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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
4
Old telephones and business lines listed with 65 new. Subscription rates show six cents weekly within the city, $1.50 for six months, and $3.00 per year outside the city. The notice notes advance payment options and records Indianapolis post office second class matter.
A Iowa Board of Health official argues facial hair spreads disease and urges beards be cut, provoking a lively New York discussion on physicians look and hygiene. The piece rails against reformers and mocks public interest in whiskers and vanity.
A reflective meditation on choosing optimism over pessimism. It urges shedding vanity and embracing effort, learning from nature and time, and seizing opportunities through discipline. The piece argues success comes from preparation, energy, and intelligent effort, with resilience and faith guiding growth. Hazel Kirke revival noted as a New Era event.
A collection of humorous vignettes from Harper's Weekly and Albany Journal recounts seaside travel, farm life, and a joke about seasickness. It includes a tale of a Albany visitor and a farmer with one leg longer than the other, plus a Quay remark on gentleman farmers and a comedic potboiler about a fireman met in Albany.
Baron Alphonse Rothschild, who died in Paris, left printed rules of conduct for ambitious French youths aiming to become great capitalists. The maxims emphasize politeness, prompt debt payments, discipline, integrity, patience, bravery in life’s struggle, and careful business scrutiny.
A shy girl at a monthly training event near the Metropolitan Opera House in New York requested to sing without music. A black-haired Irish girl then sang Tom Monroe's song, improvised a new melody, and impressed onlookers, leading to the girl, named Anna Mack, being enrolled as a pupil.
The famed Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen travels in England praised for blending science and sport. He stands tall and athletic with a Viking look, brings his wife a noted Swedish singer, and enjoys the company of dogs and English travelers at their Christiansted home.
A fragmented OCR passage mocks foreign peoples and overstates a Christian mission, praising domination as a national ideal. It references Dir o0K and Mr Jan, with garbled phrases about planting, devastation, and victory, suggesting propaganda language about cultural conquest.
John Flynn of Tart ford Conn. lands a 20 pound Connecticut River salmon near Lyme marking the season’s likely final big catch. The fish, a fine specimen, ends a two year rarity of river salmon in the region. Also reported: Lieut Gov Davidson of Wisconsin catches a seven pound smallmouth bass on Lake Mendota with his daughter Grace. Additional notes cover shad runs resumed in Juniata after canal dams breached, a 600 pound sawfish at Rocky Point Florida, and anglers’ near misses and notable catches along various rivers.
A string of terse Indiana items reports Sulcite case in Fort Wayne where a man swallowed carbolic acid to force elopement. a saloon keeper woman shot her husband after discovery of infidelity. drownings, hangings, and runaway arrests across towns Terrehate, Lafayette, Pecatur, Goshen, and more.
The festival features a daylight pageant tracing American and German ties from the Republic's start to today. Richard Liewer heads planning for an artistic parade with 400 participants including military bands.800 performers expected, with 20 musicians and 40 horses parading in allegorical floats and elaborate costumes.
Organizer Adame of the Carpenters union tours Indianaporte to invite Secretary Frank Duffy and President William Huber to speak to local carpenters. About 3,70 union members in the city. Alama returns from handling the Murcogee strike, which workers won. Patoka Valley Coal Co. awarded the contract for coke ovens and three miles of railroad switch in Patoka township.
A fragmented foreign notes item discusses British army officers’ lack of Japanese, Uganda in East Africa, and natives’ belief in Chinese Hanity. It cites debates on pricing aff Drndew, critiques by Prof H C Annaling on schooling, and a London address. It mentions suicide by drowning and remarks by Sir William Broadbent on alcohol and disease. It ends with a Parisian Georges Teron hosting dinner parties.
At the Capitol the annual spring school in health officers opened in the assembly room at the Claypool under the Blaze Board of Health. Gov Hang returned from Columbia City Wednesday night after delivering the Memorial day address at Paw Paw and addressed the school Thursday morning. Will H Freeman, secretary of the State Forestry board, returned from a visit to Clarke county’s forestry reservation. Fred L Gemmer, secretary to Gov Hanty, to back at his task after a visit to Wil lameport. John Billheimer, assistant auditor of Mate, and Secretary of State Board of Tax Commissioners planning July and August meetings.
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