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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
10
All Men's suits priced at 20 and 18 dollars are cut to 15 dollars. 15 dollar novelty suits drop to 10 dollars. 18 and 16.50 blue serge suits reduced to 15 dollars. A selection of 86 trousers now sells for a lower price.
A local sale offers $10 wool suits at 7.50 and $4 to $3 wash suits at 2. Men’s furnishings include 32.00 negligee shirts at 1.48 and Loisette outing shirts at 1.15 or 3 for 3.25. Negligee shirts 1.11 or 3 for 3.25. Lisle underwear 1.00 at 0.69, 50c underwear at 0.39, over 50 dozen 48e four in hands at 0.25.
The Indianapolis Letter Carriers association No 39 hosted a Wednesday night banquet at the Grand hotel in honor of Postmaster Robert Bryson. One hundred four of the 110 carriers attended as W E Kelley L J Gainor and F S Trafton spoke. A toast by F A Schmedel and welcome from A D Grow followed.
The Thirteenth Ward Democratic club will meet at 8 o'clock Friday night at the clubrooms S East and Lincoln streets to transact important business and plan the campaign. John Wollsiter is president and A J Booth secretary.
The Indiana state convention of the Independence League will convene in Indianapolis on August 27 at English's Opera House. W. R. Hearst and Thomas Lt. Hisgen, the party's presidential nominee, are expected to attend. Delegates may number about 600 as plans to nominate C. G. Conn of Elkhart for governor proceed if he consents.
Laura Cain a 9 year old girl selling charity tickets at 1009 Ashland Avenue was robbed mid afternoon on Wednesday by a young man who followed her after overhearing her tell a druggist she had money. He coerced her to hand over the tickets and funds totaling $1.75 and disappeared.
An early morning blast at the Avery Portable Gas plant in Orth Albany wrecked the facility. Two men were jailed and two others seriously injured. Damage estimated at 25000 dollars. Victims named as John Maloney and William Fort, with manager J B Harrison gravely injured.
Lomisvie won both games of a double header against Kansas City, while Toledo shut out St. Paul 0 0 and Lattimore starred. In other action, the Reds halted a losing streak by tying the Giants at 4 at Polo Grounds. Sensational St Louis doubleheader wins over New York featured Petty and Waddell. Detroit’s three runs in the sixth doomed the Athletics, and Boston edged Chicago 3 2 on timely hits and errors. Washington misplayed, Cleveland won 3 2 1, Berger exiting after clinching the win.
J P Mullally of Indianapolis, head of the Indianapolis Retail Jewelers Association, is being boosted for president of the American Retail Jewelers Association. Friends and Cincinnati jewelers mobilize support at the national convention while two opponents contest the Indianapolis bid.
On August 6 1920 Jews worldwide observe Tishab Ab the ninth of Ab with fasting and lamentations. In New York ghetto homes elders sit shoeless at prayers while children break wooden swords over graves as part of the day’s mournful rites. The rites occur in about 300 places of worship.
John Summerville secretary of New Century Paper company was held up at gunpoint near Meridian Street Methodist church shortly before 9 PM. Two youths took his purse containing a small amount of money. A witness reported another attempted holdup at Twentieth and Illinois streets.
William J. Craig, 64, died after a long illness in Degatur Pecatur Ind. He once owned the Bluffton Banner and Huntington Democrat, acquired the Indianapolis Sentinel in 1889, later moved to Chicago as a stone and cement contractor, and managed a quarry at Bedford in 1844. Survived by a widow, a son and a daughter.
Funeral services for Martin H. Rice were held Thursday morning at his home on 16th Street. The Rev. Lewis Brown of St Paul Episcopal church led the rites. Burial followed at Crown Hill. The Masonic grand lodge conducted the services.
A letter from Trev Albert Hurlstone of Indianapolis criticizes a Roberts Park Methodist minister for using a Sunday pulpit to praise William H Taft. The writer argues a preacher should not deliver political content from the church pulpit and questions the claim Taft is best suited to speak on the Philippine question.
Letters from Salem and Indianapolis question that a sermon should discuss politics. They argue preachers must avoid endorsing Taft or engaging the Philippine issue from the pulpit. Critics accuse a Roberts Park sermon of trying to sway churchgoers and implying Taft’s faith, labeling it unfit and potentially harmful to Christian doctrine.
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