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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1905
Page
10
For Wednesday August 2 196 , astrology warns of losses sickness and quarrel. Business will fail and a perplexing year looms. A child born on this day should stay in employ and avoid trading on its own account to prevent failure.
Indianapolis group seeks capital increase to 59.00 dollars as part of a corporate filing. Names Fred Lommel and Hugo Wuelfing appear among organizers in the readable text.
In Indianapolis a cornetist named Kry (Krzy) visited a local tailor to press his trousers with creases as he requested. The tailor inadvertently left in the creases, leading to a quarrel when Kry returned to collect the pants and accused the tailor of errors. The mix up ended with Kry deeming the tailor a fool after discovering the creases could not be removed easily.
Fire discovered Tuesday morning at 5:30 in the second floor of the Fellow Flats on Massachusetts avenue and St. Clair street. The Baker Overall Company, with rooms on the ground floor, suffered substantial water damage. Total loss not to exceed 110 dollars.
Rag time program by Mayer's Military band at Riverside Park features New Colonel, Possum Gravy, Overture and medleys. The lineup includes lines such as Cupid's Garden, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Hack Back to Baltimore Medley and Rag Peter Piper with various performers and band arrangements.
Boston Aug 1 One of Miss Bessie Hayes’s ribs was broken by a tug from her suitor Alfred Terrell Swampscott bathhouse superintendent. Hayes, bandaged, is at Ocean House Swampscott. Their two summers together included a moonlight walk and playful flirtations. Hayes’s friends say she is angry with Terrell. The joke angle notes comedians and baseball humor from a national press.
DUSS and his millionaire bandmaster drew one of Bank Park’s largest crowds Monday night. The ensemble delivered a mix of classical and popular pieces with Duss appearing in evening dress after a standout baton display. The program featured America La Date, The Fighting Tenth, and excerpts from Tannhauser and William Tell, with enthusiastic encores and notable xylophone solos by Charlie Fisher.
The Park theater opened with the western melodrama A Told t he Bbtle to a full house. The cast impressed audiences with Pampena played by Emmy Gale and Little Fay in support while Miss Berd Bartlam and Jack West delivered strong comedy and song. The production featured gunplay, buckskin legends and an enthusiastic orchestra encore to Under the Old Apple Tree.
Special to The Sun reports Vinchines Indiana that Edwards a tinplate worker from Bl wood was blown to pieces Monday night at the National Rellins mill. He was cutting scrap iron when a pipe loaded with nitroglycerin touched off the blast. Edwards body was riddled with iron fragments as the explosion rocked the town.
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