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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1905
Page
4
Rates listed for carrier delivery six cents weekly within city, eight months ahead outside city, fifty cents monthly, and one year in advance. Published notice indicates entry at Indianapolis post office as second class mail.
City officials face scrutiny as the mayor and Board of Public Works claim broad powers to grant railroad franchises and spend funds without council approval. The piece defends that franchises must be legislated by the council and cites Section 93, paragraph 11, of the Cities and Towns act, urging tests of executive overreach and stressing the council’s critical role in lawmaking and appropriations.
Gov Folk of Missouri denounces graft and lawbreaking urging honest voters to expose the criminals. He cites the downfall of Israel W Durham in Philadelphia as proof that exposure weakens crime and sustains good citizenship while law and morality oppose vice. The president’s election chatter is noted.
A compact statement argues that war on crime requires more than knowledge it demands moral character. Education without ethics multiplies harm when the educated break laws. Morality is presented as the essential force to root out crime, surpassing schooling alone.
A collection of opinions from various figures including Charles Remf, Lew Shank, W C Van Arsdle, A W Thomson, J Worrel, and others. Topics range from law enforcement, grain trade, real estate, banking, divorce courts, municipal governance, and local politics. Voices emphasize legality, market practices, and community development in Indianapolis.
Predictions for Sunday July 9 warn of a wretched day with business woes and money loss. A child born that day 6 will be unlucky in work and love. For Monday July 10 travel and job seeking are advised, health and family care urged, with youths facing sorrow and business pressures.
A reminiscence recalls Louise Closser, New York dreams, and Constancy of Purpose. An Ohio lecturer warns of pitfalls on the platform with a temperance tale showing whisky transforming water into terror and fear of drinking.
In a U S district court hearing with lumber magnates present a newsboy pressed for a penny. The millionair easily could starve but gave the boy a nickel and three pennies. The tale moves to Professor Huxley and a cigar anecdote about a lecture tour and a smoke inducing moment.
Anecdote from George Cary Eggleston recounts John Hay’s dismissal of an offer to continue the Pike County Ballads for a New York magazine. Hay expressed disdain for the poems, stating he would not produce more and wished to be forgotten, regardless of compensation.
Lloyd Osborne, kin to Robert Louis Stevenson, visited the cashier of a leading magazine after failed letters seeking a check. The cashier explains the signer, “Tan sary,” but Val, Soami-So, who signs checks, is confined at home with the goat. The author asks, does he sign them with his feet?
A recipe fragment lists measures for a cocoa mix including one quarter cup of hotter sugar milk and diner. It mentions copper and baking powder with directions to bake briefly, about twenty minutes, in a quick oven.
A sheriff sale notice from Marion County Indiana details a certified decree involving Breedlove Executrix as plaintiff and Cyrus W Durant et al as defendants. The sale on Saturday the 5th of July will offer Lot 118 and parts of Lots 116 and 117 in McCarty’s subdivision to satisfy a 1000 dollar decree with costs, at the Marion County Courthouse.
In a rough town scene residents debate graft being cleaned out due to vigilance. Chicago streets show wear while talk turns to past misdeeds. A girl names Mabel surfaces in a casual exchange as a Russian army reference appears. Harold seeks consent for a real estate deal noted as five dollars per installment.
A sheriff sale notice issued in Marion County Indiana detailing a decree against Hermen J. Bloxhoft with James Belknap et al as defendants. The sale on July 28 1903 at the courthouse door will include rents and profits of property in Hubbarca Martindale and McCartys Southeast Addition with bid to cover the decree plus costs.
The sheriff will expose at public sale on a July Saturday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Marion County Courthouse door the right, title, and interest of A. Hows et al. in one undivided two thirds of parcels in John A Miller and John T. Vasen subdivisions in Indianapolis. The bid covers the decree sum of eighty five dollars and eighty cents with interest and costs, and includes rent profits for up to seven years if sufficient. Sale may be without relief from valuation or appraisal. Sheriff of Marion County, with attorney Philip Welkington for the plaintiff.
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