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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1907
Page
5
Miss Beaumont, a vaudeville beauty, says beauty comes from health and effort. She outlines daily routines of exercise, proper rest, and nutritious food, and details tending her country bungalow with farm work and animals as part of maintaining beauty through the “work cure.”
A lone highwayman stops a Goldville stage and robs passengers while the female passenger resists. After a tense moment the girl offers a kiss to reform the robber who vows to quit crime. She then hands him a $20 piece and her name and address, revealing she is his daughter.
An article touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for valvular and other heart diseases. It highlights Golden Seal and Stone root as key ingredients, praising toning effects on heart action and overall muscular strength, with authorities cited.
Miss Marguerite Frink of Colorado has studied dairying and cheesemaking and is appointed to fill a professorship at the Colorado State Agricultural College while the regular professor is in New York Columbia. She enjoys outdoor sports and can ride like a cowboy.
Bowdoin College has not yet fully embraced coeducation but now counts one girl among its students. The single female pupil attends classes as the original Bowdoin girl, with the faculty making clear she will not receive college credits, studying instead for intellectual pleasure.
Special to The Sun from Houston Texas on February 23 describes a warm winter with 75 degree days, blooming gardens, and lush Texan farms. The writer notes mistletoe thriving in Houston and Arkansas, while Texans hustle with early ploughing and rapid growth, contrasting northern cold with Texas Now.
An old parrot name origin story says flatboatmen carrying grain to New Orleans heard French shopkeepers cry Parlez parlez meaning speak speak and carried the phrase back to the west. The bird in cages at doors inspired the nickname Polly from the syllable parley.
Sultan the lion obsesses over Sultana the lioness causing him to starve and mourn behind bars. Keeper Steve Lawrence fears the beloved king may die unless the mate is returned. Wallace the world’s giant lion also vies for Sultana’s affections in a tense zoo rivalry.
TRIMMED ROOSEVELT ARIZ Feb The 4 000 000 Tonto dam and reservoir one of the most marvelous engineering feats ever attempted is being completed here in the heart of nature s wonderland. Towering mountains and wild rocky canyons are fitted into rock and masonry. Tonto dam will hold in check the largest artificial body of water in the world a lake 25 miles long and 14 2 miles wide. This store of water will change 200 000 acres of desert into a veritable fairy land. The reservoir is on Salt river about 70 miles from Phoenix. Work has progressed four years. The total cost is about 4 000 600. The project was among the first taken up by U S reclamation service engineers.
A two piece broadcloth suit with champagne chiffon corsage, snug fitted coat with basque, eastern handwork, collar and shoulder straps in the material, circular skirt with side box pleats, paired with a Danish blue hat of rough yellow straw and blue velvet rosette featuring an osprey.
New York Feb 5 Old Masters fashion talk at Merchant Tailors National exchange Hotel Astor with bold oddities in tailoring focusing on coats and vests while pants vanish from display. Designers from multiple states show flamboyant outfits provoking humor and debate as critics muse on future male attire.
The Sun partners with a top pattern company to supply readers with affordable designs. Each day a new pattern is described and the ten cent pattern claim includes a scam allowance. Patterns available postpaid by sending ten cents, pattern number size, and the writer’s name and address to the Fashion Department.
Explosion wrecks the Valdivia tearing interior and injuring many as panic spreads aboard a vessel carrying hundreds of passengers. The blast struck near the deck as the ship neared quarantine at New York, with boiler fragments forcing a way out and toppling a giant stack.
The passage notes John D. Rockefeller proposed that most of his final million-dollar contribution to education be directed to schools for girls. He argued married women lack the chance to fund their own schools as men who earn the money do, demonstrating insight into human nature and funding dynamics.
The New York Press notes dainty waist girdle styles with chain girdle trinkets and an Egyptian influenced broad gold armlet band. The armlet should match necklace stones and requires a strong band for active wear, warning basketball players to maintain upright arms to prevent a split armlet.
To cure grip in two days this laxative bromO quinine claims to remove the cause. Consumers are advised to call for the full name and look for the signature of E. W. Grove as authenticity.
A thriving New York woman's republican and now democratic club campaigns for woman suffrage at Albany. A Brooklyn clubwoman is registered as a lobbyist and the group supports equal pay for women teachers and removing the word male from the state constitution.
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