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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
4
An article describes a store's clearance sale with drastic price cuts on political and toy items, listing candidates for county treasurer and prosecutor as humorous, risqué products. It notes various department specials and urges early crowding while also discussing local politics and public health enforcement in Indianapolis.
Editorial questions why saloons and shooting galleries stay open on Sundays and why Sunday vaudeville and dances are tolerated. The piece argues Sunday baseball and theater could curb street loafing and "Dhooze" fights, noting shooting galleries cannot afford to stay open and suggesting police enforcement during Sunday events.
A collage of political quips and public concerns cites election rumors and a coal strike, laments civic plans in flux, and notes the dangers of deadly grade crossings while decrying long Cuban imprisonment as an option. It questions ex presidents’ roles and mocks interurban schemes and civic finance.
A compilation of brief quoted remarks from Indianapolis to Washington and South Bend, lampooning gas policy, political patronage, War Department leadership, and John D. Rockefeller’s hair loss with caustic humor and partisan edge.
The clippings mock Miles and Schley as martyrdom ticket candidates while lampooning Neely’s Cuba burglary plans. The Detroit News notes gains for a jailed regime and a Brooklyn crowd kissed by a fiddler amid chaotic crowds. The New York Evening Sun criticizes hysterical women at a musical performance.
An assortment of scenes and droll exchanges, including a duke declaring love to a girl who rejects heiress status, a performance at a dog show misreading numbers as Al to K9, hotel quarrels over drunken guests, and a court sentence for Gen Ozman Pasha with rumored commutation.
In a 1891 magazine piece Joe jokes with Col Ayre about life and travel. The colonel laments rheumatism keeping him off the saddle while Joe must ride. They quip on future aerial ships replacing current travel within ten years.
A fragmentary verse describes battered whalers near jagged rocks. It evokes peril at sea with children asleep at home and uncertain fate amid shifting weather and distant terra firma.
A visitor asks why the minister is nicknamed Wu. Mrs Smithers explains he is always dictating the proper way to do things.
A girl agrees to return all items from her angry suitor and plans to send back a hat and other belongings. She mentions a shirt or ring worn briefly turning black and says she will return it or send the 50 cent item if the brother has discarded it.
The Freckled Fanatic tells the chief a man entered his home yesterday and carried off nearly all his possessions. He suspects the same man who helped move their household goods and cheerfully provides a clue.
A compilation of Indiana editorials condemns Neely Reeves Rathbone for Cuban embezzlement. Papers call for severe punishment, label them official outlaws, and argue the three were pillars of the Republican administration. Each editor notes the arrest and trial as a political blow.
A fragment mentions a Sun letter asking to enjoy a St. Johannes jenglings verein card party on Thursday evening April 37. It notes Howard B. Campbell resigning to enter advertising and William Herschel replacing him at Terre Haute Tribune. A Brown quote questions taking children to a menagerie amid exotic animal remnants at home.
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