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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1907
Page
5
A Portland ordinance proposes a gossip license requiring known gossips to pay 20 dollars for a permit. Unlicensed gossiping would incur fines from 3 to 12 dollars. Councilman Frank Bennett drafted the measure as a corrective against a social evil and sent it to a committee for study.
William Barton rests in Mapleville while a big telegraphers strike keeps wires silent. He resists taking messages yet receives a long distance call revealing his mother has died that afternoon. The story contrasts a man’s need for rest with his duty and a sudden loss.
The season for whiskers arrives with the cold wave and lasts into spring. No radical style changes this fall. fashion returns to old, sane lines. Indiana cut, Montana mode, and Nevada style vie for favor, with reasons ranging from protection against cold to concealing or enhancing the chin.
Instructional note advises repairing a clothes wringer by wrapping five cents’ worth of bicycle tape around the damaged roller and covering it with white cloth, creating a makeshift sleeve that may extend the device’s life for years.
United Press dispatch from St Petersburg reports twelve provinces affected since August with the Volga region hardest hit. The disease has reached Archangel and towns in Siberia, and deaths have mounted into the thousands.
Fold a Turkish towel into four on the ironing board. Ironing the stock fabric on the folded surface smooths and refreshes the material, making it look as new.
A YMCA bean supper is planned for Wednesday evening at the YMCA as a social event to foster fellowship and acquaintance. George Gleason will give the address, recently returning from Japan where he served as foreign general secretary of the YMCA at Kobe and accompanied Japanese troops into Manchuria during the war with Russia.
During September 358 permits were issued by the building inspector, totaling 441,559 in improvements. The prior September had 350 permits and 438,269 in improvements, showing a 3,290 increase in value.
Shoppers at the Star store on Washington Street admire new fall goods across departments. Millinery showcases many hat shapes in autumn colors, including a black hat with an ostrich boa for women with fluffy hair, plus myrtle green velvet hats with blue satin ribbons and a white aigrette. Suiting offers broadcloths in brown, green, and blue with extravagant braiding. Children's coats feature bright red and an Australian three piece suit to ward off winter winds.
The article asserts proper dressing begins with correctly putting on clothes and notes small details can greatly affect overall impression. It advises choosing darker tones for business tailored suits for durability, versatility, and subtlety, emphasizing use, service, expense, and especially becomingness in daily wear.
September record from the Board of Health notes 141 typhoid and diphtheria cases, 14 scarlet fever, 14 measles, 2 tuberculosis cases reported. Public health concerns highlighted as the month closes.
Remove shells from hard boiled eggs and halve them crosswise. Mash yolks with salt pepper and butter or dressing, refill whites, and serve on lettuce with cold dressing. For the potato salad combine onions celery mustard salt flour butter egg and cook to thick. Garnish with eggs beets and olives.
The recipe instructs boiling about a dozen potatoes then cooling and peeling. It adds onion or chives, salt pork, vinegar, and hot water to create a warm potato salad with a German style dressing, noting salt pork is key.
A compact set of old fashioned kitchen directions covers pork pie beefsteak pie and a cheese macaroni bake. It details crust making with lard butter and eggs, filling preparation with chopped pork or beef, seasoning, and assembly steps plus a macaroni dish layered with butter cheese and breadcrumbs and baked until browned.
A detailed period fashion note describes a bottle green velvet coat with broad shoulders and embroidered collar in tans and greens. It accompanies a cream beaver hat with mushroom trimming, a folded brim, and large loops on the left side.
Report from London on October 2 May a man wed his deceased wife’s sister King Edward VII supports the marriage and Parliament passes the bill The Archbishop of Canterbury opposes the measure warning of a church state clash Clergy are told to deny churches for such ceremonies and deny communion to participants The king writes that the archbishop is mistaken and the dispute deepens across England.
Dorothy Dale argues against old maidism and urges women to value shared aims over social rank. She contends marriage should hinge on like purpose and courage, not labels of education or fortune, and that choosing a mate with true compatibility matters more than equal status.
Outbursts of Everett True were sent out yesterday by District Attorney Jerome's assistants in the nine big insurance cases. At that time a demand will be made that the dates for trying the insurance officers under audit for perjury and forgery be set.
A step by step home pickle method uses twelve yellow cucumbers salt overnight in an earthen jar then a second night in a water alum solution. After rinsing, a rich syrup with sugar vin cinnamon and cloves boils briefly then cucumbers return to the syrup and the mixture rests overnight with two more boilings. The finished cucumbers are stored in a covered earthen jar and keep through the year.
How to mend a tear. Cut a patchoeen an inch larger than the tear and a matching cloth piece. Baste the patch on the inside, press the wrong side with a hot iron, and the tear becomes invisible.
Instructions advise filling stained enamelware such as coffee pots double boilers or kettles with a boiled mix of water and a tablespoon of chloride of lime for two to three hours to restore whiteness and brightness. The result is described as surprising.
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