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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
4
The item discusses subscription pricing outside the city and in advance, and quotes editorial concern over Indianapolis public improvements and a covert attack on elevating railway tracks. It argues the tracks project benefits railways and safety, urges city and railways to push the plan, and notes a New York store adopting a Friday half holiday.
A collection of short reminiscences from lifelong figures and events. Meilhac’s dinner misorder leads to two fried eggs after a costly dish. Richard Henry Stoddard recalls John G. Saxe and a lumber yard in Albany. Remenyi the violinist retorts to peanut crackers in Buffalo. Sherman helps a brakeman with his overcoat on a winter train. Beecher’s Florence voyage is foreshadowed by roses at his door.
A funeral in an old church drew mourners as the Thirteenth regiment militia served as pallbearers to the chaplain. The walls were draped with evergreens and palms and lilies covered the coffin. The speaker praised the deceased’s faith and spirit, saying the world is better for his life.
A compilation of editorials from multiple papers comments on independence, politics, and tariff debates. Aguinaldo is labeled a dictator by Madison Cour ier while others mock renaming the United States and discuss party strategy, consumption costs, and sugar trust politics. Public figures Bryan and Havemeyer are noted in a satirical exchange.
Miles Burford rents his N Meridian house to Mr and Mrs A J Treat. Capt and Mrs English will visit the Seashore for several weeks. Bertha Rhine hosts a musicale for Lorette guests. C E Guild birthday party for Ruth. Iola Bailey and Frank C Moore wed at Joseph Averill residence. Marie Toad and Dr James Waterman to marry July 38. F P Herron hosts for Miss Todd and Augusta Paver hosts a reception. Erwin hosts a garden party with a formal drawing-room setting and screened dancing platform.
The Board of Works adopts routine resolutions for street and sidewalk projects. Cement walks on Ash street and Church street, Hoytave, Marion avenue, Missouri street, and Pratt street are planned along with gravel alleys and sewer work on Twenty fifth street and Vermont streets. Creosoted blocks on Vermont and first alley south of Georgia are approved. openings on Carrollstreet and Keystone avenue are authorized.
Public notice-style advertisement touts Morrow’s Kid-ne-oids and Liver lax as cures for back pain nervousness sleeplessness and dizziness. It cites a testimonial from R Vaught of 620 S Illinois Street and claims fifty cent boxes contain two weeks treatment. Pills are Yellow Tablets and red Liverinx pellets sold by John Morrow & Co Springfield Ohio at druggists.
Prosecutions under Ohio anti-smoke law loom for railroads. Big Four freight engine 703 hauls more loaded cars and uses 25 percent more fuel. Vandalia to equip locomotives with air-brakes. 60 percent of freight cars to get air-brakes and automatic couplers. Conductors' order preps July 13 outing with speeches by E E B Clark Cedar Rapids mayor Taggart and John B Cockrum. races, and aMountains vacation plug.
An advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims to soothe the child ease gums cure wind colic and relieve diarrhoea. The product is priced at twenty five cents a bottle. It is presented with other page liners on the seventh page of The Sun.
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