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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notice appears to describe editorial rooms and phone listings with numbers and old and new entries. The readable bits mention a 626 number and 8412, plus a phone contact. No clear narrative or event is present in the legible text.
A column argues the Marion county grand jury should indict Cigarette Baker if warranted, warning he is no fool and will avoid arrest by staying out of the state. It then critiques New York journalism shifts and recalls a doctor’s controversial booklet funding, followed by notes on court abuses in Massachusetts and a Florida rail project toward Key West aiding Cuba trade.
A published view by Prof worker Washington of Tuskegee Institute notes that southern black Americans have built substantial wealth, owning 173 000 farms and 28 000 churches across 12 former slave states. He argues that despite denied political and social rights, blacks are progressing through thrift and self-reliance, with northern whites not far behind in prejudice reduction.
At a local horse sale Valentine Wolf and others jockeyed a bid with a reluctant crowd until a surge saw Horace Woods win the horse for 30 dollars. Fred Finney attempted an old habit breaker using pepper and tobacco, causing a comic near-fiasco. A tobacco smell sparked a courthouse floor investigation and an odd tale of a veteran clerk accused of a prior offense. Passengers on the Brightwood line faced 15 minutes of delay after a rear-end collision with a streetcar, resolved by a bystander with a fence post aiding a pushback.
The text urges restoring energy after winter, noting germs thrive when vitality is low. It recommends sleep, plenty of water, cold-water sponges, and avoiding fatigue to boost resistance. Regular cold sponging and physical care are said to prevent sore throats rheumatism and severe colds.
Mrs. David Hill, wife of the president of the Railroad Building and Station, died early Wednesday from a cerebral hemorrhage while at the sanitarium. Her husband was a former general superintendent of the LB and W railroad. The body was taken to Detroit after a service in Indianapolis. A police court session featured a lively quarrel among lawyers, including Dilford Kealing, with interjections from Prosecutor Holmes as spectators laughed at the clash.
Tha Jetter Gao the Cremation Society will cremate Hartmann the well known German citizen, who died Tuesday night. His ashes will be scattered at White leer, then returned to Indianapolis to wait for objections from Hartmann’s Germany-based children. Cremation and service to be held Thursday at Adam and Krieger’s parlors with cremation Friday.
Eleven thousand seven hundred pennies weighing seven pounds were deposited Wednesday at a Rockford savings bank by the daughter of a small tradesman who had saved them. She hauled the coins in a toy wagon.
Arthur Houghton polo player sues Indianapolis Shelbyville and South Eastern Traction for five dollars alleging trouble with a conductor on a traction car last month. He says the conductor ordered him to quit smoking and assaulted him with an iron hook as he entered the car. The conductor was tried in police court and acquitted.
The passage urges immediate saving and warns against waste and regret. It promotes a $15 monthly deposit for ten years, promising a total of 8209.02, framed as a company offering to help readers plan financially for old age.
Former Indianapolis mayor John Caven, 9 dead, survived an apartment fire by a fault, with a long city career behind him. He journeyed from Pennsylvania to Madison Indiana, then walked to Indianapolis with 33 cents. He aided city growth through streets and Balt railway work and was a thirty third degree Mason. Funeral plans await word from a sister in Little Rock Arkansas.
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