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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1901
Page
4
The Sun publicizes its offices in the SUN Building at East Ohio Street with mailing and subscription details. It lists carrier delivery, advertising rates, agent opportunities, and telephone numbers for editorial and business offices.
Notice to readers at 125 East Ohio Street Indianapolis Indiana to call 880 or mail THE SUN if not receiving the newspaper regularly. Includes instructions to contact the office for delivery issues.
An old Indianapolis editorial accuses the streetcar line of bypassing city boards to install trolley poles and seize sidewalk space at a major corner, threatening a broader claim by the company over city officials. It recalls past battles against peanut stands and buried wires and lampoons vendors’ sidewalk booths without permits, demanding action.
A Washington dispatch argues uprisings by Indians are exaggerated, while critics accuse authorities of bias after frontier violence. The text mocks sensational reports and notes bankers and lawmakers face ridicule as it blasts kidnapping schemes, jail terms, and post office reform debates in Indiana and Chicago.
A editorial argues Indiana politicians oppose a reform that would separate primary election days by party. It questions public funding of primaries and proposes candidates pay election costs to reduce graft risk. The piece urges business leaders and informed citizens to push a law that lowers campaigning costs and benefits the state.
A local editorial denounces proposed state sales of valuable sites in Indianapolis as reckless real estate speculation. It argues lawmakers should focus on honest work, oppose land grabs, and critiques anti taxation bills while predicting the legislature will not pass a primary election law.
A Washington correspondent notes an oil portrait of James Jefferson misidentified as Joseph Jefferson in a Capitol lobby. The piece recalls Maxims about John W. Akin and humorous anecdotes about lawyers and artists, including Joe McGarvey entertaining with an accordion played with his nose and chin.
A collage of verse and gossip spans a reporter’s encounter with Carrie Nation at a dark alley, backstage banter with Sue Brette, jokes about face value, and a political satirical poem about a monarch. It mixes humor, history, and social critique with sharp demotic voice.
A collage of quips from various papers notes Col Roosevelt’s mounting ambitions toward U S senators. Victoria’s aging rulers. papal history. Mrs Nation’s capture mischaracterized. royal pomp as a solemn reminder. Spaniards fearing treatment if Cuba becomes independent. a joke about U S saving Spaniards from Cuba.
A collection of preacher reflections on Queen Victoria's death, labor unrest, and faith. Sermons from Rev J Cumming Smith, Rev A N Miller, Rev M L Haines, Rev J A Milburn, Rev Wm A Quayle, and Herr Gustavus Cohen touch on monarchy, capitalism, virtue, salvation, and the scope of humanity.
Town talk notes rail traffic with 20 134 cars moved last week and 20 980 loaded cars the prior week. It also reports big midwinter business gains and rail company earnings including P C C St L and Big Four profits and losses.
Fred Ling 38, supervisor at H. and R. Levy’s silk ribbon mill in New York, lives in Paterson, New Jersey. His daughter Minnie, 19, who married a year ago, became a mother to a boy last week.
New York police detain William Smith after a folding bed killed a three month old baby. The infant, son of Thomas Lansbury, was visiting the Smiths when the incident occurred. Smith claims no foul play, insisting it was an accident.
Thirty people of color are quarantined at 35144 Kentucky avenue after Robert Dawson is found with smallpox. Guards monitor the building day and night with one guard stationed on the roof, and Dawson is held in the detention hospital.
Appleton report says Dr. M. J. Round, who spread smallpox virus and exposed many, broke quarantine after four days and fled to Chicago amid a heavy guard.
London rumors say Pauline Astor daughter of William Waldorf Astor may wed the Duke of Roxburgh The duke is seven years old with vast estates and recently returned from South Africa after serving with the Royal Horse Guards
The Duchess of Manchester, ill with pneumonia at the Palace hotel in San Francisco, is much improved as doctors report the disease has been checked.
Editor Charles B. Rogers of Shoals Indiana has been offered the Zanzibar consulship. The post was resigned by R. E. Mansfield, who serves now as secretary to Senator Beveridge.
Senator Joss introduces in the Indiana legislature a bill allowing municipal corporations to operate pawnshops at low interest rates. The note adds a wry aside on luck in choosing names and ancestors.
Funeral services for Arthur P Preston were conducted at 2 p m on Tuesday at First Baptist Church where he served as choir director for years. Memorials were observed Sunday morning, and the congregation supplied a purse for the widow.
Cheboygan Michigan reports a $90000 fire on Saturday. Porto Rican legislature passes a revenue bill. A thief steals $513 from the county treasurer’s office in Detroit. The Muth farm of 540 acres in Shelby County sells for $27000. EK J Sparenberg, a New York politician, inherits $700600 from an uncle in Germany. A large oil refinery is planned for Port Arthur Texas with oil piped from Beaumont. Nikola Tesla claims an electric lamp superior to incandescent. Dr Lyman Abbott criticizes labor unions for undermining workers. Gridiron club dinner in Washington draws many notable figures. New Indiana postmasters named in several towns. one individual reinstated in government printing office. Giesecke and D'Oench shoe firms consolidate amid regional ties. New York World prints an alleged Manila interview with Aguinaldo as war talk continues. Aggie warns that amnesty will not be accepted and fighting will persist. Harry Ringwald of Great Falls sues Senator Clark for $9750 over unpaid services in a Senate inquiry.
In a Philippines dispatch readers wonder if Will Aguinaldo will serve as the traveling representative of The Commoner, with the Peru Republican noting a rise in deaths. The Shelbyville Republican laments that prominent figures’ passing may overwork professional pallbearers and obituary poets.
Alfred Dickey father of Indianapolis attorney Alfred E. Dickey died in Jamestown North Dakota Saturday. The body will return to Indianapolis Monday evening. Funeral at Greenwood Methodist Church Tuesday at 10 am. He was Indiana native who became North Dakota lieutenant governor when state joined the union and served in Civil War with Twenty first Indiana battery. Dakota's leading representative at the world’s fair. Survived by one son and a widow living at 1920 North New Jersey Street.
Saturday night Thomas Perry and his son Edward were sentenced to terms ranging from two to fourteen years for forging William Newhouse's name to a three thousand one hundred dollar check.
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