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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1904
Page
2
A detailed description extols the Snaidy Inn near the St Louis Exposition grounds. It highlights 2,257 rooms within a 40 by 80 foot footprint, panoramic verandas, views of state buildings and foreign pavilions, and easy access to Festival Hall and The Pike. Rooms range from 1.50 to 5.00 per day, with a 33-seat restaurant and grounds access included.
A compilation of remarks from residents and figures like Henry Freedman Nickerson and Ed Sourtier touches on cake quality, sewer costs, office work, picking loaves, and betting on races. It includes mayoral notes, party politics, and reactions to the city’s financial and public work questions.
A gala at Washington Park featured prizes for the best two steppers and waltzers among New York story employees. Guests enjoyed dinner, a band, and a parade of events including long throw, three legged race, broad jump, and a cake walk. Prizes went to Bert Maesier and L. Mason for waltzers and Miss Carey and Marie McKitterle for the best two step.
A Notre Dame woman advertises a free home remedy for rheumatism and related pains. The letter claims the discovery removes uric acid from blood, loosens stiff joints, purifies blood, and restores vitality. The note asks readers to address ML Summers in Notre Dame, Box 4, for proof and instructions.
The piece profiles Alton Brooks Parker born in Cortlandta New York May 14, outlining his farm upbringing, schooling from Cortland academy to Cortland Normal School, and early work as a teacher. It details his legal rise, multiple surrogateships, court appointments, Democratic leadership roles, and tenure as chief justice of the court of appeals. It notes his personal life with wife Annie and their grandchildren, emphasizing his long service in Albany.
Fragmentary text shows a character named Sahl and a promise to show someone around home daily, suggesting a personal anecdote or speech fragment. Entities include Ha waa and Sahl, with unclear relation and actions due to damaged OCR.
Engineer Mabee describes a new water filtration plant with three large concrete beds of 16 acres each, capacity 5,000,000 gallons, topped by layered sand and gravel filters. Water enters by gravity after coke and charcoal prefilter, then passes to reservoirs and pumping stations for city supply. The system includes automatic valves, ventuimeters, and safeguards against canal failure, with assurances of purity after filtration.
A fragment describes a plant process where impurities are eliminated by tum enh surds and daily analysis by a bacteriological expert at the Alter side. It notes a published chemical analysis for daily payers and mentions transit rates and special rates for various routes including Michigan City, Rochester, Sandusky, Fremont, Findlay, and a Lake Erie Western line. Also references an Easter edition war atlas priced at 10 cents and mailed via Chicago North Western Ry with stamp orders.
The Yellowstone Park Special departs Chicago Wednesday August via Chicago and North Western Ry with Fairman palace sleeping cars dining and baggage cars to Yellowstone Park and return. Stops for sightseeing en route with all expenses included and everything furnished in first class. Order by calling N. M. Breeze, Gen. agent C. and NW. Cincinnati.
Advertises $50 Galifornia and Return special trains from Chicago to San Francisco with no change via Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line leaving Chicago August 1st and August 7th. Itinerary includes Denver Colorado Springs Salt Lake City and Lew rates with return tickets available daily August 15 through September. Two fast daily through train on the Missouri River route, the Overtrit Limited, claims less than three days en route. For itineraries and full info contact N M Nrecco 5 Vinent Cincinnati Onto. Dining-room suite ad appears with stray text.
A fragmentary Riverside park program for Sunday lists overtures and numbers including The Suwanee River and Yankee Girl with various composers and performers. A separate Brookside park program repeats similar pieces such as Yankee Girl and War Gangs of the Boys in Blue, with more medleys and solos. The note mentions a broader question about Occidental holding usage and an inspection conference as part of a works board review.
Coroner Tutewiler urged stricter supervision after the drowning of Verne Davis at the barbed wire hole site. He said four at one place is too many and dangerous swimming should be banned where peril is high. Also reported: a 15 year old girl, Luep Hhay, disappeared near New London after a quarrel with her stepmother, possibly a suicide in a nightgown. Marion Lodge No 1, Knights of Pythias, to celebrate the lodge’s 35th anniversary with a Zionaville picnic. Northwestern fraction company to provide transportation. An advertisement promotes “Old Nurse” for teething relief with soothing claims for children.
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