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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
6
A Brooklyn scientist narrates how disease microbes destroy pear trees and human blood. Advertises Blood Wine as a universal cure with free blood tests and testimonials from M Isenberg and J R Sickles. Ends urging readers to buy a fifty cent bottle from their druggist.
Reports from Wabash Peru and Kokomo Indiana recount a holiness revival moment when youths allegedly mocked a preacher then witnessed a halo over a horse and a ghostly hand of retribution, prompting their conversion. The piece also records a large Jackson family history and multiple local incidents including a yard engine crash, and a dramatic divorce case in Kokomo.
Miss Effie McCormick of LaPorte Ind accuses Charles Smith of Toledo Ohio a Lake Shore postal clerk of obtaining money by false pretenses. She says she loaned him a large sum after he promised marriage and prepared wedding clothes before learning he was engaged to another.
Hammond Indiana December district court Judge Moe Mahon quashed the grand jury indictment against the W B Conkey company charging violation of the Indiana and Pinkerton act. The ruling finds the act does not apply to corporations and the clause on importing guards for police purposes void for lack of penalty provision. Jacksons Long-Lived Loganport Indiana December 11.
A brief note extols Wells Half Ton as a top grooming product for well groomed men. Claims it cools and refreshes the scalp all day. Advertising mentions prices in cents and dollars for pints and snarts.
Auditor elect John Seitz filed three more suits against J H Young Henry Perce fold and J F McIlvaine for 5000 each alleging campaign libels. He has sued 11 persons so far on the same grounds seeking 5000 from each. In Marion Indiana American Gas and Oil Co assigned to Arthur Jordan and Frank W Lewis leases in Grant Jay Wells and Blackford counties totaling 3230 acres.
A bulletin of short items across Indiana includes Emery Cotes's fatal neck injury on a moving train near Corydon, a Montgomery county jail inmate count, stock car shipments to Buffalo, J H Bass's planned steel casting plant in Fort Wayne, and dog attacks killing twenty sheep near Westville. Other notes report a new pastor for Tipton, halted Muncie Alexandria electric grade work, Greenfield church debt delaying purchases, a Juniata steel plant crane, Dr E L Larkins injured after a horse fall, and the Vandalia shop job move for M B Corden leaving Westville listing.
Grand jury in Martin County has returned eight indictments accusing men of selling votes last month. Reports from Vincennes, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Fort Wayne, Logansport, Martinsville detail thefts, fires, accidents, and near misses across Indiana towns with notable injuries and property losses.
A Madison Courier Gum Corner item notes Uncle Jack Carr’s 160 acres in Minnesota may be a pink wolf hoax. Washington Democrat cites the joke as likely fake while a parallel piece reports tobacco season and crops in the community. Willie Jennings visited town Sunday with a package. Officer Geyer chased him but he escaped.
INDIANA'S DEAD. YORKTOWN Mrs. C. M. Davis 78 Delaware county pioneer. REED'S STATION James Reed 69 Delaware county pioneer. Member of Eighth Indiana cavalry. DECATUR Mrs. Elizabeth Strickler 103 lived near her late residence for 50 years. ALEXANDRIA Jacob Smith one of Boone township's oldest residents.
Miss Edith Ranson of New York earned the regional title near Lake Hopatcong New Jersey by bagging 35 ducks over two sessions last week. She hunted early from a skiff, using a double barreled shotgun to down a flock of about 40 ducks as they rose from the water.
A fisherwoman reached the lake at 5:30 AM and within two and a half hours brought down 18 ducks. Local observers note such luck has not been seen in years.
The Civic Federation closes after a landmark meeting with Mark Hanna and Samuel Gompers sharing the platform. Attendees include Grover Cleveland and notable leaders. A majority of New York manufacturers favor an eight hour day and officials urge frequent conferences to bridge gaps.
James Griffey, jailed on theft charges, got Sheriff Cook’s permission to visit his home for clothes then wed Miss Fanny Davis at a festive gathering. Davis, a society girl, now regrets the union claiming she was hypnotized. Griffey was rearrested.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a safe and effective treatment for catarrh in head, throat, or bronchial tubes. It argues tablets are clearer than secret remedies and claims Read Gum and Blood Root provide antiseptic action, with physicians endorsing their safety for general use. The copy warns against cocaine or morphine habits from secret remedies and notes retailers offer the product at a stated price.
A Savannah social figure Mrs Suz Williams credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring her health after childbirth. She recalls severe fatigue and weakness before taking the remedy, noting rapid improvement within a week and sustained vitality, urging others, especially mothers, to try it. Her address is 511 Jones Street East, Savannah Georgia.
A health advertisement extols beauty rooted in health and regular female organs, noting city life weakens them. Dr. R V Pierce, a specialist in women’s diseases, claims a vegetable based prescription yields marvelous effects on health and appearance.
The excerpt describes a vegetable tonic for women developed by Dr. Pierce over thirty five years ago and sold as a patent medicine. It claims no alcohol or narcotics and promotes benefits for womanly diseases, with endorsement from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Our Lady of the Woods in Carthage Ohio. Weak women are urged to contact Dr. Pierce in Buffalo, New York, for consultation.
Offer for a 1008 page medical adviser by mail requires stamps to cover mailing costs. Free cloth bound volume available with 31 one cent stamps or 21 stamps for paper cover. Address provided.
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