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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
4
Obituary remarks William Wesley Woollen who died Wednesday, praising his integrity as city comptroller and his city first, party second approach. The piece notes his high character and lasting influence on the office.
A compilation of brief items covers Speaker Henderson signaling Republican leaders on tariffs, Roosevelt’s rough riding while touring, Peru’s gas-saving mixers, and common business wisdom. Other notes report French press reaction to Hay’s note on Roumanian Jews, Monroe Doctrine anxieties in Europe, Peary’s assertion of polar distance, and Arctic travel obstacles.
Gen Carnahan returns from California and several society weddings unfold across Indiana towns. Miss Thermina Hansen visits Chicago. Miss Julia Hobbs hosts a reception for Miss Shaffer of Springfield. Numerous marriages take place in Indianapolis and surrounding cities with details on gowns and officiants.
Gov Durbin may open the Fall Festival as Pearl the horse from Toronto could participate. Other horse Georga Pear from Toronto may also make an appearance at the event.
Varying performances at AMUSEMENTS GRAND PARK and EMPIRE venues with 2 and 8 PM showings. The Scout's Revenge plays at PARK with 2 and 8 PM times. Burlesque at EMPIRE also offers 2 and 8 PM shows.
The Country Girl scores the season’s biggest hit, delaying Indianapolis shows. London origin praised as New York lags. Lulu Glaser revives Dolly Varden, Nat Goodwin and Maxine Eliott return with When We Were Twenty One, The Park Theater presents The Scout's Revenge, Empire company runs a full week with strong audiences.
The piece traces shifts in book title fashions from one syllable words to interrogatives and character names, notes a current tilt from animal to bird titles with examples like A Speckled Bird and The Wings of the Dove, and predicts insects may follow. It cites St Elmo author and Barrie as contemporaries.
A quiet, limping Marcus Hanna and actor Drew share a moment at the Waldorf. Archbishop Ireland amused by a fruit stand mispronunciation. Roosevelt hosts a grand reception at Oyster Bay where attendees kept personalized lemonade glasses as souvenirs.
In Sagamore Hillu on Sept 15 112 an old gentleman weighing 250 pounds promised to drink a gallon of lemonade if given six glasses for his children. He received the glasses thanked the giver and pocketed them while moving to the crowd’s edge.
Vivid clippings reveal a column of quips and verse from Edward Singer. Readable vignettes critique marriage, trains, and daily life with dated humor and a punning urban voice.
The Indianapolis German Park Association filed with the Board of Public Works to collect a $96.65 bond from contractor J. E. Hoss for sod removed from its park north of the city. Hoss had improved N Capitol Ave and sub contracted to Carter. The claim rests on contract terms requiring the contractor to pay for materials before receiving payment.
Downtown furniture shops show iron beds now come in many colors. Blues and greens are popular with green beds in all grades from $2 up, white and ivory beds still favored for dainty taste, brass beds priced higher with aesthetic touches.
A Washington street milliner notes beaver hats nicknamed pussy cat hats and white shirt waists will be worn all winter. Shops offer heavy cotton and soft wool shirt waists with dainty tucks, velvet trimmings, and lace. Bags with wrist chains are popular as fashion expands with a wide array of ribbons and silks.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch reflection urges married women to master banking basics. It cites examples of misused funds from a diplomat's wife and a husband signing checks, arguing that proper checkbook use, primitive banking knowledge, and understanding wills are essential to a wife’s virtue and financial security.
A household shows how to transform a white iron bed into a daytime couch by using a couch cover and pillows, then revert to a bed by removing them at night. The article also includes two recipes: an inverted apple custard tart and a corn muffin mix with detailed steps and bake times.
A lyric fragment portrays concealed tenderness behind harsh words. The speaker vows deep fidelity while masking true feelings with cruel phrases and public bravado to hide heartache and fear.
A poem describes a small boat at sea near a large liner passing by. The narrator travels with a weathered old rower whose kind eyes promise a safe return over miles of tide and wind. The scene mingles emerald shallows, blue depths, and rolling waves.
The editress of the women’s column offers blunt observations on courtship, self reflection, and social manners. She notes men’s vanity in singing voices, the ease of choosing unwanted gains, and the appeal of home life for widowers and bachelors who flirt.
The article argues that law study enriches a woman beyond training, cultivating insight into harmony across mental spiritual and material life. It compares law to art, music, and writing, claiming law underpins all arts and sciences and life itself, with success noted for October.
A narrative follows Mrs Caroline Corbin a Chicago resident who became an active anti suffrage figure. She is described as a school friend of Susan B Anthony and in later years meets Anthony in Washington. Anthony questions her life claiming motherhood as an aim and mocks her stance.
Mrs. W. F. Clemens of 183 North Illinois street dies after a long typhoid fever illness. She leaves a husband and young son. Funeral from the house at 2 p.m. Friday. The Sun will serialize "Professional Brethren" in coming days.
Advertisement-style note touts guaranteed outcomes using Sun's liners. It urges readers to try them and provides contact details including two phone numbers and an office address at 121-123 E. Ohtost.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Toledo firms J Cheney & Co and W R & Tavax endorse F J Cheney as honorable and capable. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, supplied by druggists, price per bottle, testimonials and free tonics mentioned.
Michigan quinces lead the market at about 73 cents per half peck. tomatoes for canning fall to 60 cents a bushel with prices rising next week. Muskmelons remain plentiful but scarcer, pears climb to over crop highs, and Peaches sell near 99 cents per basket. Grapes are New York product with eight pound baskets around 20 cents. California plums 10 to 15 cents per quart. Eating apples include Jonathans and Gravensteins at 10 to 15 cents per quarter peck. Figs or Figs named fersimmons begin 25 cents for two pint boxes. Pawpaws 3 to 7 for a nickel. butterbeans 15 to 20 cents per quart. Celery five to ten cents per bunch. Jersey sweet potatoes 1.25 to 1.50 a bushel. home-grown 60 to 75 cents, Baltimore 75 cents to 1.00.
Modern Woodmen officers prepare for the statewide encampment to be held in Indianapolis next June. H M Dickson of Chicago becomes the first guest lodging in the new Claypool Hotel with a formal dinner set for December 15 and a city visit on December 14. W H Phillips named assistant weights and measures inspector at 60 dollars a month amid city appointment discussions, with doubts over acceptance of the subordinate post.
The Indiana Trust Co. offers guidance on will creation and custody, emphasizing that a well drafted will needs careful trusteeship. They provide consultation on all points and also offer services as executor guardian and in other trustee roles. Closed on Saturday afternoons.
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