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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
8
The Indianapolis Sun appears with adding details of address and advertising reps. It notes postal class, association certification of circulation by the Association of American Advertisers in New York City, and guarantees circulation figures.
A fiery voice decries big business and political corruption through a sweeping critique of the Sugar Trust. It compares public exhibitions of malfeasance to moving pictures, warning that only persistent study can reveal the truth and spur prosecutions of both small thieves and the influential owners who evade jail.
George Hiliott Howard notes wide gaps in divorce rates across states. North Dakota 268, Kansas 286, Missouri 281, Illinois 267, South Dakota 270, Indiana 355, Texas 391, Arizona 399, Washington 518, Montana 490, Colorado 409, with the North Atlantic division showing strong results. Utah improves from 114 to 92 per 100000 from 1880 to 1900.
Oliver Wendell Holmes likened a man to a living omnibus carrying all forebears. Most people resemble those who came before, inheriting their traits good and bad. Our progress is slowed or sped by ancestral inheritances, as described in Success Magazine.
A poem contrasts youth and age and their joys. It contemplates youthful dreams of future prizes and voyages with aging delight in recalling unforgotten yesterdays. The author notes the equal sweetness of hope and memory as life’s themes.
A Success Magazine remark about a young publisher who rose by courting society and later withdrew from social circles. Dooley quips that Lawrence is “up toow now warming his hands at the Social Register,” highlighting the social climb and retreat.
An essay-like piece argues that women possess a natural impulse to attract men, shaping ideals of wifehood and motherhood. It cautions that unchecked vanity or promiscuity harms dignity, especially in aging, urging self-control, refinement, and mature companionship over youth’s romantic push.
A comic scene in which a boy explains his lateness due to helping Mister Miller bring home his savage dog Doodles. Pa and Ma spar over temper and calls for a three second divorce as the family ends with laughter and a kiss, amid playful misunderstandings and wordplay.
The article argues Coney Island drew 20 to 30 million visitors last summer, spending about 45 million dollars in nickels and dimes. It notes vast crowds on holidays, huge weekly totals, and an industry built on weather and risk, with the future hinging on sunlit days and open seas.
James J. Hill argues in The Worlds Work that rapid population growth threatens public lands forests coal oil soil and mineral supplies. He warns exhaustion within decades and urges immediate cultivation improvements to boost yield and restore fertility, placing land resource care above politics and business.
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