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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1905
Page
4
Classified ad fragment lists telephones and business rooms with pricing and contact numbers, noting old and new lines and miscellaneous service details. The partial text mentions phone numbers and a business reference, indicating a small commerce notice from a vintage newspaper page.
A long critique condemns faddists in public education and defends practical core studies. It cites Indiana and Indianapolis debates, warns of theory overload, and lauds basic reading writing arithmetic history and geography. The piece also touts Sunday baseball, school book reform, and related political shifts in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
A historical account of Senator Beveridge and the long senate struggle over statehood for Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona with partial victory for Oklahoma and New Mexico while Arizona waits. Notes Beveridge leadership Indiana pride and the temperance debate linked to liquor versus water.
Washington figures show goods worth 1.451 billion sold by Uncle Sam in 1904 while purchases stood at 1.035 billion. The year marked the first billion-dollar purchases and exports surpassed 500 million for manufactured goods. The trade surplus over a decade ran near four billion with sales outpacing purchases by over 40 percent last year and in 1902, unlike earlier years when the margin was much smaller.
At the new Vienna university chair of fish pathology and biology a carp is treated for an inflammation resembling appendicitis, ten others suffer from smallpox, a porpoise from the Adriatic has lung inflammation, a trout has cataracts in both eyes, and another fish shows dropsy.
The French government dispatched Prof. tard of the Sorbonne and the Academy of Sciences to inspect oyster beds after rumors linked oysters to typhoid. Prof. Girara declares oysters cannot convey typhoid fever, based on thorough testing, countering pollution theories.
Bishop Potter of New York defends a prior mistake in dedicating a balloon and asserts the subway saloon improves the area by driving out three sinha6 saloons, claiming progress as people can drink honestly without adultery.
The Senate receives flowers from several senators with Purviance Lyons Gavins and Hugg named. A pink from Purviance, a camna Yon from Lyons and sieme from Hugg are noted as tokens. Appointments extend to sixty days while doorkeepers stay in place amid questions of job rights and a joking line about a basement room to read papers.
The piece narrates a chaotic scene around Senator Kitinger on the plotter committee, detailing aides and rivals, including a beleaguered writer, a doorkeeper hopeful, and a young Republican with ambition. It notes Howe’s views on Sunday baseball and the senator’s overcoat remark, while skimming house cloakroom antics and a missionary debate.
The article argues the southern United States preserved Anglo-Saxon civilization in its pure form with intact stocks, customs, and institutions. It claims whites in the region maintain their traditional character despite modernization and external social changes, preferring familiar paths over radical evolution.
The article explains that Webster's early editions defined sew as cheat or play with, prompting influential Israelites to request removal. The term had no link to Mosaic faiths, deriving instead from the French jeu and jouer meaning to play with or cheat, but its spelling shifted to jew.
A collage of humorous exchanges and misheard lines about poetry and science. A Newton apple anecdote and offbeat dialogue reveal village banter on fashion, government, and everyday quirks, preserving a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper voice.
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