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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
16
The Indianapolis Sun published Wednesday November 11 1908 from the Sun Building at 123 and 125 E Ohio St. The issue notes postal classification and standard daily publication details for the local paper.
The piece compares existing and proposed franchise terms for Indianapolis Telephone Company and Central Union options. It details per year rates for single and two line business and residence telephones, deductions for prompt payment, and the impact on total phones, noting a preference for city control and rate ceilings to protect the public. It also cites Toledo's example and remarks on a looming US Senate race in Indiana.
Amos Cummings recalls Horace Greeley tale in which Mrs Greeley storms in and flings a visitor’s hat gloves and cane from a window. Greeley reassures Asa that the incident stemmed from mistaken ownership, highlighting domestic snobbery and comic misinterpretation.
A digest of famed gourmands from ancient Greece to Louis XIV, noting excesses and appetites. It cites Milo of Crotona and Abinus, Phagon with Aurelius, and Pericles as origins of picnic etymology, while contrasting temperance with gluttony and the effects of rum and gin on behavior.
A collection of curious facts covers Manhattan floor space, New York department stores, German feather shipments, paper production for New York presses, counts of criminals in Paris, medical student totals in Germany, gold output in the Transvaal, and a possible origin for the roulette wheel from Japan. Also notes Massachusetts limits on work hours, a locomotive engineer’s remark about skunks, doctors' views on lawn tennis, Cuban women in politics, and a newly discovered tunnel at Gezer in Palestine.
A Cambridge mothers club links most members by proxy to Harvard faculty. One member recounted an after meeting conversation with another who missed it. Miss G discussed infant care while Dean H described domestic service issues and maid care.
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