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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
16
The Indianapolis Sun of August 20, 1908, records a publication listing Willis S. Thompson among the paper’s staff or subject matter, with the edition noted as a daily except Sunday issue from the Sun Building at 128 and 1% Oe Street and dated Thursday.
A sharp critique of Alfred Harmsworth, praising his influence on British journalism and public thinking. The piece argues he did not make journalism a trade but distributed knowledge, planted ideas, and raised mass reading in England, with the Daily Mail as a key example.
The piece argues President Roosevelt’s plan to study farm social conditions belittles farmers as lacking life’s amenities. It accuses the president of aiming to civilize farmers rather than improve farming, and urges local, neighborly initiative over federal patronage to elevate rural life.
An American woman in London hires a cab to Euston station and pushes for speed. After urging the driver to whip the horse she asks for a more wakeful pace but the cabman replies with a blunt, humorous line about saving the horse’s ear for the road.
An elderly farmer near Rolla attempted to hold a playful young butt by the tail. His widow says Joseph was never known to stick to anything more than ten minutes, per the Lewis County Journal.
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