Willis and Thompson Public diary listing
The Indianapolis Sun page shows advertising and office details for Willis and Thompson with addresses in Indianapolis and foreign representatives in New York Chicago St Louis. It notes publication excluding Sundays and includes postal service classification as second class mail No 165.
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Gun
Ohio Street
Smith & Budd
Runsswick
Fifth Avenue
New York
Tribune
Chicago
Third National Bank
St Louis
Post Office Ag
Harvard Child Wonders Stir Debate on Education
A Harvard segment highlights four precocious youths with ages fourteen to eleven, questioning whether such early achievement harms later usefulness. The piece contrasts Lincoln’s broad reading with the Harvard prodigies’ fast knowledge, urging balance, physical development, and practical learning over premature study. It also cites broader calls for enforcing law and addressing meat price blame shifting in Indianapolis.
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Harvard University
Harvard
Lincoln
Shakespere
Rome
Ledger Keeper Faces Suspicious Hump Under Bed
An aging man with a cat feud detects a suspicious lump under his bedclothes. He seizes a weight to confront the intruding figure as he plans for the week ahead and notes items and prices in a wary domestic scene.
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Thadter
Pretty American Girl in the Writing Room and the Concert
A bright tall American girl talks of voice study in Florence and atmosphere over technique. At a Sailors' Fund concert she sings with clear stage presence but little voice, triggering pity from listeners and concern for her future.
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Tetrazzini
Caruso
Sembrich
New York
Italy
Sailors’ Fund
Ashe
Be True to Your Own Sex by Beatrice Fairfax
Essay urging women to unite for equal franchise, defend fellow women, and act with sympathy. Encourages women to stand by their sex, aid sisters in need, resist harsh judgment, and push for lasting gains for women and their families.
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Beatrice Fairfax
Debutante and farm talk mingle at smart society event
Amid witty farm lore and mock erudition, guests at a fashionable gathering mockingly blend farming anecdotes with culture talk. Names like Luckett, Hunkit, Blodgett, Abe Hawiey and Rube Wolford appear in lighthearted quips about hogs, hay, cider, and schoolroom absences.
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Kant
Jim Blodgett
Jim
Abe Hawiey
Rube Wolford
Ben Gunning
Beriah John
Ben
Seasons as maid and queen in verse and verse fragments
Poem scene personifies the four seasons with personified maid goodwife queen and sorrowful winter. Then a playful sequence of names Mary Jane Maud Margaret appears in fragmented lines about beauty and loveliness. The piece closes with a dreamy allusion to Rose Jane Mary and Moon and Sun.
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Gus
Jim Ti— Wei
Jimmy Smith
Hmi
Smith
Ee Essk
the Ledger
Epictetus
By T. E. Powers
Capretei
Spe Nor
York
Asour Mars Smith
Firra Ris
Winifred Black
James J. Montague
Vassar
Si Luckett
Bill Hunkit
Summer
Meliow
William HI. Wavies
Margaret
Jane
Mary
Maud
Rose
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