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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1903
Page
4
A reflection on partisan newspapers showing how wording swaps between praise and critique across factions. It notes how terms like audience and applause flip to crowd and uproar, and how oratory and logic become wind jam ming and clever sophistry in contrasting editorials.
A critical column attacks The News for abusive headlines and personal attacks against opponents in Indianapolis. It accuses editor Williams and associates of vilification, deceit, and targeting honorable citizens, claiming the publication partners with Holtzman to endorse villainy.
The News lampoons the Citizens' league as selfishly guided by leaders like Dr. George Eddie Hunt, indicted for bribery, and William Fortune, an alien resident who pays Woodruff Place taxes. The critique targets their self proclaimed high mindedness and disinterested stance while offering unsolicited taxpayer guidance.
A quirky verse recounts a working man in a rented house musing over his grocery bill and pay day while an old clock ticks. Characters Bridget and Mrs Hyfite appear in dialog about a cake, with a playful colonial tone and rustic setting.
From Pikeys Diary Oct 7 to Oct 7. Mut Smitty and I plan a series of living cartoons for vaudeville audiences. Scenes feature a Sultan on a rug with a knife, Bryan and a Presidential jar, and political graft riffs. The entries mix humor, ambition, and social satire with theatrical stage notes and personal reflections.
Twenty one saloon keepers in Ann Arbor Michigan were fined for selling liquor on Labor Day. One keeper faced charges but pleaded for mercy as attorneys argued mitigating circumstances. Judge Kinne ordered fines and costs totaling ten dollars each.
A reflective piece argues apologies often seem mere form rather than real courtesy. It contrasts grown ups’ habits with a child’s repeated footstep gaffes, then discusses mourning fashion, noting black attire can alert others to bereavement but may become a public display rather than sorrow.
Jonathan Carter, content in prosperity, ignores a hungry tramp begging for food. The hobo watches as a brand new barn and wealth become focal points, while the farmer’s disdain fuels a growing, deadly intent. The scene shifts to a looming, unspoken reckoning on the hillside.
Mrs A M Robertson to spend winter in the east Mis Ethel Cleland in Parte Ti Mingher Aixter Bir a John Allen Mrs Charles A Garrard to return home Saturday from Chicago Mr and Mrs Walter Millikin home from Hyanniaport where they spent the summer Mina Marie Woolen to spend winter in New York Prof and Mrs F M Ingier entertain Mrs J D Showers and daughter Bloomington Observed in society notes from a mid century page.
A family watches as a fire traps their son Fred in a blazing barn. A man enters the furnace to save him, bearing a burned coat and heavy burden. Fire swallows the rescuer as onlookers fear the worst, ending in the hero’s death and a funeral pyre.
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