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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1899
Page
4
A fragmented notice from The Sun outlines subscription rates outside the city at 3.00 per year 1.50 for six months and 0.25 per month. It also lists editorial and business phone numbers 626 and 880 and directs readers to contact the editor or business manager for communications.
Indianapolis business men argue elevated tracks raise drayage costs. The Sun counters, noting Jeup's full report and urging support for the plan to reduce crossings delays. It argues that blocked crossings waste time, wear horses and vehicles, and cause citywide damages to drivers.
The piece reviews a shift in Indiana parole practice where the Board of state charities and the Board of control scrutinize records of over 100 life-term inmates before recommending clemency. It contrasts this with older, politically influenced paroles and notes broader concerns about strikes in Idaho, governance in Idaho, and multiple public notices including a gas rate system in Rushville.
The text contrasts Dreyfus testimony with American perceptions noting emotional rhetoric and international attitudes. It mentions the Lawton fund raised by Lion Bass Post reaching 276 dollars, the Alley Organ saga drawing public attention, and a jab at residents seeking newspaper fame.
A collage of bygone humor recounts Pope Leo XIII’s placid refusals, Lincoln’s quips about justices in gowns, and a Manila loot tale. Other vignettes depict dining etiquette at a fashionable restaurant, a Western actor Bronco Bill, and a frontier missionary’s cheeky humor with a gunmaker’s line.
An advertisement snippet promoting imitation rock-faced stone coverings for brick buildings. Also mentions neckbands for shirts at Progress Laundry and advertises the Chickering piano from Wulcherner Son in Indianapolis. Includes contact Tel.1121 and references to H. IL and SAUTE 34 Talbot's block.
The Sun reports rising prices in the year, noting Chicago cattle at $6.05 per hundred and local sales at $5.75, with lumber leading gains including white and yellow pine up 50 to 70 cents per thousand feet and oak up as much as 3 dollars. Iron and coal show firmer prices amid a tightening supply.
State truancy board appoints officers to monitor youths. Reappointments listed with many towns including Shirley in Cartersburg and North Vernon. names include Laporte Walter W, Staunton. Marshall Thomas Chaney Plymouth. Vore Denver. Bowman Albion. Newman Rising Sun. Coakley Orleans. Fletcher Winchester. Curran Versailles and others.
Dr C C Holman of West Indianapolis verifies the Martinsville tale about a John Brown follower’s skeleton in a local physician’s office. He recalls Dr Johnson and a Richmond medical college obtaining the body, then delivering it to Martinsville where it hung for years before burial. The skull shows no bullet hole but pelvic bones splintered from a chest or pelvic wound.
Spirit of the State Press quotes fish commissioner Sweeney expressing pleasure with the new law. The item also comments on reactions from seiners and dynamiters of a humorous tribe. Other clippings praise Wyoming fossils and woman suffrage. Bryan gains favorable mentions in multiple papers.
Misses Mae and Neil Schloss return from country outing. Rev A B Philputt family at Vawter park. Neighborhood card club to picnic at Broad Ripple Friday. Mrs W M Herriott hosts card party for Mrs Wanamaker of Philadelphia Wednesday. Mr and Mrs H P Wasson and Kennard leave for Canada. Col and Mrs John B Barnett in new Morton Place home. Miss M Ahern, ex librarian, hosted by Miss BE Brownink en route to Toledo. Engagement of Katherine Sweeney to John Wheatley announced. Sweeney sister of R M Sweeney.
Marion county events note sympathy for Dr Seaton's family with Marion County Medical Society and Marion Club attending. German Day Sept 3 features four bands six floats special trains to Shooting Park where President Francke will speak. Goethe’s 150th birthday Aug 28 includes chorus and orchestra. A national day meeting may come to Indianapolis. Representative Dolliver to reply to Bryan Aug 16. Grand jury bound over John Teslow alias Jones Black for cattle theft. Mrs Anna Logan takes police matron post in Louisville after husband’s fatal wreck.
Sam Jones addressed about 15,000 listeners in Pontiac Illinois on Christian manhood Monday. A sabre duel in Vienna left Herr Wolf fatally wounded for political quarrels. Henrietta and Irene Green, missing in Long Island City, were found. Lacroid milk-products firm incorporated in Trenton New Jersey with 150000 capital. Laredo police fired on a Mexican skiff violating franchise terms, straining US Mexico ties. Four Manhattan hospital attendants were arrested for the killing of inmate James McGuire. his body bore extensive bruising and broken ribs.
Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco left his entire estate valued above 15 million dollars to his wife William A. Piper, a former California congressman, who died on Saturday, leaving 3 million to relatives in the eastern states and California.
Two unknown Black men were found dead Monday ten ahead of the Rolling Fork bridge on the L. and WN railway, 11 miles north of Elizabethtown Kentucky. Authorities believe they were struck by a train.
A Fall Meal for 10c and a daily business lunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ladies lunch served on the second floor at Ormonde located at 16 W. Pearilst.
A note announces parlor cars attached to train No 11 from Indianapolis to Peoria with connections for the west via Burlington and Rock Island starting August 8th. Return service on No 18 from Peoria to Indianapolis connects to the Knickerbocker Special and Washington Fast Line for points east. H M Bronson, A G P A.
Anrial Niagara Falls Excursion set for Tuesday August 22 1899 with round trip from Indianapolis at 7 dollars and 6 dollars extra to Thousand Islands and Alexandria Bay Special sleeper coach train departs Indianapolis 645 PM and arrives Niagara Falls 9 AM next day Tickets good for return space in sleepers available at Big Four offices H M Bronson AGP A.
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