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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
4
Indianapolis chatter mixs satire on campaign fund rumors with a push to close moral flanks. Keach jokes saloon and picture-machine pressures while urging lawful remedies and new golf course talks framed by local editorials and city concerns.
Judge Grubbs of the juvenile court loves cigars and will smoke until a Havana is finished. Monday he sat in court with a long cigar, and clerk Herbert Joiner offered a shorter one. The judge said he would not break his rule to delay work, even if it meant delaying the first case.
The Park theater opens a new revival of East Lynne starting Thursday through Saturday, billed as the most pretentious staging yet. The company brings its own scenery and gowns, with Charles W. Terriss and Mine Inez Forman in key roles and veteran comedian John Dillon in support.
Dr Theobald Smith lecturing on bacteriology at Columbian University receives a note from a relative. A boy brings it, misreads the recipient as a bald Dr Smith. After the envelope is checked, the doctor explains the mix up and retrieves the message.
The passage echoes Invictus by William Ernest Henley with lines about being the master of one’s fate and the captain of one’s soul. It reflects resolve under punishment and misfortune despite suffering.
News briefs from city life include charity appeals for Anna Weisemann and her family, rights disputes over Frank Hind transfer, Emma Ney's settlement claims, a death at 163 N Capitol, and Baptist ministers race resolutions. Salvation Army and Kann company tensions ease. Elopement of Dora Hendrickson and Earl Alvis in Cincinnati noted. Sheriff Metzger tightens jail visitor policy over illicit drug traffic concerns.
The piece celebrates women and older players in tennis with vignettes from a summer court scene. It ponders growth, pride, and the moment tennis holds for generations, then shifts to pewter's comeback in domestic taste and ends with mused hopes on women architects designing homes for comfort, kitchen height, storage, and closet space.
A historic recipe details weighing seven pounds of watermelon and four pounds of sugar, vinegar, spices, and method to boil slices in cheesecloth, then preserve in stone jars. It outlines cooking until transparent, draining, simmering nine mornings, and reheating rind juice to cover rind.
In a household tale a woman reads three marriage proposals, one from William Waldo offering science fame, another from Samuel Walt promising wealth, and a final from Bob seeking love. She contemplates fame wealth and happiness, chooses Bob then writes John the telegram of love.
Excerpt from the diary of George I Washington Throgeins detailing a determined plan to quit smoking. From August 1 to August 11 the author records daily urges, token deposits in a red box, and occasional progress notes, including saving money, tapering, and moments of strong craving. The entry ends with an August 11 note about purchasing a full box of cigars.
A Bloomington World item denounces kids riding on train steps and leaping on and off moving cars. Police vow arrests and fines for violations. A late piece notes a midnight rider to Gosport, claiming tradecraft to pay fare, while another cartoonish joke questions pension grants to veterans and a wife’s plea.
The article lists society happenings including Mr and Mrs Henry M Branson in Sandusky Ohio and Mrs Franklin Vonegut returning to Hamilton Ontario. It notes visits from Dr and Mrs Clinton Galloway from North Dakota, Augusta Jameson leaving for Cassels Colorado, Miss Esther Swain hosting a singing party, and Miss Adah Conner returning from Chicago to Ohio. It records weddings of Miss Gertrude Lydia Piel and Alya T Wysong at a German Lutheran church with Rev Peter Seuel officiating, plus Miss Bernice Weight and Ruaneltren ig’s wedding at the bride’s home on Twenty-seconth Street with Rev Worth M Tippy officiating and Mildred Caney as ring bearer. It mentions Dan Starme, Orator, attending a reunion speech in Madison Indiana for Jesserann county officials at Camp Joe Wheeler and notes Storms’ anticipated speech at the event.
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