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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
4
Notices detail delivery area six cents weekly and mail subscription prices outside city at 3.09 yearly, 1.08 half year, and monthly. Readers are urged to notify the office if the paper fails to arrive and to contact the business or editorial departments as needed.
A newspaper excerpt critiques William J. Bryan's anti imperialist stance. It notes Bryan dropped anti imperialism during a campaign while condemning war for conquest and praising republican criticism of trusts. The article frames Bryan's views as stump tommy rot and reports his campaign moves.
A New York yellow sheet lists Flavius Josephus Van Vorhis of Indianapolis among promoters of McKinley in 1898 who will aid Bryan this year. The piece mocks Van Vorhis as merely a noise and notes his own claim of voting against McKinley in 1896, doubting the paper’s assertion and calling the list an amusing misstep in Indiana politics.
The article argues Minister Conger’s praise for imperial support of the Boxers colors the Chinese crisis. It suggests the imperial army and royal family push the revolt as a pretext to weaken China while Russia Germany and England favor intervention and the United States seeks only property protection as the government teeters toward collapse.
The text satirically discusses Columbia club members preparing for a drawn out political campaign with a formidable force of supporters. It jokes about the devotion of fine gentlemen, risks to their appearances, and contrasts with foreign affairs and historical allusions to Teddy Roosevelt and the Boxers while asking how long Frank Burke has studied crocudile etiquette for the campaign.
A terse political note reports Controller Johnson's concern over spending bridge funds on ordinary expenses. A fragment mentions an ad seeking a blues remedy and a political jab at Frank Burke, a congressional nominee from Indianapolis.
A collage of anecdotes about Sir Henry Irving and Bram Stoker exchanging letters over a doppelgänger. It recalls Sam Jones the evangelist and a black audience in Atlanta, plus a Dutch commandant’s tale of a Boer sentinel and a sympathetic English prisoner.
A New York Commercial Advertiser item describes a Republican National Committee door guard who directs unwelcome entrants to the ante room and even assigns a poet to recite to a rival. the piece also shares an anecdote of artist Millais helping G H Boughton fix a portrait by drawing the correct mouth shape.
Newspaper opinions from Detroit Grand Rapids Toledo and Philadelphia reflect views on McKinley Roosevelt Goebel Philippines sovereignty and pension claims tied to the Spanish American War. Analysts credit Hay and Conger diplomacy while noting limits of manpower in Kentucky and broader war pension trends.
A Washington Post correspondent reports that Theodore Roosfeldt, of Jewish descent, becomes the nation’s second highest official candidate. The piece argues Jewish Americans should celebrate the historic milestone and expresses distant kinship to Theodore Roosevelt.
A collage of 1900s clippings lampooning political figures. Satirical lines target Bryan across papers from Laporte to Richmond. Mentions of De Wet, Li Hsing, empress dowager, and Allied maneuvers frame a world of political theater and controversy.
A Detroit News quote notes Col Watterson says Kentuckians alone can grasp Kentucky politics and a Kentucky trial. The remark suggests outsiders cannot understand either arena.
Fragmentary note references sleep difficulties and a casual mention of candy. The text reads as a jumble of phrases and lacks clear events, people, or institutions to anchor a news summary. No verifiable entities or dates are identifiable for a concise card.
A fragment from a rural vignette recalls returning to a hometown depot with old friends and familiar scenes. Tension arises over a bill and college plans as characters debate bungling details and shifting fortunes amid a mixture of humor and somber reflection.
Two men in a windy street stage a match duel. The tall man fails twice, the fat man succeeds three times lighting a cigars shows skill under gusts. The scene ends with both men parting and a note on male egos in wind tested combat.
The speaker asks what the wild waves say and answers that the waves carry the souls of glory and tell a story. A companion dismisses the dream as fanciful and jokes that the chatter is not Spanish.
A Philadelphia Times note cites a line about third parties in Eden and warns that accidents plague farms. It promotes Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil as instantly relieving cuts, bruises, stings, and sprains and urges always having it on hand.
A model farm of 160 acres with 40 acres of pasture lies two miles from the city. See P Ptsterer at 26 Virginia Ave for details and progress laundry neckbands.
Lake Erie and Western Railway announces a never schedule for a return trip on Sunday August 26 1900. The KR G A R special departs Indianapolis at 7 30 am with tickets good on regular trains through August 31 and extendable to September 30. For details visit city office at 28 S Illinois street.
Tickets sold from August 25 to 28 with a Detroit round trip price of 7 dollars 60 cents. Final return by September 14. For train times contact ticket agents at 25 West Washington Street and Union Station.
Arthur White vacations in Denver. FE Johnson and sons visit Put-in-Bay. H W Colgan hosts a shirt waist party for friends. Mrs F T Monroe holds a Tuesday afternoon reception on Central Ave. Mies Mary and Ella Foley travel from Collery Ave to Detroit for two weeks. Railway postal clerks auxiliary outing at Broad Ripple. Mrs D W Tibbs hosts a children’s gathering on W Michigan St for Maurice. Nellie Lamar Richmond and R Jay Brace wed Tuesday in Pontiac by Rev W F Sheridan.
A reader on the Eighth St line contends that conductors rush to meet schedules by starting before all passengers board, causing delays at the end of the route. The patron cites the Fifth Street line as especially prone to this practice.
The Young People's Christian Union of the Indiana Presbytery begins a two day session at 2 p m in First United Presbyterian Church. Afternoon program includes Wm Lytle Hanover Rev R H Thompson Dunrevih Mrs N M Brown Milroy Rev W P McGarey Rushville and Rev Edgar MacDill Madison. Thursday morning to be devoted to business.
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