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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1905
Page
4
In the 1940s and 50s, major phone firms like SBC expanded services amid editorial voices praising the telecom boom. The piece flags business growth, investment, and policy shifts shaping regional phone networks and consumer access.
Rates list for newspaper subscriptions with carrier delivery within the city and outside city. Includes six cents weekly, six months, monthly, and yearly prepaid options.
Capt Martin Hyland reports gamblers active in the city contrary to Mayor Holtzman’s claim of a gambler free zone. The disclosure raises questions about enforcement and public safety.
A long critique notes the city’s track elevation plan has stalled amid partisan politics and unclear authority. The Star condemns public officials for wasting money, while praising the Chronicle for legislative victory against moonshine licenses. It also discusses Fairbanks, Roosevelt views, and a biographical sketch of his early life, criticizing the press bureau and contrasts it with public expectations.
The article argues the Fairbanks bid is a bluff and a fiction with no sane reason backing a presidential candidacy. It notes opposition from the current president and contrasts with war commentary from St. Petersburg praising Kuropatkin’s strategy in a battle with Oyama. It cites Max Adler on a neighborly fight and calls for fair treatment of oil peddlers vs vegetable sellers.
A long column quotes Prof. Matthews on life origins and critiques Prof. Loeb s attempts to chemically create life. It discusses parthenogenesis, sea urchins, and the possibility of scientific limits, ending with satire on Standard Oil and public justice in Ohio.
A speaker describes overindulgence in corn juice and booze over many days, claiming health and wealth are worn thin. They express a vow of loneliness during Lent, citing thirst, pain, and fatigue from heavy drinking. The tone is penitential and self critical.
Jackson Landers complains to Indianapolis Board of Health after being told to go to h-l. Mayor Trolteman and Ed Helm the milk inspector clarify misheard phrases. A police sergeant ponders city lighting, praising electric signs and brighter storefronts on Washington Street.
An Indiana Automobile Co official praises the governor and legislators for the automobile bill, noting its balanced provisions and avoiding harsh rules. He pledges to enforce the law with his payroll and endorses Indiana as a leading auto manufacturing state with strong highway laws.
Predictions warn that Tuesday brings favors in the afternoon but also losses and troubles in business. Those employed may seek love. A child born in 1905 will have high spirit yet poor business luck. A female born that day would marry a highly spirited man and be unhappy.
The mountain sheep serves as the principal load carrier in the Himalayas carrying 17 to 25 pounds, thriving on roadside herbage. A small flock accompanied a major Indian expedition for over a thousand miles, finishing unfazed. Loaded high in the mountains with boras then driven to plains for wool harvest, they outlast yaks in Tibet. The Younghusband expedition revealed the animal’s high merit and versatile utility.
In Neport, citizens long faced water shortages until Norman tapped marsh water. A millionaire delegation urged a Moses statue to honor him, but Norman preferred a statue of Moses’ foster mother drawing profit from water, saying it better reflects his gift.
A Denver Republican item notes Nat C. Goodwin resisting coupon offers tied to purchases. Clerk promises prizes like a grand piano for 1,000 coupons, but Goodwin jokes he would seek a harp instead if he earned so many coupons by drinking whisky or smoking cigars.
A jury in the circuit court awarded Mrs Buntee J Cobler forty four thousand dollars in damages against Monon Railroad company. Mrs Cobler is the widow of Marshal Cobler a brakeman killed when a Monon switching engine caused a fatal accident.
Scripps-McRam press association reports George B. Tipperwin confessed at a meeting that he robbed a man on March 1 of $17. Police say he is jailed as a result of the admission.
Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker aged eighty three marks a Hartford birthday at her home. Youngest daughter of Rev Lyman Beecher and sister of Rev Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, she was born in Litchfield Conn. She married John Hooker in 1841, longtime supreme court reporter, who died February 12 1901. Mrs Hooker has two children and six grandchildren and has long supported woman suffrage.
Frederick S. Tallmadge, president of the New York Chapter, praised children's questions as lively and illuminating. He recalled a seven year old’s inquiry about parental scolding and nurse care, noting how a simple child’s question can electrify a room.
The report lists immense wartime losses including wagons and 2,000 horses, three Chinese carts with maps, one thousand carts with clothing, a million rations, 150 million pounds of fuel, 22 thousand burheny of horse allowances, and 12 thousand pounds of rat. Prisoner handling and hunger grow as the toll rises.
Police probe a homicide after an infant’s ash heap body was found near Colina Drug Store at New York Street and Indiana Avenue. The white infant’s parents remain unknown while a colored man, Samuel Heagan, was present but could not explain the child's origin. Deputy Coroner Dunlavy suggested possible head trauma before discovery.
A jumble of curiosities and curios from a European exhibition, court rulings, and Archival notes. The report mentions an elephant in Europe, a British court decision on placing goods, imperial decorations for Count von, Columbus’s voyage figures, and electric streetcar speeds in London, all mingled with garbled phrases and scattered facts.
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