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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1907
Page
5
A fragmentary poem critique praising the 1907 silver dollar as radiant and regal. The narrator extols the coin’s brilliance, charm, and perceived timeless allure, invoking Uncle Sam and playful asides about the coin’s beauty and cultural impact.
Miss Preston, a secretary to Gordon Graham, hears a private love message via a phonograph from the company president. Her mood lightens as the recording speaks of love, until a tall, quiet visitor interrupts the intimate moment, altering the scene in a police-like daily drama of office life.
Special to The Sun from Louisville details Louise Bullock Holtman nearing publication of The Stanter's Wife a sensational memoir of her marriage to race starter Jake Holtman. The narrative alternates romance and rivalry with a corset misdelivery and California marriage, culminating in divorce and alimony suits. Holtman predicts sale within a month.
A playful fragment critiques imported teddy bears and cheap labor while noting stable retail prices. References Miss Clabber and Miss Jabber as engaged and curious about antiques. Prince d Abro, Bagratide of Egypt, praises American women for beauty wit and dress during a visiting tour.
A wandering minstrel rests in Bally-ma-guire and drinks freely with locals. The tale features a comic flea ruse, shillelagh blows, and villagers anger as the minstrel mocks the Irish. Bantry Bay is invoked as distance fades.
A Fleet Street journalism school for young women is launched with real publishing offices. Patronesses include literary figures such as John Strange Winter and Mrs. T. P. O Connor. Courses cover writing, interviewing, art, sub editing, typewriting, shorthand, French, and secretarial skills. Thirty guineas for full course. extras for advertising, shorthand, and French.
A compilation of simple kitchen and homemaking tips including tomato catsup preparation with tomato boiling and spice additions, fall fur sale bargains, dyeing faded cotton fabrics using common dyes in final rinse, and a Christmas cushion filler idea using dried bay leaves and wild fern for fragrant pillows.
A black and white plaid skirt and coat suit with blue velvet collar and cuffs. The coat is hip length and smooth fitting while the full circular skirt features horizontal velvet folds. Matching white chenille hat has black and white satin chou and long blue feathers.
Ladies urged to renovate old plumes for fall hats with drooping plumes noted as stylish. Some hats already seen on the streets, including a velvet trimmed design with roses in old rose bronze green and blue. Blue roses, rare in local gardens, add striking effect to the headwear.
A woman spends long periods in her room planning for fall bridge parties. She envisions pleasant surroundings with new decorations and fabrics like Swiss bed covers or scrim to impress guests.
A Newport fad features matching accessories with hat bouquets and costumes. Ladies wore hydrangeas in blue pink shades on hats and carried real hydrangeas in belts. Other outfits replicated garden flowers like poppies cornflowers and pansies in hats and attire.
In Paris everyone is playing the diabolo a top on a string and it is said to be winning affection over bridge. It has not yet appeared widely here but returning tourists will likely introduce it.
In a humorous diary entry Diana recounts a desperate plan to remove a freckle. Guided by a milk boy named Rastus, she buries a silver dime a snail and snuff in the yard hoping for a cure. The dime vanishes and the freckle disappears, ending with relief that she was not stung.
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