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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
4
The Sun announces its business offices at 12% and 25 East Ohio Street with a temporary office at 109 E Ohio Street and third floor portrait rooms. It lists telephone numbers, post office registration, and contact details for the business manager editor and advertising department. Subscriptions outside the city run six months 1 50, year 3 00, with carrier delivery six cents weekly.
An opinion piece accuses Indianapolis philanthropists of monopolizing charity work and political appointments, accusing them of whitewashing reformer Hert and using editors to mask corruption while ridiculing the social elite. It contrasts this with the West-Ryan boxing bout, implying broader corruption in prizefighting and politics.
The piece rails against clerks and sheriffs seeking pay without effort, praises political machines, and blasts anti-boss sentiment. It laments fence removals in Indianapolis and derides primary laws while praising corrupt practice, referencing Marion county figures Elliott Sauley and political factions. It also notes Miss Jessie Lendormi’s death and critiques the Board of Public Safety and Hert’s whitewashing.
Citizens of Putnam County await a grand welcome for James as a brass band leads a brass band parade and an upholstered carriage ride to the station. The scene promises pageantry and local celebration.
The article notes that prospects for enacting a primary election law are exceedingly slim, with observers treating any serious consideration as a humorous hypothetical. It highlights skepticism from lawmakers and legal scholars about achieving bipartisan support.
A compilation of short editorials from Indiana papers urges restraint in politics and public spending. Calls for responsible governance, anti mob action, and personal thanks privatization, praising sheriffs, party service, and welfare over partisan advantage.
A collage of editorial quips cites Mr Hanna on the Inauguration Spooner amendment and Cuban ultimatum. The piece notes Alas poor Tillman selling his pitch fork for pottage and suggests Governor Yates has begun moving against lynching in Illinois, highlighting the unreliable promise paradox.
A comic poem depicting a night of telephone misdial confusion and crude humor. The speaker endures ringing bells and a wrong number, then the punchline arrives as a sly exchange about a thief and a tall girl in a church choir.
A humorous exchange occurs when Hoxey Hi jokes about a ridiculous thought on after-dinner speeches with a woman who questions his grin. He notes Chauncey Depew and a new star who made the discovery, while he himself cannot locate it even when found.
A clipped exchange notes Mollie received a postscript that used three pages, while the initial letter had only one. The remark highlights an unusually lengthy postscript and the contrast with the shorter main letter.
The Park theater audiences enjoyed Denman Thompson and George W. Ayer’s Melo drama The Sunshine of Paradise Alley set in New York tenements. A riverfront scene leads to reform and a happy ending as Nellie McNally helps a woman splash from a pier. The cast and acts receive praise including Verdi ladies quartet and Mrs. Charles Peters.
A massive steam crane with twin engines and a long jib is readied to move a freight locomotive or heavy cars from a wreck. Crew hoists a caboose, then swings and lowers it safely down the embankment as Maguire motivates the crew. The article also notes trolley newspaper delivery advances and a California tunnel project in progress.
Mrs Thomas McGann of Chicago dies in a lamp explosion after a coal field strike rumor in Jackson Ohio. Mrs William Sanders and her niece Voila Wilcox burn to death in Hot Springs Arkansas while attempting to save the child. Two Chicago arrests follow a Peoria revenue stamp robbery case tied to Paul Knefel and Robert Cadine. An American syndicate closes a 500000 acre pine timber deal in the Sierra Madres valued at 2500000 in gold.
The Big Four Bee-line division leads again, with strong gains alongside the St. Louis division. Pennsylvania and Erie plan two daily trains from St. Louis via Indianapolis and Columbus for the Pan-American exposition. Western lines grow in importance as earnings gap narrows. Epworth league fares to the San Francisco meeting in July are listed from several cities.
The senate on Thursday approved a bill creating a state board of embalmers and another bill abolishing the board of regents of the soldiers' monument. A custodian will assume charge of the monument.
Miss Jessie Lendormi will be laid to rest at 516 N Davidson with a large labor presence. Central labor union officials and delegates from multiple unions will march from the union hall with a band. Floral tributes are ordered by President Feltman. Pallbearers include Feltman, Edgar A. Perkins, E. P. Berry, Thomas Wckles, Hugh Richards, and a Daughters of Rebekah representative.
Ss. W. Cor. Delaware and Chiosis operates a dental practice offering all kinds of dental work to patients from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
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