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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1894
Page
2
The Sun announces delivery details for six cents weekly and carrier service in the city. It lists subscription rates for outside-city readers at 3.00 per year, 1.50 for six months, and 0.25 per month, and invites agents to obtain rates and terms for business communications to the manager and editor.
The Sun critiques street improvement funding and local newspaper stances, noting readers can report delivery issues. It condemns claims that property owners block progress while asserting they seek affordable, practical improvements. The piece criticizes political rhetoric from Hoar and comments on New Jersey and New Jersey road decisions. It laments high municipal legal costs and hints at costly judgments following lawsuits.
The piece notes that those who can afford improvements resist payment while others outside city limits escape assessments. It jokes about Richard Croker and Tammany hall, mentions Breckinridge and a contested congressional race. Indiana towns urge action on the tariff, while African Americans seek equal rights. A health board breeze and calls for quarantines around Chicago are also referenced.
Indianapolis faces unemployment with many men out of work. If possible, the city should raise funds to employ them, giving work to workhouse prisoners as a last resort and prioritizing public projects over other uses.
A ledger of faces and fashions includes Attorney Snow in glasses and a cropped beard, Gus Mason in a tight three button suit, Sim Cov with failing sight, Undertaker Whitgett in a black derby, Dr P H Jameson nimble in age, and Judge Norton marketing for family meals. Tenants resist sprinkling levies while landlords grumble, and death marriage birth notices top readers’ lists alongside a Clay county mine tale of plunder and poverty.
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