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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1907
Page
5
The Daily Story portrays Sheriff Cutie confronting a mob demanding the jail key. A dramatic standoff ensues as Cutie speaks on forgiveness, admits a past decision to spare a first offender, and a hidden revolver in his hand halts the mob from breaking the door. The scene ends with a warning gun aimed at the ringleader.
In a tense exchange, Swede and Cutie face off as Colt shots crack. Cutie barely flinches, earning a graze while Swede orders the door busted in. A defiant smile behind splintered wood reveals a key, as Jim mutters a warning.
Chicago May 11 Special to The Sun. Eastern railroads refuse to aid western lines in collecting $2 per ticket for the National Education association convention. A new convention rate of 62.50 round trip was tendered, with return tickets only valid with a membership ticket. Refusal blocks reduced fares unless western roads drop the membership fee plan, risking cancellation of the convention.
Mrs. Edgar Macklin corroborated testimony by Mrs. Johnson the runaway nurse who heard only two shots the night of the attempted assassination at Ft Sill Knowles court martial proceedings near conclusion. Serat Butler faced perjury charges connected to Knowles case at El Reno penitentiary.
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on May 11 Mrs Josephine Barber and Irving Little were jailed after prior arrests in Chicago. Six hundred dollars taken from a local bank on a certificate of deposit in Barber's husband name has been returned by Mrs Barber. Little is not connected to the theft.
A four day snowstorm in southern Wyoming mountains leaves seven feet of snow on the level with no sun since April 15 and temperatures from zero to 10 degrees below.
Scripps-McRae Press Association reports the Shawnee Central railroad chartered with 10 million dollars in capital. It plans a 300 mile line from Muskogee via Shawnee to Childress Texas, with a branch from Shawnee to Tulsa. W. S. Woods, a Kansas City banker, is the principal corporator.
A New York Press note on earrings resurges fashion with pearls preferred, but a subway rider in black and white astonishes by wearing oversized pink earrings with long pendants that jingle as she moves through the car. Passengers stare while a stylish exit follows at Ninety-sixth Street.
A flyer offers a home treatment by Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana claiming to cure bed wetting in children and even adults. It asserts a constitutional cause and invites mothers to write for free instructions without payment.
Honolulu police and grand juries investigate rising Kahuna practices among native Hawaiians described as sorcery and witchcraft. The article traces Kahuna role as doctors and priests, ancient temples on Molokai, and the collapse of the old pantheon with civilization and Christianity.
A summer travel gown in natural pongee features an ecru under- waist dotted with pale blue and a mousseline under blouse in deep ecru. The collarless yoke and cuffs show fine ecru lace insets, pale silk club dots, and narrow ecru taffeta bands outlining the skirt. Wide tucks suggest large armholes and a high waist line tab on the front and back.
A narrator catalogs wonders from No Man's Land to Timbuctoo and famous sights, then declares no comparison to the strangest thing of all. The strange boast ends with a playful remark on strawberry short cake as the ultimate oddity.
Special to The Sun reports Coroner W. H. Mull of Christian county aged 76 died suddenly after administering the oath to a jury investigating the death of Martin Antoni veh. Mull a long time resident and prominent Republican, elected at the last presidential election, leaves a widow.
An advertisement offers a free set of Eye and Ear Books by Dr. Oren Oneal from Chicago to cure eye or ear trouble at home without surgery or doctors. It cites past cures for optic nerve disease and retinal hemorrhage, invites readers to mail name and address for free illustrated books.
A Boston American team manager resigns citing temperament unfitness and poor losses. A gallery attendant prompts the portly elder about art with a brewery owner funding calendars. Other items include a divorce suit by Mrs Yerkes Mizner, a Chicago professor backing maternal pensions, and light quips about politics, crime, and stage wealth.
The Sun partners with a top pattern company to provide new patterns at ten cents each. Each day a distinct pattern is described and this is the only ten-cent pattern that makes allowance for seams. Postpaid orders to The Sun Fashion Department include pattern number size and buyer name and address.
In a lighthearted scene a boy named Rallo and his father visit a delicatessen and debate the merit of pickled pigs knuckles. The father humorously imagines ancient gourmets preferring exotic morsels while praising the humble pork trotter over fanciful dishes.
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