Final Amphion Club concert features Baernstein as soloist
The Amphion Club presents its last season concert with Herr Joseph 8 Baernstein, eminent bass baritone, as soloist. A strong program of merit is promised and the public is urged to attend. Mansfield’s Cyrano and Henry V attract demand, with 7:45 pm entry emphasized. Otis Skinner and others tour Browning’s In a Balcony, expanding beyond planned cities. Indianapolis show set for Friday May 24.
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Amphion Club
Herr Joseph
Baernstein
Herr Baernstein
Richard Mansfield
Mansfield
Fires Break Out During Heavy Rain In City
A spate of fires kept the department busy from night until 12 oclock. Lightning struck Julius Feiner’s house at Downey avenue causing a rapid blaze but no injuries. Fire crews checked a Hillside avenue rubbish pile and a Johnson Woodbridge paint store blaze caused by spontaneous combustion in a barrel of excelsior. Earlier a cigar store fire at 456 Massachusetts avenue started by a dropped cigar stub in a dry spittoon.
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Julius Feiner
Downey Avenue
Hillside Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Johnson-Woodbridge Comany
Delaware Street
John E. Colden
Massachusets Avenue
Amusements in New York Theatre Scene and Touring Plans
Henry Miller contemplates a world tour after a May 2 San Francisco engagement before sailing to Australia. Holden Brothers Dramatic Company to remain several weeks at Park. Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott to perform in The Merchant of Venice in Syracuse. Mrs. Le Moyne and Liebler Co plan a Lady Macbeth revival next season. Grand vaudeville season to end with souvenir candy boxes for women. Jules Levy arrives to perform at the Grand Opera House this week. Mme Modjeska to return next season with Louis James. Fiske to base New York headquarters at Manhattan Theater. Managers Anderson to conclude Grand season and search for new acts in Europe. La Presa, a Spanish illusionist, tours New York Vaudeville. Park’s Albaugh stock company negotiations pending with Lavinia Shannon and others. May Irwin’s Madge Smith, Attorney set for English’s soon. Ferris’ Comedians at Park Theater to revive metropolitan hits. The Plunger, The Fatal Card, and The Stowaway head the week’s lineup with high-class vaudeville interludes. Indianapolis fans hopeful for a full Park revival week.
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Park Theater
Metro Politan
Redistricting Ordinance To Be Introduced Tonight
Councilman Negley is expected to introduce an ordinance to redraw the city voting districts at the tonight council meeting. A Republican city committee meeting scheduled for May 2 has been postponed indefinitely due to likely precinct changes.
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Negley
Republian
Rummage Sale Nears Close At Hall Place Church
Hall-place M E Church women prepare to wrap up a rummage sale at Kentucky avenue. Auction items include an old spinning wheel a road wagon and a piano box buggy to be sold to the highest bidder. Lon Reese a rag peddler was arrested on petit larceny charges for stealing ten window weights from Van Camp Hardware. Oscar Jones injured in a train incident at Lebanon says a brakeman kicked him off a box car and Dr Jacobs helped him home. A northwestern city mass meeting at Ward's Hall on Senate avenue plans to press abatement measures against the glue works amid summer odors.
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M. E. Church
Kentucky Avenue
Lon Reese
West Market Street
van Camp Hardware Company
Oscar Jones
Wallace Street
Lebanon
Cty
Dr. Jacobs
Union Station
Ward's
Senate Avenue
Mrs Lilly Discontinues Day at Home for Season
Mrs J K Lilly has discontinued her day at home for the remainder of the season. On account of a sudden death in the family Mrs Jamesons cards for Friday evening have been recalled. Mrs Eli Lilly will entertain the Woman s Auxiliary of Christ Church in the guild room this afternoon. Mrs Hawley will present the matter of the united offering.
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J. K. Lilly
Mayor Taggart Rescues During Visit Sparks Mix Up
Late night AP dispatch from Chicago misstates a prior incident as fresh news. It describes Mayor Taggart stopping runaway horses during a visit, an act already reported in Indianapolis papers, prompting confusion over the timing.
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Associated Press
Times
Chicago
Taggart
Dispatch
Indianapolis
Associated
Freiburg Engineer Fears U S Water on First Visit
Fritz Lubberger of Freiburg Germany, en route to St. Louis, spends Sunday at the Grand Hotel. An electrical engineer new to the United States he speaks English haltingly and fears drinking water, calling it less pure than it should be. He has visited New York Cincinnati and Indianapolis and plans to stay in the country.
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Freiburg
Germany
Grand Hotel
St. Louis
United States
New York
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Shame of Christendom in China sparks moral outrage
In Gunton's Magazine Leonora B Halsted laments European past horror at Turkish massacres and condemns Christendom now waging atrocity in China. She cites bayoneting noncombatants, impalement of infants, and grisly killings by white slavers alongside the deaths of martyred missionaries, arguing Allied mercy and justice have vanished and blaming Japanese among the allies.
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Leonora B. Halsted
Gunton
Europe
Christendom
China
Millard
Simcox
Green
Trusting to luck with your real estate title
An advertisement from Indiana Title Guaranty and Loan Company at 129 East Market Street urges insuring home titles against risk, paralleling fire insurance. It emphasizes the importance of protecting real estate titles with professional title insurance services.
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Indiana Title Guaranty and Loan Company
East Market Street
Sermon by Rev. Charles Sims at Meridian Street Church
Dr. Kane preached at Second Presbyterian on biblical texts from Matthew and Luke stressing the law of use and the need for personal influence in salvation. He warned against reliance on mere natural forces and urged sympathy and kindness in daily life, noting capital labor relations and corporate indifference.
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W. P. Kane
Wabash College
Second Presbyterian Church
Mah
Christ
First Presbyterian Church
Busness
J. Kane
Dr. Kane
Return of Dr. Sims to Meridian Street pulpit draws overflow crowd
Veteran preacher Dr. Charles N. Sims preached at Meridian Street Methodist Church yesterday, resuming his pulpit after years away. He spoke on the joy and strength of Christian life, urging devotion to God and humanity, and ending with a call to renewed service. The service ended with a warm greeting as the Simses met former parishioners before leaving for Franklin county the next day.
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Charles N. Sims
Meridian-street Methodist Church
Sims
Services for the old folks at First United Brethren Church
Yesterday morning the services at the First United Brethren Church on Twenty-first Street and Central Avenue were impressive as elderly members took active part. The small auditorium was well filled with gray headed men and women, many lifelong members of the church.
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United Brethren
Lso
Haught
Graceland Avenue
J. A. Groves
Parsi Avenue
Ts. Dinius
Fortieth
Charles Streets
Donovan
Marshall
Minshall
First United Brethren Church
Twenty-first Street
Central Avenue
Forty-Four Devotional Services At St John Church
Beginning yesterday morning at St John s Catholic Church the forty four devotionals run through tomorrow evening. Low masses at five and six this morning and tomorrow, high mass at seven thirty a m and services tonight and tomorrow at seven thirty p m. Confessions during the service grant plenary indulgences and visiting the blessed sacrament yields remissions for ten years.
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St. John's Catholic Church
A Marvelous Time Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The New York Sun muses on a six month wall street surge now seen as a new era in industrial and financial history. It notes record volumes on the exchange, global attention, and skepticism from old finance yet confidence from cool headed brokers. The piece frames this as a pivotal moment signaling civilization’s energy advancing into a modern era.
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Wall-street
Wall Street
Europe
Stock Exchange
Union
Arport
Yall Street
West
The Interview in Daily Journalism Declines
The interview, once a premier feature in public and commercial life, is fading into innocuous desuetude. Prominent figures gained start by compelling talk, but now the column of questions and answers from leading figures is less common as a mark of journalistic flair.
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New York
The Tycoon Interview Myth in Gilded Age Press
The piece rails at sensationalist interviews by reporters who could compel quotes from elites like Pierre Lorillard and J Pierpont Morgan. It recalls a golden era, noting Telegrams or refusals, and laments the fake interviews in yellow journals that shut down candid exchanges with the powerful.
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Jim Blaine
Garfield
Julian Pauncefote
Star
Pierre
Clay
Board of Control
New York Society
Union Club
John
Gates
Pierre Lorillard
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mpierre Lorillard
Morgen
Piere Lorillard
West Exposes Eastern Pretensions in Fiery Rant
A defiant Western writer attacks Eastern critics as ignorant and snobbish, praising Western patriotism and independence while condemning Eastern publications for bashing the West. The author mocks “literary fellers” and puritanical writers as narrow, uninformed, and hypocritical.
West vs East stereotypes fuel crude partisan portrait
A column mocks Eastern elites for scorning the West while admitting high crime and vice in the East. It argues both regions misread each other, labeling Westerners as crude and Eastern writers as hypocritical. The piece targets Indiana geography and national prejudice.
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Eldorado Republican
Indiana
Defense of missionaries defended in New York Evening Post
Dr. Smith of the American Board of Foreign Missions defends missionaries in China in the North American Review May issue. He argues missionaries acted to feed refugee converts after Peking fell and seized abandoned Boxer belongings to feed dependents, denying private use. He concedes criticism of compensation rates but defends the practice as a wartime measure.
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New York Evening Post
Dr. Smith
American Boat of Foreign Missions
North American Review
China
Peking
Robert Hart
Feking
Missionaries face critique over Boxer War conduct
The article questions missionary claims about China and Boxer warfare, noting Smith and President Tucker of Dartmouth see the behavior of Christian nations as shaping the church's work. It argues missionaries failed to justify their methods and cannot be fully cleared of blame given the evidence.
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Smith
Tucker
Dartmouth
China
Opening of Kiowa and Wichita lands sparks homestead interest
Interior Secretary Hitchcock faces heavy inquiries as plans emerge for opening the Kiowa and Wichita reservations in Oklahoma. An estimated 000 applicants will seek homesteads with a registration period, a lottery by a nonpartisan commission, and a price of 28 dollars for a 160 acre farm after five years of residence, with ration and improvement requirements and loan or service considerations for discharged soldiers.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Saas
Oklahoma
Meeks
Landmark Gone in Washington as Clark Builds Palace
A Washington landmark known as Stewart Castle on Dupont Circle, bought by William A. Clark of Montana for ten percent, was razed weeks ago. Foundations remain as the Clark family plans a splendid home to occupy part of the year, while Clark seeks Senate tenure and faces a reshaped political scene after investigations and bribery allegations.
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OW “Stewart Castly
Dupont Etrele
William A. Clark
Montana
Clarks
Clark
United States Senate
Mares Daly Io
Withiam EB
Chandler
Senate
Washington Palace
Her Luck. Denver Times. Illinois woman faces odd quarrel
An Illinois woman who accused her husband of calling him a bass and then became angry when he called her his better half shows a curious grip on justice. The report, styled in a local column, notes a domestic dispute with humorous overtones.
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Denver Times
Ulinois
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