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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
4
A reflective piece recalls carefree childhood summers of bare feet and swimming in a country field creek, contrasting those days with present heat and urban concerns. The author laments lost innocence, evokes memories of family life, and notes newspaper editorials amid local political criticism.
A critical editorial urges Americans to confront domestic corruption and monopoly rather than only criticizing Russia. It argues that Philadelphia Missouri Wisconsin Kansas and Ohio show a need for stronger civic virtue to resist graft, bossism, and entrenched power, warning that the republic’s fate rests on national resolve.
A six foot five cadet from Maryland named Herman Smith Turner has been admitted to the Annapolis academy despite his height and weight. Reports note his tall stature and a body weight described as bulf pounds while ruling that physique did not prevent enrollment. Also mentioned are beliefs that Elks teeth are scarce and valuable in Indian territory with some thrifty individuals allegedly digging into ancestral graves to retrieve buried teeth.
The fragmentary column traces a diary discovery by Joby Pant Jones and a London theater comment. It shifts to casual hotel chatter about prune toast, a railroad wreck damages, and light Indiana city life including a Rockefeller prayer meeting anecdote and stray verse lines.
Ex Senator William F. Sanders of Montana who died in Helena is recalled as a colorful territorial figure. He avoided alcohol and once joked at a funeral that they could never say he died. A railway conductor recalls a tattered bill he handed over remarking on its condition.
In a freshman natural philosophy recitation at Cornell Professor Nichols spots a sleepy student and asks what is work. The student replies in a drawn out voice that everything is work, and that the desk is wood work, turning the moment into a wry classroom anecdote reported by the Philadelphia Record.
Admiral Dicking, amid the sham bombardment of Fort Monroe, smiled as a sailor staggered by with a bale of hay on his back, remarking that he reminded him of a mule.
An admiral recalls meeting a British sailor at Gibraltar toiling with hay from a fishing village at the foot of the rock. The man, once a British bluejacket, quips that he now feels like a commissary mule as he resumes his load.
Predictions warn of uncertainty and changes on this date with business trouble and an anxious year. A child born in 1906 may be restless and frequently in flux, needing employment. A female may be fortunate in marriage.
An interval at Beigradt university saw boys buying cakes on the campus ground. A professor bought one and found within a sheet of paper containing solutions to half of the problems, prepared by a student who had earlier tutored the class.
The London Hospital handles about 186000 new out patients each year. It uses one and a half tons of ether and chloroform annually for anesthesia and disposes of the rest as medical waste.
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