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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1901
Page
5
A Marion County court heard a cross examination over a beer glass with a lawyer quarreling over schooner definitions. A later streetcar incident recounted a passenger misreading the conductor’s pleas while returning home. In a South side primary class a temperance lesson ended with a boy blurting a crude line, then defended as harmless by the boy's insistence on honesty.
In St Louis Missouri a seventeen year old girl Miss May Kelley bravely resisted a black burglar in her home to protect jewelry valued at 1700 dollars. She fought him from stairs to door, sustaining injuries but keeping the loot from being taken. Neighbors threaten lynching as the assailant fled.
Mrs John Mintzer of Brady filed for a government pension. She and her husband joined Company E Twelfth Regulars at the Civil War start, served at Fort Hamilton, and attached to the Army of the Potomac. She remained at the fort nursing wounded soldiers while her husband served. They mustered out in 1864.
A varied column reports Charles Hughes becomes turnkey in Delaware county esil. Lloyd McGrew survives a near miss from a careless horse incident in Logansport. Elwoodites lose 15000 by Mackey bubble burst in New York. A Rushville domestic misadventure ends with a frightened Miss Jane Zudskee yelling Fire. Flora Sentinel exposes a local rumor-spreader. Gracie Garlic and James Onion wed after quarreling. Pickle shipments reach Winamac with 67 carloads. A two-inch needle is removed from A. I. Cotterman’s arm. Sol Lewis and Sol Jewell escape a cistern mishap from a blind horse accident. A lighthearted note recounts a Shelbyville dialogue on pocketknives. Gibson county boys sell 86 bushels of hickory nuts in Princeton. Various editorials discuss the meaning of “we” in local print and subscription lists.
In Constantinople on November 26 the Albanian crisis worsens as Ulsen Bey gathers 10,000 malcontents to besiege Scutari, isolated from the world. The sultan offers bribes and titles to deter him, fearing a wider uprising. Ulsen Bey rejects Abdul Hamid's overtures.
The Central Pacific issued the largest free pass for life to Johnson Sides, Piute leader of Nevada, allowing him and his people free travel on most trains. Indians frequently ride the rails across Nevada, boarding at platforms and atop cars with no fares paid. Thanksgiving rail travel is expected to be heavy as a result.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will spend about 25 million dollars in 1902 for rolling stock and equipment, with 319 million for cars and 6 million for locomotives. It orders 19,000 freight and coal cars, while planning about 400 locomotives for 1903 delivery, mainly Baldwin and American Locomotive works, with 300 locomotives built this year.
Secretary Grout of the Charity Organization Society reports city school children donate fruits vegetables and money. Supt Kendall aims to inculcate charitable traits and selflessness in the coming generation. Thanksgiving observances are being arranged for Wednesday afternoon by building principals with broad teacher discretion.
Washington reports say a McKinley portrait could appear on a forthcoming stamp, making him the ninth U.S. president to be depicted on regular issues. Since 1847, Washington and Franklin have dominated the design legacy, with eight higher value stamps already honoring presidents like Sherman, Webster, Clay, Jefferson, Perry, Madison, and Marshall.
A lively reminiscence unfolds of a house party at Mrs. Lawrence's beach cottage. Madge recounts mishaps with missing stockings, a knothole eavesdropping incident, a collapsing chimney, and comic pursuit across rooms. The tale ends with a playful twist as Grace reveals a satin box containing the same red and yellow stockings, gifted by Tom as a cherished possession.
A historical guide lists oysters on the half shell and roast turkey as central dishes with sides like potato saute autumn peas mashed turnips and cranberry jelly. It notes soup choices and dessert debates, suggests pumpkin pie or Charlotte russe, and provides recipes for oyster cocktail cranberry jelly and pineapple sherbet alongside a fruit salad with Malaga grapes English walnuts and celery dressed in cream or mayonnaise.
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