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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
7
A humorous dialogue in which a cashier and a bill clerk discuss marriage, appearances, and a test of character. The cashier advises wary scrutiny of a prospective spouse and recounts a friend who married after observing a woman’s temper and reactions to everyday mishaps.
A Wordsworth fragment recalls a brookside scene as the speaker reflects on youth and past days. The narrator contrasts vigorous present life with childhood memories while listening to a familiar fountain murmur across a timeless landscape.
In a lighthearted scene a fiancée asks for a shorter name than Mr Parkin while Sebastian is teased. Parkinson recalls friends calling him Pie-face as he jokes about taking care of the baby. A one legged Yankee riffs on Irish blood and ancestry with a quip about Pat.
A reflective speaker in this poem declares happiness in the present moment. The verses contrast longing for a past prime and a future joy with a firm embrace of the current, radiant immediacy. The speaker asserts contentment and fulfillment in the present.
A narrator recalls a plain man who sought to push his friend’s untruths aside, revealing the value of true friendship. She describes a silver chain with shells bearing friends names, from a childhood confidante to a politician, each a source of support and loyalty. One true friend outweighs wealth and fame.
A historical advertisement promotes Cardus Cardui as a long used female tonic claiming relief from female trouble. It cites a Grand Haven Michigan user Mrs L J Ryder and asserts natural vegetable ingredients with no harmful drugs and broad nationwide use with directions on labels.
A reader’s scramble of discounted soaps and cleaning items with prices. Items include Glass Royal Santa Claus Soap six cakes, Ivory Fairy Naptha or Babbitt Laundry Soap cakes, assorted Turkish Bath and glycerine soaps at 10c each, Face Chamois in two sizes, Pearl Buttons, Gold Dust or Snow Boy products, Old Dutch Cleanser, H. and H. Soap, and toilet paper offers. Community sale style listing with bundled prices.
Lawns and Batistes arrive in new yard lengths with 28 inch width and 10c quality, Batistes, Lawns and Dimities up to 12 cents, 6 percent striped fabrics, Ombrage Corde stripe effects, Lenox White Waistings and Poplin Waistings offered at reduced yard prices, crinkled Linene Tissues and soft finished Bleached Sheets with lower sale prices for off sizes, pillowcases at 14c.
A Friday feature offers bleached all linen items at reduced prices including Damask table cloths 66 inches wide, satin damask cloths, natural linen dress fabrics, roller towels two and a half yards long, Turkish bath towels, napkins hemmed and scalloped bedspreads, art linen scarfs and bleached linen crash with several items marked down to low prices.
A fragmented catalog style list shows women's vests union suits and stock items plus men shirts and socks. Notable entries include Women 10c hot weather vests Women 25c silk finished vests Men 39c balbriggan shirts and drawers Brownie overalls up to age 35 and elastic belts priced around 19 to 23 cents per item.
The poem depicts a roving man meeting a gipsy maid along a sunset hillside. Soft autumn winds, dusty roads, and dawnlike hair evoke a romantic escape toward summer. The speaker recalls kissing the gipsy maid and drifting along the Romany road with wearied feet.
The Calhoun defense plans to appeal or seek additional relief by Monday arguing Francie J. Heney cannot hold both federal office and the state post. The move centers on whether his federal tenure disqualifies him under section 19 of the state constitution from serving as assistant district attorney.
Howard Stanton, his wife Marion, and rival widow Mrs. Elizabeth Blakemore collide in a tense social clash at the Stanton house. Marion teases both, recounting the automobile crash as motives simmer and threats rise, while families of the Stantons and Livingstons urge counsel for a possible divorce.
A terse dialogue shows a policeman, 33995 No-n-no, insisting they act from a force habit rather than negligence. The exchange highlights routine conduct and wary authority in a police precinct scene.
A via old ad urges workers to start a savings account to replace lost income during sickness or unemployment. It promotes THE INDIANA TRUST CO as a home for savings with capital of 1,000,060.0 and surplus of 475,000.06 and offers a 3 percent rate.
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