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Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Oct 07, 1907

Page

5

Distinctive Features of the Building

One of the handsomest French millinery rooms in the United States, rich and elegantly appointed suit room, largest and finest furniture display in the state, light spacious sanitary model grocery, new rug room, a shoe room not equaled locally, east entrance where all cars stop, our own power plant, two new electric safety elevators making five in all, convenient grouping of departments.

United States

New Store Departments Highlight Opening Day

The store unveils redesigned layouts to speed shopping with a dry goods west aisle, moved shoe department in the new building, and a front east aisle men’s department. A basement delivery system includes a package conveyor and an elevator to the street for rapid service.

Old Man Maginnis Returns as Mascot in Strange Tale

Frances G. Ingersoll narrates a cautionary Irish-American drama in which a dying dog, thought to be a reincarnated old man, returns as a spectral mascot. Tom and Daisy suffer loss after the apparition's appearance, then endure hardship and regret as they seek meaning in the haunting bond.

Tom Dudheen Daisy Erin Maginnis Tyne

Fashionable Rembrandt hats redefine dramatic headwear

Large Rembrandt shapes dominate fashion with off face styles. Hairdressers widen the head silhouette to suit oversized hats using curls and braids. When trying hats, women often receive false hair, puffs, or coronet braids to fill sides and back, enhancing hat appeal and overall attractiveness.

The Sun Offers Free Want Columns and Help Wanted Ads

The Sun invites readers to use its free want columns for listings. Vacant room space and rental opportunities may be printed if space allows. The notice promotes free ads for readers seeking to publish short classified items.

the Sun

Biggest Hat in America Holds Vast Velvet Headdress

Actress Olive Wyndham touring in The Man From Home wears the largest hat in the nation. The velvet and gold creation features a broad ribbon fringe, heavy feather clusters, and multiple diamond pins, dwarfing her face in the accompanying photo.

Olive Wyndham America Olive

Girl Wins Estate At Church Raffle In Roscommon

Nellie Mitchell of Wenham Massachusetts wins the Knockmeane estate in Ireland through a church fair raffle. The prize, valued around 20000 dollars, will transfer after a parish priest letter arrives and the deeds are handed to her. Mitchell plans to provide a home for her family near the estate and has long worked as a servant in the Pingree household.

Wenham Mass Nellie Mitchell Roscommon Ireland Emerald Isle Registrar of Deeds Nelile Old Country Wenced Salem Lynn Nellie Knockmeane Mise Mitchell Thomas P. Pingree Highwood County Sligo America

Target for Big Guns at Whale Inland Navy School

One of the most unique targets ever devised is in use at the greatest school of naval gunnery in the world Whale Inland Portsmouth Eng Here the seamen and coast defense gunners are educated The target consists of two dummy warships oscillating on an immense steel beam This imitates the pitching of a vessel in a heavy sea The car carrying the target also moves back and forth creating motion in two directions The elusive target the g oes.

Whale Inland Portsmouth Eng

Daily Fashion Hints From Paris Patterns For Ten Cents

The Sun offers readers ten cent fashion patterns supplied through a leading pattern company. A new pattern is described daily and the pattern is the only ten cent design that makes allowance for scams. Send ten cents plus name size and address to The Sun Fashion Department for Pontnard patterns.

the Sun Pontnard Fashion Department

Where The Fun Comes In Column Delights Personal Notes

A breezy column blends flirtatious banter with domestic moments. The piece features Harriman and Josh Wise as well as affectionate prompts from a wife to her husband George, touching on love, happiness, and a green dress, ending with a playful impulse to buy a fabric at $1.89 a yard and a cheeky aside about marital approval.

George Darling Sweetheart

Kiss and fear prompt conflicting refusals after George's advance

Marie explains she told George to stop before he kissed her while Mildred confirms telling him to stop after he had kissed her. The dialogue shows fear of a repeated advance and uncertainty about boundaries.

Marie George Mildred

Wanted A Big Head Cheer Up and Stop Your Crying

The brief urges the reader to cease sighing and crying and to buy a Roman braid as a playful remedy.

Wall Street sees near billion in bonds issued to July

A large portion of the new bonds and shares went to railroads from January through July. The railroads have been the major borrowers, with substantial security issued along lines from Jersey City to Long Island. The Pennsylvania campus has been spending about 100 million.

Wall Sta Railrads Jersey Long Island Pennsylvania

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Greater New York Indianapolis Military Band Indianapolis Washington Street the Daily Story Frances G. Ingersoll Oid Man Maginnis Mrs. Tom Pettis Dry Goods Coo Indiana New York Massachusetts Paris Indianapolis, Ind Paris Pattern Harriman Fox Josh Wise Illinois Commission Springfield Illnois Everett True
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