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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1908
Page
8
An Indianapolis Sun editorial urges readers to escape city life in early autumn. It argues buying land near the city now yields health and financial gains, stressing family welfare, ownership, and planning while travel and electric transit expand reach.
A reader urges ignoring Annie Besant and theosophy. The editor counsels dropping theosophy for science and philosophy, recommending astronomy geology psychology and classic literature as clearer sources of thought and knowledge.
Washington Hancock recalls a tall tale of Uncle Jess from Jasper and Sedalia. A hustling salesman roped a wary storekeeper, Jess chased political hopes, and a mountain land swindle to fetch $150 ends in a humorous, boastful twist.
A well known English bishop who had lost his third wife is noted in a humorous exchange. A clergyman visiting the cathedral asks where the bishop’s wife is buried. The verger replies that he cannot be certain but suspects the bishop largely inters people at Brompton.
Dr. Luther Gulick argues that a large portion of civilized people carry lifelong handicaps and each person must decide their own attitude toward them. The piece highlights historical figures like Prescott Darwin Stevenson Spencer Martineau Eliot and Pasteur, noting Pasteur’s 27 years of work after a stroke that left one side paralyzed, shaping major medical theories.
The piece contrasts tenement workers with lodging house residents, arguing a class schism. It frames tenement men as legal residents and taxpayers, while lodgers are social outcasts who undermine civility, detailing how the tenement’s money circulates in legitimate commerce versus the lodging house’s perceived vices. The author asserts a fundamental societal divide.
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