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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
3
A humorous box on politics and voting features Edwin asking to vote while his father keeps him in line. The exchange riffs on campaign symbols torches cigars and the idea of politics as night parade and a political meal of crow after an election. The dialogue lightly satirizes suffrage and adults.
A joke about a crow causes strain at home as Edwin faces disapproval for his handling of a pun. The exchange hints at family friction over light banter and social missteps.
More than 1000 delegates attended the first session of the twenty seventh annual Farmers National Congress. John M. Stahl of Chicago presided with Norman J. Colomaj of St. Louis and W. L. Ames of Oregon, Wis., as treasurer. Gov. Cummins of Iowa also attended. Delegations from Nebraska and Wisconsin traveled in special cars, and Illinois Indiana Ohio New York Maine and Massachusetts representatives arrived by special train.
Percy Smith of Akron Ohio was placed in a Plymouth jail after a fit of temporary insanity. He wrenched a pipe from a wash stand and wrecked his cell once Sheriff Voreis left. Smith cannot explain how he arrived in Plymouth.
Correspondent Waldeck reports how a cadre of financiers and politicians manipulated streetcar franchises in New York to amass vast fortunes. The scheme traded real property for Metropolitan securities, inflating values and enriching insiders while the public bore the cost.
A scathing critique accuses a government and municipal officials of allowing theft and street privatization to profit financiers like August Belmont Ryan Whitney Widener Elkins and Dolan. The author cites big water deals and stock manipulation as proof that fortunes are built on public assets, challenging the notion of clear laws and accountability.
Vandalia carried 2 317 351 revenue passengers in Indiana yielding 1 216 226 99 and freight revenue of 8 869 146 66. Total gross earnings reached 5 443 465 05 with 64 1 miles main track in Indiana and nine deaths plus 85 injuries among train men during the year.
In Jeffersonville Indiana on October 17 the Methodist community marked the centennial of the Robertson meeting house near Charlestown the first Protestant church in Indiana territory. The long-abandoned building has been remodeled restored to its original condition and will be preserved by the Seymour district conference under Rev J Ed Murr.
In New York on October 17 Frank Post an iron worker had five stitches placed in his eyeball at St Gregory’s hospital. The surgery took almost four hours under a microscope using an 8 candle power electric light. Delicate instruments were required and a silk thread split four times to create a finer thread than linen. The eye needle could not be seen and the wound was visible only with magnification.
Daniel Schaffner, 50, a farmer of Vevey Indiana, shot himself in the head and died. No motive is given for the suicide as authorities investigate the incident.
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