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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1909
Page
2
Spokane date August 17 three Hoosiers drew claims yesterday in the Spokane reservation Andrew Gunderman of Granger Wade S Rowe of Goodland and John Brownlee of Evansville Allen Newton of Helena Montana drew claim No 1 which is very valuable.
City council Monday night approved ordinances to spend 230,000. Board of Park Commissioners gets 11,000 for office expenses and assessments. Police car maintenance is funded at 900. Thirty third street opening between Illinois and Meridian costs 2,000. Street repair plant maintenance receives 15,000. Primary election board members receive 200 each.
Former hay fever sufferers report ascarce the Austrian remedy as a preventive when begun weeks before the expected attack. The full month’s ascatco treatment costs $2 and a 50 cent bottle for immediate relief is available. Henry J. Jinder and other drugstores in Indianapolis stock the remedy, claimed to cure hay fever and asthma.
A northeaster dumped 5.2 inches on New York over 29 hours of continuous rain, smashing the weather bureau’s August record. The storm caused widespread damage at shore resorts, dragged small craft adrift, flooded cellars, and crippled streetcar traffic across the city and nearby beaches.
The Girl from the U S A opened at the Park theater drawing large day and night audiences. The plot follows Jack and Richard Weston as they travel from France to a Turkish harem and a Chinese palace to save Jack’s friend Vivienne.
Empire Burlesquers open next Monday at the Empire theater with two new extravagant acts and a strong company. Manager Burns showcases a first burletta A Night in a Rathskeller then advanced vaudeville and a final burlesque The Two Pikers with performers including Tom Mc Rae Tom Nolan ONeal Brom Walmsky Cora White Gua Emerson and the Fontaine Sisters in a full chorus production.
At the ninth annual convention the International Stewards Association backed a proposed $200000 training school for hotel staff to be run at the Winona Institute. The vote on establishing the school is set for Wednesday with committee reports and a closing banquet planned at the Claypool Hotel.
John Eskew of Linton Indiana owns Greene county's largest hog likely in Indiana The two year old hog weighs 726 pounds nearly six feet long and stands three and a half feet high
Tours to the West Indies South America the Mediterranean the Orient Japan around the World offered by the steamship department with rates sailing dates and literature available for any tour of interest.
Two thousand people were served ice cream Monday by Lew Shank, Republican mayoral candidate, at Market and Harding streets as a campaign promise. Retail Grocers hold a pure food show at Tominsen hall October 4 to 16. The National Humane Alliance will turn over a fountain at Sen ate avenue and Vermont to the city, while Nathan Morris fountain at Massachusetts and Walnut has been accepted. Mrs. T. O. Barbour resigns from the Propylaeum post to join Sage College in Ithaca. Locomotive Engineers and Ladies Auxiliary hold a picnic at Broad Ripple. Fireman Augustus Schrader sustained a broken leg from a wagon fall at the Haughville engine house picnic. Mothers Club of School No. 54 meets at Mrs. Pierson’s home on 1210 Tuxedo street at 2:30 PM Wednesday.
After a two year gap, Hanlon's Superba returns to the Park theater for fair week. The act features its famed equipment, beautiful girls, clowns, music, and stage pictures, revived through the efforts of Dickson and Talbott to join the state fair lineup.
Evansville Indiana reports 22 year old Early Babys of the city, recently arrested at Boonville on a grand larceny charge, killed himself, with authorities noting distress over the arrest as the cause.
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