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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1904
Page
4
The Indianapolis Sun notes three union laborers in Marion county jail for contempt of court, reflecting on labor, law, and principle. It argues unionism itself is not illegal, urges restraint, and questions motives of judge Anderson while praising self discipline and responsibility.
A young man burdened by mounting debts resolves to change his life. With a frugal wife and overtime work, he cuts expenses and increases earnings, regaining energy, ambition, and confidence as he pays off obligations and pursues future prosperity.
Nan Patterson's public display of affection for her aged father amid a sensational trial is described as among the most pathetic features. The aged parent has returned to jail to await another phase of the proceedings that grip public attention.
A young woman teacher with a degree and one year at college has taught ten years but cannot pay schooling debts while supporting an invalid mother. Many teachers report eating one meal a day, mainly oatmeal and a doughnut, during vacations. Only two of a hundred teaching posts allow families to send children to college. a woman bought one good dress in four years. In 1903 Indiana, average teacher salary was 440 dollars, while typical family expenditure was 785 dollars.
A playful collection of alliterative tongue twisters about seashells shells shrimp and riddles. It mixes phrases on selling sea shells peeling potatoes and royal rulers and fires, highlighting repetitive sounds for rapid enunciation.
A goose at an English inn attracts attention by doing a clog dance to Down South. It eats bread and cheese, wakes it with stout, and entertains patrons with its surprising antics. The curious bird draws visitors and local chatter.
Charles F. Dodge, once a Montpelier hotel man, faces perjury charges after a tangled sequence of divorces and annulments involving Mrs. Dodge Morse and Charles W. Morse. Details allege a plot by a prominent Tammany lawyer, with Dodge kept in Texas on unlimited funds before being flown back to New York for trial watched by six men. Mrs. Morse and Morse are believed in Europe but may attend the case.
A garbled collage of captions and remarks about travel to Utah, a St. Louis woman jailed over a streetcar seat, museum talk of a lightning change artist, and various brief quips about Geronimo, Tom Lane, and stock licenses. The piece closes with a light science note on moles and their tunneling.
Albert Joseph Holmquist of Brooklyn New York known as the Baby Sandow at ten months old stands 28 inches tall and weighs 35 pounds. He allegedly defeats a 32 year old cousin in mock bouts, lifts a fifty five pound flatiron with one hand, walks unassisted, and takes away items from older children twice his size.
Two children of Lieut. Peary the Arctic explorer attend a Washington school. A boy and a girl born nearer to the north pole than any other white child known, are identified with the historic family.
A triad of dated notes surveys past anniversaries: seventy five years ago a proclamation denied convoking a constitutional countess at mots, forty years ago blood evacuations near Decatur, twenty years ago a royal betrothal announced to England by Queen Victoria, ten years ago a Mexican assault at 41 Huronat involving Abe Wits Hama.
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