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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1903
Page
4
George Hitz along with Indianapolis voters faces a familiar political scene. He promises sweeping reforms by cleansing every city department, but residents doubt campaign pledges. Independent voters increasingly ignore platforms and focus on trusted candidates rather than promises.
The column satirically questions Attorney Noel Ban and the Logadon case, suggesting a bluff if Noel fails to produce evidence. It notes Chicago judge Baker on poker affecting divorce, Gov. Durbin heading to Washington, and assorted Indianapolis society snippets, editorials, and local quips.
An explosion of a controller on a Grand Avenue electric car caused a panic in Chicago that left about six women and children injured. Mrs Johanna Daly and her daughter Mare Margeretta Thompson were seriously hurt.
A fragment from a piece titled The Songs and Sketches of a Singer includes morbid scenes and humorous vignettes. It features lines about a brakeman, boiler mishaps, and a speaker named the morbid man, with satirical portraits like Lemuel and the character Poodle. The closing note attributes authorship to Edward Singer.
W T Richards recounts a Denver Post tale from San Francisco where a piano blew up after being set to extreme pitch near a hot air shaft. A woman buyer was killed, a salesman injured, and the instrument wrecked. The piano company faces a wrongful damage claim while supplying a replacement.
Post master Dennis led well over a dozen rural mail carriers to Pekin Batumiay for a meeting of the Mail Carriers Association. Emery McClellan was chosen as a delegate to the elite association, which is tied to Indianapolis.
A feature on how women should mind time and occasion in dress, avoiding dowdy appearances and valuing elegance, fit, and color over cost. It notes the role of competent tailors, smart neckwear, and the summer fashion of long tab necklines, while warning against vanity and habitual wrinkling of the brow as aging increases.
A Paris medical group reports a new condition called motor intoxication caused by speeding. Dr Hachet Souplet cites police trials showing drivers become vindictive, aggressive, and lose self control. Dr Berilon corroborates, telling of a cyclist who killed a peasant, then felt guilt after learning of the death.
A column of quips on gender roles love and marriage. Jokes about men farming minds and the joys of stolen kisses. Observational witticisms rib both sexes with sharp one liners and social quips.
Train service resumes on the Vandalia line to St Louis after the recent flood. The first run carried passengers and supplies, signaling restoration of rail traffic disrupted by flood conditions. Local officials and rail staff praised the reopening as a key step toward normalizing transportation and commerce.
An eastern party led by Prof Marcus C Noble tours Colorado famed for petrifications. A boastful guide claims everything in the area can be petrified in hours. A hunter and eagle are struck by petrification midflight, leaving the bird suspended in the air as the rest turn to stone. The guide pins gravity as part of the petrifying force.
A Kansas editor refuses to explain cyclone prediction. He notes that when porch chairs topple, bricks fall, glass shatters, rain pours through, and a grandfather clock trips, the roar is so strong the family cannot hear. The piece mocks seeking safe shelter guidance amid a tornado's destruction.
The passage describes humors that possess the body as lords of misrule, bringing pimples boils itching rheum and other cutaneous eruptions, along with weakness languor and debility. It asserts relief comes from expelling them, supported by grateful testimonials.
Grover Cleveland plans a visit to Tyringham Massachusetts for Berkshire recreation. John Morley holds an honorary professorship at the English royal academy. Senator Dryden commits four thousand dollars for a Sea Girt rifle trophy. A party of Americans prepares to cross Sahara from Cairo in an expedition linked to Winter and Ellis. Ex Empress Charlotte of Mexico is near death in Brunsela. The Belgian king stays by the Empress bedside. King Victor Emmanuel sends a rare gift to President Roosevelt consisting of Prince Eugene’s war reports and a copy of the Divine Comedy with a Racaldine note.
The poem recalls a cherished old-fashioned woman who made a home with care and devotion. Vivid images of a simpler life, family, and the ivy-walled homestead contrast with fading memory as time passes and the home decays. The piece nods to Mrs M L Hayne as noted in the College Record.
A farmer quips that his son’s busy football game disproves claims his son is lazy. The mother defends the boy’s effort. Separately a landlord repeatedly asks high rent, eliciting a wry exchange. The quotes come from Washington Evening Star and The New Yorker.
A homeless Miller family Albert, wife and two children walked from Mattoon, Illinois to Indianapolis Sunday afternoon seeking aid. Exhausted and hungry, they were directed to the Door of Hope where Matron Nelaner arranged temporary care after the group reached the police station and secured meals.
Ind. Juse a SpL Al Mattox of this place was badly hurt when a Marys board fell from the derrick while drilling a gas well. It fractured his collarbone and caused other injuries. transportation costs listed as $1.25. Train schedule notes Decatur to Indianapolis departure at 7:00 a.m. and return at 6:40 p.m.
The article notes a growing role for music in city schools with many pianos in use in the past year. Starr Piano Company donated over 190 instruments, and with school closings, the piano surplus is offered for sale at prices beginning around 3157 to 157, depending on service time.
City life notes: Frankwood Earl Willamshen, a Shortridge graduate, will enter ministry after four years at Yale and four at Harvard Medical College. Marion County Federation elects Joan R Welch and Mrs T F Barrett as delegates to the state meeting in Columbus Hall. Greensburg coroner T B Gulter reports Thomas Moore, who died at City hospital, was killed in self defense by a construction worker. Louis Teague’s bid to dodge a four day workhouse sentence ends in failure. after attempting morphine and self harm, he is hospitalized and will serve the sentence.
The Richmond art exhibit opens Tuesday with Indianapolis artists among the contributors. An electric line linking Richmond and Dayton advances while the city debates a tax ferret. Earlham College hosts the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends and Diblo conferences as the Pennsylvania company heats up local improvements including a new double track bridge across Whitewater depot and yards. D. G. Reid funds the new United Presbyterian church project.
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