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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1905
Page
4
A city editorial urges deliberate council action on the 60 cent gas ordinance, warning haste may harm the city and noting the council should weigh all provisions and seek clear public support before passing the measure. It recalls past cautious steps saving $19,000 on track elevation and questions influence of outside discussions.
Arizona seeks statehood as Jefferson to honor the Jefferson purchase and mark the last division of the Louisiana Purchase. The Sun notes the west’s growth and argues Arizona deserves separate statehood over uniting with New Mexico, while dismissing a dam proposal for Fall Creek as a long-standing idea.
A frightened dog wandered through St Joseph's Church during a Portinucula service in Ap pleton Wisconsin. As a crowd of about 2000 watched, the animal scrambled up to the gallery and, in panic, leaped from a railing landing in the crowded nave. Mrs Verntegen suffered fright but was not injured.
Fire crews conducted unannounced tests on five excursion boats to assess fire drill efficiency. Each boat completed the drill in five minutes. The exercise followed the Slocum disaster. Maceo, Cuban general Antonio Maceo's son, runs an elevator in Syracuse University block. He previously studied at Cornell and joined the Cuban government effort to secure a post as a draftsman. He will return to college in the fall.
A garbled historical excerpt describes the yacht Mohenzollern slipping into New York Harbor during fog. It weaves in letters home about love, money requests, and shore life, with cryptic notes on Roosevelt and Komura amid a collage of names and dated phrasing.
A fragmented column mixes satire on John D. Rockefeller with misheard poems and a fable about a youth seeking Troy. It humorously contrasts wealth, hair, and whiskers with social judgment while drifting through travel, luck, and love’s grim fate. The tone mirrors a period rural newspaper skit.
An uncertain day is forecast for those born on this date with caution advised in pleasures and company. The text notes a child born on this day and hints that fortunes depend on the hour, suggesting variability in outcomes.
A remarkable eight inch transparent fish is said to inhabit the poast rivers of Alaska. Indians dry and burn these fish in place of coodles, producing a clear bright flame. The fish lacks rancid oily taste and burns about fifteen minutes per fish.
In Chicago Tribune style a local wit recounts a man named Wickerly cursing his automobile, calling it a heat magnet on a windy weather day, claiming the wagon runs hot and he was fined for scorching.
Julius A Schuller of Indianapolis emerged as a leading wine authority teaching Californians to craft wine. He judged wines at Paris Chicago and St Louis expos on three occasions, influencing many judges. A German migrant who arrived forty years ago, he built California’s wine industry from near-unknown to a major producer, forecasting California’s rise to world best wines in the decades ahead.
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