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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
2
Mrs Henry Clay Brubaker left Thursday for Texas while Mr and Mrs William Aifring plan a trip to New York and Narragansett Pier for several weeks. Others travel to Aston Beach Cincinnati Melone Walloon Lake and Canada as friends hold gatherings and visits.
New York Aug 5 The oil trade faces a crisis as prices trend downward driven by over production and tariff policy changes. An official notes crude rests around fifty cents a barrel as domestic and foreign demand is met for over a year. The Payne Aldrich tariff may allow unrestricted world oil imports, altering market dynamics.
Rain forces postponement of the Putnam County Reunion Association basket picnic. The event, planned for Garfield Park on Saturday last, is rescheduled for Saturday, August 14. Full attendance is desired.
A Dayton message reports James B. Smith formerly of Delphi was found guilty in Judge Martins court of forging a certificate to practice in the Ohio supreme court. If affirmed he faces a term in Ohio prison. Smith, 45, married, has worked as loanker attorney and saloonman.
At Wonderland airdome the mascot Buster Pew son of band manager Howard Pew greets fans and dances to Marco Vessella and his orchestra. The band named him mascot and Sig nor Vessella wrote a march titled Buster to open Thursday night program. The rest features Verdi Mendelssohn Tschaikowsky and Mascagni with Wagner night framed for Friday.
Stockholm reports a quiet Sweden under militiarism as the government drills to break a strike seen as a civil war threat. Street railways ferry lines and industrial centers are idle or guarded. ships are loaded with troops. utilities and bridges are secured. saloons closed and limited liquor served with meals.
Alton Jackson, a seven year old boy, drowned in an 80 foot deep hole in Fall creek near the Indiana avenue bridge. Large sand removals exposed the site as Bicycle Policemen Schlangen and FEnglebright conducted a three hour search by night and resumed efforts Thursday morning. The boy lived at 06 N West street.
Richards and Pringles Famous Georgia Minstrels bring forty performers to Tomlinson Hall on Friday night for their thirtieth tour. A noon street concert by Simpson's Challenge band precedes the show. The act features Moor the Hindoo magician Alabama quartet the double dancing sextet Wilson and Knott and the Phantom House with new scenery wardrobe and lighting.
Samuel Chapman, a bridge carpenter, died from injuries after being struck by a Big Four passenger train at Norwood. He stepped from the platform for water, was hit while in the railroad yards, and died at St. Vincent's hospital at 6 30 o clock Wednesday night. He lived at 935 Euclid avenue and was '& years old with a family.
A new Colonial hotel and theater will be built at New York and Illinois streets, costing $16,000. Bedford Stone and Construction Company has the contract to construct the hotel and theater and a steel and concrete building.
An August appeal urges readers to open a savings account now with small deposits. The Indiana Trust Co. promotes a “home for savings” with a capital of 1,000,000.06 and earned surplus, inviting entries from many new depositors and promising growth as funds are added over time.
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