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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
6
Brigadier General Charles King reviews the action in China featuring General Chaffee and the allied forces as reported in Saturday Evening Post.
The piece profiles General Chaffee, a veteran of the Sixth Cavalry and Civil War battles, praised for calm leadership, care for his men, and bold campaigns from Hanover Court House to San Carlos. It notes his rapid rise, brevet promotions, frontier campaigns, and his selection for command in China, comparing him to Lawton and predicting major future achievements.
New York August 23 A village board in Amityville ordered prosecutions for any barber who shaved a man on Sunday to enforce the Collins Sunday closing law. The five barbers refused to work on trustees and coordinated a boycott of shaving village leaders.
In Rome Maine on August 23 Mrs Anna Perkins was attacked by a panther during a berry gathering. The animal sprang, she fainted, and the beast tore her clothing and inflicted deep claw wounds before a fellow quarryman beat it off with a club.
Jacob Klink of near the city hall says he will sue the city for damages claiming mayoral speeches disturb his peace and constitute a nuisance. In another item Miss Alice Fields fights slander charges in Wilkesbarre over a remark about aging and hair color.
Calvin P Titus an Iowa youth aged 19 years and six months scaled Pekin’s wall to plant the U S flag. Enlisted twice, last on April 5 1999 at Wachita Kas he served in Company E Fourteenth U S Infantry. Cablegram reports a slight neck wound.
John Rankin of Hickory Corners cut off his eight year old son's hand with a knife to stop a rattlesnake bite after the boy was stung while picking huckleberries. Rankin restrained blood with a cord and carried the child home until a physician could treat the wound. The doctor expects a rapid recovery.
A ragged timetable lists departures and arrivals for Chicago Time Railway services. It includes Chicago to Indianapolis Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Tuscola routes with partial times, connections, and fares noted among trains such as express and vestibule services.
State Medical Institute of Ft. Wayne Indiana promotes a blood poisoning cure said to heal all stages. The ad claims it cures patches in the mouth sore throat copper colored spots chancres and skin ulcers, even hair loss. Free trial treatment is mailed to sufferers who write for home use.
A Detroit doctor offers a free home cure for sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses, and varicocele. He sends a receipt with full directions after requesting name and address. Letters praising the method claim renewed strength, size, and vigor, with confidential mail in plain sealed envelopes.
Readable timetable notes list train routes from Cincinnati to Dayton Cleveland and New York Boston with arrival and departure times. Services include fast mail limited and daylight options, connections at Anderson and Washington Street, and historic labeled services like Knickerbocker.
BOX FOR WOMEN reports that the fashion shift from shirtwaist rage leads to knee length 19 inch extended stockings with ribbed tops matching men’s short socks. Garters possibly obsolete as women wrap and garter long stockings, but the new extended sock may replace that look for summer comfort and style.
Those in attendance at King of the Opium Ring at the Park Friday will be kept informed of the progress of the Fitzsimmons Sharkey fight. Seats have already been placed on sale for Rush's Bon Ton burlesquers at the Empire theater all of next week.
A partial OCR timetable lists Benton Harbor line services with departure and arrival times including morning and afternoon runs. It also shows Wabash accommodation timings and a St Louis limited service with a price marker and several misread abbreviations.
A historical timetable fragment lists train services among Lafayette Chicago Cincinnati Greensburg Peoria and Bloomington. It shows assorted arrival and departure times with accommodations and mixed routes including express and local trains across several cities.
A terse timetable fragment lists times for Columbus and Spring area travel. It notes 5.45am and 10.35pm hours, 3.00pm linked to Lynn accommodation, and odd 2.50 pm and 1).15am markings.
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