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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
4
Indiana report ranks corn as the top crop followed by oats and wheat with potatoes rye and onions in sequence. The listing names corn as leading in production and notes oats second best and wheat third.
State statistics bureau released 1909 crop figures compiled by Denny and Daffin under Brolley. Corn led with 218,866,140 bushels on 5,578,602 acres, followed by oats and wheat, with potatoes and onions showing notable production. Top counties include Tippecanoe, Boone, and Benton with substantial corn and wheat yields.
An Indianapolis ad touts The Neal Cure as an internal treatment curing severe drink habits in three days with a guarantee. It claims brain clearing effects and improved memory, and offers at home or institute care for alcoholism and other drug addictions. Contact details and manager Rufus H. Williams are provided.
The review notes 46.5 percent of 1900 to 1910 population gain occurred in cities with 25 000 or more inhabitants. It argues urban growth did not prove a broad shift from rural to city living, citing extensive rural declines largely in northern middle states while farm land values rise and farm incomes may increase. Across 2 925 counties, 798 counties or 27.3 percent lost population in the decade.
A commission reviews a curated list for children’s Christmas reading, excluding yellow novels and several classic authors. The selection favors myths, fairy tales, poetry, biology, history, travel, and stories of adventure, with Robinson Crusoe and Aesop’s fables included. Notably absent are Henty Alger and Huckleberry Finn, while Treasure Island and Kidnapped appear.
Dr J N Hurty will travel to Greene township Randolph county to dedicate a new schoolhouse despite opposition from former rivals He will also address the Randolph County Medical Society in Winchester Indiana on infantile paralysis Tuesday detailing public health concerns and progress.
The November report to the auditor of state presents figures reviewed by Auditor O'Brien. Domestic corporation fees total 19 756.40 dollars, foreign corporations 2 463 dollars, motor vehicle registrations 9.78, court report sales 503.50, and miscellaneous 1 715.25.
E S Bunnell traveled to Linton Indiana on Saturday to address a joint insu late state and parents gathering.
Dr Frederick J Stanley lauds the Japanese as the world’s greatest teachers of the last quarter century at a Big Meeting in Engishs opera house. He cites incorruptible police, no traitors, and abstinence from liquor during the Russo Japanese War, praising etiquette and purity of speech. Audience numbered 1509. expenses 92.75. first collection 83.43. a second collection approved to cover the deficit.
The legislative investigating committee will spend Monday and Tuesday at Lafayette examining Purdue University and the Soldiers' Home. The panel plans to present its report to Gov. Marshall on December 20, but delays may push the governor’s message. Committee members praise the Woman's Prison at Randolph and Michigan streets and the Girls' School at Clermont, the last visited institutions.
Advertises a one day cold cure with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets. Claims druggists profit if it fails. Mentions EH W GROVE as signature on each box and a 25 cent price.
All boxes sold with extras placed in Murat temple hall for the season’s first charity ball under the Flower mission society. Mrs. James E. Roberts and Mrs. O. G. Pfaff in charge of boxes. supper to follow. The mission aids flowers for the sick and cares for homeless children. large orchestra to perform. Mrs. Robert A. Geddes heads the general committee.
W. P. Ela, inspector from Vincennes district, has been assigned to the Indianapolis post office to consolidate two inspectorships temporarily. He has about ten years in service and began investigating a Milton bank stamp robbery as soon as he unlocked his new office.
The Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church plans a banquet honoring evangelists J Wilbur Chapman and Charles M Alexander. Covers for the banquet are to be laid and the evangelists will conduct a program in the church auditorium earlier in the evening.
H. J. Brown wins the election for Franklin township trustee. Lee E. Swails will become county schools superintendent on June 1, 1911, after a ten-ballot contest among Arthur Jackson Glen R. Smith and Swails amid caucus disputes and party tensions.
Funeral services for William H Frank aged 61 years will be conducted Monday afternoon at his residence 400 North Watcott street following his death Sunday morning. He leaves a widow a daughter and a son.
A reader recounts pale illness cured by giving up coffee and drinking Postum. After five years of weakness and bed rest, health improved within a week, headaches diminished, and five months later she looked and felt well weighing 148 pounds. She credits Postum and notes the book The Road to Wellville.
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