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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1900
Page
4
A short notice asks recipients to confess favor by contacting The Sun office. Call 880 or mail a postal to The Sun with any relevant information. The item emphasizes secrecy and official notification through the newspaper.
A period of religious revival at Roberts Park Church sparks debate over dangers of emotional worship and potential deaths by own action. The piece criticizes fevered evangelism while urging calm spiritual practice and questions about Union Station, railroad expansion, and the city’s cultural projects including a museum and auditorium financed with New York backing.
The article surveys Emperor Kwang Su of China amid reform debates with Kang Yu Wei, notes prayers for Prof. Max Muller in India, and recounts Confederate memorial debates, a Surviving Soldier’s romance in New Jersey, Baron Vonfitlar’s wealth trusts, and a scattered collage of other 19th century curiosities.
A once wealthy heir to a large fortune now spends under five dollars weekly while friends and professional lenders refuse to finance him. He lives in a back street of Antwerp, unable to access capital. The shift from lavish support to neglected finances underscores a dramatic fall.
A humorous fragment from The Sketches and Songs reveals playful word games by a singer and his friends. The exchange features a boy carving initials and inverted letters, a joke about a book’s sales, and light domestic dialogue with Sister Mary and Georgie noting papa’s reaction to Mr Blank’s arrival.
The Times reveals Joey Davis the Raggedy Man confessed to years of nocturnal printing for Millville businesses using a job press. Losses include stock envelopes and letter heads totaling about $125. Millville residents are urged to continue placing work at the Times office.
The piece argues abolition of capital punishment in Colorado leaves brutal criminals unpunished and invites vigilantism. It cites outrage over Simon the brutal murder and warns that without official punishment the public may impose retributive justice. The Denver Post quotation frames the stance as a backlash against reform.
The Grand stock company presents An unequal match a brilliant comedy this week with a star cast. The Runaway Girl opens Wednesday as English's first attraction for two nights. MacTyn Arbuckle’s new play closes the week. Park Theater starts with The Night Before Christmas, a pastoral drama. Empire features the Indian Maidens burlesque company.
Farib connected Nov. secant with Coblents and M in a fragmentary mention of a sword duel theme.
Sunday sermons feature comments from Rev S W Brown of Englewood church praising mothers and divine mercy. Rev T J Villers laments wives tied to drinkers and calls for better support. Rev V W Tevis says character persists after death, and Rev Charles Merle d Aubigne notes France's evolving Protestant influence despite unrest.
A collage of editorial snippets from papers across the nation. Quotes reflect political anxiety about democracy the south and reform calls amid court cases and public morals debates.
Brewery drivers moved to unite under the Brewery Workers’ union following a union order. Engineers with their own union resisted merging and were granted more time to decide.
In CASA GRANDE MEX Nov 19 four Mormon settlers and ten Indians died in a clash between Apache cattle thieves and Mormon settlers. Troops pursue the Indians who came from the San Carlos reservation in Arizona.
Manila report says on October 30 American troops on Fanny Island were attacked by 20 bolomen. They killed Lieut. Koontz Sergt. Kitchen and Corporal Burns of Company F Forty fourth Infantry. The enemy suffered 100 killed 20 wounded and 20 captured.
Joseph F. Laine of Flanagan Kentucky reports chronic dyspepsia improved after taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. He states his bowels became regular, he gained strength and energy, and felt like a new person.
The column cites fires in Philippi West Virginia and Paine Lumber Oshkosh Wisconsin, a murder conviction in Elizabeth West Virginia, suicides in Knoxville and Chicago, Kipling copyright suit in New York, crook-related loot confessions, and various sensational local incidents including a yellow fever death and a bank robbery confession in Illinois.
A collage of satirical quotes from Indiana newspapers mentions Grover Cleveland as college president, Bryan recovery, a rooster adrift on Salt River, voting machines and primary laws, Durbin and Kentucky, Kruger’s European visit, Chamberlain, tobacco as a staple, and tobacco pouch as a potential political issue.
Rev. G Campbell Morgan informs his American congregation of his resignation and states he will follow in Moody's footsteps but notes that no man can fill Moody's place. The message was delivered informally on the Sunday before his departure.
A passenger train on the A. and W. railroad struck a freight train carrying race horses from Vicksburg to Meridian. Trainers O Buffin and Orna Buffington were killed. Engineer Hotson L Nelson and Dr. B J Jones, horse owners, are expected to die. Jockey Connelly was badly injured.
Rev E A Hanley of the University of Chicago opened the Woodruff Place Baptist Church with a sermon on Christian hope. The church cost 12000 dollars, sits on the site of the old burned church, began as a mission ten years ago and now reports 297 members.
W F Jenkins 69 of 622 West New York Street died Sunday after months of kidney illness. Born in Virginia he amassed wealth in the grain trade. Survived by wife and three children L E Jenkins Mrs R A Bunker and Mrs L Gallup.
An old advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Seething Syrup promotes its use for teething children. It claims to soothe, soften gums, relieve pain, cure wind colic and diarrhoea, pricing twenty five cents per bottle.
Indiana Dental College located at 8 W Cor Delaware and Chiosis accepts patients from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for all dental work. Fees are stated to cover only the cost of services.
Dutch lunch to order offered by Monninger's in Ohio and Illinois with frankfurters and sauerkraut featured.
A monkey escaped its cage at the Zoo on Saturday night entering the arena during Capt. Bonivita’s act with seven lions. Blood was drawn, triggering a tense moment as lions roared. attendants restored order and Bonivita continued after the scare. Courtney Burton, an Indianapolis boy, was identified as Delano the swinging wire marvel. An elephant stepped on an alligator, the animal survived, while an ostrich autopsy found two paint brushes ingested with paris green.
Republican state committee will meet Thursday. YWCA plans to move to 329 N Pennsylvania St by December 1. Charity society plans its annual public meeting Sunday evening December 2. County superintendents may push legislation to elect them by popular vote. G A R seeks monument use only for patriotic purposes. Only 350 season tickets sold for the YMCA lecture course. course may be canceled next year without more interest. A concert at Tomlinson hall for firemen pension fund Wednesday night features John Berry as reception chief and Coots as floor head. Itchiness of the skin, horrible plague offered as a cure by Dean’s Ointment at 50 cents.
Tom M. Cooke deputy collector of customs of Porto Rico visited Denison Sunday night on leave from Lincoln Nebraska. He says islanders welcome the change in government and view the tariff bill as a benefit. He notes that most roads are rough bull trails and badly need repair.
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