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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1905
Page
4
The News advocates authorizing the city to elevate railroad tracks at railroad owners expense while opposing public taxation. It condemns illegal liquor sales behind drugstore prescription counters and urges level treatment of all whisky dispensers. editorial comments critique tobacco and political endorsements.
The piece portrays Indiana legislators defending free railroad passes amid reform rhetoric. Durbin Wanly and Bryan condemn passes as bribes, yet lawmakers persist in accepting and using them, defending the practice as a valued perk.
A critical portrait rails at railroad passes shielding lawmakers, mocks Durbin Hanly and Bryan, and attacks Indiana legislators for moral cowardice while praising printed passes. It links a Methodist father's anti cigarette crusade to Beatrice Strubel's Chicago dance hall life and hints at a Russian court martial.
Miss Emma Page, daughter of a rich manufacturer, charged goods to friends at a department store totaling 600 dollars. Arrested after bills were repudiated, the case raises questions of motive, melancholia, and class bias. The piece questions double standards, notes a physician’s deflection, and comments on a jury’s role versus social status. It ends with satirical asides about transportation fares and lawmakers.
A Capitol skit centers on a page questioned about age with a sharp retort about going to the statehouse offices for affidavits. Senator Witlinger sent nox uses to crime committee members while a committee meeting was reportedly contemplated, all wrapped in Anderman style humor and a Kittinger joke.
In Washington, street snow silences sidewalks as a senator’s boyish anger spills ink across Brussels carpet. Benning Slick moves to amend a bill, delivering a lengthy, impassioned defense amid a sleepy chamber where only yeas appear and pictures are drawn on a newspaper.
Dialogue captures a rambling county council atmosphere with slang and interrupted exchanges. References to senators, a builder named Keymore, and two workers on a new government building hint at political tension and working conditions amid casual chatter about weather and personal remarks.
Michael Wells a saloon keeper loses a gold watch and diamond stud valued around 200. James Findley offers to return it for payment but vanishes after a cue from a craps game leads to police. Findley Hart Holt are charged with grand larceny. Walter Kemp returns Wells's diamond after a police search reveals the missing jewel.
Switzerland proceeds with at least fourteen electric mountain railways under construction, aiming to connect major Alpine peaks. Nearly all leading heights will be accessible in coming years, with Jungfrau and Chamounix lines slated to open to passengers by summer 1906.
Former Indianapolis resident Lewis J Walters 4 died in St Louis Wednesday after a brief illness. Burial arrangements are pending with survivors not listed.
The roll lists five revolution era pensioners and 1,116 for the War of 1812. It shows 4,374 for Indian wars and 13,874 for the Mexican war. Civil war invalids total 703,456 and widows 248,390, Spanish American War invalids 9,200 and widows 35,668, with regular establishment invalids 9,170 and widows 2,938.
A compilation of curious claims outlines London cabs ownership by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, large bird killings for millinery, and global housing ratios. It also notes Japan schooling rates, Russia's sparsity of enrolled children, a Manchester water reservoir with coal mining nearby, and a Swiss man who claims monthlong water immersion using a self-made rubber suit.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Howard county Indiana seeks to vacate the streets of New Chicago after a gas pumping plant failed, leaving a dozen homes and a clubhouse deserted. Farmers planned a town that never grew, while pumps stopped and workers left, prompting tax concerns and debates on ruins versus potential renewal.
A miscellany recalls sixty years ago with tales of the old fashioned Yankee boy and lessons after Cornwallis s surrender. It also notes Prof Brieger in Berlin and a humorous wire pulling remark about Thucydides in American public life.
Special to The Sun reports in Baltimore that eight pupils at the Girls Latin School formed a society and refused to obey Principal Undegrotts ban on fraternities and certain attire. Emma Shaw, daughter of the secretary of the treasury, remained at home claiming delicate health. Four other girls were suspended. five refused to wear pinafores as ordered, and vacancies followed.
Rome reports little change in Warsaw as most strikers who returned to work have gone out again and authorities grow nervous over looming developments. In Klet, troop redeployments to Manchuria were cancelled, keeping forces if local needs require. The Thirty-third artillery unit has 3% pounds of shrapnel per gun as workers sleep rough in the streets, ready for action.
The Wyoming state senate on Wednesday heard graft charges against UC B Senator Francis B. Warren, but the resolution calling for an investigation was tabled by party lines. Only Republican Patrick Sullivan voted in favor of the probe.
The condition of George Lorenz, jailed for postal frauds with August Machen, improves rapidly after his fall at home in Toledo. He plans to leave for Washington in a few days, aiming to depart Monday.
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