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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1909
Page
3
The ad announces a piano removal sale with unrestricted choice of any new piano at materially reduced prices. It claims the seller is the exclusive agent for several high grade makes and has years of experience in this role.
In superior court No.3 Judge Carter schedules an injunction hearing for April 30 to block $12,000 bonds issued by Secretary of State Sims for Vincennes university claims. The judge also fixes next Friday for State Auditor Bilheimer and State Treasurer Hadley to answer Attorney Henry W. Bullock’s suit seeking to stop a $75,000 payment to Purdue University’s agricultural department.
William A Lyons sues Florence Lyons for divorce alleging abuse because he refused to join her in a scheme called the badger game and that she threatened to kill him and attacked him with a butcher knife. He claims she sold household goods fled and assaulted him with household items and threw his clothes out for improper seating. He also says she spent much time on the streets. Mary R Collier sues Charles R Collier for divorce.
Mrs. Cynthia Haynes, an elderly resident in Brazil Indiana, was injured when boys stretched a wire across E McDonald Street to catch girls. She did not see it and fell onto the cement sidewalk, suffering severe bruises and temporary unconsciousness. Officers seek the youths responsible.
The Confetti club invites Gov. Marshall and Mayor Bookwalter to its eighth annual ball at Tomlinson hall on Thursday evening April 15. The grand match starts at 9. Beiser's orchestra will provide music with William J. Madden as chief of dance, aided by James McKinney and George Ryce. James Dalton is floor manager, with a large list of assistants. The arrangement committee includes Madden, McKinney, Metz, McNulty, Lynch, Brennan. The reception committee is headed by Connors, with Fitzpatrick, Dugan, Manion, and Dugan.
Wonderful results eventually restoring full physical vigor are claimed from a mixture of half a pint whiskey one ounce syrup sarsaparilla and one ounce Tonis compound available from druggists. Take a teaspoonful before meals and at bedtime.
Bessie Harvey, daughter of Lee Harvey, admitted she is the mother of a two week old girl found on the doorstep at East Converse. She had planned to return to Kokomo without being seen, but was identified by Orange Irwin. The infant Ruby, well dressed and healthy, awaits a foster home as Harvey family weighs offers from Converse families.
From Boston Press a prominent medical man says a deep seated cough or lung cold can be cured in five hours by a tonic laxative cough syrup. The formula uses wild cherry bark cardiol and white pine syrup with a dosing schedule for adults and children. The claim promotes rapid relief and home preparation.
The piece asserts Cascarets are widely used by millions of Americans with high trust and ongoing campaigns, claiming vast daily and monthly consumption and over five million dollars spent on promoting its merits. It warns of imitators and counterfeiters seeking to steal Cascarets’ goodwill and profits.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as an honest, time tested remedy for digestive health. It claims cleansing and strengthening of the digestive canal, warns against dishonest sellers, and urges readers to mail ten cents for a sample box and a trinket, address Sterling Remedy Company Chicago New York.
Contracts have been let at Pennville for new substantial brick business blocks this summer to replace those destroyed by fire on December 19. Theodore Underwood will build a two story structure for Mason and Engler. J W Johnson has hired Charles Sanders for his building and for the Pennville Improvement company brick blocks 56 by 73 feet. The People s State Bank also let a contract for a new 28 by 60 foot building.
In Bicknell Indiana on April 5 12 year old William Lawton son of Mr and Mrs Charles Lawton disappeared after being reprimanded for writing a note at school. He left with about four dollars and bought a ticket to Vincennes authorities were notified but could not locate him as efforts to find him continue.
A jury found Isaac Holt guilty of larceny and sentenced him to one to 14 years in the Jeffersonville reformatory, but Holt vanished after testifying and has not been located. He was out on bond, with his father bound for $500, and authorities have been unable to locate him to impose the sentence.
The Manufacturers' Bowling league held its fifth annual banquet and officer elections at the New York State cafe Saturday night. C. and Armstrong were re elected to the presidency, Charles Bumb became vice-president, and B. C. Manchester was re elected secretary and treasurer.
Loganport Ind April 5 Charley A Burkit files petition to probate contest Is father s will claiming mental incompetence and undue influence The estate valued at 90000 was to be divided among mother Sarah Burkit brother William Burkit and Stella M Sitz the plaintiff s daughter Burkit seeks equal division among his mother brother and himself with a 3000 yearly allowance already set for him
Owensville Indiana April 5 Oscar Grimwood of this city applied for letters of patent for an improvement in street cleaning apparatus an automobile street sweeper. It uses a rotary brush like a carpet sweeper dust is drawn by a cyclone fan and deposited in a rear box. When full the box is dumped and the machine returns to dump. Two gasoline engines operate independently one for locomotion and one for the sweeping apparatus.
Newport Indiana April 5. Grant Knight superintendent of Vermilion county poor farm sold 1 000 pounds of lard raised by the farm. H Dies of Clinton bought the lard paying 105 dollars and 42 cents. The superintendent also has enough lard on hand to run the farm for some time.
State Fish Commissioner Z T Sweeney after Gov Marshall recommendation grants Deputy Fish Commissioner Andrew Vanderford in this county authority to seins the lakes and remove pirate fish.
An advertisement claims a quick cure from kidney trouble with a mixture of half ounce Buchu extract half ounce Mtrasx compound six ounces gin to be taken one to two spoonfuls after each meal. It warns of Brisht's disease or diabetes if untreated.
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