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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
4
The column rails at length about city affairs from water contracts to public works and hazing in military schools. It voices concern over rates, political influence, and infrastructure projects while peppering in satirical commentary on local leaders and figures like Davis, Stuckmeyer, Fairbanks, and Kern.
A jumbled excerpt shows talk about a joke of John Pry and general remarks on the weather business. The dialogue mentions Mr Wappenhans Auditor Smith and asserts there is nothing doing in that line nowadays. The text reflects informal, unresolved chatter among multiple speakers.
A poem fragment centers on Polly Elder who proclaims she has just turned twenty two at a party. A man questions her age, others react with rudeness and banter about flirtation and pretended diplomacy. The verse mingles wit with bold body language and social awkwardness.
A reader shares an old anecdote about Leigh Hunt and a challenge that produced a four stanza poem about champagne and floating on wine. The column mentions Miss Beatrice Harraden recovering after a mountaineering accident in Norway and a Norwegian translation quirk. It then surveys anecdotes about Frankfort Moore, Booth Tarkington, and Edmund Clarence Stedman, noting Stedman’s praise at the Authors’ dinner and a Yale bad boy label for Stedman tied to a poem in a manuscript.
Blibber accuses Krogger of evil behavior noting he led a 5 year old boy to a saloon to drink. Blubber reacts with disbelief and humor mishears the tale as involving limburger cheese.
Burgomaster opens a brief engagement at English's Friday with a Saturday matinee as the Grand plays to crowded houses this week. Caught in the Web, a sensational drama, draws two big Park audiences with standing room at a premium. The Utopians entertain Empire crowds while the Zoo exhibits a dangerous dog-faced baboon known as the Hon-slayers.
The clippings survey cites Detroit News on subsidies and holiday humor about Senator Hanna, New York World on dukes versus kidnappers, Kansas City World on China and international law, Minneapolis Times on ship subsidy politics, New York Journal on revocable treaties, San Francisco Call on constitutional opposition, and a note from Dr Bull's Cough Syrup claiming half a century of use as a standard remedy.
A clerkship applicant recalls saving his best arrow and paying his own college way, while a bulldog-faced merchant quips about fixes and sleeves. The scene shifts to Barker the salesroom helper and a saloon crowd scoffing, as holidays fade with cigarette smoke and mills quieting.
An old advertisement for Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup promotes uses for teething pain. It claims soothing effects and relief from wind colic and diarrhoea. Bottle price is twenty five cents.
Indiana Dental College located at S W Cor Delaware and Ohio streets accepts patients daily from 8 a m to 5 p m for all dental work. Fees are set to cover only the cost of services with no profit.
Newspapers share sharp quips on war finish, army canteens and public morals. Critics argue the canteen's harm vs saloon influence near posts while others mock politicians and society figures connected to wartime life and divorce courts.
The article lists assorted local items: a safe robbery at Exchange Hotel with $4 cash and $209 in checks, possible reorganization of an anti meters group, Central labor union plans to organize telephone girls, a small house fire causing $25 damage on Highland, and a birthday supper for Mrs. Meadows. It also notes Gen Harrison paying $20,000 for a building, Builders' Exchange move to Majestic building, miscreants firing at streetcars, Milton Cobbler sueing L and W for $1299, J O Martin attending Mansfield Gimbel wedding, McCormack winning a $15,000 lottery prize, Mrs. Mary Elster burned in Irvington, and the Indiana Historical Society electing officers with aims to boost library funds.
Receiver Malett’s annual report shows Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad net earnings for the year ending Oct 31 at 577 176 16 dollars, up 47 593 40 from last year, with total earnings 1 620 016 15 and expenses 1 042 839 99. St Louis Vandalia Terre Haute net earnings reached 549 295 24 dollars. Vandalia divisions spent 159 700 28 more on maintenance of way and structures than the prior year.
The Portfolio club held a Christmas entertainment Thursday evening at the Woodruff Place clubhouse. Rev and Mrs A J Graham left for Rochester NY. Mr and Mrs Joseph Greenen hosted two masquerades Thursday for their daughter Blanche Greenen and guest. State weddings include Nellie Edward and Louis H Riffel of Rochester NY in Wabash and Ella New and Charles Taylor in Whitestown. Albert Rabb hosted two receptions Thursday for Indiana State University alumnae with greens and poinsettias on display.
The Tron league colored republican organization held a Thursday night reception in its rooms on Indiana Ave. The rooms were attractively decorated and refreshments served. Soloists Miss Maud Bass and W D Collins led the singing with the Star quartet. Speeches were given by Rev. John Preston Dr S A Furniss Rev R French Hurley D D Minor and James H Lott.
A 68 year old man, H. Laird, missing from his North Illinois street home since Wednesday, was found near Fairview Park Thursday afternoon. Authorities say he is mentally unbalanced and unable to recall where he spent the previous night.
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