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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1902
Page
4
The Sun warns that coal barons provoke public anger by spurning Roosevelt and obstructing settlement talks. Moody denounces a 67 cent tariff on anthracite as a sneaked provision, signaling administration stance and possible repeal. The piece foresees mounting consequences for the industry.
The city prepares for the Indianapolis fall festival and horse show opening Monday with decorations and crowd appeal. Citizens should actively promote Indianapolis, inviting guests to leave with praise, while officials comment on local politics and public matters during the festival week.
The Detroit News notes Grosvenor facing 9,000 angry miners with votes in hand, a scene that could move a stubborn heart. The Detroit Free Press praises a citizen who reads President Spaer’s statement with restraint, despite urge to throw a brick. Oil replaces coal in San Francisco homes, with some oil firms ready to contract for lighter oil at four cents a gallon, though insurance and risk loom. Buffalo News says resourceful people can overcome these dangers if pressed.
The review notes Stuart Robson's English's show at 2 and 8:15, Grand vaudeville at 2 and 8:15, and A hidden crime at 2 and 8 in Park. It mentions Mr. Harry Bryant's burlesquers with Mr. Pickwick staged by De Wolf Hopper at English's Friday night. The piece cites Dickens as source and praises the production yet calls Hopper a notch below earlier offerings. It also critiques coat check delays at English's, comparing the window to a Harvard wedge and noting uneven service for patrons.
In Valparaiso Indiana on October 11 Frank Brown, 54, fell forty feet from a scaffold and died within hours. Ida Grate perished when her clothing touched a stove causing fatal burns, lived minutes.
A collection of brief quips and observations about coal from multiple papers. Notes on coal shortages and substitutes, quips about William Coler and the Coler name, and a novelty coal display in New York with a 110 pound nugget winning a prize at a Boston club event.
A compendium of brief quotes from various figures including William F. Moore Denis Travers Charles Shaw Bob Furnas John Blue Walter Daniels Cyrus Neal Harry Spears and others. Topics range from Democratic prospects health and finance to grave robbing and local politics with comments about mining, elections, and social issues.
A fragmentary reading recalls a carnival of voices debating art and invention. The sketch discusses Bill Johnson and his five thousand dollar sale and features quips about grave robbing and an airship as a future breakthrough. The dialogue touches on stagecraft and a theatrical rescue in midair.
A Washington Street window displays green and white embroidered shirt waists and Bulgarian motifs. An Indianapolis girl’s style transformation after Europe shows neatness and detail lift appearance. simple recipe for apple fritters with olive oil batter and lemon sauce included.
The town of Scarsdale plans nightly guards by resident millionaires sworn as deputy sheriffs to deter highwaymen and beggars. They seek a $1,000 reward for arrests and convictions, amid months of trouble in the suburb north of New York.
On Lake Shore boulevard near Seniztor Hanna’s home in Cleveland acres once used for vineyards have been subdivided into allotments. The old vines decay but the crops this year provided a bounty with women and children gathering grapes, a welcome treat as vines face removal and real estate men show little objection.
In Redley near Fairmount Indiana robbers looted William Hartley's store. Bloodhounds traced the trail seven miles to Weaver where the hounds circled the area and led to a Black settlement. No man found though buggy tracks show a rider fled.
The excerpt blends rustic humor with a sudden family crisis. A man offhandedly praises frog legs and rustic virtues while a mother's fainting spell marks a household’s brink of catastrophe as a child endures a severe accident, described through dialogue and local color.
The passage asserts humors are impure matters the body cannot manage alone. It claims accumulation causes skin eruptions like pimples and boils, as well as eczema, loss of appetite, fatigue, bilious turns, indigestion, and dull headaches.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as removing all humors and strengthening the system. A testimonial from Ina O. Brows of Rumford Falls, Me, says salt rheum on hands disappeared after use. Mood's Sarsaparilia promises to keep the promise.
A quizzical note suggests simple methods to obtain desired results with minimal effort. It hints at trying new approaches or products labeled as biothing and THE sun during the Mners period, urging readers to test them.
Lemon filling is delicious for cake and sandwiches and can be kept until needed. To make fit grate rind from three lemons and juice, remove white pith, mix with three eggs one tablespoon flour two cups sugar three fourth cup water and lemon, cook until thick. Jelly glasses for storage. A new cheese and nut canapé from Good Housekeeping shapes soft cheese into balls pressed with half a walnut and an olive on each. A stuffed tomato salad idea combines minced peppers onions crisp lettuce and stone olives.
Mrs L A Mavity visits Mrs J O Henderson in Muncie as Mrs John T Barnett sends out invitations for an October 18 luncheon. Minuet club opens its season at Brennek's. Mrs Baldwin of Everett Mass visits Mr and Mrs George Gay. Clio club hosts new president Mrs Edward Selvage on Ashland Ave. Indianapolis D A R meets Oct 20 for officer elections. Miss Alma Craft honors Margaret Bugbee and Edwin Craft at dinner. Ladies Society of the Mannerchor holds a card party marking the club's fifth anniversary.
Poem contrasts a parent's urgent calls to a child with memories of a lost infant. Katharine Tynan frames earthly duties against a longing for a baby and a heavenly shepherd counting lambs, ending with a tender recollection of the child who died. The piece blends domestic duty, maternal love, and spiritual imagery.
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