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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1904
Page
6
A horticultural guide lists several flowers including Nicotiana Marguerite carnation wallflower and Ageratum. It covers bloom times, cultivation notes, and decorative use in pots and garden beds, highlighting suitability for earlier starts, house culture, and edging. It also notes Imperial Japanese morning glories, Nemophila, Cockscomb variants, and Hindium japonica vines for rapid growth and vernal display.
Mason Clapp a wealthy Philadelphia sawyer was taken from his yacht Artemis in Norfolk on a lunacy warrant. He was sent to St Vincent's hospital while lunacy commission decides. Onboard he boasted odd acts including biting a $19 bill and threatening with a shotgun causing fear among crew. He spent $4 while ashore and pawned his diamond ring and watches.
The Russian women of the nobility are perhaps the most highly educated in Europe. They have long earned medical and surgical diplomas and enter government service. They are valued for accomplishments and social position, and expected to obtain diplomas in domestic economy such as nursing, child care, or dairy work before pursuing schooling.
Berlin April 1 The Kaiser presses for his eldest son to wed a Cumberland princess but the crown prince opposes and insists on choosing his own bride or not marry at all. The emperor planned a Denmark trip to reveal the match but word leaked, forcing a return to Berlin.
London reports reveal frequent gift nights where audiences cast items on stage for performers. Tales include a prominent actress once receiving a card case and a £1000 in banknotes, and recent instances of pennies and a £5 note. some theaters issue writs to non receptive actors. The practice spans frying pans to vegetables with dozens of gifts at major provincial theaters, though some performers refuse stage-door approaches.
In St Louis on April 13 Charles O'Brien editor and publisher of the American Gelt was savagely assaulted and left in critical condition at Lutheran hospital. A suspect named Warren was picked up Sunday. O'Brien’s enemies are cited and his chances of recovery are slight.
TOKIO March 13 War drama in Japanese theaters draws large crowds with a four act film based on war scenes. The pieces show Japanese soldiers disguising as Chinese bandits, the Port Arthur fleet attack, and scenes of homefront farewells. Audiences cheer patriotic moments and avoid anti Japanese sentiment, while realism and spectacle energize the performances. Will H. Brill reports from Tokyo.
An 1905 account by Nelson A. Miles details the rise of Jenghiz Khan and the Mongol Empire, describing campaigns across China, the Black Sea region, and Europe. It cites massacres, sieges, and the expansion of Mongol power, noting later echoes in Tamerlane’s conquests and the enduring myth of Yellow Peril.
Well known broker Mr ML Metready and chemist Henry Fo La Chapel testify to Munyon's Paw-Paw curing indigestion dysentery and nervous weakness. Advert says pills also cure gonorrhea kidney troubles and urinary discharges in hours. Large bottle one dollar and pills twenty five cents at druggists.
A garbled quotation references armies from east to Moscow and Arabia defending duty, a pyramid of 99,090 heads at Razia d, and a claim by a war leader about never being the aggressor. The passage, attributed to Nelson A. Miles, blends mythic scales with dubious historic tone and scattered place names.
In Osaka on April 13 Otojiro Kawakami joined a torch light procession after Japan’s final victory news. A skilled pickpocket stole a watch given by the czar, later returning it with a parcel and a letter claiming theft but rejecting anything Russian.
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