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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
15
A letter from Ella Wheeler Wilcox advises a four-dollar-a-week earner to use lonely evenings productively. It suggests affordable reading in electricity or engineering, correspondence study, and outdoor exercise. The goal is health, skill, and a broader future, with belief in personal agency and self-improvement.
Tickets available September 1 1908 for travel to Mackinac Island or St Ig nace and back with a round trip price of $1.00 more. Valid for return until September 30 1908. Inquiries at City Ticket Office No 1 E Washington St or Union Station or write C C Clark G A P D Indianapolis.
Emily and Angelina unveil a signaling code from Harper's Weekly. Emily learns the five handkerchief waves mean Do you love me and Angelina replies Yes, darling. They use no other signals and accept papa’s ban on Tom in the house.
The passage profiles several students and artisans in a Parisian circle, detailing Jean Vrontaire, Jean Brouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Bossuet, Joly, and others. It outlines their talents, passions, and political sympathies, emphasizing their literary tastes, social concerns, and defiant outlooks as they navigate post-revolutionary expectations.
A narrator recounts a picnic with the Anshunt Order of Seagulls where Pa, claiming to be a pitcher over two hundred pounds, jokes about pretending to pitch for the Fat Men and recalls a vivid Mets game miscue. Ma teases him about his weight as they depart from the humorous, chatty scene at the park.
Beatrice Fairfax argues against child marriage and relations with much older men. She cites a Maryland case where a 13 year old girl was promised to a man decades older, condemning parental complacency, education neglect, and societal tolerance of such unions. The piece denounces the inhumanity and urges youth marrying youth for future happiness.
A lyric meditation on a nightly bridge where the speaker escapes life’s daylong burdens. The poem contrasts dream night with harsh reality, offering renewal through a secluded union with beloved imagination and memory.
Forecast for a child born on this day suggests a quiet year with care and attention needed to keep business together. The young may court or marry this year. A child born on this day will have a quiet career, though outcomes depend on the hour of birth.
A string of satirical maxims on women and marriage notes that men agree with favorable readings about women, while women crave fashionable weddings and dramatic divorces. It reflects on aging, style, and love with witty paradoxes about math, self, and appearance.
A compact note suggests taking a single sweet pill tonight. The text presents pills as small, reliable and easy to use. No further context or details are provided.
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