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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1905
Page
4
A lengthly plea decries Memorial day recreation and urges reverent observance. The author condemns sport and outings on the day, calling for a return to its original purpose of honoring fallen soldiers and the republic. The piece closes with notes on local events and governance.
A Berlin youth group opposes women wearing bird plumage on hats. They plan to warn offenders with pamphlets and, if needed, stop them on the street to remove the bird by force. The article links such acts to swords at dawn and calls the practice a relic of nose-ring fashion amid bird slaughter for millinery.
The piece argues about proper wording in the Lord's Prayer and criticizes mispronunciations and misuses in common prayers. It laments casual language, urges reverent address to the Lord, and notes the need for correct utterance and punctuation in religious supplication.
A remarkable hotel sits in the Sahara with windows facing endless sand. On a third side stands 200000 palm trees forming a vast green belt around the isolated resort.
Philadelphia mayor J H Weaver shares a tale about a stout, good-humored friend who, during a gastronomy discussion, reveals a single eating rule he follows. He says he sits about six inches from the table and stops when he touches.
A Concord tale credits ex Senator Chandler with defeat due to opposition to the Boston and Maine Railroad, not electric franchises, and notes his son's alderman loss to a conductor. A Dufferin anecdote mocks bragging with wit, followed by Mary E Wilkins Freeman on women’s humor and a Kansas City joke about a bachelor seeking a maid who is really a wife.
A garbled column of remarks shifts topics from fashion and marriage to war and society. References include Kenzer, Chicago, Rome, St. Petersburg, and New York. Jabs at revolvers, tech schools, and lent vows appear amid stray lines about engineers and lawyers.
The Philadelphia Record cites a fragmentary history of St. Patrice born in Nemthur Scotland around year 395 and dying in 169, with a baptismal name Lilue and a deacon father Calpuratus. Captured by Picts, enslaved in Ireland for six years, he escaped and pursued priesthood, but sources vary on his deeds and existence.
The report ranks Stanford University with the largest endowment at 92 002.00, followed by Girard College, Harvard, and Columbia in seven figure ranges. It notes Branford endowment as a single estate gift and comments on diverse funding patterns among colleges and universities.
The report notes 9,014,631 Negroes including Puerto Rico and Hawaii. About 90 percent reside in the South where one third of the population is Black, with many working on 746,000 farms. It lists professional counts and literacy changes from 57 to 68 percent.
The oyster industry in New York produced 6,082,000 bushels in the last year, according to the annual report by Supt. Wood of the shellfish bureau, with an estimated value of 1,509,700 dollars.
One hundred fine Cavert markets offered Saturday pricing at 83 cents per pair. These full skinned pairs feature extensive stitching and yeraps. Worth 1040 dollars in a home, buyers urged to view them.
Travel deal offering round trip and excursion options from Chicago to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle Victoria and Vancouver on the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Includes Pullman tourist sleeping cars meals dining car service and berth specials with direct agent contact in Cincinnati.
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