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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1907
Page
6
Helene Lackaye Ridings, sister of Wilton Lackaye, discusses rats with humor during a Portland stop for The Heir to the Hoorah. She praises the creatures and recalls feeding one in a Seattle hotel, joking about stealing scraps and being misread by staff.
A New York City recluse John Armstrong passed from a 6 by 9 foot hotel cubby hole in the Fifteenth ward after 49 years of isolation. He kept a vast wardrobe and a Lincoln portrait, with hotel owners guarding his privacy for decades. He moved to a country home with his belongings, carrying the Lincoln portrait as he left the city. The report also surveys New York’s public institutions, infrastructure projects, and the economics of housing and industry, highlighting dredging work in Ambrose channel, the city’s food supply resilience, and the booming machinery trade and real estate rents shaping urban life.
The common sunflower, native to Peru and Mexico, is spreading in Europe as a fever reducer. In Russia, where it is widely grown for seeds, a physician tested 100 children aged 1 month to 12 years and found that alcoholic extracts of sunflower leaves and flowers cured fever as quickly as quinine.
Mrs Henry Porter of Albion Nebraska recounts severe six month scalp disease after measles. She used doctors remedies with little result. After six months she tried Cuticura Resolvent Ointment and Soap, saw improvement in a week and full recovery in three weeks. She has remained well seven years and endorses the products. August 25 1906.
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as a universal skin cure for facial disfigurement, infant complaints, and general skin issues. It promises pure, gentle, and speedily effective treatment for scalps, hair, and hands, claiming absolute purity and guaranteed results.
Arraignments are set in Lexington Kentucky for Judge Hargis Senator Hargis Albert Hargis Sheriff Callahan and Jesse Spicer in the Cockrill murder case. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis meets in Washington. The National Congress of Mothers opens in Los Angeles. Cecil Fairs defends the world court tennis crown against Peter W Lathan at the Princess Club Brighton on Monday Wednesday and Friday. Women’s British championship play begins Monday on Newcastle links in Ireland. The Misses Curtis of Massachusetts enter the 110 entries and face Mrs Robertson and Miss Robertson in the first round. Joan of Arc celebrations take place in Orleans France on Wednesday.
Special to The Sun Danville Ind May 6 The twenty seventh annual commencement of the Danville high school will take place Friday evening May 17. The graduating class includes seven girls and four boys and the program features a symposium on Danville.
Of all lawmakers since independence, over twelve thousand have served. only thirty four have two years or more. John H. Ketcham of New York held the longest tenure at thirty three and a half years, dying in office. Mr. Cannon, a close second, has served thirty two years.
Malaysia and allied territories of Java Sumatra and the Federated Malay States rely on imports from abroad. They purchase canned apricots peaches and pears mainly from California and are a major market for condensed milk from Europe the United States and Canada. Australian flour has cut into the U.S. lead in flour supply since 1908.
A Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania man was arrested for stealing eight six foot sections of steel rails. The suspect’s bold heist hints he expected police action.
Mrs Powell-Cotton describes a perilous wedding journey in 1906 from Paris to Mombasa and Nairobi to Uganda, then to Entebbe. Maj. P. H. G. Powell-Cotton and the bride marry in a tin church, while rebels threaten the groom’s caravan. The tale follows their voyage up the Uganda railway and early tensions with native porters over the addition of a white wife to the safari.
Bank events and questions arise as the examiner notes the cashier's apt status while revealing a shortfall of five thousand. The dialogue hints at leadership and financial shortfalls within the institution.
An 19th century health ad extols natural remedies for thin blood and fatigue. It cites native roots Golden Seal Queen's root Stone root Bloodroot Mandrake root Black Cherrybark and claims glycerine as a safe solvent to create a potent stomach tonic and liver invigorator. The piece promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a scientific preparation for bankrupt vitality and bad nutrition.
In Shanghai on May 6 the writer notes rapid growth in China across railroads, ships, automobiles, irrigation, power, and communications, with modern trade practices and luxury goods. He praises American business ties, US consular influence facilitating exports, and compares China’s markets to the United States and Japan, while mentioning Morgan’s China franchise as a notable anecdote.
An Irish dialect bit features a tenant negotiating a new house, moving, and a comic exchange about references and furnishings. The routine touches on moving costs and neighbors as the performer delivers rapid gags and misheard lines ending with a musical cue.
Edwin A. Contis, though a millionaire, has accepted the United States sub-treasurer post in Boston. From early life he pursued politics, has wealth to spare, and prefers public service to private business. His annual salary in the new role would be modest beside the profits he could gain in mercantile pursuits.
A vast treasure hunt centers on the Transvaa war chest valued at millions. The chest was taken from hiding at Delagoa Bay in 1898 and shipped aboard the Dorothes, a vessel lost on a reef in the Indian Ocean. The steamship Adfre Nobel has been refitted by a syndicate for the voyage.
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