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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1906
Page
5
Danish cutwork features in a stunning lingerie gown with valet and skirt yokes. Handkerchief linen fabric creates the embroidered skirt yoke with numerous pin tucks at the edge. The panel forms the front breadth, the skirt carries horizontal tucks, and a low crown Panama hat with a velvet crown band and red roses completes the look.
The Ohio legislature sets a minimum teacher salary at $4 and requires state funding to cover any district deficiency. The law introduces uniform examination questions for teachers and mandates alphabetical listing of board of education candidates on tickets with no party emblems.
Article notes little profit on imported napkins sold in Belfast at 9106, price inflated by duty freight and charges. It suggests merchants earn only a small margin at that cost, with the best napkins being imported jinen and priced up to 250 in this country.
In a tense village tale, Tom seeks Rosie Burton amid a search organized by Samuel Jackson. Killick’s tip points to Jackson and Dick Hamp, leading Tom to recover Rosie at Hamp’s brother Bedanis’s home. Old Burton relents as Tom wins the $50,000 reward, and the affair with Winifred ends with marriage unlikely though hopeful.
A historical summary recounts Horace Fletcher s nutrition theories and Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery. It notes self experiments on humans and animals, claims about appetite and digestion, and promotes hydrastis root tonics as stomach and liver remedies, citing medical authorities and endorsements for long lasting efficacy.
Syracuse June 16 Bishop Charten Tyler Gimeted told the Central New York Episcopal diocese that the Church must avoid alliances with wealth seeking and corrupt methods. He urged plain talk on tainted money and warned against tainted partnerships while condemning wickedness in high places and appreciating the need for reform within the church.
Juno Ih Mies Hannan Holmes, 17, daughter of farmer J. W. Holmes eight miles southeast of Butler, was killed by lightning while Miss Nellie Tharpe, 17, walking with her, was stunned and badly burned. The girls were gathering currants and walking home along the road under almost a clear sky with no rain.
Miss Amanda Clement of Yankton college Dakota 8 D is a capable baseball umpire. Her earnings as an umpire will aid her college education and she is noted as a champion woman tennis player of South Dakota. She is regarded as a promising business figure in her field.
A boy Wille Schambreane loves Busle Wien, age 13, in Philadelphia. Lacking money, he borrows from his mother and buys a hat and a veil cover while ministers dance. The incident ends with a magistrate telling the mother to spank her son. The piece ponders youthful love and consequences.
A collage of quotes, receipts of local chatter, baptizing reports, wedding hints, and social jests from Gallipolis Ohio and Washington. Anecdotes touch on doctors, crowds, modest artists, canal schemes, baptisms, a near wedding, and light political banter among neighbors and officials.
New York June 16 The season's smartest gowns feature collarless cuts and white fabric set off by vivid hats at a high society wedding. Mrs James A Burden Jr Miss Dorothy Kane and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney wore lavish white gowns with jeweled accessories. Children dressed simply, peacock feathers fading from headgear, and elaborate parasol handles featured among the favoured details.
In Chicago University year 377 Agrees were awarded and 2 young women attained Ph D. There were 12 coeds earning bachelor of science degrees as women increasingly study science. Six of the 12 scholarships in the senior year were for excellence. In the junior year scholarships were rarely had by women, and of the 54 honors in the sanion college only 11 were women.
An earnest snippet notes Chicago Great Western service with routes to Paul Minneapolis Kansas City and Omaha and references gear and ticket agents. Also includes a patent medicine ad for Old Nurse for Children and Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming relief for teething pain, wind colic and diarrhea at twenty cents a bottle.
A pear colored linen pique smart gown for a slender young matron features gray dyed lace insertions motifs and embroidered batiste. The dress in princesse style joins a bodice with gray point de Venise yoke trimmed with Venise motifs. Short puffed sleeves lace trimmed. The skirt sweeps full length in a circular cut.
Mary Hinman Abel argues that dirt in contact with food causes more harm than preservatives and coal tar colors. She cites street dust, bacteria, and local-origin pathogens, urging cleaner streets, better transit protection, consumer education, and proper cleansing of fruit and vegetables to reduce infected food risks.
Evanston honors Altsy Jennie Charlotte Anderson as the first perfect school girl in the United States after graduating from Evanston township high school with top marks. She never missed a day, was never late, completed all homework, and maintained flawless conduct through 12 years of schooling. She will attend Northwestern University next fall, living with her parents at 13 1 2 Emerson Ave.
A visitor describes Malta Vita malted wheat food production near a beauty city. The plant uses clean machinery and extensive ventilation to process whole wheat, malt extract, and barley-malt to create Malta Vita. The article explains cleaning, cooking, maturing, rolling, baking in three story ovens, inspecting, and packaging for shipment on company tracks.
In Paris a trend sees many unfashionable people, including working girls, without hats on the streets. Parisian ladies resist theatergoing without a hat, causing trouble for men who seek views of the stage and for those supplying hats. The grande dame maintains public dignity by always wearing a hat.
A unnamed letter-writer claims a home treatment can cure muscular and joint rheumatism without changing climate. The notice touts a simple discovery, claims it purifies blood, loosens stiff joints, and brightens the eyes. Send for proof.
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