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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
11
A scattered historic ads list burials vaults sales staff for holidays at stores in Indianapolis. Notices include faith home appeal for donations, loan offers with various amounts and terms, and service ads for paper hanging and camera supplies. The items reveal a bustling neighborhood marketplace.
Detective Sergt. Charles Welnecki defended himself when mobbed by striking garment workers. He killed P Nogreckisky and wounded Mark Ligewicz with shots through the lungs as strikers, strike breakers, and officers fought amid bricks and blows. Welnecki and a wounded striker were taken to St Elizabeth's hospital.
State free employment bureau reports two boys placed as bill passers and six laborers hired for concrete work at twenty cents an hour. Additional city jobs go to two cabinet makers. Listings show wide demand across crafts, clerical work, and domestic service with varied colored and white positions and regional work notes.
Indiana, Indianapolis and Southern Traction Co announces service changes effective November 14 1910. Southbound Dixie Flyers omit country stops between Indianapolis and Edinburg but stop south of Edinburg with connections at Seymour to B&O west. Brat Cars connect at Seymour with B&O and Southern Indiana for east and west routes. General offices Columbus Indiana.
Real estate transfers list numerous lots and parcels across Indianapolis areas including Young's subdivision, Kubo addition, East Meridian heights, West Park addition, Mt. Jackson cemetery and more. Buyers include Merrifield, Van Arsdel, Brown, Hollingsworth, Sargent, Shipman, Hardin trust, and others with prices ranging from 50 to 6,000 dollars. Transfers total 104,162 dollars.
George and Elnor Wade at 27 North Hamilton Avenue welcomed a girl. John and Nellie Cutter of 2805 Columbia Avenue had a boy. Martin and Victoria Broderick of 408 North Holmes Avenue had a boy. Allen and Currie Long at 1428 West Ohio Street had a boy. Lewis and Augusta Brubns at 3214 West Michigan Street had a boy. George and Ethel Woodward at 2627 West Michigan Street had a boy. Orville and Hazel Hatzell at 1001 Nelson Avenue welcomed a boy. Albert and Grace Purdy at 2217 Miller Street. Charles and Josephine Baker at 1921 West Morris Street had a girl.
Listings for stove repair and parts, massage therapists, truss fitting, storage and auction services, welding, and a dividend notice from Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company. Includes address details and company names like The Hamilton Storage Company Shank Furniture and Storage and Indianapolis Welding Co. Also notes dividend payment for preferred stock.
The list names married pairs and individuals including Ernest Boggs and Mary E. Datis Robert Burns Foley and Olive Leona Ford Ammon T. Apple and Nettie Pickle John B. Davis and Laura Quickel John A. Shepherd and Freda C. Spinsel Noah St. Moore and Nora L. Burk Samuel Wakefield and Ottie M Wilson Horace Hughes and Ada Beard Frank H. Bloemer and Mary F. Henni gar William D. Grittths and Agnes A. Walsh Clarence J. Winkles and Helen R. Schlen er.
The notices report numerous elderly and young individuals and their causes of death including bronchial pneumonia, hepatitis, accidental burns from gasoline, accidental railway injuries, cardiac valve disease, pneumonia, melena, adenocarcinoma of the cervix, crushing railway injuries, liver carcinoma, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Names, ages, and last-known addresses appear with hospitals and streets.
Co. P. McConder on Howard and Blain streets files for an addition valued at 200 dollars. Samuel Wildofaky at 808 South Capitol avenue seeks repairs estimated at 800 dollars.
Andrew Toth, jailed nineteen years for a Braddock murder, is about to win release after affidavits from his son Steve in Hungary confess the crime. He faces pardon board action as two fellow convicts who shared his fate have died in prison.
Joseph Wagner a dapper barber and social figure in Laporte since 1909 left town suddenly on a Chicago train heading west. He told his employer he must go quickly and asked friends to read his regrets in the newspapers as he departed.
Paoli Indiana farmer J A Dewitt bought a sow and pine pigs for 22.50 a year ago. From the progeny he sold hogs for 119 and 87.50 last Saturday. He still owns the sow and stock to be marketed for 70 to 80, making the total value about 300 from the original 22.50.
Trains depart on the hour from Indianapolis to Lebanon and numerous towns including Noblesville Crawfordsville Greencastle Cambridge City Richmond Danville and Terre Haute with limited trains to several cities. Through services connect at Richmond to Dayton Columbus and Zanesville with specific peak times listed for each origin destination.
Kokomo Indiana December 15 Joe Mason a one legged shoemaker was arrested on charges of operating a blind tiger in his shoe shop. Police found empty bottles among Mason s tools and say they have additional evidence linking him to liquor selling in his shop.
A compilation of corporate notices including Deister miners supply of Phoenix and Ft Wayne with 200000 capital stock and directors Louis Fox Edward J McOsear Edward J OConnell and Emil Deister. Muncie glass company dissolving notice. Dean forgings company authorized to issue 100000 preferred stock. Hoosier club of Ligonier directors listed. Grove garage company Bluffton with 6000 capital stock and directors Howard L Morris O B Shaffer Walter B Grow.
In Anderson Indiana on December 15 a jury could not reach a verdict in the case of Edith McKinley Connelly 19 accused of stealing 78 dollars from her uncle Leonard Mitchell and she was released.
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