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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1903
Page
4
Edward Singer notes the new W. Washington bridge crane will lift heavy ironwork as masonry nears completion. The derrick, capable of lifting 40 to 60 tons, will set major iron components for the structure, marking a milestone in the bridge's progress. The article also references political figures and local sentiment amid coverage of public notices.
A collage of quoted locals names politicians and observers on politics weather and city life followed by a vivid Chicago Tribune scene. Edith intervenes as neighborhood children torture a baby with pins on a garbage box offering a harsh glimpse of urban cruelties and humor amid civic chatter.
John W. Griggs, the white attorney general under McKinley, rejects callers who use the military title general. An insistent politician presses a job for a friend, Griggs offers a higher post but withholds it, causing the politician and ally to drop the title and call him Mr. Griggs.
The Bean Witt Beacon reports a decisive victory for Dick Weatherspoon in a tight mayoral race over Matthew Grimes by one vote. Winners include Clerk Jake Applewhite Treasurer Tobe Smeltzer Marshal Silas Plunkett and Trustees Oak Greenlee Jett Johnson Andy Bales. The piece notes communal tensions, a call for revival, and social humor amid small town life as citizens resume routines, with local anecdotes about residents, wood gathering, and upcoming events.
Local notes describe tough neighborhood roads hindering milk churns and potatoes stored in holes. The Fisking twins depart for Smith's Valley and won’t return until January. Tomato factory fatigue appears in Mary Jane Wheeler’s sleep. Elliot Jones was seen selling cider and turnips. Total talent offers Ten Nights in the Barroom at the hall on Christmas Eve. Advertisements promote peppermint extract and hoop poles purchases at a hotel.
A persuasive essay extols smiles as tonic for both giver and receiver, urging daily warmth at home as a moral duty. It links cheer to family harmony and social ease, urging readers to brighten moods even on grim mornings and to share goodwill with every person encountered.
A fragment claims humors are impurities the skin liver kidneys and other organs cannot handle unaided. It describes accumulation causing pimples eczema fatigue headaches and digestive and appetite issues as consequences of these corrupt humors.
An 19th century advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as remedies that remove all humors, overcome their effects, strengthen and tone the system, and vigor the whole body.
A freight yard worker in a western city freed his foot from a frog trap just as a train backed up within forty feet. He sliced his shoetring, pulled his foot free, and leaped aside, narrowly avoiding death. The next day the superintendent offered a reward, but the man asked for new shoe strings, joking about the shoe being still usable.
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