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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1906
Page
5
The note urges buyers to inspect labels and choose Royal Baking Powder made with cream of tartar. It claims safety and superiority for this product and warns against alum-containing powders. Royal is presented as the best cream of tartar baking powder available.
A hotel guest recalls a midnight intruder a seemingly despairing commercial traveler in his thirties preparing a dramatic self harm scene with a razor and a vial. The narrator grapples with fear and hesitation as the man appears bent on suicide, then uses a narcotic to end the attempt. The ending reveals the vial labeled Dr Squedunk s Corn Cure and the narrator questions the razor’s intended use.
Instructions advise turning fabric to the wrong side, dampening with warm water, and pressing with a moderately hot iron. Iron on the wrong side along each tuck to make the folds crisp, improving appearance compared with ironing the right side.
In a New York court Francesca Angeloni, accused of passing counterfeit silver dollars tied to her father Giovanni Angeloni, pleads innocence. She says she found a bad dollar, bought shoes for sisters, and never knew her father’s crime, while noting hardship and loyalty to family amid the testimony and a week’s adjournment.
Fashion notes from an era press describe Burlingham and Rajah silks, satin Surah, crepe, radium cloth, duchess and chiffon, velvet frocks, and broadcloth costumes shaping spring and summer wardrobes. Emphasis on Riviera influences, sheer fabrics, light gowns, and lavish trims for resort wear.
A fragment describes cleaning gilt frames by soaking three middling onions in a pint of water and using the cooled sponge to wipe the frame carefully.
Advertise a patent remedy TONSILINE for smokers throat trouble warning of cancer risk and surgical outcomes. Claims quick soothing healing antiseptic action, citing years of study and efficacy with prices shown. Produced by The Tongillne Co, ton, O.
A young woman scolds a suitor for impertinence after a three week acquaintance and warns a friend that future trust is at stake. In a rapid follow up, another note reveals she accepted an invitation from Harold Spurr while praising a friend who introduced him, though she hides her feelings.
The Gaekwar of Baroda, after receiving a gift from the Prince and Princess of Wales, boasts a five row necklace of 100 diamonds per row set between emeralds. Some stones rival walnuts in size and the diamonds are of exceptional purity. The Star of the South is worn as a pendant with the necklet. The Gaekwar favors England and has shown interest in more than one occasion.
A seven mile long petition signed by wide persons is to be presented to the British parliament. It seeks a bill to prohibit the vivisection of dogs, reflecting a public push for animal welfare reform.
In a candid column, Yvette Guilbert returns to New York amid notes of no naughty songs, while Ola Geronimo faces renewed misfortune after losing a wife. Interspersed are local tidbits: births, ailments, and puzzle-like banter about editors, interviews, and society chatter in Harrodsburg Herald.
Special to The Toledo Fab 20 Russell Sage the New York magnate is a stranger to Mrs Jane Sage and her son Noex in Oliver House objects of charity. The widow and her boy aged 66 and 45 sustain life by hand to mouth work with old clothes. Mrs Sage recalls his earlier visits before wealth, yet now acts motherly to him. A press photographer highlights their modest, poignant scene without envy.
The article argues that women display natural lawlessness in crises citing Moscow protests and historical parallels. It compares modern actions to 1640s London defenses with women from all classes contributing, from ladies to oyster wenches, who joined in night and day to repel invaders per London Chronicle.
German farmers deploy nest boxes and artificial devices to lure small birds back to fields. They rely on the birds to control pests, but persecution and loss of old trees and decayed hollows, plus drained pools, have reduced nesting sites and food, accelerating bird disappearance amid modern cultivation.
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