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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
6
Police nabbed several speedsters in a Thursday night raid on scorchers. Whittemore, Wilcox, and Everett faced charges and fines as officers halted fast cars on N Alabama and nearby streets. Fines included $1 plus costs. Others named faced speeding violations with similar penalties.
A classified style pitch offers a free coupon for a constipation cure by Prof T H Midgley claiming to cure chronic constipation without pills or drugs. The ad asserts lasting results and urges at home self-treatment with a mailed coupon.
An August 30 report by C. H. Tavener describes Japanese families moving into San Francisco neighborhoods, renting large homes and repurposing spaces. It contrasts wages in Japan with San Francisco pay, noting Japanese willingness to take low pay and long hours, affecting white labor and housing availability in the Van Ness to Market area.
Patrolman William F. Brady, uncle of 11 year old Mabel Kirk, outlines a search for a woman in black after the girl alleged she was abducted from Indianapolis and placed on a train to Sandusky. The girl stuck to her story under questioning, and Brady plans to pursue the suspect while taking the child home to Indianapolis.
Allen Hatfield, 30, of 1072 W Eighteenth St, a steamfitter for Indianapolis Water Co, was badly burned and left arm broken when steam blew from a cap during repairs at Riverside pumping station Friday morning. He was taken to City hospital after a failed auto ride and ambulance pickup.
Mrs Daisy Duncan Rakestraw aged 16 says she will recapture her husband Frank 18 by legal means if needed. She is jailed after her in law filed a peace disturbance complaint while Daisy pursued the couple’s son. The case rests with Judge Wl euders to decide if their love crosses the line into disorderly conduct. Frank, a singer, left Detroit for Cincinnati with Daisy, then later sought his parents' home. Daisy followed to a hotel where she was arrested. Frank wrote police for protection claiming heartbreak. Daisy insists on her rights.
Chicago reports an American singer, Corrine Rider Kelsey of Rockford and Oberlin training, signed to star at Covent Garden next spring. She will sing Mimi in La Bohème Michaela in Carmen and Zerlina in Don Giovanni after years from typewriter work to concert acclaim.
The Indiana Republican Editorial Association held its annual picnic Friday at Broad Ripple. Editors gathered early and arrived at noon with large lunch baskets prepared for a light social event. They planned not to discuss politics, though some attendees hinted otherwise.
President Roosevelt announced that the administration will make no further efforts to secure joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. Secretary Garfield said the verdict of the people will be regained as final and no additional push will be made to pass statehood.
John Kuechler, a saloonkeeper at 1012 E Weehington St, was arrested and sent to juvenile court Friday on selling beer to two boys aged 14 and 15. Judge Stubbs lectured him that serving minors is a serious law violation and illegal after hours.
A periodical labels apartment hotel residents as mentally and physically flabby, noting their exaggerated busts and hips, pet bulllups instead of children, and days spent in idleness and bridge. The piece mocks their lifestyle, ending with a grim, riddle like question about a camel and a straw.
A playful note questions what happened to those A B s from last spring. It observes they are still at bat and now in baseball, a humorous take on college player abbreviations and positions.
A brief ad from the Puro Distilled Water Company lists half gallon petties at five cents and five gallon demijohns at cents. It also notes a new phone number 2774 and mentions main 7 проц.
The Board of Public Works approves prima facie assessments for Lexington Avenue Brightwood Avenue and Wheeler Street improvements with detailed paving and grading plans. A remonstrance date is set for September 4 1997 and the assessment roll is on file. An ordinance regulates hospitals and contagious disease facilities within Indianapolis with penalties and publication requirements. James McNulty certifies the ordinance copy.
The Sun announces a three day free ten word ad for renting a vacant room. Readers are invited to use the want columns to place small notices at no charge.
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