Falsehoods in Democratic Platform and Local Politics
The passage attacks Indianapolis political disputes, alleging Democratic falsehoods about the Bookwalter administration and indictments. It notes grand jury actions in 1902, defends the city legal department, and criticizes street car safety practices. It also references quotes from Dolly Douglass, election talk, and various regional commentary on politics and public safety.
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Democratic City
Bookwalter
Logsdon
The
Indianapolis News
Henry McAlpin
Brown
Noel
Hunt
Stahl
Legal Department
Indianapolis
Grand Jury
Mean Wits and Oddities Across The Leisure Hour
A collage of humorous anecdotes from The Leisure Hour featuring cruel misers, a jail rat tale recounted by ex Sheriff Dunn about Police-justice Duffy, a Yorkshire postman’s workaday life, a tale of a wife forcing a churchgoing outing shirt, and a comic episode of James Stringer forgetting collars and cuffs on a family trip.
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Tom” Dunn
Democratic Club
Duffy
New York Evening World
James
Art Maria
Jennie
James Stringer
Henry
Brooklyn Fragle
Appetite Shot Incident Sparks Confusion
In a Kansas City Journal item readers debate a sensational note about a man shot through the vital areas during a jail breakout. The dialogue suggests the injury affected his appetite or stomach while noting he had not eaten for two days.
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Kansas City Journal
Dressing the Children in Global Fashion for Summer
The Columbus Dispatch notes stylish, varied children's outfits blending Dutch, French, Russian and American styles. It highlights fabric choices from chambrays to lawns, mothers sewing frocks, and playful yet hygienic attire. Also advised are domestic harmony tips like withholding harsh speech to improve home life, plus a playful tour of novelty ribbons and ribbon designs seen in fashion.
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Columbus Dispatch
America
Ecru
Reconstruction of Indiana News Fragments Sown News
A collage of Indiana notes reports church dedication in Newton county and salary cuts for a postmaster in Alexia. reunions planned for the 43rd Indiana regiment at Batesville. locals return from abroad and county concerns about saloons in Hawais county. Nearby towns host park reunions, cemetery donations, and war-era monuments. Rural phone expansion, a war-story revival, pension increases, blackleg cattle fears, and melon production in Knox county fill the ledger alongside local mischief and a courtroom jail note.
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Newton
Breneman
Alexatria
Indiana Regiment
Batesville
Aus
W. P. Trenly
Carthage
Henry County
Rossiaville
Hawais
Glen Miller Park
Oecur
Graves
Laser County
Ing Rolling Association
New Harmony Fair Ground
Tipton
Sharpsville
Seymour Republican
John Jackson
Washington Township
Wayne
Tis
Albert Sarver
Thomas Thratt
Rush County
Maplewood
Mangen County
Madison County
Nelson Brechtel
Wabash County
Lagro
Iit
Plymouth
Indiana
Orthodox Friends
Marlon
Sam Martin
Covington
John Wright
Crandal
Floyd County
Infwrence County
Knox County
Vincennes
Why Not Speak English A Grammar Note from Harper's
Brander Matthews argues in Harper's Magazine that English accepts varied plurals like cherubs lexicons and criteria, while warning against foreign plural forms such as cherubim lexica and criteria. He notes many words switch forms without loss of meaning, urging adherence to English norms.
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Brander Matthews
Harper's Magazine
Mrs Leslie Shaw Teases Cabinet Salaries in Washington
Mrs Leslie Shaw wife of the treasury secretary shared witty interviews in Washington about cabinet salaries. A Kansas City Journal quip recalls her youth as Alice Crawshaw and a joke about mending coats and love letters, highlighting her wit.
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Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Mary Lease Reverses Convention Tide With Bold Telegraph
Washington Post recounts how Mary Elizabeth Lease rose to the platform at a populist convention in Omaha in 1892. She waved a telegraph blank and urged support for James B. Weaver, influencing the crowd to nominate Weaver rather than Walter Q. Gresham. Walter Q. Gresham and Grover Cleveland figures are referenced in the historical scene.
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Walter Q. Gresham
Charles E. Magoon
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Bob Ingersoll
Chicago
Gresham
Omaha
Gnattius Donnelly
Minnesota
People's Party
Illinois Standard
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
James G. Blaine
James B. Weaver
Washington Post
Beveridge Story Teasers on Richmond Remark
The New York Tribune excerpt notes Senator Beveridge’s florid hotel lobby tale about a “young lady” in Richmond and a quip from Congressman Lamb. Lamb jokes the South lacks female streetcar conductors, prompting Beveridge to insist the line is about a passing remark, not propriety.
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Senator Beveridge
Washington
Richmond
Ian
Congressman Lamb
Virginia
Mr. Beveridge
Mr. Lamb
Indiana Statesman
South
Beveridge
New York Tribune
Quotations and Jests From Various Newspapers
A collage of light humorous exchanges and oddities from several papers. Diogenes baffles a comic village neighbor, a host declines to go home, a stenography gag about a new typewriter, a contractor’s bid quip, and Niagara Falls marriage banter provide quick, dated scraps of wit and social observation.
Downstairs Backward Fashion Mocked by Shipbound Maid
At a Savoy hotel dinner honoring F Norton Goddard, an odd maid story emerged. A recently arrived worker from the old country allegedly always descended stairs backward, claiming that was the “fashion” on the ship coming to America. The tale shaded humor about cultural differences and adaptation.
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F. Norton Goddard
New York
Savoy Hotel
Is It Contagious The Decollete Dress Panic
A social note from Vincennes recalls Mrs Senator K Davis of St Paul causing shock years ago with extreme decollateness at a city function. Mentions fashion headlines and public curiosity. A separate incident in Decker's storefront reports knife marks from a miscreant.
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K. Davis
St. Paul
Vincennes
Vincennes Sun
Fogarty Nominated for Indianapolis City Clerk
Everett Washington Record notes Hoosier writer and press telegraph operator Fogarty has been named the Democratic candidate for city clerk of Indianapolis. The piece praises his character, large family, and literary output, urging Indiana to support him in public office.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Fogarty
England
Witty sayings and notices from The Sun readers
A collection of pointed aphorisms on gender, money, and society ends with an invitation to send six-word notices to The Sun readers office at 171-123 EL Ohio News phone.
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SUN
SUN Freaners
EL Ohio
Old Main
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