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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
5
A bride tosses her bouquet to her maid of honor at a house wedding. The scene shifts to a hungry street boy who chases the roses through streets and crowds, guarded only by luck and small kindnesses, ending at a tenement doorway as he climbs stairs with his cherished blooms.
A frightened boy fears darkness as he returns home to his mother. He carries white roses toward an opened door where two men bend over a bed and a lamp is raised, while a bare-armed woman asks about the flowers for a coffin.
The piece mocks E H Harriman as the Gold Brick Man in a beauty contest. Jokes hinge on his hair and eyes and a railroad career shadow. A streetcar sighting adds a comic note about egg yolk in his hair.
The Sun publishes a daily fashion feature with 1000 new spring and summer styles via mail for 16 cents postage prepaid. Readers may order ten cent patterns from a leading company, with a different pattern described each day. Send ten cents the pattern number size and name and address to The Sun Fashion Department.
Special to The Sun Detroit May 2 The piece highlights Miss Mary Chase Perry of Detroit as the originator of pewabic pottery. It traces her early clay models near Lake Superior, her studies in sculpture, and years of experiments to develop a clay body and glazes. The Pewabic name links to copper color clay and distinctive green, brown, gray blue, robin's egg, mulberry and earth gray glazes.
Mr. and Mrs. Doveydove discuss buying a piano on easy payments as warmer weather invites Miss Tempo's piano across the street. A tape measure reveals no room for a piano in their flat. only a central floor spot remains, so the dream may wait for better space or new living arrangements.
A dated home cooking note lists gluten bread instructions with a pint of water and milk, yeast, gluten flour, and rising steps, plus a vanilla mousse recipe mixed with syrup, vanilla extract, and freezing. Also included are soft ginger cockles and a cocoanut pudding with breadcrumbs, coconut, citrus juice, eggs, and steaming. The tone resembles early 20th century household guidance.
The narrator enters Glamor Grange and meets amanuensis Miss Listerin who assigns her to kitchen work. Miss Listerin claims the colony values personal bent but predicts the narrator will adopt others’ aims and join the chef group. The piece ends with a tease of a continuation.
A balloon named Initial dominated by speed in a New Jersey event with references to it always coming first. The report hints at a race scenario where Initial is favored to win.
A young woman’s white taffeta gown features soft pliable silk with oysters tint and pale blue white striped trimming. Striped silk accents sleeves and undergoke, with a loosely draped overbodice and wide armholes. Duchesse lace vest, blue velvet bone down front, opaque crystal buttons, and a full skirt with graduated nun folds.
A historical advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a trusted female remedy with forty years of cures. It claims full formula disclosure, no alcohol, and benefits for nervous, pelvic, and constitutional symptoms, urging consultations with Dr. Pierce and promoting Pleasant Pellets for constipation.
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