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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1905
Page
4
Old 626 New 412 sves Both Phones 88. Information appears in a concise newspaper clipping about the editorial rooms and business office contact numbers.
The piece argues that sequestered taxable property burdens taxpayers and supports a proposed auditor led search to reduce taxes. It questions political ramifications, warns of tax dodgers paying dues, and asserts the need to fulfill party pledges while noting broader reforms and unrelated political commentary.
The piece discusses the Republican party as the nation’s trusted force delivering reforms yet now at a crossroads. It argues capital centralization, reduced competition, and growing trusts under Republican rule. It notes promises from the late presidential campaign for tariff revision and regulation of trusts and railroads, urging action.
An old health feature explains pneumonia as epidemic, cites the pneumococcus microbe, and emphasizes weakened health, poor nutrition, and crowded quarters as risk factors. It urges prevention through clean living, good nutrition, and prompt treatment, noting over 100,000 annual U.S. deaths and occasional quarantines on ships. The piece also hints at political and industrial tangents.
A large farm corporation has been organized in Canada to cultivate fruit vegetables and fire stock. It has secured options on 3000 acres of land in the Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia. The valley is praised as a premier fruit region and specialists will be placed in each branch to run the operation more economically than as small farms.
Reporters crowd the senate lobby as Senator Moore meets with Gurney Brewer of the World amid talk of Cantwell Sayre ties. Page George Neal and Evansville Rep Darby are noted for humor, while printing economy impacts the assembly. references to townships, transit, and curious anecdotes fill the scene.
An elderly man was found dead Monday afternoon in his room at 110% FL Twenty second street Indianapolis. Neighbors broke in after he had been suffering from asthma for years. He rented the room for a month. His son George Mann lives nearby. The coroner was notified.
The aged former Massachusetts governor Boutwell turns 87, celebrated by family and friends who sent flowers and congratulatory letters. He remains the last surviving among seven Massachusetts governors born in ink, with recent deaths including ex-Gov Chiftin, Boutwell’s junior by two months.
Rev Dr William J Long of Stamford Com, writer on animal life and natural history, is once more nearly blind after a skating accident caused another eye hemorrhage. He had been recovering from a previous hemorrhage and was able to walk about before the new injury occurred during his skating.
A fragmentary Washington Star style exchange features flirtatious dialogue about love social status and theatre. Names like Mia Tunnington Harvard Eliot and Dr John Alex appear amid banter on elegance, aristocracy, and a proposed production of Hamlet as a comic tragedy. The piece reads as a playful, disjointed dialogue rather than a cohesive narrative.
A fragmentary scene describes Wagner fans gathering in Washington for a Wednesday performance as a speaker asks if they would attend. A girl from Latrobe is pressed by a man to join the event while another exchange involves a comic remark about improving the crowd’s mood. A dentist anecdote ends with a pun about quackery and remedies.
A collection of anecdotes shows how itinerant peddlers and letters reveal quirks of mid century life. Luce the New England peddler is long familiar in Maine and New Hampshire rural homes while a terse encounter on a North Conway hill ends in tragedy. A note on political mail reveals how private secretaries handle personal letters and a shocking inner envelope addressed to Senator Beveridge in Indiana prompts a startled reaction from Thomas R. Shipp of the Senate.
Dolliver spoke during a West Virginia campaign near his birthplace, voicing a sentimental tribute to the old country. The crowd echoed with a farmer’s interjections as the senator recalled farm life and long hours spent there, while supporters teased him about his memory.
An old reminiscence recalls Cullom Bang and a social gathering where a committee hosted a levee. Participants attempted singing Auld Lang Syne and shared humorous mishaps as they waited for someone to lead, ending with a chorus and a long breath drawn before resuming.
Col Frank Beard recalled a sentence spoken by judge James Fitzgerald that he believes is the longest on record. Beard described a line from William Ewart, Bourke Cochran, and Phillips Brooks as a comparison, noting Fitzgerald’s words, Forty-eight years at hard labor in a state prison.
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