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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1899
Page
4
Advertisement directs readers to obtain rates by addressing the business manager and editor. It lists subscription prices per year within and outside the city and provides editorial room telephone numbers for communications and agent inquiries.
Wasson and Co announce a Friday half holiday for their workers as The Sun notes growing support. With two major employers joining, the move gains momentum to benefit most city mercantile employees.
William A. Ketcham urges the bar association to end campaign contributions by judges. He warns that money and charm win offices from county to national levels, creating unfit appointees and inflated salaries while courts should demand merit. The piece argues courts alone deserve careful selection.
An editorial endorses Councilman Little's view that the council should not interfere with the stock yards dispute. It argues declaring it a nuisance is unwarranted and that city officials should support the promoters to boost trade and fair competition. It notes outsiders’ influence and potential harm to business conditions.
Lebanon residents W C Van Arsdel C F S Neal and a Mr Lawton helped raise the Lawton sword fund to 121 in about nine weeks of effort. The piece urges more advertisers to support the fund and jokes about the editor and boom the battleship fund.
A compilation of oddities and observations from street life and trades. It notes a Chinese street cleaner with a bamboo kit, a Filipino ear cleaner on Sundays, and a nose-twisting razor act. It also mentions Japanese tail grafting on goldfish, bullfighting color psychology, and Icelandic policemen. The piece ends with Lyons testing devitrified glass paving said to resist cold and ice.
The surge in national travel triggers a shortage of passenger coaches with a possible fast freight by the Big Four between St. Louis Indianapolis and the east. In two days western lines delivered 101 cars of wheat and 166 of corn to Indianapolis. Harry Crawford owner of the Midland railroad from Brazil to Anderson refuses to sell at any price. He believes the property will gain value as nature rights are clarified.
Gas shortages cause rail lines to struggle while immense coal needs strain the system. Only five railroads entered receivership in the first six months, the fewest for any six month period in railroad history.
The column quotes several editorials and commentaries criticizing policy and politics. It cites issues from the fish law and mortgage deduction to support for the president, highlighting feuds among Kentuckians and public figures like Stone Bryan and Watterson.
The Seymour Republican notes the sole objection is that thousands in every county escape double taxation, reducing the amount raised. if that is the law’s only flaw, repeal is unlikely soon.
Edward Nell studies music in New York. Mr and Mrs Ernest Keller travel to Denver for three weeks. Miss Anna Curtis hosts a card party for Miss Marie Todd on July 15. Mrs Willam Wallace visits her son Capt Wallace at Fort Wayne near Detroit. Mr and Mrs M B Wilson hosted a dinner with American beauty roses for Mrs Rabbitts of Springfield. Mrs Lewis Smith entertains Mrs Archibald’s guests Miss Israel and Miss Bower Friday night. Mrs Archibald held a 5 o'clock tea on Thursday with sweet peas decorating the house.
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