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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1902
Page
5
Ann Teek Drees reports on lavish gowns said to be for Mrs. W. E. English, including a brown tailoring ensemble with sunburst tucks, two embroidered waists, and a cobweb tan etamine over green silk. Other outfits feature hand embroidery, velvet, and corduroy hunting attire. The piece also notes Mrs. Kern’s social prominence and the Martinsales moving to Victoria Apartments.
In Christchurch on Sunday evening the choir of six voices will perform The woman of Samaria. Mrs. OQ F Williamson of Indianapolis a delegate to the Daughters of the Revolution convention in Denver is suffering from altitude effects and plans to endure sessions. At a G A R and W R C memorial day meeting it was decided school children will lay flowers on graves at Crown Hill in express wagons. German veterans pledge artillery salute and infantry will fire a ceremony salute.
editor Adams and his foreman vented remarks not printed in Sunday papers as a press form collapsed into pi. a girl stamping for a white horse. a claim an elder negro wasn’t 100 years old. Carpenter sisters headed to Indianapolis for work. many youths secured positions at the capital. Newport Rebekahs plan a lemon squeezer novelty, and a missing glass nest egg found inside a slain snake prompts wonder about the creature’s retained powers.
A Wisconsin boy, Charles Zone, aged five, journeyed solo from Appleton to Philadelphia. After months apart, his mother anxiously awaited him as Baltimore and Ohio officials coordinated a safe eastbound transfer. The child rode 1117 miles, crossing multiple routes to finally reunite with his mother.
In a dressing room scene at the Park a reporter watches Petronius and Mrs Farnham discuss theatrics and a dying onstage. The actor explains dying must be artistic and done behind the scenes to please the galleries, while real life companions add to the comic tension.
Christine sits on the veranda dreaming of life and love while her poodle Billy watches. Jack overhears her sighs in the library and groans at the tangled mix of affection, politics, and football scores. After a theatrical misunderstanding, Christine realizes Jack truly loves her as they walk in the woods and return to dinner with a new air of certainty.
The Board of Works ordered three paving jobs for Friday, paving Weat Street and Pine Street with asphalt and Bhelby Street with wooden blocks, plus cement sidewalks next to the curb on Weat Street. Remonstrances expected, but the board will send the measures to the city council, seeking a two thirds council majority to approve despite protests.
A circulated report from April 26 says the White Star steamship line was sold to J P Morgan. It Asserted Morgan paid 50000 dollars for each 96 share, with details unconfirmed.
James Smith of Muncie Indiana aged over 70 amazed spectators by turning a full somersault inside a half-bushel measure in a store bet. He removed his boots then stood in the measure and rotated fully, landing with feet in the container. He bowed, collected the wager, and drove away on his wagon.
Alonzo Dixon of Logansport Indiana, believed near death from consumption, began to recover after coughing up several grains of wheat that had sprouted in his lungs. He recalled swallowing the grains last fall as doctors treated him for the illness.
Martin Lynch awaiting trial for the murder of his wife in the county jail near Cleveland hanged himself in his cell around 3 a.m. Saturday.
Willis Coval, a former M. T. H. 8 student now at J. U., has returned to Bloomington after arranging with Prof. Hall for an athletic meet between the university and the training school on May 10 in Bloomington. Minor details remain unsettled, but the meet is expected to happen.
The Board of Works approved a measure to rid the area of a persistent nuisance. Officials cited ongoing complaints and safety concerns as the rationale for action and set steps for implementation in the coming weeks.
The colored hod carriers union is a model group with 95 percent of local hod carriers in the union. The 31 cent hourly scale, ownership of hall and rental houses, and a funeral day off underline its influence. Talks on merging plasterers union and painters’ shifts, labor day plans, and a split in leadership frame city labor politics as painters move to Morrison hall and new members join. A May 1 homecoming for Miss Nellie Sanders and E P Barry is recorded, with church ceremony and travel to Chicago and South Bend. The Women’s label league plans to oppose a death benefit at the Peoria convention May 5 to 8. Mrs. J L Feltman represents Indianapolis.
The notice touts Texas and southwest Louisiana as ripe for settlers, highlighting rice growing and diversified farming as major wealth drivers. It cites a $20,000,000 gain from rice and urges readers to obtain Rice Books by sending two cents or ten cents for the Southern Pacific Rice Cook Book through agents or W H Connor, General Agent.
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