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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1904
Page
4
The Indianapolis Sun sermonizes on household frugality and moral conduct, arguing wives often show greater restraint and virtue under financial strain. It condemns male cowardice behind a wife’s reputation and urges a true Christmas charity that blends joy with acts of kindness, compassion, and social duty.
A column contrasts youth success stories with the need for effort and discipline. It rails at laziness, cites five sleeping youths who later excel, and warns that wealth comes from labor not luck. It then critiques Vanderbilt's wealth scheme and societal claims, urging practical work over easy riches.
A London writer estimates recent fogs cost the metropolis 3 750 000 dollars, with annual gloom tolls of 25 000 dollars per year. Gas use soars on foggy days, electric light demand rises, and oil lamps reappear. Trade declines, and only gas and electric stockholders gain.
The article notes about 2,000 golf organizations with 879 clubs in England and 769 in the United States. It estimates $46 to $50 million in club investments, annual expenses near $3,000 per club, and 670,000 players spending roughly $20 million in yearly subscriptions plus $20 per player for equipment.
The Golden Cross hotel in Regensburg Bavaria is claimed as Europe’s oldest. Visitors’ books from 1813 list over 500 imperial royal and princely guests. In 1811 Prussian minister Otto von Bismarck slept there during a conference led by King William of Prussia. The hotel preserves autographs from scholars and authors including the writer of William Tell.
The Church of the Holy Communion in New York proposes an orphanage for babies, one of the few in the metropolis. A new building costing 310,000 will be designed and quickly erected.
Under Belgium's system unmarried men over 25 receive one vote while married men with families and widowers receive two votes. Priests and other persons of position and education have three votes, with severe penalties for failure to vote.
Judge Charles Field of Athol Massachusetts remains the oldest active jurist in New England and the United States. At ninety he sits on his court bench almost daily, conducting cases in Athol or Gardner.
A Norwegian named John Eggensoa developed an electrical apparatus to indicate a sneeze in the deep. It used a metal plate and microphone in water connected by wire to telephones aboard a ship, signaling detection.
A garbled passage discusses a decanter and a purchase at a shop in London, with mentions of an assistant, a customer, and a catalogued work by Stoddard's Review. Names are inconsistently rendered, and many phrases are illegible, but the fragment hints at a collectible item and a later continuation of the work.
A deciphered fragment suggests a school related dispute or observation involving a mother, father, and a child in a distant place. Names and precise events are unclear due to garbled OCR but the piece references schooling, truces, and family figures across an unspecified town.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts a past fair or event titled Sunshine And Smiles, with scattered names and places. The text is largely indecipherable, yielding few concrete facts beyond a faint sense of dated activities and people referenced in a nostalgic, unclear manner.
Fragmentary report describes a debated parliamentary matter about funding and a herd confined in a large park in England. It mentions a herd count, a sale date, and divided park sections with reference to Ferrera and a late February event.
Readers across Indiana and nearby towns contribute varied views on law enforcement, penalties, juvenile crime, and social reforms. Letters reference police bias, fines, court outcomes, Sunday service proposals, and measures affecting public safety and urban life.
A dramatic account from a religious controversy describes a limnime Anglian monk linked to healings in Plymouch and New York. The narrative cites trials, possessions, and testimonies from Father Ignation and others about alleged exorcisms and miraculous powers, with vivid quotes and references to saints and miracles.
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