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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1905
Page
5
A male speaker warns against masking poverty with gifts and vanity. He urges honest finance, shared effort, and treating a wife as a partner rather than a costly queen. Do not borrow for weddings or wear, and avoid degrading her by pretended wealth.
Miss Bessie Cronin rejects a past college rumor that she forced a male student to surrender money at Valparaiso via revolver threats. The Sun and others printed the story at the time, causing her ongoing worry and seeking correction in the proper paper.
A young mother defends her impartial view of her own child, praising his eyes, hair, mouth, complexion, and nose as faultless while insisting she will not call him pretty. The passage reflects tender maternal pride in a domestic vignette.
A Revenue Officer Everett Drayton tale set in the Southern Appalachians describes the pursuit and capture of moonshiners. After being lured to a meeting he is trapped by Watson and Watson’s men. Drayton escapes, ignites a powder keg to sink their craft, killing the moonshiners and ending that line of smugglers in the area.
In Asheville a 15 year old mountain girl Nannie Gibson saved a train from wreck at her home. Southern Railroad promised her two college educations. Her mountain lover Paul Smith allegedly married her to prevent her education loss. Father seeks divorce while Nannie longs for schooling and a lady’s upbringing amid family upheaval.
Special to the Sun from Moscow reports the arrest of Olga Netchkova, daughter of a Russian general, accused of revolutionary involvement. The narrative describes her arrest amid a chaotic scene as police assault, coercion, and a desperate struggle in a Moscow suburb, with claims of abuse by officers and a failed rescue attempt.
The Pittsburg Dispatch describes exercises for young women to tone the body and improve posture. It recommends standing on tiptoes with arms clasped overhead to slim the waist, lift the chest, and add height with persistence, and a one foot balance drill with opposite arm extended to gain poise.
A young woman describes brutal treatment by police and prison staff after arrest in Moscow. She details confinement, beatings, kicks, insults, and inadequate food, with a three day period before authorities admitted her identity. Higher officials refused to investigate, shifting blame to police and soldiers involved.
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