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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
3
The Sun announces advertising rates and subscription options. It lists contact to editor, notes communication handling, and provides pricing for outside city subscriptions with annual and six month terms. The notice appears in the Indianapolis edition dated July 28, 1899.
The gas companies push for a meter system in Indianapolis despite repeated citizen opposition. They claim past failures will recur as residents show strong resistance. Critics say waste comes from field activities and infrastructure used to promote gas towns, not from consumer use.
In a rush to pass a streetcar, a conductor pulled a baby up by one arm, dislocating it and causing intense pain to the child and distress to parents who may seek damages. The piece condemns reckless haste, urges accountability for pollution by strawboard mills along the Mississinnewa river, and criticizes rapid transit delays while calling for drastic measures and pressed reform.
A fragment notes Bryan's visit to Indianapolis amid cooler crowds and local tensions. The text hints at a bank run in Greenfield on his arrival and cites Indianapolis garbage troubles fueling radical city measures, with a sharp, provocative tone about France and Dreyfus era anxieties.
A humorous reminiscence sketches Senator Hale of Maine and Mrs Frye aboard an old stage coach with an Irish passenger. The piece notes Hale’s playful flirtation and a later anecdote about Bonner the compositor and a Dublin nisi prius court moment. It recounts golf banter between Dr Sterret and Justice Harlan and a friction between McKinley and Reed in Congress.
The tale recounts a witty exchange where Mark Twain credits a newspaper reporter job with his later success. Clemens, speaking calmly, reveals his own youthful loss of employment as the key turning point behind his celebrated literary career.
A store counter observer recalls a grim scene of a motorman striking a dog and a girl dragging the mangled carcass to bury it. He links the event to Judge Buskirk and a dog named Ruth, suggesting heartlessness and a fatal celebratory mood around Central Avenue.
U S senator Beveridge of Indiana, after a close Manila campaign and a narrow escape from Filipino bullets, is held in quarantine at Nagasaki Japan due to bubonic plague. The Philadelphia Record notes these trials will enrich his future senatorial eloquence when he replaces the late Senator Turpie.
A collection of playful quips from several papers notes lighthearted turns on topics from pig iron and peach crops to ice prices. It mocks political futures talk, recalls Gen Miles, and quotes Carnegie on the Philippine War and McKinley policy.
Judge Vinson Carter fished in Michigan on Friday. Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks plan a Canada trip for several weeks. Miss Fitza Lamb and Francis Robinson wed Thursday at the brides home on Central Ave. Mrs H B Holman and daughter Josephine head to New York after her fiancé’s accident. Mr and Mrs John H Holliday host a dinner Friday for two newlyweds, Almus Ruddell and Edgar Evans. State weddings: Kokomo Etta Goodwine with Ralph Scorah. Castleton Ella Johnson with Claude Negley.
Baby Ruth Cornett suffers a dislocated arm when a Central avenue street car conductor grabs her hand and swings her from the running board during a hurried unloading. The car proceeds without stopping to check on the child. Her father is a partner at Cornett Bros., College avenue grocers.
The Terre Haute depot was dedicated on Thursday night. The St Louis Springfield Vincennes railroad has been incorporated in Illinois and will run parallel to the B&O. An eight station regional union picnic for railroad workers will be held in Connellsville Pennsylvania on August 19 and 20.
Special train leaves Indianapolis at 7 30 a m and returns from Cincinnati at 7 p m with no stops each way round trip fare is 1 00. Bronson A G P A signs the notice for the Big Four route and the excursion entity.
At Acton park Rev Samuel Freuder of Chicago spoke on Jewish Christian relations. Mrs C E Bacon of Indianapolis read a letter urging anti polygamy congressman Roberts. Indianapolis students gave an evening program. At Bethany funds were sought to lift the park debt with 9000 dollars in stock, 800 dollars subscribed, park valued at 33774, and plans to repaint buildings. New campers arrived.
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