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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1904
Page
4
The Indianapolis Sun lists delivery rates and contact lines for the paper. It notes daily publication except Sundays, lists editorial and business office locations, and provides subscription pricing for city and outside city readers. The text includes old and uncertain figures for rates and phone numbers.
A long review underscores the Riverside park entrance bottlenecks and the 18 foot Riverside bridge, lacking pedestrian space, urging the county commissioners to add a new bridge for vehicles and pedestrians to prevent crowding and hazards at peak park times. It also covers political snippets on Taggart, Roosevelt era tensions with Standard Oil, and updates on Kuropatkin, church lynching resignations, and local civic delays.
The New York World reports that Morgan made secret visits to the president. The paper branding the report as He That Settles It signals a bold assertion amid political tensions and calls for scrutiny of sources and motives behind the leak.
Police attack dives in Marion and Madison county topics include a hospital fund drive, a Glenwood park encampment, and a large Purdue freshman class. Obituaries note Catherine Donovan of Wabash, and Hermina Behrman seeks divorce. Incidents cover storms, lightning damage, a dead railroad worker, a court house accident, and a faulty paint shed fire incident in Terre Haute.
A downtown drug store scene ends in embarrassment when a young woman asks for cold cream. A small white-coated clerk hesitates before offering flavors like chocolate and vanilla, causing a brief, humorous pause until a passerby intervenes.
Report from Liao-Yang describes Japanese dispatches detailing 19,000 wooden urns for ashes and Chinese laborers tending funeral pyres. The piece notes graves and shipments to Japan amid the battle, with Kuroki’s forces striking Anping and the Taltse valley, altering Russian positions near Liaoyang.
Fragmentary verse extols struggle against the racket in life and business. The speaker warns that success and misfortune arouse love and hate and urges backing force to confront threats behind the business picket.
A country cousin visits New York theater and fixes on the trombone in the orchestra. He alerts his companion as a performer crowds more than half the instrument into his mouth, exclaiming that it will "brat the world" with the feat.
A banquet tale recalls a clergyman who fell into a stream while fishing after a bite. He shouted for help until a farmer rescued him. When asked how he fell in the preacher quips he came to fish.
A coat for a young schoolgirl is described with vintage tailoring terms. The article mentions a tan colored Venetian fabric, a long shoulder line, and a trim of broad velvet with cherry ribbon.
A kitchen miscellany covers fruit salads with peeling, slicing and mixing steps, including a French dressing and a water and wine based mayo mix. It also notes several other salads with lemon juice, orange details, and celery, plus an array of glassware and fashion trends in crystal, haircloth, and mahogany. The piece ends with a humorous mispronunciation guide and Col Henry Hull anecdote about rural politics in Indiana.
The piece notes public apathy in the early weeks of September with Mood pieces from New York by David Rhel and Chauncey M Depew. It discusses Indiana Colorado and other states reporting lack of movement as Republicans push campaigns nationwide. It analyzes why this year differs from prior elections and questions whether two conservative parties can coexist.
Plain white handkerchiefs with narrow hems offered at low prices in a school sale. Colorful handkerchiefs and herder styles priced for quick pickup. Little girls coats in Peter Thomson blue cheviot with emblems for ages 4 to 14, values up to 7.50, plus 12 to 20 year sizes in mixed fabrics from 5.98 to 12.50.
Jack Clifford returns a mistaken parcel of sunshine shoes to a woman he once courted, only to discover she is Mrs. Watts, not the former fiancé. In a tangled mistaken identity, he explains the mix up to the host, and the flash of old feelings is rekindled as she hints she will attend the Country Club affair. Governor Jefferson Davis is re-elected in Arkansas with a large plurality.
The country’s art lovers glimpse a newly found oil painting of President Millard Fillmore in a tall military uniform with sword. The portrait, well preserved and striking in its detail, is noted as exceedingly rare being the only known image of Fillmore in the quilt of an old soldier.
ST JOSEPH MO Sept 7 Dr J A Crossland a prominent negro politician and former minister to Liberia was shot by Dr W M Garrison also colored Tuesday Crossland is in serious condition Garrison accuses Crossland of paying attentions to his wife
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