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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1901
Page
4
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If you fail to receive The Sun regularly from your carrier, please notify this office at telephone 880 or send postal mail. Readers are urged to report missed or irregular deliveries to ensure service.
Armour rose from poverty to become a leading industrialist amassing about 100 million dollars honestly. He never gambled with markets and spent generously on charity. His fair treatment of employees and open purse earned him admiration. His life is cited as a model for American youth emphasizing integrity and philanthropy.
Statesman’s supporters say he worked as a lobbyist and was honest, while critics argue his political prominence let him occupy legislative time. The piece questions whether, as speaker, he would curb lobbyists on the floor, given his history.
A call to make all contracts between the Indianapolis streetcar company and interurban firms public records. Residents urge law changes to avoid sewer costs and prevent unjust assessments, while criticizing the tobacco trust and water contracts. Patrolman Cox faces penalties, and questions rise about city governance and a potential new city building.
The Sun argues against an alliterative extraordinary project and notes Indianapolis paid high prices for park lands. It suggests bridges would have saved money, claiming the city would be better off financially if markets had differed.
The Board of Safety is described as diligent at whitewash and adept at evading the city charter. It is urged that the water contract be arranged as a short term agreement to avoid long commitments.
A London correspondent recounts stories from Spare Moments including a Gibraltar guard incident where a subaltern omitted noting a fellow officer's death 400 feet down a cliff. Other vignettes feature mockery of Chicago self confidence, a pompous naval officer silenced by an engine room reply, a Middlesex bar dinner joke about breach of promise and damages, and a prison chaplain’s modest chapel reception.
A collage of clipped editorials and notices from various papers comments on Hanna and ship subsidies, the rubber trust defending its hopje, and political ultimatums to Hanna. It notes Prince Tuan’s death rumor, Boer war sentiment, Bryan and Kern alignment, plus a product plug for Dean’s Ointment amid a fierce day of sleep.
A collage of quotes and observations from multiple papers critiquing supply concerns aging industrialists political themes and normative predictions for the coming century. It references Detroit Free Press Cleveland Plain Dealer Dés Moines News Kansas City Journal Toledo Times and Philadelphia Record noting figures like Carnegie and Odell and expressing skepticism about progress and governance.
Ex-President Harrison rails against unconstitutional administration and congressional majority policy toward territories. Philadelphia Record notes attacks from Harrison provoke Republican supporters. Minneapolis Times says Harrison trains for 1904 leadership, while Senator Foraker calls him an old school Democrat.
The Grand hosts famed entertainer Lafay ette noted for puzzling stage feats with European and American renown. English's presents The Rounders from New York Casino theater for the first two nights. The Park opens with Reaping the Whirlwind melodrama. The Empire features Social Maids a turlesque starting Monday.
In Columbus South Carolina on January 7 Harrison Mayo a colored man from Hamersham county Georgia leases his 18 year old son to J W Callahan who operates Georgia convict labor in a lumber business. The three year contract includes convict attire same quarters and fare. Mayo will receive ten dollars a month from Callahan, a sum less than the state pays for criminals. He says his son will join the gang sooner or later anyway and that forced work might make a man of him despite his bad character.
The Ladies' society of the Mannerchor plans a guest afternoon. Mrs May E Cowan will entertain her card club Friday night at her College Avenue home. Mrs N J Hyde of 1996 N Capitol Ave will entertain the Chapel club Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Creagh hosts St Patrick's social club Wednesday evening in St Joseph's Industrial school hall. Miss Queen Carr of Grand Rapids has returned home after holidays with Mr and Mrs Harvey Hand. Mrs Frances M Swain of Bloomington and Dr Mary Wilson of London will be guests of honor at Mrs Sewall's at home Wednesday afternoon.
The Murphy gosp temperance league dedicated a new assembly hall at New York and Alabama streets. Sunday afternoon Lt. Haines presided with many ministers present. Chaplain Robert Clark presented the hall to the league, Bayless Campbell accepting. A Francis Murphy letter from California was read by Dr. Maines.
Margaret S. Vail aged 57, wife of Prof. Sidney J. Vail, died at home on Washington Street at 7 30 p m Sunday after a ten day illness from pneumonia. She married Prof. Vail in 1865 and had lived here since. She was a member of Christchurch. Survived by husband and three children.
Detectives made another unsuccessful attempt Sunday to reach William H. Smythe for details on how he was shot. Smythe's family says he is still too ill to be interviewed, delaying key information.
A quirky collage blends verse and dialogue from a rural farmer’s song to shoplifter gossip and magazine chat. Fragments feature a soldier returned from China, relics in a cabinet, an unused cartridge, express offices, and wry banter about writers and royalties.
Gen Harrison denies a Chicago paper report that he wrote letters to Washington protesting Col Russell Harrison’s removal from the army. Friends familiar with the family say the story is ridiculous.
William T. Franklin, a veteran builder and contractor in the city, died Sunday at his son James E’s home at 2105 N Capitol Avenue. He fell from a scaffold fifteen years ago and never fully recovered.
Reports mention glassware trust efforts, four prisoners escaping Lamar Missouri jail, Gen John W Foster elected president of the American Bible Society, New York City pupils raising 21907 for Galveston Texas schools, Lamblin of Hayti Missouri confessing to stealing registered letters with 1000, eight Italian counterfeiters arrested in New York making 25 and 50 cent pieces, brakeman Harry W Tuller killed in Panhandle wreck at Marble Cliff, assistant cashier Brown of a German bank suspected in Ecuador, banker Thomas Cunningham of Joplin receiving a ransom threat, England to build two 13000 ton battleships named Queen and Prince of Wales, Frank Farrell and George Wallace charged with stealing a mail pouch worth 160009 in Wyandotte, New York fire marshal may prosecute Tarrant & Co. for deadly summer blaze, naval academy official Wainwright denying mistreatment claims of Hobart Green, and renewal of the naval provisioning modus vivendi with Canada for a year.
Havana reports that the constitutional convention has drafted a constitution for the island in two sections. The president will serve six years and may not seek a consecutive term. Cuba becomes a republic with a chamber of representatives and a senate. The president must be Cuban by birth or naturalization and, if naturalized, must have served in Cuban wars for ten years. Debts only as approved for revolutionary government purposes. After submission, two months of discussion are expected and major changes may follow.
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