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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1901
Page
4
Fragmentary text from a Sun classified section requests readers to contact the business manager, forward rates, and terms for regular delivery. It mentions monthly and yearly prepaid rates and asks readers to notify the office or call 880.
The article argues the secretary of state should resist issuing certificates to foreign trusts, warning such action could enable trust leverage. It also advocates nonpolitical appointment for Indiana's state geologist, praising W. S. Blatchley and urging preservation of expert selection by the state educational board, with focus on merit over politics ahead of the 1903 legislature.
The Sentinel denounces the Pennsylvania legislature for graft in franchise dealings and contrasts its stance with Indianapolis officials recent contracts. It laments the low conduct of Quaker lawmakers and notes the state’s Republican majority allows bold publication of such views. The paper claims the city administration mirrors the graft in morally charged terms.
The Tennessee supreme court refuses to admit women as officers of the court and notaries, while the Indiana supreme court allows practice. Names of admitted Indiana lawyers include Miss Caroline Hendrix, Mrs. A. B. Leach, and Mrs. Helen Gougar. Gougar previously argued voting rights but the court upheld that franchise is a privilege, not a citizen right. A minister named Sweeney warns strawboard factories threaten Indiana fishing streams if action is not taken.
Is there anyone with land to sell to the park board? The call invites notification from any potential seller and requests that they come forward to state their offering.
Sculptor Schwarz asserts Indiana political limestone is the finest building stone and warns that using New England granite would cost about 500000, limiting size and decoration. He argues eastern stone interests influence Washington, and The Sun says Indiana should be heard to prevent any hindrance to using Indiana stone for the post office.
The Sun presses for an audit of Geckler's office in the Locke case. Officials fear the demand, but advocates say the entire office should be scrutinized. With various rumors about his books, the council is urged to act to clear the clerks name and remove false imputations.
Mr Geckler moves to quickly comply with the law as possible investigations or impeachment are raised. Other cases exist and an inquiry should be started at once.
A Montanan comparison frames Montana politics as decent beside a Pennsylvania piece. Detroit editors face publishing respectful obituaries for Pingree after harsh coverage. Eastern Massachusetts builds a murder conviction case as a final formal step awaits the capture of the suspect.
The notice highlights a St John’s academy picnic Tuesday and a wedding Wednesday morning at St John’s church between Miss Sadie Cass and John Carton. A lantern feast in Woodruff Place Park Tuesday night attracts attention, with Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and daughter planning seashore travel and a Adirondacks summer home. Mrs Clifford Arrick will join them summering with Harrison. Congregational lawn festival preparations proceed at Capitol Ave and Georgia St Wednesday and Thursday evenings with handsome decorations.
Lafayetteans read with regret the reports of Charles Wilson secretary to the governor fading in Indianapolis papers. Memory Warren dies of heart disease on a train from Bicknell to Edwardsport.
Finland is praised for its rugged resilience and firm self reliance shaping a distinct civilization rooted in science and literature. Separately, a Macedonian promontory hosts Caryes a women free zone where Servian peasants sustain a balanced, cooperative society with strong female domestic authority and robust education.
A collage of editorial quips from various papers mocks political and social topics. Quips touch on soldiers selling clothes, telephone etiquette, mad steer incidents, fashion versus markets, Bryan’s third party stance, novelty hay and sawdust appeals, and a critique of imperialist rule by a Plymouth Democrat.
Humors are vitiated fluids in the veins that affect tissues and arise from poor digestion or poor feeding. They manifest as skin eruptions salt rheum eczema pimples boils and general weakness and languor. Hood's Sarsaparilla expels humors and strengthens the system making it the best medicine for all humors.
Poem fragment extols nature and music in Riley style with imagery of June trees blackbirds insects and grass. The narrator urges readers to read hear and feel nature directly by lying beneath an elm and offering heart and soul to the scene.
In a stroll through the churchyard Blykins remarks that many epitaphs are more honest than expected. He notes that a surprising number begin with here lies and comments on the blunt simplicity of grave markers.
A narrator points to a group of bicycle riders and refers to a “scratch man” while Mildred questions and a disruptive action shifts the topic to her corn injury. The scene hints at a quirky, tense exchange in a domestic setting.
Three women on a Pullman discuss loved ones lost. A gray haired mother recalls a son who died at home and prays for reunion in heaven, a second laments an only son named John who died at twenty one, and a third speaks of a son who died in the Philippines. Their sorrow invites sympathy, yet some respond coldly. Edward Singer.
A Sunday night false alarm disturbed the fire department on WZ Chadwick street. The Columbia club plans a roof garden opening next week. Greenfield interurban line denies any option sale. Ralph Miller of Indianapolis promoted to second lieutenant. Unions form at a cereal mill plant including marble cutters and ice cream vendors. Matilda Hunter died of heart disease at Kiley hotel. English zouaves to drill for Labor day picnic. races and prizes planned. Early week rail traffic shows 25 448 cars handled at Indianapolis, vs 20 055 in 1900. Oxymolar electro medical instrument patented by John A Minturn proposed to flow earth electricity through the body. Electrical workers union cites pay disputes with three linemen in first department. Board of safety may approve a pay increase. Union Trust reports final settlement for Arrow wheel receivership. Hadley estate to receive remaining funds. St Mary’s Academy art exhibit ongoing with large display and notable works. Bloomington Presbyterian church dedication marked as religious jubilee with 2000-seat, $70 000 building, debt free.
A compiled set of preacher quotes from C E Bacon, G M Smith, T J Villers, C Smucker, J Cumming Smith, L Brown, A W Bartlett, and other clergy. Topics cover Sabbath observance, modern liberalism, newspaper portrayal of life, goodness versus badness, summer life, business cooperation, and Sunday closing debates linked to 1893 world’s exposition.
The Board of Works added an explanation to the electric light contract stating bidders may propose a term longer than the public lighting contract but not to exceed 25 years. The addition does not alter the existing specifications.
Sunday marked the twenty first birthday of the Royal Arcanum in Indianapolis with a birthday sermon by Rev. Marion Crosley, chaplain of the local council, at Central Universalist Church.
A vintage advertisement touts Cas carets Candy Cathartic aiding digestion and liver and bowel health while you rest. It promises rest during sleep and lists drugstore price points 10c 1c and 59s.
The Buffaloes present the largest program at the Park theater led by Harry Fidler and John Rucker. Fifty vaudeville fanmakers perform a mix of comedy, vaudeville and operatic features. The engagement closes Tuesday night with a matinee that day.
A distributed circular reprints S P Sheerin's Buffalo paper indicating profit and strength of Independent Telephonda interests. It pairs with part of a letter from John J Sabin president of Central Union Telephone urging stockholders to raise 5 140,000 dollars to support the company.
James W. Armstrong, a well known Indianapolis resident, died at Englewood Illinois last week at his mother in law Mrs Henry Dcor's home after a diabetes battle. He and his brothers ran the ice business for years and he was a Scottish rite mason. A widow survives. Funeral held Monday at 2 p m at the family home Thirtieth and Clifton st
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