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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
4
Fragmentary lines mention city pricing per year and six months in advance with amounts and a telephone reference. Details are incomplete, giving no clear event, date, or entities beyond generic city and terms.
The Kansas City piece laments the Democratic platform as negative and ineffective, criticizing its stance toward the 1898 war, populist elements, and the reliance on Bryan. It argues Democrats fail to offer a positive, progressive program and risk losing independent and prowar voters. It contrasts this with Indiana’s broader path and stresses party divisions and campaign funding sources.
A editorial harshly condemns the 1900 Democratic National Convention for backing Bryan over party betterment. It also notes public works scrutiny of a streetcar franchise, criticizing management and gas meter rate figures as evasive while urging accountability.
A council committee is expected to report the gas meter ordinance favorably amid questions about council conduct. The missive hints at heated city issues and mentions Indianapolis streetcar service failures when most needed.
Arthur Wing Pinero may craft a war drama from his family color as Angus Hamilton, wounded in Gen. French’s fights, recalls New York memories and a baggage theft in Yorkville court. Miss Ida Marie Heindl and Harry W. McDonald wed after a swift chase, while Miss Della Fox recovers from sanitarium and writes cheerful notes. Marie Dressler buys Bayside cottage and builds a roof garden. Olga Nethersole’s earnings rise to about 200000 dollars by age thirty.
Deputy district attorney La Follette presents a $45,375.25 default against Charles F. W. Neely. A postmaster opens the package sent to Neely and finds only a Costa Rican newspaper, town circulars, and a bank inquiry letter. The package and attached mortgage actions are routed to the Union National Bank in Muncie.
A compilation of newspaper digests quotes from Detroit News St Paul Dispatch Philadelphia Record Atlanta Constitution New York News and Buffalo News. Highlights critique of Bryan silver policy fear of military expansion and cautions on tugboat conduct and rescue ethics.
The Philadelphia Record argues political ingratitude is really citizen independence and gratitude is rare in politics. It condemns Republican appeals to Black voters to support the party regardless of duty to the republic, calling the plea shabby and manipulative.
A letter from Rae in Indianapolis on July 5 1900 proposes moving all rail lines outside the central blocks bounded by Mary land East Mary land South and Meridian to allow passenger trains to enter around the Belt. The plan would clear the city core of tracks reducing danger and free land for new freighthouses on the east and west sides.
An assortment of verses and prose bits presents lyric snippets about romantic flirtation tears and fashion in a period voice. The passages mix bawdy oral humor with a tale of wealth and a wife’s drift from simplicity to luxury revealing social commentary.
An old tale recounts a trust promoter and a corporation lawyer revisiting boyhood days by a swimming hole. They recall mischief, a craftsman named Joe Jackson who whittles pine fans for a dime, sticking to his trade despite hardship as his family faces county pressures.
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