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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1908
Page
8
The Indianapolis Sun is published daily except Sunday in the Sun Building at 12 and 112 West Street. Willis and Thompson are named as associated publishers or editors in the notice.
The piece calls Marion County voters to participate in the May 15 Democratic primary and to reject graft by electing a clean, reform-minded ticket. It cites indictments and public corruption at the courthouse, urging independents and reform-minded Republicans to unite behind a first class ticket and to vote for honest public service.
An ingenious Harper’s Weekly piece imagines a medieval observer encountering today’s breakfast. It notes fruits, vegetables, pumpkins, berries, apples roasted to reduce astringency, limited citrus, potatoes unknown, bananas new to Europe, grapefruit rare, peaches once poisonous, and a fast of salt fish or venison with hot spiced beer or adney brew.
The article argues every boy should learn a trade and every girl household skills. It praises Emperor William for requiring education in trades, notes the crown prince works at a lathe, and claims manual dexterity surpasses pure brains. It criticizes public schools for partial instruction and endorses hands on labor in all trades.
The piece argues that many eminent figures failed to understand their own laws and laws become an endless game of rules. It laments excessive statutes and legal machinery and calls for simplified penal and civil codes to restore respect for justice and the law.
A Nash ville American quip about loving one’s home and avoiding wear. A Fliegende Blätter line comments on poor business and the plan to buy an auto to keep up appearances.
A fragment shows Groucho humor about a caller at an unsuitable hour. The line mocks the caller's timing and offers a brisk quip about selling a watchdog.
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