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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
4
A Chicago clerk who stole twelve thousand dollars at a hundred dollars per day offers a flawed defense claiming living like a white man. The article condemns the excuse, notes the Iroquois Theater fire that killed about seven hundred, and critiques safety neglect and the love feast politics surrounding Hanna Roosevelt Beveridge.
A terse dispatch recalls Major Pond leading Winston Churchill through the United States on a lecture tour with a Philadelphia luggage mishap. In Hotel Bellevue he maligned fools, sharing a parable about a miller and a fool. The piece also notes a Dawson wreck moral and a Michigan court case.
A collage of dialect passages and humorous vignettes urges readers to beautify the town with gardens and flowers. Folks push a cheerful mood about roses, seeds, spades, and shovels while city life, interurban jokes, and snippets of local chatter fill the page with playful urban charm.
Prof Diggins, a botany expert at Northwestern University, pushes edible mushroom experiments that backfire when his assistant sabotages Prof Starr. Starr dies shortly after, Diggins is declared insane, and a hospital entry notes mind wrecked by mushrooms.
Miss Marie Cahill recalls a benefit in which Joseph Jefferson spoke about drama. Two song and dance girls disrupted the scene, leaning into Cahill as he delivered a monologue, prompting backstage chatter about the lack of laughs.
The British army notes a decline in recruit quality blamed on smoking. Prof Caaka lists symptoms from heavy cigarette use including hoarseness appetite loss dyspepsia pallor rapid pulse chest pain breathing trouble and reduced athletic drive with mental fatigue irritability and memory issues.
A historical description details shotgun parts from stock to barrel. It explains the robotic shaping of the stock, bed digging, hole and notch drilling, and varnishing by machines while women grind the lines. It covers barrel boring, choke shaping, and the layered iron steel welding method leading to varied barrel patterns. The piece references machines, skilled workers, and a January Outing note by J. Ashley.
The burst of f alls to a Harrison lucky horse marks his first engagement on Thursday. He shows high spirit in the glare of footlights, and Elsie Crescy assists as the heroine on a Kentucky feud melodrama. The Park closes the week with Amateur Night at Unique and performances by Laura Thompson Anna Yeaman Carl Jones Jewell and Jewell drawing hundreds.
A tiny orchid in Philadelphia owner Mrs. George B. Wilson keeps is valued at ten thousand dollars though weighing less than an ounce. The cross between cattleya aurea and cattleya lablua is two years old and will not bloom for five more years. The plant was described by Sanders the English collector who wished to buy it for ten thousand.
A traveler on a continental tour records a humorous encounter in an Italian city. He seeks an American hotel and meets a stranger whose slang hints at a famous hotel nearby, yet the exchange underscores the traveler’s isolation in foreign lands.
Aman describes women's hats as resembling a penwiper with fringe and becoming to wearers. A widow receives a bill for curing a husband from an apothecary who died. a farmer compares a woman to a sheaf of wheat before harvesting. A correspondent asks why advertisements favor pretty helpers over plain cooks and notes servants ads come from ladies, not gentlemen.
Swirl of society notes a Woodruil Place dance, a New Year’s party at the Columbia club for members, and the Vasca club of Indiana luncheon at the University club. Murat shrine hosts a Wednesday afternoon children’s party for about 800 at the Scottish Rite temple. Two weddings occur Wednesday evening at Fletcher-place and Meridian Avenue homes. A Bachelor girls’ club marriage is private due to a death. Theatre party and supper planned for 14 couples by a club group Thursday night.
John McClellan, a boy from Frankfort Michigan, shot a 20 pound black bear near Long Lake. The bear reportedly fought fiercely before McClellan prevailed with a muzzle loading shotgun firing bird shot. The incident occurred December 3.
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