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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1905
Page
6
A letter notes that a rival News item misrepresented Indianapolis Sun funding and policy. It asserts no new capital from eastern or western interests, confirms local ownership for a year, and challenges the correction promised by the News. Also mentions postmaster changes and debate over railway rate protections.
William Allen White portrays moral decline in the fiction true to life style with John Markley a western banker who rises then falls amid scandal and divorce. The steel trust tale of Corey and Carey reveals industrial morality and divine wrath as business demands decency and sobriety.
A piece notes President Roosevelt birthplace becoming a national shrine, predicting many visits and enduring homage if he remains in office. It laments a large sum sent abroad for investments in American girls’ adornments, questioning watered stock in the noble expenditure.
The article discusses President Roggevelt’s Dolliver rate regulation proposal, framing it as a test of justice between railways and the public. It argues the plan grants the Interstate Commerce Commission real power to regulate rates, ensuring government serves people and railways fairly, while protecting railways from unjust harm.
The registrar general reports England’s birth rate in the last half of 1905 at a record low. The piece critiques modern civilization and its social and industrial conditions pushing men to marry late and have few children, citing misery among urban clerks and rising concerns over population trends.
The Rev. Erverly Warner of New Orleans urges Sunday school listeners to grasp Christmas’s meaning beyond gifts. A humorous tale of a boy’s innocent query about God, a watchman, and a janitor contrasts with a retail scene showing Christmas spirit as materialism, featuring a jeweler, a clerk, and a customer seeking a solitaire ring.
A ministerial head of the family guards a troubled night ritual as a five year old recites a flawed prayer asking for love and mercy in place of fear. The boy asks for protection from punishment and prays for relatives while drifting toward sleep.
Fragmentary Chicago News snippet shows dialogue about bribery involving a Lang at pack Goor and Hobo figure. Vague slang and garbled names obscure clear event, with mention of a small item and shifting locations as comic overheard chatter.
A collection of brief reader quotations from Marion Indiana voices discussing retirement plans city governance complaints, weather, local business, politics, and holiday reflections. Notable names include JACOB F. DUNN ROBERT SCOTT COL M A DOWNING CHARLES BARRY CHARLES RIGG HOWARD MALONE RAMLEL DAVIS JAMES RYAN J A GAUNTT ROBERT MACHAN FRANK GREEN DL M GETTING FRANK NEFF LOU SMITH EDWARDE LEO NUSSBAUM CAPT JOHN FIELDS CHARLES BERNAUERR JOHN HOOVER and others offering opinion on public duties, elections and community life.
Senator Foraker shares amusing Niagara stories while a group including William J. Bryan listens, highlighting jokes about visitors misreading the falls, a servant’s talk of luxury, and a resourceful crowd at a public banquet. The piece recounts humorous exchanges and a tale of a mother and a boy in a parlor.
A Denver Post note describes a brief, awkward exchange after a theater outing. A woman recalls a chance meeting in a restaurant and clarifies she did not misread the other person’s interest while noting a prior case involving her husband dismissing a man for attempting impropriety with the cook.
In a brief humorous exchange the baker touts doughnuts as worth ten cents a dozen while crufters carry the same price. A customer questions differences naming chutiora and holes in the eater, dismissing extra cost for holes as unnecessary. Catholic Standard and Times.
A critic notes Henry Rochefort’s Lanterne was once widely read across Europe but now his writings are largely ignored by followers. An admiring reader estimates Rochefort produced near daily articles for almost fifty years, enough to fill a library of about 300 volumes.
The Supreme Court overruled a lower court ruling in a case where E. Barnes a traveling salesman was hospitalized for weeks after swallowing a pin. He sued an accident company for weekly indemnity and judgment was denied in the higher court.
Report from the Grand hotel on Thomas Taggart defending party unity in Marion County. He disputes faction claims while praising Baker and urging primary voting. Also notes Chalmers Lawrence’s remarks on Indiana emigration to Chicago, Walsh banking crisis reactions, and MC A Japan chapter work and personnel.
A fragmentary page mixes quirky dialogue about running away and learning by travel with local commentary on improvements and a bank’s holiday savings book promotion. It includes snippets about a judge, an intoxicated remark, a violin scene, and civic projects at The Indicator area, plus a pitch for Indiana Trust Company gift savings plans.
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