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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1905
Page
6
State Senator W. S. Fitzpatrick leads conservative lawmakers in staking out oil policy amid tense control of territories and property rights. The remarks frame a stubborn stand on self respect and resistance to concessions, as debates spill into the Indian Territory field and party dynamics.
Topeka reports a heated struggle between Kansans and Standard Oil as lawmakers draft new measures amid boycott talk. Pro and anti trust factions clash over refinery plans, aims to curb price gouging, and possible state oil operations. Knapp’s Chanute field tale highlights rate discrimination and the producer’s precarious position against the trust.
Frank Lee, a familiar racetrack figure of the early 1990s, challenges the claim that Hildebrand holds the season’s record for most winning mounts. He cites his 1891 rides for Ka Corrigan and Hugh Penny’s 391 season as evidence that counts are misattributed and questions the credit given to Hildebrand for the record.
A fragmentary horoscope warns that a birthday on this day portends misfortune in love and finances. It predicts quarrels, legal trouble, and losses in the coming year, with a grim note about a recurring bad fate in business and health.
The New Orleans Board of Health announced that five lepers escaped from the state lepers' home in the past two weeks. They are at large in the city and feared to spread the disease.
Federal grand jury in Montgomery indicts sixteen individuals for peonage and conspiracy. Prosecutors allege white men held white and Black workers, while Black workers were forced to keep other Black people in bondage.
An advertisement extols Dr. A W Chase s Nerve Pill as restoring vitality to nervous women and girls under strain. It cites Mrs Anna Doretz of Niagara Falls and Henry J Huder of Indianapolis endorsing relief from worry insomnia and daytime nervousness with a claimed life improving effect.
A Chicago report notes the West End Brothers council replaced the traditional Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep with substitutes after members argued the old verse promotes death. Mothers voiced concerns over children resisting Sunday church, prompting ideas to encourage attendance such as notes, brief walks, or rewards while teaching reverence.
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