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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1910
Page
8
Nell Brinkley portrays a faded Lady paging through a century of Beauty photos. Amid fashion plates and bridal visions, the old woman clings to a single portrait, triumphantly recalling her own faded moment and the chance to be seen.
A reader laments pervasive bad manners in travel and society, urging schools and newspapers to teach etiquette. The piece contrasts American behavior with foreign examples, calls for public manners departments, and stresses early training, gentility, and simple respect in daily life.
Fragmentary poem text describes a pink shell by the shore of the Slumber Sea. It evokes dreams, fairies, moonbeams, dew, and tinkling chimes. The speaker urges listening to the shell’s song and dreaming through the night hours.
A humorous tale in which Percy explains his disastrous day attempting golf. He endures caddies’ laughter, lost balls, a ruined tee, and a sunburned misadventure, admitting golf isn’t his sport and vowing never to try again. The Shaw Girl and Show Girl react with amused disbelief as Percy recounts the fiasco.
A collection of humorous snippets from two papers including a caveman joke about proposing marriage and a paring debt gag from Pittsburg Post. Other lines feature Rich Parvenu’s Wife at a mountain restaurant and a baby voice anecdote from Chicago Tribunes, all in brief satirical quips.
A first person fragment chronicles a dream voyage aboard a passenger submarine named Scallop from New York to London. The narrator praises silence and water, then faces mechanical failure, gale impact, and the restaurant tilting as passengers fall away. After days adrift, rescue arrives and a final line favors staying home.
J McGinnis, a contractor, met Donovan on the American line pier and at a hotel bar asked for a private bottle of forty year old bourbon. The bartender poured two small glasses as Donovan questioned the age praising the sample while McGinnis claimed it was forty years old.
A humorous column contemplates fear and pain and even czarship. It riffs on dentists and disaster, claiming pain can numb discomfort and that a czar would scorn death by danger while embracing daily peril. The piece offers wry quips on homeopathy and resilience.
Instructions describe mending a tear or cut in a rubber glove using an adhesive plaster placed inside the glove. The torn edges are aligned and pressed together with the plaster to form a lasting seal that endures for many days.
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