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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1907
Page
10
Chicago launches May cleaning festival to transform the city into a City Beautiful. Fifty thousand students and dozens of improvement clubs scour streets, burn waste paper, and pile trash for wagons to haul away. Teachers urge each child to collect ten pieces, with plans to enforce clean-street ordinances and impose penalties to sustain gains.
Chicago May 28 Special to The Sun meat prices likely to jump this week unless the beef trust withdraws its plan to delay payments on certain livestock purchases until government exam. Packers told commission firms they would not bear losses on condemned cattle and would refuse payment on cow stuff until inspection. Thousands of letters and telegrams were sent to customers urging them to withhold cattle shipments to big markets. The action could cut meat supply and push prices up.
Monterey, May 22. It took three nations to complete this customs house. Spain built a small abode in 1816 when California was under Spanish rule. Mexico later erected a larger customs house nearby. The United States joined the two structures with a long building and raised the American flag, easing old tensions between Spanish and Mexican families.
Patterson argues Roosevelt is the choice for the presidential nomination and that Fairbanks has made little headway. He outlines uncertainty among Republicans and Democrats about Roosevelt’s potential run, noting Fairbanks is viewed as linked to big interests and faces southern resistance.
National Association of Manufacturers president James W. Van Cleave labeled organized labor as anti patriotism and urged a $500,000 annual fund for a three year campaign to exterminate unions. He denounced the closed shop the boycott apprentice limits and union dictation while warning of threats against leaders and courts.
The Sun invites readers with vacant rooms to place a free ten word class advertisement for three days to rent out the space. This public notice encourages quick placement and visibility for available rooms.
In Ashtabula and Canton, Grace Bottorf, 23, linked to two romances with James Hubert Wilson and George H. Taylor, is the center of dramatic events. Wilson’s gallant rides aided her recovery in Mexico and led to marriage while Taylor was fatally shot after a spree, amid questions of a mock marriage and unclear motives.
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