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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1902
Page
6
An old advertisement touts Wells' Hair Balsam as restoring gray hair to natural color without oil or stickiness and promotes LaurelLe Balm as a toilet wonder for complexion care. It markets 50 cent and one dollar sizes, highlighting skin healing and wrinkle prevention benefits.
A brisk promotional note claims the product Watss Harn Tows is a preparation that meets public demand and serves as a tonic restorative. It targets men women and children with a 50 cent pint, one dollar quart, or prepaid large size by mail from Jersey City New Jersey.
Extermination firm touts its thorough service against rate and mice with worldwide reach and boxes, urging acceptance of no substitutes and promising safety and reliability in pest control.
Madrid reports Moroccan rebels have severed Fez water supplies. If Kabyls fail to aid, imperial authorities face capitulation within three days. Spain wires Ceuta and Melilla to monitor events as Britain and France pledge to uphold the status quo if the pretender rises to the throne.
In Asheville North Carolina Rufus Jones of Balsam Mountain remains alive with a chance of recovery a week after a knife blade pierced his skull during a fight with Mont Duncan the blade buried one and one eighth inches deep surgeons trephined the skull. Duncan escaped. Miss Pearl Langfitt of Parkersburg West Virginia married George Oakes under romantic circumstances after being betrothed to George Lemon who was killed by a train just before their wedding anniversary last year.
Arrangements are set for a follification on the produce exchange Wednesday at 1 p m. Stock exchange members are invited to join a tug of war. The Second regiment band provides music as 600 tin horns, flutes and crickets add to a playful program. Ten cake walkers and six hurdle races are planned with 1000 bags of confetti.
Mrs Minnie Bonowitz wife of A L Bonowits a wealthy Marshalltown horseman shot herself in Ames Iowa after a sensational hotel episode She left a note naming Chris Ritter a recently divorced bartender as the man she loved Police had arrested her a week earlier in Ames during a visit to relatives with a capitalist
William Bosson and B K Elliott for the Robert C Light group sue to block the Union traction and Northern traction merger. A new petition asks for a receiver for Union traction amid claims of unbusinesslike methods.
An old fashioned advertisement promises Scott's Emulsion can cure deep rooted coughs by replacing inflammation with healthy tissue. It claims medicines that merely smother coughs fail, and urges readers to send for a free sample from Enarr & Rowne chemists at 409 Pearl Street.
In Cleveland on December 31 an elevator in the telephone building at Seneca and Champlain streets fell from the seventh floor to the basement. The car damaged the pneumatic cushion on impact and then rebounded to the first floor, but all passengers escaped uninjured. The operator claimed a loss of control occurred just after departure from the seventh floor.
In Fayette county near Lookout a farmer named Frank McClung uncovered an old army canteen beneath a stone. It contained 1238 in gold silver and paper money. The canteen bore the mark George Hedges 34th Ohio. A curious Civil War era find with unclear provenance.
The Penn oil company with $50,000 capital was incorporated with the secretary of state on Tuesday. All incorporators are Indianapolis men, including Franklin Vonnegut S. E. Kercheval Isaaca O. Russell Robi. H. Wilson Carl Von Hake David D. Riddle and Joseph c. Schaf. The firm plans to lease territory and drill wells in Wells and Jay counties.
Vienna dispatch reports Premier Von Koerber submitted his resignation after a rift with Hungarian premier Deszell over renewing the Ausgleich. The emperor reportedly summoned both premiers for a conference, but the resignation has not been accepted.
Chicago reports 15 delirium tremens cases this week linked to saloon wine and whisky tainted with dogwood coloring. One fatality noted and a complaint lodged with the board of health over cheap wine distributed by saloonkeepers.
INDIANA ITEMS list several local developments: CONNERSVILLE reports a new company forming to run a large foundry with a $40,000 plant investment. SOUTH ISLEND notes Mt. Joseph county’s heavy snow and widespread fence coverage. MISHAWAKA mentions a secretive plan for a $300,000 industry to move from Chicago. BEDFORD notes a butter tub factory site search by a Chicago creamery package company, with 35 workers. BLOOMINGTON reports heirs of an immense Indian Territory estate of 650,000 acres and $300,000 to Mrs. Hobbs from John Carver, with 50 heirs getting shares. MUNCIE covers Councilman Porter wearing a 75-year-old heirloom necktie once in a noble English family. also Mrs. John Fuller’s poisoning scare ruled as nervous trouble. Wilbur Huffer ordained a Presbyterian minister. LOGANSPORT: John Donnell freed after self defense ruling in assault case. WHI of David Hardy of Carroll is in court contest by grandson Samuel Yeakley over mind status. estate valued near 160 acres south of the city bequeathed to wife Emily Haray and son Albert.
Sun subscribers can obtain a large doctor book with colored plates for 3.00, delivered in city for 0.69. Non subscribers may get it by four months of Sun or by paying 1.00 extra for four months. The 800-page manual by Dr J H Greer covers air sunlight water as medicines, marriage guidance, and health tips.
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