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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1904
Page
4
A collection of quotes urging immediate expressions of affection to family members and loved ones from Bryan Helping Judge Parker. The piece contrasts political commentary on Judge Parker and Bryan with a plea to cherish personal bonds, criticizing a park board decision and offering a consolation to Indianapolis fans.
The Associated Farm Press outlines profitable home garden and farm practices including growing asparagus and rhubarb for health and market value. It discusses hill manure with plants, benefits for tobacco cabbage and corn, timing and labor needs, and notes hog management with charcoal and salt to reduce cholera risk.
The article reviews experiments by Professor R A Emerson at Nebraska on growing sweet potatoes on ridges and level ground. Dry soils favor level culture, while irrigated land benefits ridge culture. In Nebraska dry conditions favor level. heavy soils in Minnesota and Iowa favor ridges due to excess moisture. Also notes about horses versus automobiles for delivery, and farm feeding experiments showing alfalfa hay and cornmeal producing high meat yield. Includes a weathered note on rate laws in Rock Island County with brood sows and pig poisoning risks.
A curent report from The Associated Press notes that automobiles have not displaced draft horses in urban hauling, with 3000 demand figures quoted and skepticism about machines fully replacing horses until engines advance further. The article highlights continued reliance on horses for heavy urban transport and questions the near-term dominance of motor vehicles.
In 1883 along Bald Top mountain a young highwayman robbed a trader and escaped. Gabe Jimison and Al Wheaton hunted the culprit with bloodhounds and surprised Nell Prescott, the only woman bandit in old Virginia, dead at a fallen log. An inquest followed and her body was buried on the mountain, her family unaware of her fate.
A historical testimonial claims scrofula is inherited and common, with symptoms like neck swellings, erup tions, and debility. It asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills prevent and cure scrofula, citing a Parker City Indiana case of a daughter healed and now healthy.
A fragment recalls advice about avoiding quarrels among friends, noting one man, Albert Burnett of Heaton, was arrested for sweating and told to keep quiet on a street car. The report includes the phrase damn and a case of tension among companions.
A garbled 19th century collage mentions Rev M B Foster a East Braintree Mass motorman, Israel Weinstein a New York jeweler who suicided after a mother’s death, typhoid linked to raw eel fattened in polluted waters, a New Yorker joined to Bowmanian writings, Bishop O Connors plan insures priests for cathedral work, Collector Stratten notes Japan and Russia sent funds since the war began, Miss Mary Gallagher of Baltimore uses Poe works with a hairpin, Abdul Beha revival, and Miss Barney daughter of Albert Barney travels to Acre to see money influence.
The butcher bird ranks among the wisest winged creatures using barbed-wire fences as hooks to store food. California farmers found yard wire tips covered with dead insects and field mice, learn they were placed by the hungry bird to feast when meadow food is scarce.
John Farrl nicknamed "human ostrich" was rushed to New York in critical condition after a bizarre incident. Twelve surgeons reportedly removed items including eight knives a watch chain a ring chain fifteen nails four horseshoe tails and two pins from his body.
A Spanish war veteran named Wiam Allen, a New York police officer, hospitalized in Beltsvur, reportedly went mad with joy after receiving a congressional heroism medal. The item, awarded a week ago, appears amid a jumble of local ads for travel, porch straw seats, and textiles from People’s Outfitting Co. and Washington street.
In a rambling excerpt the dialogue centers on Bardolph and Quickly as they trade quips while a mower loan and a Whitsun week leads to a comic misadventure. The text blends Shakespearean names with colloquial chatter and a scenevolving onlooker commentary. The piece ends noting a fire in Cincinnati that damaged several companies and a postoffice corridor incident.
Burlesque shows at Parka with the Holden stock company run daily through the week. Rising Sun scenes and peculiar humor draw Indianapolis audiences. London plans include The Third Moon, Mrs Wills retires from the stage after recent death in New York, Kate Claxton ends FenSOR career.
Report outlines Hearst boomers using Grand hotel parlors for missionary work as delegates gather before the state convention. Papers claim a South Bend push to nominate Benjamin F Shively for president, with ties to Bryan factions and Parker support. Also notes Charles F P Remy will return to Indianapolis law practice and a local man faces charges after a hatpin assault. A man named William Grubejbauer woke to find a missing item after a nap in Greenlawn park.
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