Put an end to the Marion County courthouse graft farce
The Indianapolis Sun denounces the ongoing graft probe at the Marion County courthouse. It criticizes the county commissioners and County Attorney Ruekelshaus for managing the investigation, notes an indicted commissioner, and urges discharging the expert probes. It calls for forming a civic committee of leading businessmen to awaken public conscience and ensure honest government through active community cooperation.
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Ruekelshaus
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Grand Jury
Albert Sahm
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Indianapolis
Taft Mends Trouser Incident Before Meeting the Czar
William Allen White recounts Taft in Russia rising at 6 am to find his trousers. After a comic misstep he asks a bellboy to mend them. A botched repair leads Taft to cover his knee with a black sock and his torn trousers before riding in a sleigh to meet the czar as America's representative.
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Taft
Russia
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America
Soldiers and cigarettes policy order in Ireland
Lieutenant General Lord Grenfell, commander in chief of British forces in Ireland, issued an order citing health harm from smoking. It directs banning cigarette smoking at certain times while pipe smoking remains unrestricted, and prohibits cigarettes during fatigue, under arms, field operations, or maneuvers.
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Lord Grenfell
Ireland
Sporting News Teases Blinker Incident
A humor inset quotes Mrs Peck-Henry and Mr Péck discussing whether Blinker ran over his mother in law, noting the speaker has not yet reached the sporting news. The fragment suggests a light, satirical tease rather than a full report.
Wiley’s pie prank exposes chicken feather in crust
Dr. Wiley, the pure food expert, visits a Washington restaurant and orders a chicken pie. When served a brown hot pie, he finds beneath the crust a three inch feather as a gag. A waiter explains in a mock dialect that the “feather” proves the pie is the genuine article.
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Ment
Washington
Help the Boys Tells Sun Readers to Aid Young Vendors
A reader letter advocates supporting boys selling articles at 10 cents to buy school books, noting the discouragement of door to door sales and urging kind replies over rejection. The writer, L. V., claims to be a constant Sun reader for a year.
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Woman’s Page
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Dar. L. V
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