dreasy shoes feature steel buckles and ribbon bows. A 60 inch waterproof black gonds fabric returns for mourning or color wear, reviving Ottoman cord appeal. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is praised for medicinal merit and is sold by all aruggists.
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