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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1905
Page
4
The Indianapolis Sun lists delivery rates for city and outside city readers, detailing six cents per week in-city, $1.50 for six months outside, 6 cents per month out-of-city, and $2.08 per year outside. It notes editorial rooms and mailing information.
Widow Mrs Gaul of Bridgeton New Jersey left an estate of 25000 earned from a penny candy store near a public school. Her thrifty habit over 35 years, reinvestment in real estate and cautious savings illustrate that slow accumulation and honest business yield lasting competence unlike risky schemes or monopolistic graft. The piece extols old fashioned virtues and warns against get rich quick schemes.
The piece laments money as the dominant topic in society from libraries to weddings. It notes public interest in wealth shapes reactions to death, birth, and marriage, and cites a Port Arthur diver and a Kansas town contemplating a donation by Tom Lawson, reflecting money’s pervasive influence.
An octogenarian leader in the Russian Orthodox sphere loses power as the czar grants religious liberty. Pobiedonsteff, long a persecutor of Jews and Polish Catholics, condemned liberal reforms and fueled exile and bloodshed. His fall prompts hope for renewed Russian liberty amid a broader note on reformers and finance.
A long obituary notes Gen Henry Wagner Slocum born Delphi New York and West Point graduate who served in the Seminole and Civil Wars. It details his rise to major general, battles he fought including Gettysburg and Spotsylvania, his postwar career as lawyer and statesman, and his death in 1994. It mentions statue by Frederick MacMonnies unveiled with Roosevelt speaking, located at Eastern Parkway and Belmont Avenue Brooklyn.
A stage villain complains of a hiss from a woman in the front row who leads an Anti Cigarette league. The manager jokes that the critic is acting, while a New York man compromises a $257 suit to avoid 200 love letters being read in court.
A fragmented local item recalls a Sunday choir lesson as a boy names Wille and a question about Johnny Rockefeller and burglars. The page also advertises Hood's Bararapar and Newport Dye Works offering tonics and dye services with bold claims and address hints.
A column recounts a traveling man in a Kansas City hotel tricking a waiter by misidentifying Dr. Alonzo Tubbs, a Missouri legislator, and notes on Bishop Potter and Senator Depew jokes, plus a Rubinstein anecdote. It mentions a special Decoration Day rate via the Lake Erie & Western line and ends with a plea for small savings and a call to start a savings discount.
Vintage advertisement for River Oil and Supply Co promoting a teething remedy for children. Claims soothing properties, easing pain, calming the child, and curing wind colic and diarrhea with a patent-like formula. Includes mentions of pulleys shafting and machinery in scattered text.
At the Paris Academy of Science a curious case of osteomalacia explained by radiograms shows a patient who was 5 feet 4 inches tall and has reduced to 3 feet 2 inches in ten years. Despite this drastic bone softening, the patient remains fairly healthy with no prospect of regaining former height.
Francis J. Honore, uncle of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Judge Lockwood Honore, 72, obtained a license to wed Barbara Cowles, 86, with the couple leaving for an extended honeymoon. Time notes Cowles previously served as Honore's housekeeper in Chicago.
Special fishing rates via Lake Erie and Western Esilrold line to Laporte Rochester Macy and other northern Indiana lakes. For wine of trains and rates call at city office South Lincs Street.
A descriptive publication by the Grand Trunk Railway System offers full information and maps about a voyage through the Georgian Bay Inner Channel Mantiqulin Island North Channel Gault Ste. Marie Parry Sound Mackinac and more. Copies are available free on application to W Nobinen TP A Ou Park Building Pittsburg A.
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