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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1910
Page
4
Old and New telephones by department with numbers 1871 and 1872. Editorial rooms listed as 980. Subscription rates shown: 6 cents per week by carrier, 25 cents per month by mail, and 3 dollars per year. Indianapolis post office second class mail designation.
The piece surveys political clashes around La Follette, Roosevelt critics, and postmaster Hitchcock GOP tensions. It notes Indiana population trends, calls for stricter traffic-law enforcement, and highlights Milwaukee Journal disclosures on anti La Follette funding. The report links Indiana spending to defeats of Beveridge and other eastern interests.
The note prompts readers to shop during the season with the Post-Dispatch urging participation. It frames shopping as a shared experience while acknowledging individual moments of choosing presents.
Denver proposes a new hall of fame honoring women, aiming to recognize achievements and inspire civic pride. The initiative, highlighted by local leaders, seeks to celebrate trailblazers and strengthen community identity in the city.
The Supreme Court faces a busy docket during Rush Season with major tobacco and trust cases—unclear timing may delay a comprehensive editorial on the Ohio State Journal.
The piece argues that two thousand landowners including Lords dominate English politics. It cites unequal property votes and varied division tallies that let owners move and vote where they hold property. It claims millions are disfranchised, tenant farmers dominate, and elite landowners threaten reform and even revolution.
In a critical editorial tone the piece questions the 1.527 billion dollars spent on the war department since 1898, comparing it with foreign military spending, and questions why munitions, defenses, and manpower are lacking while proposing wartime reform and linking to other government scandals. The column urges placing the war department on a sanitary waiting list alongside previous controversies.
Following a statewide good roads conference Indiana tilbews to join states embracing road improvements. The committee reports nearly 20,000 citizen replies, with merchants bankers and railroad men among the respondents, highlighting road transport impacts on agriculture industry and rail traffic.
The Scrap Book notes a sentiment by M Alice Well about bonds formed through love struggle and suffering, highlighting enduring links forged in shared hardship and affection.
A quoted verse by Edward Markham appears in Nautilus. The speaker reflects on youth companionship and shared joy, standing before the years with the world feeling newly bright and filled with happy tears.
The poem by Charlotte Becker in the New York Sun honors a person who endures hard luck with a dauntless fight until the end. It contrasts worldly power and rare talent with steadfast courage under fate's pairings.
The poem describes a lone defender facing a righteous fight against a corrupt city. He endures jeers and calls to surrender while walls of sin stand firm. Eventually the earth trembles and a ruinous roar collapses the citadel, leaving the solitary soldier beneath the stars with new thoughts.
A poem celebrating a child’s imagination of Christmas as a mighty benevolent ruler. The monarch oversees all stores and homes, commands generosity, and brings joy to good boys and girls. Though tools are simple, his power comes from love of life and giving. The verse casts Christmas as a dreamlike reign in every home.
A Baltimore Sun piece cites California health boards finding babies do not pay and notes the high costs of raising a child from birth to twenty. It argues the true value lies in motherhood, family joy, and the nation’s future, praising Col Roosevelt’s call for more babies.
A farmer's wife explains to her 15 year old son that an heirloom is something passed from father to son and valued for its history. The boy replies that he would prize them more if they were not so long in the legs, implying a humorous misreading of heirloom length.
A brief note from New York Press reflects a domestic scene as Mrs. Benham and a question about who answered a ringing bell or telephone at home. The vignette captures a moment of interruption and social curiosity in a household setting.
Eve gives Adam a fig leaf and instructs to keep it in the bottom bureau drawer. The anecdote notes this as the start of a custom, reflecting a humorous or ironic reinterpretation of the biblical scene.
A Houston Post column questions the value of corn clubs, noting surprise at the attention they attract. The exchange satirizes the clubs’ quality with a jab about JT and improvised tools, reflecting public skepticism.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip frames a widow’s reply to marriage prospects, noting that even self-made men are not easy to reshape. The exchange highlights social attitudes toward wealth, status, and remarriage in a dated context.
The article argues that San Francisco and New Orleans campaign for recognition via publicity to attract national attention, highlighting how communities increasingly value publicity. It stresses avoiding scandal and crime associations, urges citizens to support their cities, and emphasizes individual responsibility and pride in public affairs.
A Montana Record piece urges citizens to join in booster efforts for local projects. It promotes spirited support, community uplift, and backing peers when others pursue town improvements, framing civic boosterism as a shared duty and opportunity.
Henry Lewis argues for San Francisco as the 1915 world exposition site, contending the fair should serve national progress rather than New Orleans or local interests. He praises San Francisco’s funding and ambition, urging Congress to choose the Pacific venue for educational and continental advancement.
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