Sun subscription rates and contact notice
A brief notice outlines subscription details for The Sun including outside city rates of 3.00 per year and 1.50 for six months, a 5 cent monthly rate for mutable city, and instructions to contact the business manager or editor for obtaining The Sun promptly. The office is listed at 125 E. Ohio St., Indianapolis, Indiana, with the telephone numbers provided.
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Spooms
the Sun
Ohio St
Indianapolis
Ind
Subscribership Please Notify The Sun Office
A plea to subscribers of The Sun in Indianapolis requesting prompt notification by letter or phone if delivery is irregular or stopped. The notice lists the office address at 880 Old or New and asks subscribers to inform the paper when they cannot receive future issues.
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Indianapolis
SUN
Common Council
Anglosaxons and Boers in a world of shifting rule
A critical essay compares Boer resistance to Anglo-Saxon dominance with imperial dynamics in Africa and America. It argues that immigration and power shifts threaten minority rule, warning that foreign influence could reshape elections, contracts, and governance.
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Vaal
Cape
England
America
Andianapolis
Turkey
China
Europe
Révelan
Marvelous invention in telegraphy
The article touts Pollak and Virag new automatic telegraph machine claiming 145000 words an hour. It links speed milestones from Morse to Wheatstone and Hughes systems, notes tests in Budapest and praise from Charles Baker of Postal Telegraph. The device uses perforated tape and a light mirror to record Morse with telephonic sounder and photographic paper.
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Anton Pollak
Joseph Virag
Postal-telegraph Company
Buda-Festh
Hughes
Boudot
Noisy Press Versus News Sparks Advertising Debate
The piece contrasts newspaper competition in Indianapolis with the press using space on billboards. It notes public fatigue with Mark Hanna and hints at political maneuvering for 1909. It questions city council credibility and health activism, mentioning smallpox and a pest house. It ends musing on gubernatorial talk.
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Indianapolis
Mark Hanna
Hisi
Hanna
McKinley
Telegraphic Revolution Looms with Hughes System Tests
The Hungarian engineered Hughes telegraph device demonstrated at Buda Pesth and Berlin sent 145000 words per hour, cutting transmission of a 46060 word newspaper to about 16 minutes. Experts from multiple governments witnessed the tests, highlighting vast future savings and enhanced line utilization.
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Buda-Pesth
Berlin
Baker
Hughes
Social whirl fills week with weddings and church events
Gustave Schmedel hosts dinner with friends. Miss Ethel Farley and W. B. Dean wed at Christchurch. Y M C A and Y W C A members welcomed by D. M. Parry. Mayflower church festival planned for next week. Francis E. Clark of Boston to visit. Mannerchor to perform with Evans Wight and McGibeny. State weddings listed in Rushville Portland Hagerstown Richmond Kokomo Seymour Indianapolis Columbus.
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A. M. Noe
Rushville
J. Su. Thomas
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Ethel Farley
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Y. W. Cc
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W. B. Dean
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Mayflower Church
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Franz Bellinger
Alice Fleming Evans
Josephine Wight
Hugh McGibeny
Mabel Thomas
Errett L. Carpenter
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Ind
Portland
Gertrude Millard
Charles Lord
Ethel Crowell
Ernest Wiggs
Hagerstown
Maude Porter
Frank Burke
Richmond
Viola Schneider
Walter E. Krone
Maud Aikin
Fred Wrickett
Kokomo
Lillian Edwards
Oscar T. Carter
Seymour
Rosina Horstman
Fred Nauer
Inianapolis
Columbus
Nellie Gysie
Harry G. Schome
Political Quotations From Various Papers
A compilation of short editorial quips citing voices from Waterloo, Marion, Clay County, Lafayette, Evansville, and Anderson. Items reference campaign tactics, U S influence in China, Philippines progress, Kentucky politics, and alleged Anglo American alignments.
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Philippines
Lafayette Courier
Kentucky
Goebel
Evansville Courier
Susie Tilghman to Wed Italian Count in Villanova
Miss Susan Tilghman engaged to Count Ludovico Lante-Riverra heir to an old Italian noble family. The couple plans a January sail for the United States and a February wedding, likely at Villanova. Miss Tilghman is daughter of Mrs. Richard Tilghman.
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Philadelphia
Susan Tilghman
Coun Ludovico Lante-Riverra
Italy
Ludovico
Villanova
Miss Tighman
Richard Tilghman
Singin Jones of Pippin Crick and The Flag of Freedom
A native-poem landscape features Singin Jones of Pippin Crick praised for verses printed in the Pippin Crick Gazette. It also laments poverty and the poet's unfulfilled job prospects, and ends with a patriotic ballad about England’s flag and the cost of freedom.
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Pippin Crick
Morgan County
Martinez
Pippin Crick Gazette
Jones O Pippin
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