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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
8
The Rev George K MacDonald of East-baptist Church Long Island City accuses parishioners including Dr W J Burnett and Mr Nutt of pressuring him to drink. He resigns after 15 years as pastor citing malicious lies and slander and vows farewell sermon while admitting he drank first at the church home and during visits to members.
An 8 year old inventor, R N Saldener, claims copper in shoe soles creates earth magnetism that prevents death. He cites bare foot Indians and children in water as proof and prescribes thick copper wire rivets in soles to transfer magnetism, promising perpetual life to wearers.
Readable fragments note Indiana figures pioneer Parker Wingate aged 74 and Henry Berry, with Parker Wingate identified as a pioneer. The text appears from a Brookville area notice. The scant data confirm a death notice for Wingate and a reference to Berry.
Sour stomach or acid dyspepsia is described as a fermentation related digestion problem weakening the whole body. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are promoted as a radical, safe cure claimed by physicians and marketed at 50 cents a package to restore digestion, appetite, and nerve stability.
Actor Carl Ahrendt recalls Edwin E Booth's sorrow after his brother's murder, noting a changed, withdrawn temperament. A humorous but telling episode in Kansas City centers on a jeweled relic linked to Lincoln's assassin, prompting Booth to sign autographs as the curtain rose.
In a tense moment on stage Booth discovers the name John Wilkes Booth in a book and erupts. He yanks the page and orders the book removed. Ahrendt recalls Booth's unsettled behavior afterward and a lasting memory of the signed ring.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Delgrain Shea, real name of the robber who died in the lake, was once known as Jack Martin in Beloit. His mother and sister in Utica believed him a traveling salesman until his death during Beloit jail confinement. Shea’s crime spree led to arrests and a three year penitentiary sentence. His body will be given to science as there are no relatives to claim it.
Rev. C. D. Nickelson a Colfax Methodist pastor left for Spokane with intent to drown himself in the Spokane river falls. He wrote to Mrs. M. E. Dunbar inviting her to die with him. she sent her lawyer, who located the preacher. Nickelson returned home after church officials investigated. He cites a family quarrel. discipline likely. Mrs. Dunbar denies encouragement and is described as a singer and church worker. Nickelson is married with children and a four year conference secretary.
In Culver Indiana a wave of robberies and drunkenness led residents to seek a night watchman. Unable to recruit, Rev George Smith offered to serve from the pulpit and then accepted the job himself. He armed himself and acted with council authority, restoring order as disorder declined.
Dekalb State Bank was targeted by masked burglars when Lyman Dodd, head of Southwestern Telephone Office, shot and killed a robber during a botched dynamiting. Other thieves fled as gunfire echoed, while a panicked clerk leapt through a window in night attire, injuring himself. The surviving gang members escaped into the woods. the final robber remained unidentified.
A newspaper ad promotes Dr Lipes offering free trial treatments for a wide range of diseases including heart, lung, kidney, stomach, blood and skin ailments. It claims rapid permanent cures with a new method, invites out of town patients to write for the treatment, and stresses there are no conditions or costs.
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