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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
4
Fractured OCR notes show merchants urged to prepare for next year with outlines of purchases and pricing strategies. References to holiday buying, cost constraints, and market expectations surface amid jumbled lines and stray names.
Traders discuss price adjustments after the holiday surge. Some prices fall post rush as stores clear stock and prepare for new lines. One merchant notes early planning for the next year to meet foreign buyers expectations and ensure stock is moved before the next Christmas season.
In Cincinnati a group of lab women invited Mr. Elliott Pendeltom to speak on smoke issues. He noted that in St Louis the smoke nuisance has been abated 0 percent and shared other insights during the address.
It is reported that Winston Churchill will be paid 40000 dollars as a down payment plus royalties for the life of his father the late Lord Randolph Churchill.
In Mexican mining camps during Christmas week dancers perform a near continuous sequence of dances. A traditional Spanish fandango is described with bell crowned hats and decorate trousers. The community spectacle includes waltz and other Terpsichorean forms as miners and visitors applaud grace and skill throughout the festive period.
Roosevelt favored Dolliver measure would grant the Interstate Commerce Commission exclusive power to set rail rate corrections with no court appeals, avoiding confiscation risk while ensuring due process. The key question remains whether the commission or the courts hold real power, with Moody opposing Elling style provisions.
A former janitor at Ane Medical college Budd Day and Melle Irwin face disappearance as authorities probe missing persons cases. A new janitor has been appointed to fill the role amid uncertainty about Day and Irwin's whereabouts.
Debtors from the plorer districts of London are brought before a court after three weeks of proceedings. A low charge of 12 vents is quoted for ordinary office calls, reflecting a budget medical service offered to residents.
The Hermitage branch of the Ladies' Hermitage Association in Nashville bans a portrait of Gen. Jackson deeming it unlikable and not resembling the gentleman. Rachel Lawrence, president and Gen. Jackson adopter granddaughter, leads the group in the dispute.
A dramatic elevator test in a New York company shaft sent a cage and platform rising to 3430 pounds to the top. A broken attachment caused the cage to drop to the bottom of the shaft, but only a few dishes and a sewer were broken. The test, overseen by Harph Chappel, a government inspector, was deemed satisfactory.
Observation from a diarist recounts impressions of Salem women. Washington notes include remarks on appearance and hair color, mentioning around a hundred women observed as handsome and well dressed with comparatively darker hair than in the south.
In Philadelphia a high school tried to modify basketball for girls with special rules but the girls refused and said they would not play at all if they cannot play by the same rules as the boys.
St Louis aims to host two major conventions in the 1880s by building a new Coliseum to accommodate them, signaling a bid for national gatherings and municipal prestige in the growing city.
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