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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
4
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The piece surveys a speculative mood about legislative betting on topics like apportionment laws, cigarette regulation, railroad commissions, and prison contracts. It notes the Hod noted public interest in City of Indianapolis issues, including the Virginia Avenue viaduct delays and South Side complaints, plus Columbus political chatter and festive charity efforts.
A column recounts Dr Edward Everett and Prof Morse letters with illegible handwriting and playful misreadings. It includes a tongue in cheek note from T B Aldrich praising Morse and a Amherst observatory joke about seeing the Milky Way and Antares, as reported by the New York Times.
A collection of humorous captions and quips from early 20th century papers. Exchanges mix irony about money, social plans, and telephone miscommunications. Notable lines reference a theater outing, a modest budget, and a forthcoming marriage announcement.
Chief engineer J F Wallace leads a $2,000,001 Great American project to open an isthmian waterway. J B Haggin’s 4 acre American River ranch in California, once valued at 1,200,900, now raises horses. The plan imagines dividing the fertile tract into small parcels for sale.
Amusements note a thrilling Park play titled Queen of the Highway featuring Belle Diamond the robber queen who entices her husband away then plans to steal from stage coaches and cheats people. After multiple schemes she shoots her husband, misreads him, and seeks forgiveness as bloodhounds and rescues heighten the melodrama. Ruth Carney stars as a chicoubrette at the Empire in Merry Maidens, a popular show this week.
A collage of excerpts discusses Texas magnitude, global population, and per capita land needs, noting if all people shared land evenly a Texan family might still own more than half an acre. It includes engineering standards on load per square foot, a prairie journey story, and opinions on southern growth, wheat farming, naval returns, and Missouri livestock wealth.
A Minnesota journalist notes climate shifts and new settlement in western Canada raising wheat yields in North Dakota. He reports Dakota fields prospering, expects 200000 bushels from Dickinson, and links rain and settlement in Assiniboia to improved growing conditions. The piece cites L C Pettibone of Dawson XII as saying wheat wilt is unlikely on plains.
Great interest has been aroused in Pu tShin California after the announcement that a gold mine has been discovered almost within the city limits of Pueblo, a noted manufacturing center nicknamed the Pittsburg of the west, now seeking fame in the mining world.
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