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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
5
In sweltering New York a rich bachelor girl Laura Donaldson learns of Lieut. Casper Goodrich’s death aboard the battleship Georgia. Overwhelmed by grief she returns home to read the headlines, embrace his photograph, and end her life with a gunshot.
In a crowded courtroom Margaret Currin, a 20 year old assistant, admits guilt to grand larceny over an $85,000 shortage at the Newfoundland Savings Bank. The cashier Robertson then reveals his own theft, confessing he took the money to cover the loss and blaming the affair on love and fear, ending with his collapse.
A teacher asks what conscience is and what tells you when you’ve erred. A pupil quips that the teacher him or herself tells you you’ve done wrong, delivering a light moral jab in a brief classroom vignette.
Special to The Sun Lafayette Indiana announces the Indiana Horticultural Society annual meeting at Purdue University August 7 and 8. President W E Stone will give an address of welcome and H H Swaim will respond. Lectures cover frost, cooperative work at the experiment station, spraying, apple marketing, insect friends, commercial orcharding, pure food law value to horticul turals, and effects of fertilizers on potato quality. Prizes will be awarded for fine fruit and vegetable displays.
Eva Dean reports on Harry Thaw in the Tombs as he reads, writes, and suffuses his days with Delmonico meals and longings for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Evelyn insists her love remains steadfast as rumors of waning devotion swirl while the family fights over coal lands and a new trial dates.
This kitchen card lists several baking and dessert recipes including Fairy Pudding Eggless Fruit Cake Peanut Drop Cookies Trish Pie Macaroon Pudding Lemon Pie Almond Wafers and more with ingredients and step hints for each dish. It preserves the period cookbook tone and names like butter sugar raisins coffee and pine for the reader.
A light satirical note on Fourth of July excesses overripe humor and vanity tricks. It recalls a pink cigar joke and firecracker mishaps while poking at society editors who overuse the word exceedingly for very. The piece ends by inviting readers to ponder why such wording persists.
A lighthearted courthouse wedding ends with the bride asking the groom about divorces after the squire's talks. The playful moment hints at future plans and domestic humor in a small-town setting.
A lighthearted cartoon caption where a turkey asks why a hen sits on a rug and a duck jokes the hen may be training to be a carpet layer, delivering a simple farmyard humor moment.
A marriage proposal carved on Nile mud over 3490 years ago is exhibited in the British Museum, humorously noting the proposer and the pun that the man's name was mud.
The Sun teams with a leading pattern company to offer daily ten cent patterns. Each issue describes a new pattern, the only ten cent pattern with seam allowance. Send ten cents plus pattern number, size, and your name and address to The Sun Fashion Department.
Schaarschmidt, an inmate at Gera England, planned a seven week effort to gnaw through a thick oak beam in front of his cell window. He replaced wood fragments with chewed bread until the beam nearly gave way. A final crash alerted wardens, but he had already escaped the prison.
Jesse Tilson was seriously hurt when his clothing caught in a belt of a thrashing machine in Greenwood Indiana. He was thrown to the ground and suffered a deep gash in the back of his head.
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