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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
10
Detectives search for the driver of a buggy who hit a 10-year-old boy on Wilmot Street, then left him in a vacant yard crying for help. The boy, on the way home from school with books, suffered a severe leg injury with bone protruding. Parents express willingness to prosecute if the driver aids the injured child.
Mrs Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland wife of J P Sutherland dean of the Boston School of Medicine died from heart failure after an accident as clothes caught fire from an open grate. She authored The Road to Yesterday with Beulah Marie Dix and helped dramatize Monsieur Bernclaire with Booth Tarkington.
In Sandubry Ohio an elderly woman Miss Leeds dwelling at Boogers Corner was unable to escape a house fire during the night and died from the burns.
Governor Hanly spends Christmas at his home on North Alabama street. His secretary Luman Babcock left this afternoon for Topeka to visit his parents over the holidays.
A long-standing endorsement describes Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a reliable aid for indigestion liver and skin and blood conditions with no alcohol or habit forming drugs. It is presented as a safe glyceric extract from native medicinal roots and advertised through a pamphlet offering the People Common Sense Medical Adviser for mailing price.
In Des Moines an ante room at the county jail Rev Casaday of St Mark's J E church conducted a hypnotic demonstration on William Lavean to break his drink habit. The minister had Lavean sleep then pricked his hand and struck the pin, Lavean showed no response. The test included pulse reduction and the minister urged Lavean to quit drinking and avoid saloons. In Natchez, Mississippi, Robert F Reed and his wife were attacked by a burglar. Reed was killed and his widow wounded.
Harry Gordon a Williamsburg druggist was arraigned on homicide charges after a gas leak killed Samuel Shapiro a drug clerk. Gordon said he forgot to shut off the gas causing Shapiro to inhale fumes. coroner and detectives questioned him. Shapiro’s body showed traces of poison not from nitric acid.
Dr. George B. Wight proposes converting Glen Gardner sanatorium into a training school for tubercular patients. He argues advanced cases number about twelve thousand and would benefit from trained patient nurses guiding care in local hospitals or camps, with state or local funding per patient.
A four year old girl from the Indiana Childrens Home society was given as a Christmas gift by Hal E. Sheetz of 2522 E Washington Street to his wife. The baby, named Florence Sheetz, will be regularly adopted by the couple who have no children. The child had been at the society about a year. Dexter Missouri reports a pistol duel in J W McCulloughs drug store where his son Harry McCullough killed his brother.
License Clerk William Berner notes the Christmas wedding fad is aging. Fewer licenses were issued this season, with only five decenses to wed compared with higher volumes in earlier years of the festive period.
Refunding bonds of the city of Indianapolis worth 80000 dollars bearing 212 percent interest were purchased by J. F. Wild & Co. A premium of 160 dollars was paid for the bonds. Three other bidders also competed.
Marion county Democrats observe Jackson Day on January 8 with a banquet honoring successful county and township candidates. Township ward and precinct committee men and county Democratic organization members will attend.
Invitations to mayors governors and civic bodies to join in the great tariff conference to be held in Indianapolis Feb 9 10 and 11 will be sent from the office of Mayor Bookwalter on behalf of the city of Indianapolis the Commercial club the Board of Trade the Manufacturers' association and the Clearing House association.
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