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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
4
The Sun outlines addresses and contact numbers for its offices in the THE SUN Building at East Ohio Street. It lists carrier delivery cost, advertising rates, and agent terms for outside-city subscriptions and sales locations.
The Sun asks readers who receive the paper regularly to notify the office about their delivery. Call 880, new or old, or send a postal to THE SUN to report any changes or issues.
The article argues for a provision in interurban road franchises requiring every company to offer the same fare to Indianapolis as to all other cities on its line. It warns against charging higher fares to Indianapolis and expects interurban companies to agree to uniform rates for all cities including Greenfield Anderson Muncie Martinsville and others.
The piece criticizes household goods valuation as arbitrary and biased. It describes homeowners undervaluing furniture to avoid higher taxes, with deputy assessors collecting returns and rarely challenging figures, suggesting no standard method and little accountability.
The article notes Florida adopted insanity as grounds for divorce amid lobbying by H. M. Flagler. It contrasts Indiana’s more cautious stance and cites a Supreme Court scolding of a husband seeking to dissolve marriage due to his wife’s insanity in a central hospital.
The governor names an executive committee to plan the dedication of the soldiers' monument. A key issue is selecting a cool month for the march. Fundraising will take time, with hopes to raise enough by mid October, possibly by May next year. The veteran group favors the dedication and seeks to honor their wishes.
Early results suggest banks trust companies and building societies lobbied the legislature to bar assessors from examining their books without a court order based on an affidavit that a taxpayer hid assets. The assessor seeking political advancement will avoid alleging perjury.
The city cannot fund the Highland esplanade yet plans to divert 30000 dollars to purchase more Riverside park land. Officials argue the shift will expand public green space while critics call it robbing Peter to pay Paul.
A Boston protest argues that a room filled with masculine statues is indecent for mixed gatherings and questions art's influence on temptation. Goshen offers a $20,000 subsidy for an interurban line. Indianapolis attracts it without subsidies. Proposals call for firm franchise terms and controlled expansion to avoid Washington Street congestion. The article notes saloon reform momentum and urges compliance with legislative wishes.
The blaze destroyed the buildings at the famous West Baden resort, curbing gambling activity in Orange County. Capt. New is urged to push Fairbanks' presidential bid harder, though progress remains slower than expected.
A skeleton unearthed at Anderson suggests the former existence of a race of giants. The find implies prehistoric or legendary people once inhabited the area.
A terse remark notes that Mr Bryan is not editing a task but merely drooling, indicating distraction or lack of engagement in the workflow.
The jury in Omaha Nebraska found for the state against twelve bondsmen of ex-State treasurer J. S. Bartley and assessed recovery at $545,947. Bartley’s embezzlement was about $300,000 and he is serving a 20 year term.
A collage of quotable opinions touches tax policy for street railways, Morgan empire ambitions, arbitration in religious conflicts, June joy amid trials, Peking cleanup heroicism, war ethics, and maternal congress insights on Transvaal resistance.
Quoted editorials joke about five seasons and celebrate strawberry time. The clippings touch on territorial policy, age and marriages in Indianapolis, and civic quirks including transport costs and sidewalk etiquette.
Charles G. Field of the Hatel house to move to New York for a clerkship at the Hotel Navarre on Seventh Avenue and Thirty eighth Street. Dr. Barton W. Everman to join government fish study in the Sandwich Islands with Dr. David Starr Jordan and Prof. O F Jenkins. Jordan to earn $11,000 annually as college president, but summer government work pays $1 a day plus expenses.
Fred S. Moffett, a 27 year Chicago bar member, traveled by Union Station to Chicago with 250 canary birds as his constant companions for four years on a farm near Little Rock. He plans to visit his wife who is ill and is accompanied by six large cages holding the birds. He has two sons, one a Chicago lawyer and another a Kansas City newspaper man.
A 1901 notice details the Reserve Loan Life Insurance Company paying a $200 funeral benefit and the remaining policy balance within 24 hours after death. Telegrams show W. K. Bellis arranging advance payments, proofs of death, and rapid settlement for Dr. Wm. M. George of Elkhart Indiana. Residents commend the company for prompt claims handling.
A folio gathers recollections of a green parrot once owned by Lady Aldborough and a boy’s bond with the bird. It surveys animal instinct, bird photography challenges, a trapdoor spider’s sixpence trap, and Albert J. Young’s nest and egg collection from Prince Edward Island and Bird Hook.
George Bissert, a New York police wardman, was arrested on Thursday and charged with blackmail and extortion. Lena Schmidt says she paid Bissert nearly $1,000 for the privilege of keeping a disorderly house.
City life note says Mother Jones, famed labor champion, called at Mineworkers' headquarters on Thursday while en route to St Louis to speak. The city attorney advised the police patrol firm must seek Board of Works permission to install boxes and connections, with a hearing possible Friday.
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