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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1905
Page
4
A description of a new house ceremony with 200 guests and reflections on home life. The piece envisions a Christian home built on faith hope and love and calls for more home dedications. Also critiques a plan for a state home for epileptics in Indiana as a mere hobby and dismisses Bradstreet's 1905 forecast as urging larger pocketbooks.
A home city forward look lauds Indianapolis as centered in the country with unmatched rail and streetcar systems, Belt railway advantages, a premier interurban station, large stockyards, leading factories, vast wholesale districts, and expansive parks. It notes rapid growth, strong schools, and plans to widen its park system and housing appeal, urging continued faith and effort to become one of the nation’s greatest cities. Gen. Stoessel’s historical place is mentioned along with a note on cotton burning costs.
A family in a western city formally dedicates a new home with a dedicatory hymn a prayer and a simple hearthside ceremony Two boys light the hearth and two girls light the lamps A four year old brings papa’s slippers and parents read verses from a poem titled A Foretaste of
A NY supreme court judge denounces improper dividend practices by American Malting. Directors allegedly handed out 1.5 million in unearned earnings, driving stock up before private profits. after the payout, shares dropped. The ruling targets promoters who treat business as plunder while praising legitimate enterprise. Chauncey Depew and Mrs Chadwick appear in the broad debate on trust and market ethics.
Old Patrick McGibbon urges neighbors to vote Democratic in a profanity of nationality, while Mike Flaherty’s son asserts his American loyalty. Schwab replies to a London donor proposing a miners widows fund, choosing an American charity with a $200 subscription.
The State Board of Public Works commends its chief engineer for plans and specifications to improve the Ohio canal. An appropriation of 200000 is available with a pledged 375000 more. Contracts to clean and enlarge the canal will be let at once and pushed rapidly. An upgraded waterway from Cleveland to Marietta is expected within a few years.
Special to the Sun from Santa Rosa reports that plant breeder Luther Burbank has developed a spineless cactus variety called apleteay cactus. The new cactus aims to be a nourishing forage plant able to double global livestock feeding capacity. Burbank says it could grow across the United States, with market prospects later decades.
A garbled thirtys text discusses money troubles in New York linked to Sun shine and Smiles, mentions Crete Sams money and Canada, notes Chauncey Depew and Tom Platt ahead, and cites a divorce alimony ruling of 1040 with social gossip about May Irwin, Parker and Greene among scattered names. The piece pivots on social figures, court action, and speculative finance with混乱 details.
Lord Howard DeWarden travels to Exet Africa for a hunting expedition and plans a farm near Take Victoria Nyanta to breed zebras. His vast estate is valued at over $1,000,000 annually.
A mosaic of 19th century clippings recounts varied tales. A tale of an escape failed by a mare and a man’s attempt to aid his family coexists with a Boston widow’s Revolutionary War lineage and a Kansas City clairvoyant money dispute. Also notes on flower symbolism and superstitions, all reflecting social curiosities of the era.
In Freeport Pennsylvania, Dr Charles Gillespie and his sister Miss Mary Gillespie are reported as the oldest living twins in the United States. Born in 18__, they are about 90 plus years old. Dr Gillespie practiced medicine for nearly fifty years and captained Company F of the Seventy-Eighth Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
New York observes apartment houses flourish across the city, drawing tenants from modest homes as rents rise to moderate, 100, and even 15,000. Observers rail against the changes, arguing apartment living erodes single-family homes, yet residents adapt and prefer the modern dwellings to maintaining a private house and utilities.
Raw notes describe Paris customs and prices for food items like cutlets and cornbread. A flower show in Exws Yate features green chrysanthemums. The future German princess will wear outfits from European capitals. An Irish order mentions life trousseaux and the body of Mr Markoff is described in ornate terms, tied to stories in St James Gazelle.
The article recalls aging and fading fame among actresses, noting Mara Morriaux, Yeamans, and others. It chronicles death ages and long-ago peaks, mentioning Marie Janaen Pauline Markham and Marion Manolo as examples of stars who faded from prominence or entered obscurity in later life.
A fragmented list recalls seven ancient wonders including Tynemids of Rgypt hanging pardony museleum at Hallearnasais temple of Dinna at Ephesus comason of Rhodes Pharos at Alexandria statue of Olympian Zeus at Els. All faded from memory except the pyramids near Cairo in the Nile valley, Egypt.
Henry Dunant, now aged and living near Lake Constance, originated the Red Cross movement. He began his work in 43 years and since the International Geneva convention, influenced by Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimean War.
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