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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1900
Page
6
Jerry Simpson of Medicine Lodge, known for populist attire, appeared at a Saturday political event in a shirt waist imported from the east. He said the garment is for comfort during campaigns and urged friends to wear them, noting he kept his coat on after the talk to avoid a crowd.
A Quincy to La Crosse fleet owned by Kirchner and Son travels the Mississippi with 86 barges and over 100 horses and two cows aboard. The cows refuse to leave the fleet, wading a plank to reach ships and even swimming five miles to reconnect after a shift in location.
New York reports Montagu Leverson a Fort Hamilton physician claimed California bar and US Supreme Court membership. He previously opposed Comstock’s anti nudity bill, sparred with Comstock, and later sued him. Leverson campaigned for Dreyfus in 1897 and defended Aguinaldo’s status as a wartime ally.
Peter Maloney woke to a prowler trying to enter his home in Corry Pennsylvania. The intruder fired a shot at him but missed. Maloney chased the suspect, a unidentified Black man, and brought him to the lockup at gunpoint.
New York August 17 T Thomas Fortune says the rioters deserve punishment. He condemns violence by any mob while noting some New Orleans exiles sparked the unrest. Fortune urges New York whites to see justice, and warns better classes of colored people.
Worth Wright at democratic state headquarters tells a tale of his father renaming his two sons Charles Sumner and William H Seward. The elder Wright later allows self naming and the brothers choose their paths with Charles Sumner keeping his name while William Henry Seward becomes Bud before adopting Wilber as a nickname.
Dr Hibbart H Hill director and bacteriologist of the Boston board of health examined two cultures from Johns Hopkins sent from the University of California. Cultures from a Chinaman suspected of bubonic plague showed bacilli typical of plague after a rat inoculation died. He reports the bacilli match bubonic plague.
Mrs. Sarah J. Foster mother of Gen. R. 8. Foster Edward Wallace and C. C. Foster died Thursday night at Gen. Foster's home. Born in Ireland in 1812 she came to Indiana in the sixties and was active in the Central Christian Church.
A historical timetable snippet lists Benton Harbor, St Louis, Cincinnati, Peoria, and Springfield lines with multiple departures and arrivals. It includes trains labeled as accommod'ns, limiteds, fast expresses, and extras with various times across different cities and stations.
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