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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
4
A reflective plea urges actions to match thanks for health and strength by aiding the poor and sick. It calls for mercy in hospitals, support for orphans, and lifting the needy, contrasting empty gratitude with concrete sacrifice. Mayor Duane's football ban is noted as municipal control.
The article argues the post office runs a large deficit, not due to inefficiency but because it ignores profitable parcel routes. It names four rival express companies as the four reasons preventing a viable parcels post. It warns that Congress fears making the post office efficient and profitable. It also lauds American farmers for vast wealth from agricultural production, noting record farm wealth and exports.
The passage extols the farmer as wealth holder, noting ownership of cattle yielding 665000000 dollars and liens paying half a billion yearly. It claims farm value growth rivals national debt, banks owned, and hundreds of country banks built by farmers. It lauds the corn crop as a vast scepter and cites 2700000000 bushels and 603000000 worth of hay, presenting the farmer as supreme in wealth.
An Albany man described as Senator Depew's rantankerous friend from up the river was exposed in the New York Insurance Inquiry. He had been paid to keep quiet after learning about irregularities in Mutual Life and related firms. He testified he earned money for services as an insurance expert while noting years of rotten dealings.
Washington reports Miss Clark daughter of Senator G D Clark of Wyoming is among the popular sena torial set. The senator plans winter entertaining at a hotel and a consen ted social season. Tolbert von Watson a Vienna native and Austrian officer’s cousin recently enlisted at St Louis barracks He speaks nine languages is 23 studied medicine in Austria and the United States and has toured the world with his sister He joined the hospital corps to learn English and study medicine in America.
Forecasts caution for Friday December 1 1905 birth anniversaries avoid quarrels and travel. A difficult but spirited child born that day may excel in employment. Also lyrics about old tunes and a plea for simple living alongside an ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills.
A short tale contrasts a poor mother of three with a complacent socialite. The shabby woman thanks for simple blessings and generosity toward others, while the other woman seems to have nothing to offer but excess. The piece questions what true Thanksgiving means in 1915.
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