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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
9
Arthur Paulline, a Wichita telegraph operator earning under $190 a month, turned years of market insight into a fortune by speculating in wheat. He made about $1500 in one day last week, earlier earned $25,000 on an 1900s crop bet, and $100,000 two years later via similar moves, then rolled proceeds into real estate.
In five years of trading he has rarely lost, with two notable downturns. The latest shows he once dropped $25 after press reports warned of rust in the northwest and famine in Russia. He still pursues large deals and will bring more buildings to Wichita through his efforts.
New York May 24 Roosevelt battles fresh controversy as Rev Dr William J Long Stamford Conn attacks him in relation to his June Everybody's Magazine comments. Long defends himself against charges he says Roosevelt has threatened to "get even" and "do him up" for critiquing the president's hunting. Long argues the president's assault on nature writers is personal and venomous.
Denver May 24 reports a federal grand jury returned five more indictments in land fraud cases. Names are suppressed, and all those indicted are Colorado men.
During June the Northland Limited departs Indianapolis at 7:20 p m on Tuesdays and Fridays for Petoskey and Mackinaw City via Richmond and G R I L aboard sleeping cars. Breakfast in Driving Car. Tickets available at local Pennsylvania Lines agents in Indianapolis including Union Station. W Vi Richardson A G P A.
In London a court awarded Archdeacon Colley $875 against illusionist J N Maskelyne over a disputed spiritual manifestation. Maskelyne staged a similar illusion with his wife as the spirit, while witnesses including author David Christie Murray supported the illusion. Dr Alfred Russell Wallace testified for Colley, describing a moving, phantom figure during a trance.
Leibniz, famed for literary genius, died in 1716 and sought to join an alchemists society pursuing the philosopher's stone. He drafted a letter of opaque terms from noted alchemists, admitting he did not understand it. Fearing ignorance, the society invited him to meetings and made him secretary.
A boy named Harry visits the grocery to buy five pounds of pulverized sugar. In a playful mispronunciation he tells the clerk his mother says to send up five pounds of paralyzed sugar, leaving staff amused by the slip.
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden founder and president of the International Sunshine Society is said to have earned money in many ways. She cooked for sixteen cowboys on a western ranch taught school sang in church choirs supervised a candy factory inspected a street cleaning department worked as a newspaper reporter photographer and editor.
An interesting philanthropic effort by New York women supports a school for crippled children. The belief is that a disabled child should have work they can perform to gain independence and happiness rather than remain idle and dependent.
A Monterey Bay scene reveals a years long smuggling scheme by Chinese fishers who packed squid with salt to dodge duties. Women and children earned up to 20 dollars daily as authorities uncover the operation and threaten to end the once famed midnight fishing colony.
The brown thrasher though not a true thrash is a greater musician than the mockingbird. Its voice ranges freely from sunup in April through May before falling silent as it cares for its young. A fledgling thrasher once sheltered from a cat in a cage, fed by its father until release was safe.
A German skipper arranged 300 Grenadier guards from a nearby barracks to board his barge and act as ballast, lowering the vessel in the water to clear a canal bridge deemed too low for passage.
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