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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1899
Page
4
The Sun outlines post office second class matter status and how to obtain advertising terms. It lists subscription rates for outside city readers and provides telephones for editorial and business offices at 125 E Ohio Street Indianapolis Indiana 626 880.
In a July 14 1899 editorial, Indianapolis presses urge the city council to report and pass the elevated railway ordinance without delay. It argues grade tracks threaten residents and costly litigation, cites broad public support, and condemns railroad opposition as stalling tactics.
The piece urges complete examination of county auditor and treasurer books, opposing any limit on review to avoid cowardice and dishonesty. It notes banks closing Saturdays and suggests merchants follow suit, plus calls for stronger action against a metaphysical healer and stronger legal measures, urging legislative help if needed.
A caustic critique runs through Indiana politics, denouncing backroom deals and calling out the senior senator and Mayor Taggart on track elevation promises. The piece references courthouse scheming, fiscales, and contested election tactics, questioning loyalties and future actions amid local power struggles.
A Chicago traveler recalls a Maryland tavern keepers son on the McCulloch, Dewey’s Manila dispatch boat, now aboard a cutter between California and Behring Sea. The mother’s pride contrasts with his wanderings as he works with a preacher, Rev Cutter McCulloch, in an odd tale of kin and rumor. The column then notes comic and idiosyncratic items about beards harboring insects, and a Washington portrait that annually updates to show time’s changes.
An artist alters his portrait each wedding anniversary, aging the subject into an old woman yet preserving glimpses of the bride’s youth beneath the brush marks. The practice spans many years, changing the face with every anniversary.
The John Coburn property in Delaware and Chiosts was transferred for 16000 to the K P lodges to fund a building. Indianapolis News reports include Garthwait glycerine company incorporation, Acton camp meeting dates July 25 to August 17, with opening address July 26 by Rev. C. E. Bacon. Senator Agnew may push a 1901 bill to require full fire loss payments by insurers, Gov. Mount urges farmers toward scientific farming. The News transfer netted 986 for stamps. Damage suits total 90150 against Indianapolis Brewing Company. Haas fined 310 for hauling dead animals. Council railroad committee to meet Friday. finance committee to discuss 150600 bridges and 32000 smallpox expenses.
Northern lakes trip for S E Raih and family. Rufus K Syfers and son head to Mackinac for July and August. Henry Robison and Olive Kaminsky wed after Quaker rites Thursday night. Eleanor Dulks hosts Miss Meldrum of Louisville. Sharpe family and Boice vacation at Salter's Island. Violinist Thad Rich returns from Leipsic for summer. Maude Smith hosts guests including Miss Kirk and the Ruddells from Kokomo and Miss Carroll of Lynchburg.
The Pennsylvania orders double tracking the Fort Wayne division for 468 miles. Big Four expands freight house platforms at South and Delaware streets to handle growing business. Federal judge Baker in Omaha upholds bond requirement for ticket scalpers. United States Court of Appeals in St Paul affirms Northern Pacific land claim exceeding 1,000,000 acres, regarding terminus from government suit over whether the terminus was Duluth or Ashland.
Aug 7 engagement announced for The fall and rise of Humpty Dumpty. Preparations for a road tour to Anderson with a $15,000 budget claim the finest Mother Goose production. Cast includes 25 familiar stage names. music by James Kenny. book by Edmund B. Price. Management led by J. B. Dickson.
The letters comment on exports at about one million dollars daily, the Chicago financier as a resilient figure, U S rule in the Philippines shaping self government, sparks around a bursting trusts law, and notes on a new fish law altering catch reports. The writers reflect varied newspaper opinions across counties.
Miss Alice Fitch and Campbell Chittenden wed at the bride’s mother’s home in Columbus Ohio. They depart in their new automobile for Cleveland New York and the seashore as a wedding trip.
The Union Pacific advertises The Overland Route with fishing in Rocky Mountain streams hunting in Wyoming bathing in Great Salt Lake curative waters in Guyer and Hatley Hot Springs Utah and hot springs in Idaho. It promotes palace sleeping cars buffet smoking and library cars dining cars ordinary sleeping cars available daily with year round service. Contact local agents or A G Sherman in Cincinnati or J H June in Indianapolis for timetables and tickets.
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