Prices rise while workers bear burden in ship subsidy fight
A column condemns price inflation driven by trade groups led by Hanna and Co. It argues against ship subsidies and tax cuts for luxuries, urging tax retention for public roads and relief for wage earners. It cites Absent County Clerk Sullivan theft and criticizes Indianapolis officials and pensions politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna & Co
Congress
McKinley
Hanna
Ship Builders' Trust
Beer Trust
Bishop Potter Denounces American Money Mindset
The clergy leader rails against the nation’s money fixation as concern rises over a ship subsidy scheme. He frames the issue as a moral lapse and pundits weigh fiscal policy and public spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Potter
Notable Fees and Fables from Public Life and Crime
A collection of vignettes features Cushman K. Davis recalling a $1,000,000 judgment trimmed by $750,000 and a $50,000 fee, Cecil Rhodes and De Wet, an anecdote about German frontiers, a Kipling sea voyage quip, Kipling’s boy on a ship yard arm, and Joe Jefferson aboard a Broadway car with conductor Schneider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cushman K. Davis
United States
Cecil Rhodes
Gen
de Wet
Kimberley
Glasgow Herald
Rhodes
Payrole
Christian DeWet
Raieer
Mr. Rhodes
DeWet
Rudyard Kipling
Lockwood Kipling
Mr. Kipling
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Jefferson
Joe Jefferson
Schneider
New York Sun
Versed Citizens Speak on Law and Local Affairs
A parade of Indianapolis figures voices views on bond requirements in criminal appeals, primary laws, charter government, taxation, bridges, and streetcar service. Citations include Gov Mount Dr Kyle and many merchants, lawyers, and residents debating policy and daily life in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Mount
John J. Kyle
Grand Bluff
Edward A. Remy
Clarence Kenyon
L. C. Griffith
Bob Templeton
Indianapolis
Miss Grace Duvall
Harry B. Potter
Sketches and Songs of a Schemer in Small Town Times
A narrator recalls a performer with a chameleon life, mixing high society with street grit. A rustic singer Mabieu seeks help to win Sallie Temple from a drunken fiancé Rogers, whose collapse derails their wedding and sparks town gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle States
Mabieu
Salle Temple
Rogers
Mabley
Sallie
Sallie Temple
Temple
Miss Temple
The Drunkard Rogers and the Night of Reckoning
A writer recalls impersonating a town drunkard named Rogers during a previous visit and recounts how, after a later reunion, a mob pursues Rogers while a family endures tragedy from a gunshot wound, ending with reflections on America and its leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Rogers
Sallie Temple
Posse
Elderberry
What the Papers Say Collage of Editorial Snippets
A collection notes varying opinions on warship funding army reform temperance in Manila and policing rights. It cites editorials from Detroit Free Press New York Sun Minneapolis Times and Philadelphia Record, referencing bills, licenses and missing persons cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Manila
Minneapolis Times
Biddle
Philadelphia Times
Neely and Rathbone
Cuba
Philadelphia
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SUN
Ohio Street
Outaine
Terial
Ohie
Ind
Frye
Maine
Lake Erie
Colorado
Sullivan
Greencastle
The
Sentinel
Taggart
Mark
Oy Fairbanks
Indiana
Sibley
Bismarck
Europe
Germany
Herr Ober
United States of America
Thomas Harrison
John R. Welch
Barrett
Hugh McGowan
Newsy
California
George Cook
John McGregor
W. Washington St. River
Fom Spafford
James Mahomney
Eugene Thompsonn
E. Tennrist
Chas. Stuckmeyer
John Higgins
Mme. Hermann
Co. & Denny
George W. Powell
Alford
Higgins
Perrott
Council
W. N. Taylor
Reby
George Gonser
Mexico
K. M. Johnson
Joseph Kealing
Love Bros.’ Cotton Mills
Cy Clark
C.E. Kregele
Orpheus Dicks
E. J. Heeb
Carl J. Anderson
Albert D. Rhoades
Clarence van Meter
Frank A. Blanchard
Crownhill Cemetery
Frederick Herron
Theodore Stine
Central-ave
John Reagan
Central
Twelfth-st
Mall
Aires
New York
Pattis Dry Goods
James
Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde
Flatterer
Hamfat
U.s.a
Giovanni
U. S
Napoleon
Detroit Free Press
Hood
Alec
Hingis
Clarence M. Brune
Otis Skinner
Grace Filkins
Maud Durbin
George Nash
Robert Louis Stevanton
Wallace’s
New York City
Mr. Skinmer
Chas. H. Hale
Devil's Auction
Frank C. Bostock
Tomlinson Hall
Empire Theater Deleware mc Que
Natinee
Heuck and Fennessey’s
Yee
Egypt
Spirit OF State Press
Knightstown Journal
Bryan
Carthage
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