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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1905
Page
4
A local newspaper column portrays the mayor as nettled by reported police force disloyalty and demands a full reorganization. It accuses officials of using the department to serve the party, endorses banning drinking on duty, and criticizes Holtzman style reform for demoralization and crime enablement.
The piece muses on envy corroding happiness and kings of wealth like John D. Rockefeller. It imagines the richest man joining sports, golf, racing, and college culture, joking with umpires and fans, and pondering a playful late-life spree. The tone blends moral reflection with humorous speculation on a mogul at ease with abundance.
A compilation of quotes from Indianapolis residents on local issues. Topics include tourism, politics, transportation safety, street cleaning, saloon laws, and public health. Citizens urge impeachment of a board member, critique the county council, discuss electoral hours, and note improvements and flaws in city services.
A child narration shows Little Eph in class mispronouncing words and misbehaving yet persevering in spelling. The teacher proclaims the boy disgraced while a white boy taunts him, and the family seeks patience as the pupil pledges to improve.
Joseph Missouri September 9 Grandmother Sarah Shook, 163, of this city, claims to be the oldest summer girl in the United States. She visits Winthrop, plans travel to Atent son and Leavenworth, enjoys country chores, and remains active despite age. Born in Kentucky she has smoked since age 15 and is a widow of 46 years. She rises at 8 am, goes to bed at 9 30 pm, irons her own clothes, walks daily, and reads with help. She weighs TM pounds and has not needed medicine in years, a Christian scientist for 12 years, with a nurse reading to her. An admirer sent a cane, which she will save for an old person.
Nint Haerlet Foimer of Chicago plans a winter camp for consumptives at Gada Hil high land park by Lake Michigan. The camp will host six tents a wooden living room kitchen and a trained nurse. Most meals will be milk and eggs and all will sleep under canvas. The experiment will be watched with much interest.
A garbled note from Sherrodaville describes a social scene in Rose Township where a crowd attended last Saturday and returned home soaked. The piece features quirky spellings and references a Bubble Car and a chorus of local chatter from Carrollton Republican Standard.
A jumble of humorous and lost-in-translation notices from Sequachee Tennessee includes family talk about winter provisions with dried beans, a quirky washboard joke, a listings stretch for a room, a dressmaker wanted, a city apartment for rent with steam heat, a French mantel clock for sale, and several misspelled ads seeking work, goods, or lost items. It reads like a cluttered classifieds page with local color and eccentric personal notes.
Fragmentary text laments Henry VII with obscure spellings. Speech references misennelite and imagined scenarios about Po and a move to Bronkisn posing as a dentist. The damaged lines mix archaic diction with garbled phrases.
Massachusetts cloh women through joint committees of aqyitary and Industrial cometitions urge reforms for women and children in cordage and twine factories, noting harsh conditions in the wet room. England enforces laws and Massachusetts hopes to pass similar measures.
A Khirgese giant formerly on display in Flimburg was found starving in the street on August 10. Passersby took him to a restaurant where he consumed three plates of beef soup, four pounds of beefsteak, three portions of ham and eggs, two heaped plates of potatoes and cabbage, fourteen apple tarts, and six pints of beer.
A garbled Chicago News fragment describes a village quarrel over a man called an old resident. The grovery drummer and a village merchant argue whether he is an old settler, noting he has long owed them money and is not truly settled.
Predicts personal fortunes for birthdays and anniversaries with cautions on risk and disappointment. Notes sickness and disapointment in a farm or home, warns of fear in heart and business if events fall on certain days, and mentions figures like a child born on the day and general social impacts.
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