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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
5
Among Actors and Actorettes present Railroad Jack Monday to Wednesday with matinee and evening shows Nobody's Claim runs Thursday to Saturday with matinee and evening performances Edith Helena and George Austin Moore headline Fairbank every night and Saturday afternoon Vaudeville at Avondale Heights nightly Spring Lake Park offers daily vaudeville with matinee and evening shows.
August marks the height of the American theater season as managers rush to sign contracts in New York. Photographers and lithographers toil to fuel advertising while stars pose for galleries, making or breaking shows with publicity and contracts until the public chooses.
The Park Theater opens a three day run with Railroad Jack a sensational tramp drama featuring a lion named Duke and a heroine heiress. A tornado scene in a circus tent and the escape by the hero who once cared for Duke heighten the action. Also Nodody's Claim and Mme Sans Gene musical tease future seasons with Alice Nielsen possible. Eddie Fox is described as bankrupt with four thousand six hundred dollars liabilities.
Liebler company will present Eleanor Duse Viola Allen and Kyrle Bellew in new productions and revivals. Ezra Kendall stages The Vinegar Buyer in Indianapolis with Kendall as drummer who goes broke. Nat Goodwin, Miss Elliott, Julia Marlowe and others move a busy season with new and returning pieces in New York and beyond. David Warfield recovers, Elsa Ellsler and Elsa Ryan headline future bills. Frances Wilson, Louise Drew, John Drew, Virginia Harned, Iris and Amelia Bingham loom large with starry company plans.
Among hair preparations the Well's Hair Tone is praised for women. It has no oil or grease and leaves the hair clean fluffy wavy and lifelike. It also claims to stop dandruff itching and hair failing.
An old classified style notice touts a fast acting extermination product. It promises rapid relief from roaches, ants, and bed bugs, claiming customers suffer through misery and thirst until the pest control treatment is completed. The ad emphasizes superior effectiveness and urges readers to act.
A fragmented and unsafe instruction appears to describe using Rough on Rats and mixing substances with bait to enhance effectiveness. The readable lines reference rat and mice control, mixing powders with other materials, and feeding practices, but the text is garbled and lacks coherent actionable guidance.
Edith Helena a little known Indianapolis soprano and George Austin Moore a local vaudeville favorite will headline Fairbank next week. Helena, managed by Robert Gray, will tour larger cities next season with a high cultivated voice and feats such as a high C cadenza in The Last Rose of Summer. Moore, heard at the Grand last season, will perform new and classic ballads. Eugene Cowles also appears at Fairbank the week of August 18 after closing a Chicago Masonic Temple roof garden engagement.
Free Sunday afternoon band concerts at Riverside and Brookside parks feature R A Millers Military Band and Arndts Military Band. Riverside opens with marches, overtures, dances, and selections from operas, including The Star Spangled Banner. Brookside offers Harmony Maze, sleeping beauty and the beast, Intermezzo, and The Invincible Eagle among other Sousa selections.
A single plantation sold 4,900 bales of cotton in New Orleans on Thursday, the Panther Burn crop. Each bale weighed about 900 pounds, totaling roughly 4,500,000 pounds and about 400,000 dollars. The sale covered three years' crops, highlighting storage costs and the transaction's magnitude.
Syracuse August 9 Charles Listman public safety commissioner says he will not let family ties interfere with duty. He received complaints that his brother Adam Listman proprietor of a saloon ran a gambling resort and an immoral hangout. He ordered Adam to close the place and pursue another business.
Fred A Herrick a Birmingham lumber magnate appeals from an inferior court where he was fined one cent for refusing to pay 15 cents for cold slaw with dressing after ordering it again. He intends to take the case to the state’s highest court.
Forest Park offers 650 lots in a premier Indiana subdivision described as the handsomest and most desirable residence suburb. Ten minutes from the business center, it promises improvements, freedom, healthful air and country shade.
A promotional notice from January 3, 1903, touts new homes with proven grading, gravel paths, sidewalks, water, electric lights, telephones, and city police and fire protection. It extols wide avenues and streets, shaded avenues, and large deep lots as a high quality residence investment in the addition.
Take the East Washington or Irvington car and alight at Rural Street or ride the English Avenue car to reach the same area.
A dissatisfied wife leaves her husband after a loving note and a pledge of separation. Fred roams in search of meaning, grows old, and learns to forgive. He finds Lila ill and hidden, then discovers her and their bond restored in a quiet, hopeful reunion.
The United States relies on vast pin production to supply a year’s needs. Census figures show over seven billion ordinary pins and 161 million hairpins used annually, with safety pins nearly as numerous. The industry, centered mainly in Connecticut, began in earnest after the Revolutionary War with Dr. J. S. Howe as a pivotal founder.
Mrs Curtis Baker recalls a neighbor's infant saved from cholera infantum by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy given per directions. Within two days the child recovered and remains healthy nearly a year later. She endorses the remedy and notes it has never failed. For sale by all druggists.
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