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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1904
Page
4
Abbreviated page text lists subscription rates and delivery terms for the Indianapolis Sun Pioneer One Cent Paper, noting domestic and outside city pricing, with per week and advance payment options and unclear typographic errors. It reflects a historic newspaper ad rate card style.
Boston writer Thomas W. Lawson blasts stock manipulation exposing frenetic financiers while Col Greene threatens him. Chicago university receives Rockefeller gift despite denial of loan source. A hotel theft primer follows with a waiter and souvenir thief contrasted, then a Methodist school declines an $160,000 bequest for theater disapproval amid Indiana progress and a local boy’s swimming woes as skating ends due to canal drought.
A rough area coats rivers unsuitable for skating and a boy limited to basketball and geography studies. The text oddly questions reporters, department access, and mentions an astronomer discovering a trail on the moon, ending with an upbeat sign off.
A poem fragment contrasts a drunken man with Christmas carols and a mission street scene. It wanders to a memories of childhood and a critique of modern cynicism. Separate notes report a Chicago man’s claim crime stops when everything is free, a Bible sale, Japan at a peace conference, and the American baseball league president earning more than the secretary of the treasury.
A collage of humorous exchanges from early 20th century papers shows a man misreading flattery as praise, a comic tale of wings and misused talent, a toy shop gag about gunpowder, and a Rheumatism fortune teller joke. Names and sources include Detroit Free Press Chicago Record Herald Philadelphia Press and Chicago News.
Dr Joan Viard named minister plenipotentiary from Haiti at the court of St James. Viard noted as a distinguished man of letters and ally of leading Halt statesmen. In 1903 he wrote Roosevelt on black racial superiority, triggering wide excerpts. Charley Tt marries Jomle Badenach after parental objections. Wisconsin law bans certain marriages.
The Parisian widows entertain Empire patrons with Will Poster the piano player delivering a musical comedy act and a strong comic performance. Wedded and Parted, a New York upper crust melodrama, headlines the Park’s week, with Marty Cunard praised and Frances White House debuting as The Wronged Wife. The Unique theater features amateur showcases and Jekyll and Hyde later in January, while Fox farm notes and a Winnipeg correspondent groom curiosities. A federal trial in Kansas City draws sharp courtroom rebuke from Judge Page. a children’s verse closes with a Christmas note about Noah’s Ark and a playful yarn by The Child.
In a humorous social vignette two Missouri figures, Senator Cockrell and Joseph W Folk, share a St Louis departure and a smoking car chat as Folk notices Cockrell hide his shoes beneath the bedcovers, joking about porter polish and voters. The piece blends political anecdote with lighter anecdotes about public figures and etiquette from the era.
An early western institution in Japan, the Imperial Mint at Osaka, became fully Japanese after a convention at Yedda Ish. Japan's government previously purchased the Hongkong mint from Britain, which Hong Kong had decided to discontinue. The mint is now managed entirely by Japan.
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