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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1905
Page
5
The piece denounces child labor as the processing of children into a product for profit. It cites Georgia, Wheeling, and Pittsburgh cases showing long hours and danger. It argues that protecting childhood elevates civilization and questions treating children as mere labor units.
The Daily Story recounts an interview with Julius Caesar via a sepulchral medium. Caesar defends his administration against Brutus and Cassius rumors, calls Brutus crazy, and jokes about his assassination tale becoming a political misread. He notes Cassius’ influence and details on ancient figures, finishing with a plan for a box party.
In Madrid, Spanish workmen form 34 unions totaling about 262,000 members, many anarchists, aiming to press state confessions. Motormen are poorly paid at six tenths to half a cent daily for ten hours, with extra six hours on two off days monthly. Workers bear half the uniform cost, incur fines, and contribute to a mutual society covering doctors’ fees and partial wages for three months plus funeral expenses. Most laborers earn only around 11 cents a day, with no one earning more than $1.20 daily.
Special to the Sun from Los Angeles reports Alva J. Reynolds’s flying machine, a boat like craft with oar driven wings and a gas bag, capable of lifting with ballast stones, demonstrated at Flesia Park. Reynolds and his wife built the device, which imitates bird balance and air control.
A whimsical nautical interlude features a sailor bug voicing concern that a horse will drink the ocean dry, mixing comic imagination with coastal character. The line captures playful dialogue and seaside whimsy.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk held memorial services for four members at English's Opera House in Indianapolis. Exalted Ruler Frank Davey spoke, a quartet sang, and Henry Warrum gave the memorial address noting the act as remembrance, not mourning. The event closed with hymns and prayers, honoring H. H. Tasasey E.G. Farmer W.4. Amos and William Kotteman.
Oliver H Tuttle an old Indiana rural carrier died suddenly of paralysis yesterday morning after completing his Saturday mail run in Greenfield Indiana He was noted for decades of service delivering mail in the countryside.
Noble C. Butler, clerk of the United States court, left for Washington Monday to attend the Red Cross society of America convention as a delegate from Indiana. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks is also listed as a delegate.
Local agitation against liquor results in a lid on saloons in Bedford. A remonstrance signed by 41 of 68 voters bars salons from the first word. Bedford currently has 19 licensed saloons. An effort to bar saloons from the second word was attempted.
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