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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
6
The Sun prints the address of its building at 153 and 125 East Ohio Street with temporary business and editorial spaces on the third floor of the Journal Building. It lists telephone numbers and rates for city and distant subscriptions, carrier delivery, and agent opportunities, urging readers to report missed deliveries.
The Sun urges action by Mayor Taggart and Superintendent Quigley to fix unlawful liquor sales and unsafe practices. It celebrates a future union of the Board of Trade and Commercial Club, envisions 30 days of bonus business, and promotes factory growth and new city initiatives. It notes post office wage issues, national figures, and local civic plans amid a broad critique of local politics and infrastructure.
Thieves have been looting the state house amid confusion over responsibility in the house or senate. A short interurban franchise proposal is cited to provide a chance to study the situation and assess accountability.
A collection of brief humorous vignettes from prominent figures. It recalls Secretary Long forgetting his grandfather’s name and Senator Stanford’s limburger cheese misadventure, plus quips about Henry James and Andrew Carnegie.
A whimsical verse sequence contrasts electric cars racing through starry skies with a village sexton who jokes about his cemetery lot. The poem juxtaposes cosmic travel with grounded humor, ending on a note about choosing a fulfilling place to rest.
A spiritualist asks James Barton’s son to speak with the dead. The pale man admits he is the son and, in a strained voice, declines to talk to his father. He explains he testified two weeks earlier that the old man was senile to break his will and is excused.
Poetical couplet speaks of June surpassing April and a pledge that when June arrives nothing will seem as good as the present gleam. The verse reflects seasonal optimism and a personal vow tied to timing and perception.
Mildred and I pause at the doorway and plan a stop at a junk shop. We escape the door and tease Claude about a mistaken misnaming as we enter the scene of a curious sale.
The speaker recalls youth when imagination filled a picture book. Now older, energy returns to dwelling on the vivid images in a Sunday paper’s colored supplement.
A local barber mockingly tells a customer that his tongue needs cutting as well, prompting a sharp retort about not cutting it. The exchange features EDWARD SINGER as the speaker or participant.
A collage of quotes rails at Harvard生活 Manila frauds and Wu Tang Fung warnings about China. It cites opinions from the Minneapolis Times Detroit News Free Press Detroit Journal Nashville Scimitar and Helena Record critiquing institutional morality, naval diplomacy, and army morale amid canteen abolition and groggeries near posts.
Ashland Avenue social life fills the week with Friday club entertaining the Friday afternoon group and Bishop and Mrs. Francis hosting the Daughters of the King. Honors include a wooden wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Garaner on April 25. Bets involve visitors Gov. and Mrs. Durbin hosting Mrs. Dorst of New Albany. A Lima Ohio wedding joins Wabash and Miss Lucy Bent, John H. Mills wed at the Bent home. A drawing-room musicale benefits Central Avenue church. Ross Hill Jr of Indianapolis weds Ina Moore Agerter in Lima, with a Mississippi trip to follow. Will, a Denison house haberdasher, remains a noted figure.
Fishermen grasp the new fish and game law as letters arrive from investors in five year licenses after the 1899 act. The scenic license was five years at $1, but the law lacks any provision for refund of funds.
Col. Harry B. Smith of the Second Indiana National Guard orders a court martial for Sergt Nathan A. Morris of Company L Second Infantry on undisclosed charges. Officers are directed to assemble in Bloomington for duty next Wednesday.
The Board of Trade governors on Thursday night unanimously rejected the committee proposal to buy the building for permanent headquarters as too expensive and not suited to needs.
A Bancroft Michigan resident testifies to Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer curing long standing spinal curvature fatigue and sleeplessness after multiple operations. He claims the product eases epilepsy St Vitus Dance weakness and all nervous diseases and offers proof via mail order and dealer sales at one dollar per bottle or six for five dollars from The Colta Albion.
Rose Melville, Indiana born player famed for Sis Hopkins, recalls her preacher’s daughter upbringing and notes the model for the character was found in a Washington store. The Grand bill next week features the Dumonds, Ida Van Sielen, Winona Winter, a street urchin quartet, a Sis Hopkins act, and Murray & Mack. House closes the Zoo’s doors Saturday night before a Pan-American exodus to Buffalo.
The clip highlights varied editorials from multiple papers. It notes Funston’s success, Bryanites backing L Johnson and M Bryan, gold standard factions denouncing Bryan, plans to guard Indianapolis soldiers and sailors monument, suspicion of John Pierpont Morgan, and proposed Lawton monument to Fort Wayne.
Transport Rosecrans with Thirty third regiment reaches Frico. Commodore Charles O Allibone of the gunboat Wilmington Cavite dies. Thursday Julio Liorento named civil governor of Cebu by the Philippine commission. Capt R P Hobson reports to Admiral Bowles for special duty in construction and repair bureau.
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