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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1906
Page
5
A chaotic, humorous diary style piece from the Junior Office Boy recounts daily household scenes, farm talk, and family banter. The narrator, family members, and neighbors exchange odd observations about cows, pigs, breakfast, and small mishaps. The rambling tone reflects a busy kitchen and farm life with lively dialect and comic interruptions.
Lightning struck at William Cummings in Adams Massachusetts as an umbrella with a steel rod acted as a conductor. Cummings was unconscious for several hours but expected to recover fully.
A veteran investigator details the Clarence Baldwin case, revealing how Baldwin and his brother Dick plotted to fake a death for insurance gains. An alibi unravels when the inspector discovers the trick involving a tramp swapped for Baldwin and a staged accident. Baldwin escapes punishment after revealing the plan.
An extended appraisal of Dr Pierce's medicines notes endorsements from Prof Finley Ellingwood and other physicians. It outlines Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription benefits for stomach, liver, catarrh, and female ailments, stresses openness of ingredients, offers a free booklet, and invites readers to write for details.
A detailed description of a visiting toilette gown with a nine-gourd skirt and silk accordion plaiting. features include a silken bodice, double puffed sleeves, suspender-like protrusions, and a white to black Point de Genes hat. The attire emphasizes a soft tone radium dye and pastel blue touches in a historical fashion context.
In Winsted Connecticut Miss Mta Revaz, a skilled whip, saved her life and two men when a bolt broke on a hilltop rig. The horse neared a steep embankment. she upset the rig, sprang free, then sat on the animal’s head to slow it. Help arrived as danger loomed.
June 12 Syracuse report narrates William D. McNell of Brooklyn receiving honorary Bachelor Maid club membership after kissing 16 girls at a wedding. He funded the party's rail fares as they left for Calgary, after attending Miss Ethel McNell's marriage to Joan H Mine of London Ontario.
A clipped stream of handwritten humor recounts a father’s praise for his son’s actions amid prejudice, references a plant advertisement, Turkish cigarettes, and a side note about a cinema visit. The letter weaves personal memories with playful digressions and social satire.
Special to The Sun. Washington June 12. Rear Admiral George A Converse, head of the Navy Bureau of Navigation, is urged to retire but President Roosevelt keeps him in his post. Converse, 62, is a veteran ordnance and navigation expert known for his hard driving on ship decks and on the bridge, with a habit of sleeping little and keeping boots on.
Oklahoma harvest reports indicate wheat harvest under full headway in every portion of the territory, with prospects for a larger and better yield than last year. Strong wheat conditions noted in the new country once Kiowa and Comanche reservations, and corn and cotton areas show favorable conditions amid good weather.
Bias Christine La Bartaque, eight years old, blind since infancy, graduates first in her California Inn School class. She earned a California university degree and pursues music over law, aiming to prove a blind woman can earn a living through art.
Special to The Sun. In San Francisco after the earthquake a strange portrait emerges of 79 clerks in Sixteenth and Mission streets. Waitresses, stenographers, glove department saleswomen, and others find work across departments while many remain unemployed or displaced. Several are dead or missing as the city rebuilds after disaster.
A Milwaukee Sentinel column discusses fashion trends for men and women including last year's hats, tan shoes, and the peekaboo waist. The piece mocks male vanity and urges men to avoid disrupting feminine fashion while defending the peekaboo style as comfortable and tasteful.
In Boston on June 12 the Circumstantial Evidence League was announced with Reverend John E. B. Cracknell as president. The league aims to show unreliability of circumstantial evidence in murder trials and push for legal changes. It seeks data on imprisonment and wrongful executions where innocence is later proven.
An old style ad promotes Cascarat pills sold as a “West Pocket” health insurance. It claims ten cent weekly cost, cures indigestion and constipation, and compares Cascarats to broader insurance, urging casual usage for general stomach complaints and digestive issues.
Karstadt Bros Dye Works Inc announces contact options with both phones listed for inquiries and service requests. The notice emphasizes accessibility for customers seeking dyeing and related industrial services.
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