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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
8
The Indianapolis Sun issue dated Wednesday August 26 1908 from the Gun Building edition notes Willis S. Thompson as publisher and daily publication except Sunday. The brief cataloging line references the newspaper and printing location without additional event details.
An editorial argues for total public control of Indianapolis telephone services, citing Henry L. Doherty on regulating quasi public firms. It urges the city to accept a plan by Central Union for limited franchise, consolidation, fair compensation, and state wide public oversight to ensure universal service and affordable rates.
A reader letter in the American Magazine relays Roosevelt's wish to withdraw from public life after his presidency. He plans an Africa hunting trip with his son, chooses a quiet year away, and reflects on morality over political concerns. The account portrays him as thoughtful, humane, and morally driven, rejecting a third term.
In theater circles the ghost is famed for walking when salaries are unpaid. English players rehearsing Hamlet claim the line about walking sparked the phrase. The ghost allegedly refused to walk again until overdue wages were settled.
A contributor to Notes and Queries notes that the term banzai emerged about 15 years ago at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Dr Shigeno, a leading Japanese literature authority, coined it to express congratulations as an equivalent to Hurrah and the word has since spread worldwide.
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