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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
7
A column praising women in medicine, highlighting Dr Emily Noble and Dr Lelia Whitehead challenging conservative norms. It urges requiring mothers and teachers to learn deep breathing, nutrition, and posture, with a plan for monthly home inspections and fines for noncompliance. It also notes a Louisiana banana slip case limiting liability for a shop window damage.
The essay extols Mrs. Tennyson as a spiritually minded, compassionate woman whose kindness extended to every living being including village dogs. It credits her with shaping Alfred Lord Tennyson’s optimistic outlook and moral imagination, noting her influence on his scientific awareness and belief in a hopeful universe.
An opinion piece argues a father protects his daughter from hard work by placing her in an easy newspaper job. It contrasts her easy path with the harsher, merit based route men face, suggesting women may be shielded from real effort and questioning whether such protection benefits her in the long run.
The Rev John L Scudder argues husbands remain grown-up boys and wives must discipline and guide them. He says the best wife blends motherly care with wifely dignity, noting men act like boys in ease and women should manage with domestic genius.
A satirical piece mocks marriage as a contract and a cure for sorrows. It notes matrimony binds lovers to shared troubles, questions the innocence of a husband, and riffes on romance and temptations in wedlock.
A wagon carrying lamp globes collided with a motor bus, glass smashed, and the van driver faced losses. A benevolent older man started a collection and, after coins poured in, the driver found the philanthropist who began it had vanished, earning the nickname a take-down.
A patient tale follows a very patient doctor who once worked as an intern in a Philadelphia hospital. The physician, mid-yawn, listens to a stout Irish patient whose breath and chest sounds reveal a comic miscount as the man recites numbers in a thick brogue. The scene closes with the patient repeating a long, humorous tally.
The piece notes Havre’s 20 km range cannon and Willemshoefen Krupp gun at $79,000 with $1,650 per shot, $185 charge, and $838 for the mechanism. After 95 shots erosion, the Krupp gun is useless, giving makers vast wartime profits while the guns deliver only fleeting service.
A London Academy of Sciences discussion summarized Prof. Robinson’s explanation of obesity effects. He noted that stomach fullness lifts the diaphragm, shortens the thorax base, and lengthens the waist area causing stout individuals to strut. Fat tissue around the eye orbit also yields a fierce look.
Mrs Albert Tower of Poughkeepsie New York a former telephone operator sues her husband a millionaire iron manufacturer for separation. The case aims to end their marriage with financial arrangements to be determined.
Mrs Gribble worries about leaving Mr Gribble with Mrs Brill the housekeeper. He demands prompt service and clear instructions yet the stern Brill enforces exact meal times and ringing rules. After three weeks she reports him easy to manage with clear expectations.
A reader asks if she should press a cousin for marriage plans or accept a long wait. Fairfax advises the man’s affection is likely friendship for now and warns against pressuring him, while patience may preserve the chance he could marry later. In a second letter a reader seeks guidance on pursuing a cashier who avoids attention at work. the adviser says she is sensible and may allow calling but to refrain from pushing during business hours.
A dated prophecies column warns that the day brings unfavourable outcomes. It predicts illness disappointment and trouble for a person born on this day including possible business and domestic anxieties. A child born this day is feared to face cradle to grave misfortune and poverty.
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