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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1904
Page
4
A critique of public laxity in obeying laws from traffic to safety, urging reform. It notes recurring rail grade crossing delays, railroad influence on legislators, and calls out municipal patience with big corporations while warning of disasters from minor law violations. The piece also touches on Hearst Bryan and Indiana Republican attitudes amid Indiana politics and cultural events.
Walter Damrosch enjoyed discussing music but dismissed amateurs lacking formal training. At a New York dinner a talkative guest praised old tunes and opera excerpts, claiming deeper emotion than modern works. Damrosch urged someone to sing "Once I was pure as thou" as the table grew restless.
A sample of editorial opinion cites Prof Langleye and a New York legislator proposing a DSM to hold fire chiefs liable for manslaughter if theaters fail to follow laws. It argues that accountability would push theater managers to enforce safety standards and prevent disasters.
Chicago June 16 John J Brennan a Democratic alderman of ward 18 was jailed after a verdict convicting him Kent and McCarle for buying votes. Brennan received one year in prison with Kent six months and McCarle three months for the offense.
Local notes report Marie Shutts and Lee Waite at UM courting after seven years with old man Bhotio hinting at a proposal. Other items mention Clara Hogshire’s illness, Tobe Smeltzer’s bird traps, a pocket church compactor invention, and various town anecdotes including arnica purchases and trims from Lick Skillet trimming school.
A jumble of names, prices, and odds and ends from a small town page includes subscription offers, social winnings, farm updates, a hunting of mischief, bridge repairs, and local ads. People named Bowser, Twiggs, Mixer, Gandy, Grayhill, Augur, and others appear with everyday tasks and gossip amid brief notices and advertisements.
A Sunday menu lists breakfast items including Grape Fruit Cereal Liver and Bacon Cream Toast and Coffee. The meal advances to dinner with Raw Oysters Maryland Chicken Cream Sauce and Bermonica Potatoes. The text also shifts to a humorous domestic scene with Polly and Tony as they discuss roses and a man’s gaze, set against a Washington backdrop.
Wally and Polly discuss dresses and trimmings for a mission charity dinner. The talk shifts from roses and crates of groceries to debates on women's roles, marriage, and the value of appearance versus usefulness, using potatoes as a recurring symbol in social expectations.
A garbled prose poem fragment lists various names and phrases suggesting a discussion of literary figures and fragmented lines. It references Jeb, Jono edits, Hervant, and others, with stray quotes and incomplete attributions. The piece reads as a collage of misread text and partial quotes without a clear narrative.
A garbled OCR sample shows varied public comments and remarks from Indiana residents and officials. Names like Charles T. Remy J W Coleman Fred Sheetes and others appear amid political notes on Roosevelt, taxation, and local affairs. The text includes stray political opinions on weather crime education and urban transit with incomplete phrases and misspellings.
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