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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
5
In a hotel lobby a cattleman recalls a gritty frontier feud between a Mexican gunman named Antoine and a rising young lawyer. Antoine, a famed broncho buster and marksman, clashes with the lawyer who sues him over unpaid wages and debts, then keeps him in court and on the move.
A promotional article extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for torpid liver linked to poor digestion. It reviews symptoms like bitter taste, bad appetite, and headaches, praising Golden Seal root and a blend with Queen's root and other ingredients, endorsed by several physicians and promising cures and vitality.
A tense confrontation unfolds as a Mexican figure confronts Antoine in a Maverick saloon. A lawyer retrieves a .45 Colt persuader, stalks the Mexican, and pushes him to reveal his plan with a single command. The moment ends with Antoine yielding under pressure.
A rose brown Panama suit features a half inch striped fabric formed by black threads. The skirt is heavily gored with bias cut panels and an eight inch hem. The coat shows bias yoke accents and is trimmed with burnt apricot embroidery and tortoise shell buttons. Accessorized with a straw hat and brown ostrich tips.
Berlin readers report a curious winter machine at the Prater. A bicycle with the front wheel replaced by a curved skate glided over the snow, propelled by a girl rider, making fair progress despite the novel design.
A photograph from the famine district of China shows a woman with two girls at a relief station begging for corn. Reports from Chinkiang warn of cannibalism and mass hunger as starving people overrun fields and threaten another famine this fall.
Miss Maud Roosevelt, cousin of President Roosevelt, joins Elberfeld municipal opera to advance her operatic studies. She is married to Bar on Mumm von Schwarzenstein since 1899 in Paris, previously Miss Maud Roosevelt le Vinson of New York.
In Paris, a 1700 year old Pan dean pipe was found during Alise Saint Reine excavations. The instrument, dating to the first century, was played at its presentation to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres by donor Theodore Reinach, producing flute like notes after centuries.
Simple kitchen directions for a soft milk frosting for cake and for wheat cakes. Instructions include mixing flour with baking powder and salt, adding milk, and beating to a light batter before cooking on a griddle. Apple dumplings are wrapped with pastry, filled with apples and sugar, and baked to a light brown finish.
Paris reports a new women’s auto headgear the telescope hat. It features a durable crown with an accordion like hood that folds away when not in use and claims to be fully dust proof.
A humorous item notes a Mollycoddie definition contest offering 100,900 dollars. Harriman Rockefeller and Rogers are asked to enter, with Tillman asked to help but declines. Definitions from readers lampoon mollycoddles and social pretensions in a light, quoing style.
Gen. G. M. Dodge, once of Iowa and now in New York, plans a return to the western state to challenge Allison for the United States Senate seat. The mention of a senatorial flavor signals a notable political move as Dodge eyes the senate race, with readers urged to note his renewed candidacy amid regional political realignment.
The Sun offers ten cent patterns from a leading pattern company. A new pattern is described daily and the pattern includes safeguards against scams. Send ten cents, specify number and size, plus name and address to The Sun Fashion Department for postpaid delivery.
Pattern advertisement describes a tucked shirt-waist with yoke and elbow sleeves, detailing front embellishment with a stitched box plait and lace or embroidery frill. Six sizes 32 to 42 inch bust, fabric yardage varies by width, edging trim included, pattern price 10 cents.
Miss Gordon Cumming has traveled through the worst part of China and was the first woman to penetrate Tibet. She explored India and Ceylon and even met Samoa rebels. The traveler’s star seems to have been in the ascendant at her birth.
A dialog in a rustic dialect portrays a man asking for bread and receiving a whole loaf after a woman grants a slice. He questions why he did not pay or strike her, insinuating a social impropriety and a missing response to his bold request.
In New Castle on April 4 Thomas Wilks a Northumberian miner paraded a tame badger carried in his arms. The animal, raised from a baby, was gentle and kitten like in demeanor, drawing attention as one of the oddest street pets displayed.
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