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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1902
Page
7
Reports across the country cite cures by Professor Thomas Adkin using a Vitac yathic treatment not drugs or divine healing. He supposedly heals the blind lame paralytic and those near death with a psychic force and magnetic remedies. Free help offered to all sufferers with no charge.
A Rochester healer Prof. Adkin claims divine natural power but denies it, offering free diagnosis and a home cure program via Vitaopathy. He cites 8,000 patients cured, including blind and deaf individuals, and says distance does not matter. Readers are asked to write privately for guidance and a free book titled How to Be Cured and How to Cure Others.
In juvenile court Judge Stubbs orders Anna Henson’s daughter to the Home of the Good Shepherd after involvement with Ethel Scofield and liquor. Henson family, longtime helpers in the judge’s home, expresses sorrow as the case reveals a fragile, working-class background and mixed assistance from local figures. The father Mike Henson, an Italian American, shows dignity amid distress.
Howard K. Sloan, a self confessed kidnapper and robber of Mabel Goodrich, owner of a disreputable resort, was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison plus a $500 fine. Knight Finley, Sloan’s half brother, pleaded guilty to complicity and received a two year term.
A baby abandoned in a basket on a Choctaw railroad car east of El Reno Oklahoma was found warm and well clothed with a nursing bottle. A note on the basket read I have no parents please take me to the next station.
An Indianapolis eye specialist debunks the old myth that photographing a dead man’s retina reveals the last image seen. He notes Kipling and fiction popularized the idea, but asserts no scientific basis and that the claim has little credence among modern oculists.
In Montezuma New York on February 1 Charles Co. Jones, the nation’s largest justice of the peace, stands six feet tall and weighs 476 pounds with a 67 inch waist and 64 inch chest. He has doors widened to fit and cannot easily visit neighbors. He recently traveled to Auburn to take office, where a stage floor collapsed beneath him. Also in New York, turf founder Col. Sanders D. Bruce died at 77, born in Lexington Kentucky, author of The American stud book and The American horse breeders guide.
Omaha report recounts Cortez widow Jane Segur Haas set to wed Honey Haas of Mount Gilead after two previous husbands were killed by ambush. The saga centers on three Haas brothers, all slain as the plot thickens with the planned marriage within two weeks.
New York reports Maj gen C F Roe commander of the New York National Guard has given his daughter Josephine a $37,000 Murray Hill house as a preliminary wedding gift ahead of her February 8 marriage to Prescott Slade.
Mrs. Leroy Templeton, former chair of a school board committee, asks the board to stop ticket selling by students. She argues the practice burdens poorer families, noting seven siblings with only three graduates, and stresses the aim is principle, not personal cost. The Equality Society, about 100 members, vows to continue the fight.
The fragment notes an old apron worn by a political candidate who rode the goat in a past event. It hints at a historic stunt tied to the candidate, but details are sparse and the page shows only this short reference.
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