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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Nov 20, 1909

Page

8

Indianapolis Sun circulation certification notes

The Indianapolis Sun declares daily publication except Sundays from the Bun building at 123 and 13 Ohio street. Foreign ad reps listed in New York Chicago and St Louis. Entered as second class mail. Association of American Advertisers certifies circulation with figures guaranteed. Secretary.

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Patronage in Indiana politics strains party unity

A discussion of public patronage shows how distributing jobs and favors to bolster a party often alienates supporters. The piece traces impacts on officeholders from Congress to local posts, cites Beveridge and Landis figures, notes district tensions in Indiana, and warns of political danger from over-committing to patronage.

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Believable Romance Dubbed By Desert Metaphor

A comic dialogue unfolds on a dance floor as a man pleads belief with honeyed words while a woman teases him for dancing like a camel, the exchange set to a mazy waltz and interrupted by a bump into another couple.

Pancake Advice From a Playful Child

A brief, humorous reminiscence where three year old Alice watches her mother cook pancakes and offers a simple cooking instruction saying to put on back turn over on chest then eat. The moment captures child logic and kitchen observations in a warm domestic vignette.

Alice

Lodger complains of lung complaint over baby’s howling

A lodger tells landlady Mrs Binks he cannot stay due to a lung complaint and cites their baby’s loud crying as the reason. The exchange hints at a domestic dispute within a boarding house setting.

Random Thwaite Studies Psychology At Governor’s Office

Secretary to the governor notes a surge of parole and pardon seekers at the executive office. Mostly women relatives of convicts gathered for days, urging mercy, clemency, or parole as a psychological phenomenon appeared to drive the petitioning. The wave subsided quickly leaving staff in contemplation.

Thwaite Mark

Startling events and mental effects border on pardon pleas

Secretary Thistlethwaite recalls recent dramatic incidents that may influence families of jailed youths. A breakout chain includes a murder of a prisoner by a cellmate at Jeffersonville reformator y and a double murder at New Albany by a deranged boy. The killings fuel insane plea talk and alarm parents seeking protection for their sons. Burrows faces trial for murder after slaying his cellmate, heightening calls for accountability and caution.

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Tragedy Worries Mothers Over Reform School Loss

Mothers fret over a tragedy involving a kind boy sent to the reformatory. Officials face pressure as fear and love drive petitions for mercy. The governor’s administration contemplates careful steps amid rising public concern.

Doyle Praises Indianapolis From Marion Visitor

Burr Doyle of Marion Indiana, formerly of Indianapolis, said business and industrial conditions in Marion are unusually good and improving. He described Indianapolis as a constantly growing city with progress, new buildings, business expansion, and industrial enlargement, noting it holds its own compared with other cities.

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Ruckelshaus Law Weakness Recalled After Court Ruling

The article notes county attorney John C. Ruckelshaus urged Marion County commissioners to avoid using the three mile gravel road law for brick roads in rural districts. He argued the statute was invalid or misapplied, warning against concentrating funds on a few miles while vast township roads remained neglected, citing Delaware County townships near Muncie deeply in debt for brick highways built under the now void law.

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Verse Writer Tuck Publishes For Love of You in Indianapolis

Clyde Edwin Tuck of Indianapolis, a skilled versifier with sentiment, issues a handsome poetry collection titled For Love of You. The volume includes lyrics, songs, tender passages, and philosophic views, praised for craft, melodic word choice, originality, and wholesome, hopeful themes. published by B. F. Bowen & Co.

Clyde Edwin Tuck Indianapolis

Pay Your Debts and the Social Morality Trap

A lengthy editorial argues debt collection should be criminalized for services like dressmaking and other manual labor, praising women activists who pushed for stronger laws. It examines debt norms, gambling debts, and class bias, highlighting the deadbeat aristocrat as a social problem and urging public sympathy beyond class lines to foster peace and goodwill.

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The Country Child Poem by Katharine Tynan

A lyric portrait of a country child, with clear eyes and rose cheeked weathered by years. The poem traces his sunlit youth, steady days, and enduring innocence preserved into old age, where forget me nots keep his gaze and elf roses bloom.

Forget

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