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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
6
A faded product notice promotes Wells Hair Balm as a home tonic for restoring color and a non greasy dressing priced 50c to 1.00. It also repeats directions for Rough on Rats poison with varied bait instructions to ensure effectiveness and safety around other foods.
Hezekiah Hardin, a Nashville Indiana widower, left home two years ago to marry his childhood sweetheart Mary Rainbolt. After a long search through Virginia, Tennessee, and finally Houston Texas, he learned Mary had kept her vow and he reunited with his former love, now living in Houston.
In Marion, Gordon buys Presbyterian church property to build a $75,000 hotel on the site while other cities report plans for shipyards, a big Lafayette paper mill, and a frontier surge of investments. Other notes cover a gas explosion injuring workers, a reactor of legal moves, and local mischief in Terre Haute and Richmond.
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as giving the exhausted consumptive a breathing spell by nourishing strength to the lungs and body. It claims the treatment often enables the patient to gain force to combat the disease and offers a free sample.
In Shelbyville a report says L C Barnard fell from a 17 foot barn height and is recovering, likely to be out soon. A Kokomo note describes Hugh Pursley near a sour mash tank tumbling into a police court dry dock. A Salem Democrat item notes a Sullivan marriage of R Riggs and Miss Charlotte Moss with rowdy wedding antics at the depot and a rope tied groom amid a boisterous crowd.
A collage of local quotes describes aluminum advertising checks at J P Mullally’s store, weather woes with cold, and playful jests about stove dealers. A Hessian fly note warns of crop hazards while library finding lists shed their edges with age.
An advertisement touts Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a universal cure for kidney and liver ailments rheumatism dyspepsia constipation and related sicknesses. It offers a free trial by mail from the Dr David Kennedy Corporation Rondout New York with a mail order sample.
An Indianapolis council gathering shows Jack Holliday arriving late and fearing he will not secure a council seat while President Hugh J. McGowan complains about authority. Fred Eppert shaves his mustache, and a street railway official comments on leadership. A blind man’s dime gesture is noted and ads appear alongside political notices.
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