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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
11
The writer rejects false portraits by future biographers and crafts his own life story. He dismisses taunting critics and the Griswolds who seek fame by attaching names to others’ legacies, predicting posterity will remember them as ungrateful pretenders to genius.
Ben Teal instructs chorus to project style and breeding for a Ray number. He demands poise and gentility, warning the performers not to move awkwardly like ducks. The Chicago Tribune reports his exacting stage direction and emphasis on appearance.
In Golden's Bridge New York a farmer found the locked blacksmith shop of George Bauer with a dead man inside Nelson Brown. Bauer confessed to the killing, saying the slaying arose from a drunken bout. Bauer was taken to White Plains awaiting coroner Wisendanger’s verdict.
W A Stone, Uniontown coal operator, raised reward from 2500 to 5000 for information leading to Bertha Stone's arrest after her disappearance on December 4. The case involved her alleged elopement with Emery Martin, a former soldier. Detectives traced Mrs Stone from Uniontown to Fairmount and New York.
The London Chronicle recalls a judge in New Zealand issuing an order to forbid singing as evidence. Maori pleadings long sagas often stretched for hours or days before reaching the point. The note calls the practice Gilbertian and confirms it by old New Zealanders.
A father tests his sons with a natural history riddle. The boy answers Fire moth, joking that it eats nothing but holes. This playful exchange is shared in a Youth's Companion clipping.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's family medicines noting full ingredient disclosure on bottle wrappers and alcohol-free formulas. It touts glycerine as a key extractor and preservative, claims healing for indigestion catarrh and chronic coughs, and promotes Common Sense Medical Adviser with mail-order details to Buffalo New York.
J C Sipe a Montana jeweler and hunter displays mounted heads and skins in his store. Notable pieces include a Montana elk taken at eight yards near Big Salmon Lake and two Colorado mountain cats from 1882. Mrs Sipe joined four hunts, missing one goat first shot.
A Chicago Evening Post item relays a joke about four Cameron Highlanders in a crowded Scotland railway compartment. A small clergyman tries to edge in and requests the seat hold five under parliamentary law, but a Highlander replies the seat is not built to parliament standards.
In Monticello Kentucky Elmer Hill who killed a little girl was hanged by a mob in Russell County. As the rope tightened he confessed and asked the mob to sing Jesus, Lover of My Soul and offer prayer for his soul. The crowd complied before the execution.
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