Indianapolis Sun front matter and circulation note
The Indianapolis Sun imprint shows Willis S. Thompson as publisher with August 12, 1909 date and listing of office at 123 and 13 E. Ohio Street. Advertising representatives and distribution certification by the Association of American Advertisers are noted with post office second class status.
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Manly
Bunk
Ohio Street
Smith & Budd
Brunswick
Fifth Avenue
New York
Tribune
Chicago
Third National Bank
St. Louis
The
Association of American Advertisers
New York City
Civic Pride Drives Indianapolis Officials Choice
The piece urges voters to elect leaders who will advance public improvements, especially park and boulevard work, across the city. It argues for progress over politics, highlighting street upgrades, property value gains, and the goal of making Indianapolis a top continental city with broad civic duty. Nine of twelve nominees are expected to win, with those supporting progress favored.
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Indianapolis
Stop Pollution of Fall Creek
The editorial calls for ending the dumping of sewage into Fall Creek and other city streams. It urges rapid garbage and sewage disposal systems, warns of disease and costs from polluted water, and notes impact on local health and enjoyment.
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Fall Creek
Indianapolis
America
Great Growth of the West and Colorado Farm Outlook
Western states shift from mining to farming wealth with Colorado producing about 110 million dollars in a year. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad spurred development and irrigation projects under Roosevelt support. The line now ships farm and fruit products and thousands of cattle, boosting western prosperity.
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Colorado
Indiana
William J. Palmer
David H. Moffatt
Denver & Rio Grande
Roosevelt
Daughters Speak In Much-Alike Manner At Mamma’s Evening
A fragment from the St. Louis Republic notes two daughters of an artist, Hdyth and Ethel. A visitor comments they do not resemble each other, and Ethel, the younger, replies she is in mamma’s later manner.
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Hdyth
Ethel
St. Louis Republic
Popular Engraving Sparks Currency Debate
A Washington dispatch reports the two dollar bill is unpopular and set for retirement while a ninety-two bill gains twice the popularity of a one dollar note, yet still trails the five and ten in demand according to Waterbury Republicans.
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Waterbury
A Bad Debt Spoken in a Merchants Parley
A dialogue among two tradesmen about an unpaid watch from two years ago signals caution in business. The exchange highlights distrust and the common plight of slow pay in local commerce.
Taken Up at Random at Indiana Statehouse Jobs and Flags
The state statistician's office free employment bureau has received about 200 calls for work with 16 employers applying for help. Stenographers, housekeepers, and laborers are sought while car and rail industries push for skilled trades. Indiana holds 315 battle flags from 1866, to be restored and displayed in glass cases. The Indiana State Fair will feature imported horses, including the Carnot, shown in Lafayette by J. Crouch & Co, with more stallions to be displayed by Sterling R. Holt and George Souers.
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Free Employment Bureau
Office of
the State Statistician
Statehouse
Bureau
Starr Piano Company
Richmond
Pan-American Bridge Company
New Castle
Ind
Irvin Manufacturing Company
Indianapolis
Tenth Street
Canal
American Car and Foundry Company
Illnois Central System
Indiana
Lew Wallace
O. P. Morton
Lydia Swift
Senate Chamber
D. I. McCormick
Swift
Wes
Coliseum
Carnot
Paris
J. Crouch & Gon
Lafayette
Sterling R. Holt
Holt
George Souers
Monticello
Chicago
Lamb on New Tariff
Columnist John E. Lamb denounces the Payne Aldrich tariff as a hypocritical measure harming the poor with higher consumer taxes. He attacks Taft and Republican leaders for not delivering on lower tariffs, cites a New York hosiery price rise, and condemns Beveridge for supporting tax increases while predicting political backlash.
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Lamb
Congress
United States
Taft
House of Representatives
Senate
New York Dispatch
Cincinnati
Aldrich
Cannon
Washington
Treasury
Borah
Bourne
Bristow
Clapp
Cummins
Lefollette
Indiana
Beveridge
Smoot
Hale
Twenty Years by Winifred Black
A Sacramento mother died of joy when her son, unseen for twenty years, arrived by train. The piece urges men to value mothers, noting the loneliness of years apart and warning against letting romantic interests replace the mother who raised them. It reflects on the worth of two decades and the tragedy of a final reunion ending in death.
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Winifred Black
Sacramento
Cal
Definitions and Memory Across Ages
A Cleveland Leader quip contrasts a child’s witty exam answer with a Yale science paper. A pupil defined a mountain range as a large sized cook stove while another misidentified the gastric juice’s function, saying its office is the stomach.
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Mountain Range
Shhofeld Scientific School
Yale
Cleveland Leader
Tale of a Husband and Train Farewell
A fond husband bids his wife goodbye as she heads to the country for vacation. He jokes about needing fiction to read on the journey, and she answers she will rely on his tellers from home for stories.
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London Tatler
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