Bride Mourns For Her Brave American Horse
Special to The Sun from Quebec recounts the tale of American Horse, an Iroquois chief, who courted and wed wealthy widow Johanna Elisabeth Von Domellon after a European romance. They eloped to England then returned to Caughnawaga, Canada, until a disastrous crash ended the story.
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Bride
Quebec
Can
Gicaster
Auguste Mentour
Mentour
American Horse
Europe
Hague
Johanna Elisabeth von Domellon
England
London
Caughnawaga
Canada
The Cloak Shop Bird Exchange Tale
A winter cloak store encounter unfolds as a thin woman requests to exchange her singing bird Dickie for a warm cloak. The manager and staff resist, but a firm’s arrival leads to a surprising sale. Dickie provides a hopeful finale as the woman accepts a cloak and a dollar, leaving with both bird and promise of care.
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Dickie
Thekie
Notre Dame Lady Offers Free Home Rheumatism Cure
A Notre Dame woman advertises a free home treatment for rheumatism and related pains. She claims the remedy dissolves uric acid, loosens stiff joints, purifies blood, and improves vitality, promising cures without climate change.
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Notre Dame
Fashionable wide felt hat with satin trim and ostrich tips
A stylish felt hat features a deep back brim that lays over the hair, a wide crown encircled by short, broad ostrich tips in rose and ecru shading, and a black satin facing. The item reads like a fashion caption describing current millinery trends.
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Rose
Fall Parody Reveals Stoves and Silent Deaths
Mock seasonal verse mocks autumn news with a tale of frost and a stove misused to hide four hundred dollars, leaving Mrs Hiram Hay widowed as mournful drafts sweep the yard. The spoof combines yearly fall tropes with a grim punch about concealed money and a fatal stove fire.
Are They Pretty Ella Hepworth Dixon on Yankee beauty
English journal writer Ella Hepworth Dixon asserts Yankee women are not as beautiful as English ones. She calls American girls buds yet notes American women grow faded, gain fat, and grey hair by forty, suggesting English standards retain beauty longer.
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
Medicine and Food Urged for Pupils in New York
Dr Luther Gulick urges school health measures to prevent contagious disease and to treat preventable defects. He notes 80 percent ocular defects and calls for physician exams, eyeglasses funded by the board, and public provision of meals to combat malnutrition. A simple midday meal funded by the Board could boost child health and learning outcomes.
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William H. Maxwell
Greater
New York
Luther H. Gulick
Guilck
Health Department
Board of Education
Where The Fun Comes In And Odd Jokes In Slang
A fragmented comic piece recalls a playful verse about arrow songs and mislaid arrows, then delivers a string of jokes and riddles with rural and river city humor. The text features puns about Cairo, Ohio and a farmer, a wagon load of bricks, and a boarding house, ending with a shell out pun.
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Ohio River
Cairo
Proof A-Plenty Bible OPhile Book Lover Tale
A lighthearted exchange recalls a book lover nicknamed Proof A-Plenty who borrowed four of the speaker’s best books a year ago and has not returned them. The playful chat highlights a persistent borrowing habit and comic guilt.
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Bible O’phile
Central 2323 Fashion Outrages And A Fat Man In Suspenders
A humorous dialogue dismisses a hipless gown with girdle fastenings and lace collar questions. A shopper protests a baggy midsection look while another woman complains of a skirt, then a note about the odd sight of a fat man wearing both suspenders and a belt at once.
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Central
Mme. de Rigger
Dorothy Doughgett
Nellie Nearmutt
Daring Countess Takes Her Title On The Stage
Countess of Roslyn plans a London stage debut this winter after a Scottish divorce decree allows her to keep her title. Once Annie Robinson, an American actress, she is set to star in The Education of Elizabeth with lavish gowns, while peers protest the impact on dignity.
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Elizabeth
London
Purple ruling color in newest fall styles
Window displays at Wasson's department store showcase fall fashions centered on purple shades from pale lavender to deep violet. The display features purple borders for evening wear, violet chiffon broadcloth, lilac wool taffeta, bishop's velvet, Eminence broadcloth, and Pekin stripe in lavender and coffee tones with other lavender varieties. A sapphire blue option and hand embroidered robes in salmon satin plus white silk crepe panels complete the presentation.
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Wasson’s Department
American College For Chinese Girl
Washington Sept 21 Miss Cheng daughter of the Chinese minister to the United States appears in a re produced photograph She is not yet 16 but speaks English and is a capable musician She will be educated further in the United States possibly at Barnard College or Wells College in New York She will wear oriental attire in college
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Washington
Miss Cheng
United States
Barnard College
Columbia University
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Wells College
Aurora, N. Y
Miss Smith Gets Center of Stage
Elizabeth H Gregory reports on Laura A Smith the former Indianapolis journalist who visited 159 churches to test Welcoming signs. Critics labeled her fake and spy while some ministers defended or ignored the pieces. Smith says she visited as a reporter and stayed through services amid mixed reader response.
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Elizabeth H. Gregory
New York
Laura A. Smith
Indianapolis
Miss Smith
Christian play shocks London with frank new version
London on September 21 reports Hal Caine's new version of The Christian has the city gasping. The updated play starkly exposes social evil with explicit scenes and speeches, portraying Glory Quayle as a pitiable figure while Matheson Lang plays the clergyman and Alice Crawford appears as Glory at the Lyceum amid crowded audiences.
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the Sun
London
Hal Caine
Glory Quayle
Lyceum
Matheson Lang
Alice Crawford
Hints for Photographs Warn on Nose and Powder
A photographer advises against profile portraits of long nosed women preferring foreshortened angles with head tilted back. He says blondes should powder hair heavily but not the face during sittings. Try a cheap photographer first to experiment with dresses before booking the final portrait.
Women Show More Courage in Crises, Says Observer
A woman declares women are not only physically stronger than men but more courageous. In shipwrecks and fires, a man and a 20 year old woman facing danger reveal the woman’s composure, while the boy fears and men abandon women to save themselves, as proven by recent shipwrecks and older gender cases.
AT NEW ANGLE Mushrooms inspire winter hat fashion
The note sketches a trend where mushroom hats tilt over the eyes this winter, promising changes in shape to fit the caprice of fashion and a new species of fungi chapeaux seen by the fashion world.
Good Time For Colds Warns Mothers To Dress Warmly
This piece urges mothers to clothe children in warmer underlayers as the season brings draughts and a surge in cold and malaria cases. It warns that colds caught now are hard to shake and stresses vigilance against chilly drafts.
New York School Spending Soars In 1906 Bond Costs
New York spent 49,138,146 dollars on school support in 1906, an excess of about 25 million over 1905. The largest share funded new buildings via bonds, while nearly half of current expenses went to teachers' salaries.
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New York
Libraries Help Teachers Provide Reading Materials
Libraries supply the books teachers need for prescribed reading and supplementary work. In New York a clerk known as the teachers' assistant helps teachers select reading banks and guides their local reading programs.
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New York
Up-to-Date Patterns Sold at Ten Cents by The Sun
The Sun forwards patterns from a leading company for ten cents each. A new pattern with seam allowances is described daily. Orders are postpaid and sent with the pattern number, size, name and address to The Fashion Department of The Sun.
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Fashion Department of
Paris
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Inet
Indianapolis, Sun, Indianapolis, Inc
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