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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
5
A whimsical tale by Roger Birch recounts a man riding a street car to the bottom of Lake Erie. A colossal electric whale swallows the car, jaws clamped with telegraph-pole teeth, then spews it out after damage. The whale relocates, stockholders profit, and a captain waters stock to gain $100,000,000 in minutes.
In Chicago on July 26 Mrs. Carl D. Stone offered her heart's blood in a last attempt to save her dying husband, eminent physician Dr. Carl D. Stone, after three weeks of typhoid and failed transfusions. Despite family members' earlier offers, doctors allowed her to donate but the effort failed and the husband died.
Prince William, son of the Swedish crown prince, will visit the United States around mid August. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt are reported as potential hostesses. The prince is noted as the second son of the crown prince and highly popular.
Cynthia Grey argues for marriage at eighteen for women and twenty for men, praising puppy love as pure and transformative. The piece extols youthful passion, mutual ambition, and lasting devotion as lovers grow into family life.
Fashions highlight colored valenciennes in blouses and fabrics like marquisette foulard linen and tussore. Novel trims use bands of white chintz while parasols feature simple linen with monograms. Long skirts return with fluffy petticoats. evening wear shows ruffles and handwork, hats rely on feathers and ostrich aigrettes.
In a royal exchange the jester tests the king with a pun about Noah as the first inventor and an arc light. The king dismisses the joke as tommyrot while unimpressed by the arc light pun and lights seem dim to him.
The exchange presents a worried parent asking what trade the son will pursue and the skeptical reply notes the son’s inability to catch up. It captures a social concern about education, opportunity, and intergenerational pressure within a historical context.
An old style ad references Puro Distilled Water Company offering half gallon bottles at five cent, four cent for other sizes, with terms like demijohns and three seven seven main address hints. The cryptic OCR text mentions a life on the ocean wave and cabin rates, presenting as a vintage classifieds snippet.
A simple linen tub frock described as oyster white, washable and durable for rough use. The design emphasizes practicality and sturdy construction suitable for everyday wear.
The author muses on cameo brooches and rings as once prized symbols of the smart set. He recalls their all in one stone beauty, compares them to US made trinkets, and notes their moralizing links to purity groups and their replacement by newer American fashions.
It notes a large share of women now engage in pure scientific duties in government. At the U S Naval Observatory women assist in calculating the Nautical Almanac, the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Agriculture also rely on women for much of the intricate technical work.
The King's Daughters in Chicago have set up a vacation home in Evanston for working girls. Parties of ten visit, paying one dollar a week, with a two week stay under pleasant conditions. The organization provides entertainment during the stay.
Special to The Sun from London July 26. The former Anna Robinson, now Countess of Roslyn, weighs whether to return to Minneapolis or accept theatre offers after divorcing the count. She remains noted for her beauty from New York artists’ model days and later stage work with Richard Mansfield. The couple wed secretly in London in April 1903.
Jessie M. Partlon ridicules Elbert Hubbard and his praise of wife Alice Hubbard in a satiric East Aurora column. The piece mocks the Hub for claiming moral and spiritual superiority and lampoons the idea that any woman excels in numerous roles. It notes the harsh, humorous tone toward the Hubbards and questions social norms.
Elizabeth Crawford 48 suffered a broken hip when she fell from a streetcar at Illinois and Ohio streets Thursday night. She claimed the northbound Illinois Street Car No. 725 started too quickly and she was alighting. She was moved to City hospital.
Two egg marguerites mix eggs brown sugar flour salt baking powder walnuts or pecans. Bake 15 minutes in medium oven. Butter tins. Dream sponge cake beat yolks and whites separately, fold with sugar salt, sift flour and baking powder, fold in, add water, bake 25 to 30 minutes, with nutmeg or lemon peel optional. Cake should rise three to four inches.
Louis Wicckershaw was fined 200 dollars and costs and given 60 days in the workhouse by Judge Stubbs of the juvenile court on Thursday afternoon. The sentence was suspended as Wickershaw agreed to pay 5 dollars weekly for his family's support after being charged with wife and child desertion.
The Sun offers readers ten cent patterns from a leading company with daily designs. Each day a different pattern is described and the ad promises patterns that account for seams. Send ten cents plus the pattern size requested and postage to the Fashion office.
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