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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
8
Vallejo California with a 15000 population and about 100 saloons faces possible indefinite closure of Mare Island navy yard if saloon numbers are not cut by about half. City officials, led by the mayor and trustees, confront a stark choice to comply.
A railway incident in India recounted by Rudyard Kipling describes a native station master attacked by a hungry tiger. His assistant hid in the office and wired for instructions. The operator in another town received the surprising dispatch requesting guidance.
Treatment of cancer skin uterine and rectal diseases offered by Dr L T Leach with offices in New York and California.
Special to The Sun reports Yale first to adopt the modern social and religious movement in colleges. Dwight Hall and Brown Union exemplify the shift toward centralized student life with social clubs, religious activities, and welfare services under student oversight. The Brown Union, funded by Rockefeller, costs 105000 dollars with a 25000 dollar endowment and serves as a homey campus hub.
The article notes Knox allies in Minnesota and the west and northwest backing his candidacy through former officials tied to the Northern Securities case. It highlights Frank B. Kelloge and Wilton D. Purdy as Knox supporters, plus Francis J. Heney’s past prosecutions. It contrasts Knox’s weak room with Taft’s administration-backed push and Roosevelt-aligned sentiment aiding Taft.
In Washington on Pennsylvania Avenue Prof Alexander Graham Bell, famed for the telephone, walked with white hair and a ruddy face attracting attention. A newspaper correspondent, a longtime acquaintance, asked Bell if reporters speed his fame, to which Bell dryly replied that he sometimes thinks journalists are the greatest inventors in the world.
Kuroki has declined three requests to write magazine articles. The only magazine articles that Kuroki touches are operations related to powder and ball sports, reflecting a narrow scope of published work.
Guatemala City June 1 court sentences 19 to death for complicity in the plot to kill President Manuel Cabrera. Luz Castencala confessed knowledge of the mine planted from her house. Sentences await higher court confirmation, expected after ten days. several suspects named in the trial include Tinetti brothers, Valdez Blanco, Valladerez, Trigueros, Mendoza, and the Viteris brothers.
The Girls Classical School holds commencement next Wednesday in the Propylaeum auditorium on North Street. Mrs May Wright Sewall will deliver the main address on Lack of Motives, a talk requested by the class. Exercises begin at 8 o'clock.
A historical bread recipe instructs dissolving yeast in tepid water with sugar, proving in a warm place, then mixing warm water with butter and salt, adding yeast and flour to knead into dough. After rising overnight in a warm room, bake as four loaves. Using potato water and two medium potatoes keeps bread moist. Set the yeast late in the afternoon.
A brief notice from Puro Distilled Water Co defines alcohol as the blood of murdered fruit and grain and lists prices for beverages and bottles. Half gallon bottles priced at five cents and five gallon Gemijohns at forty cents. New phone number 277 and old main 773.
Traction Line Flyers announce three new trains from Indianapolis to Dayton Ohio with morning and afternoon departures. Other routes include Fort Wayne Marion New Castle Lafayette Richmond and hourly service on all lines. Also details sewer improvement resolutions No 5 112 5 113 and street work along Thirty Fourth Street and Twenty Sixth Street.
The Board of Public Works of Indianapolis announces sealed proposals due 10:00 a m on Wednesday June 12 1907 for a local sewer on Delaware Street from Sutherland Avenue Thirteenth Street to 535 feet north of Nowland Avenue Beginning at the south property line and affected by Improvement Resolution No 5088 taken at Majestic Building Room 913 Indianapolis Indiana
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