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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1902
Page
4
Mayor Bookwalter praises the real captains of industry from the National Association of Manufacturers in session here. He defines them as those who are industrious themselves and invest to promote others.
Vaudeville programs at AMUSEMENTS GRAND offer 2:15 and 8:15 shows featuring The Gypsy Cross at PARK and Broadway-burlesquers at EMPIRE with performances listed for 2 and 5.
Joe Jefferson fled a crowd of women blocking the stage entrance at the Richmond Virginia Academy of Music. He rushed to the main entrance and climbed over a brass railing in a box to reach the stage past the footlights.
Ada Rehan denies permanent retirement and seeks a new stage role. She reportedly found a project abroad and may reappear next fall. She has purchased rights to George Meredith s novel Diana of the Crags and is supervising dramatization in London.
The Grand features May Edouin and Ryan and Richfield sketches with strong applause for the ebony comedians. Alma Doerge stars in The Gypsy Cross at Park, and the Aldo brothers perform a superior horizontal bar act at the Empire. English’s draws crowd with bum shows but misses meritorious attractions like Princess Chic.
Joseph Gent's son Dick will run the cerraline mills recently sold to the trust. Jongpa Gent plans to depart for a Michigan farm soon. The mills may be closed down indefinitely amid uncertain ownership and operations.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee, retired brigadier general, visits West Virginia and jokes with an old comrade about dying before him. James R. Keene’s stroll in Wall Street circles leads to a playful exchange with bootblacks and a “Jimmie” misnaming. A Waldorf cafe tale riffs on a straw that became champagne, while a drill sergeant meets a courting Irishman who admits he is single, not married. In London, jokes roll from Pat the single to Sally, and Rev Sterret’s golf mishap ends with a profane silence noted by Chief Justice Harlan.
A New York dispatch notes a rapid rise in women smokers across theater and society. Dealers create luxury smoking lounges for women with imported Turkish coffee and branded cigarettes, some personalized with hostess initials or guest monograms. A bridal couple ordered ten boxes of fifty cigarettes each bearing the motto Go thou and do likewise.
Quotes from Detroit Free Press Buffalo News and Philadelphia Record lament rising beef costs. The era sees meat price spikes cited as a social issue with references to Charleston and wedding gifts amid economic tension.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a suitor woos with a dramatic line then shifts to asking about life insurance policy. The scene blends romance with money talk and light banter about a restaurant roast and tipping.
Exiles from a village vow to kill the postmaster when they return. They send yearly fictitious address postcards stating a three month return to kill the postmaster. The postmaster is said to be aging rapidly, according to informants in the town.
A crocus peeks through the lingering snow as flakes swirl. The flower muses on wishing it had looked before it peeped.
A brief dialogue shows a landlady and a boarder debating meat quality. The boarder claims a roast is tough without tasting, citing long boarding experience as proof. The exchange hints at social tension over dining standards in a boarding house.
Edward Singer notes that a landlord hinted the manager had fled with the funds, prompting a change of hotels rather than paying attention to a supposed price rise. The exchange suggests concern over financial misappropriation and travel arrangements.
A collage of light anecdotes and quotes from 19th century papers shows street banter about weather, manners, and everyday life. Jests about elocutionists cooks and numbered houses mix with heroic lore from Thermopylae and a jab at flippant leaders.
A mix of stories about Field-marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, including a Sikh War tale where he calmed volunteers about to flee a mine, and quips about Hoar, O'Brien, and a bath time vote scramble. Also notes a navy secretary’s wife at a foreign station triggering a policy reversal.
The feature notes Continental as a popular hat shape with Etamine fabrics resembling silk. It highlights color limits for tub gowns, the shift to soft collars, Du Barry as a style icon, new belts and bags in walrus and lizard, lace like Irish crochet, ribbon flowers for millinery, elbow sleeves, and minimal machine stitching on silk trim.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a radical constitutional remedy that claims to cure catarrh scrofula salt rheum eczema and blood poisons. It promotes digestion kidney and liver strength and serves as a nerve tonic boosting appetite and energy according to testimonials and claims for all ages.
The piece discusses flower hats and accessories like forget-me-nots red berries and straw loops. It notes hat fashions for garden parties, including an Irish laced hat trimmed with a white plume and a pale blue hyacinth hat with fine foliage, highlighting taste, quality and practicality.
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