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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1910
Page
3
A historical note warns of neglecting a common cold and its risk of triggering dangerous diseases. It advises early action and presents a home remedy using glycerine Virgin Oil of Pine compound and whisky, attributed to Leach Chemical Co of Cincinnati, claiming a 24 hour cold break and cure for a curable cough.
Spokane wealthy widower William B. Niedermeyer 59 says he is done with women after offering $350000 to a suitable partner and fleeing the city to avoid a flood of applicants. He reports receiving letters from every region except Texas and plans to vanish until peace returns. He closed his desk, hid letters, cut calls, and headed toward the St. Joe River in northern Idaho.
Kokomo Indiana February 4 Mayor Puckett vows strong action against penny games in town and the police board, meeting with the mayor, issued an edict against the so called penny games. The board found children among the best patrons and noted the games are not truly penny based but designed to grab stray coins.
An automobile owned by Louis Heilbroner struck 11 year old Gustave Brunner on Amsterdam Avenue near Eighty-seventh Street. The boy suffered severe injuries and was taken to Roosevelt hospital. The car then hit Mrs. Isabel Powell, widow, who was dragged under the mud guard and later treated at a drug store before a hospital transfer.
In Belvidere New Jersey on February 4 a jailed man known as 3111 the county's greatest rattlesnake hunter warns that unless Bill Van Horn is freed rattlesnakes will overrun Sussex county and force farmers off their land. He says the county lacks anyone who knows how to fight them.
Jesse Buzzard of southern Huntington township proposes dogs visit hog pens as a spread mechanism for hog cholera. Medical authorities acknowledge some plausible elements but call for further investigation.
A vintage advertisement extols rest for the stomach and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as natural aid. It claims the tablets digest meals, restore vigor, and offers a free trial package by mail from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
New York dispatch reports 15 year old Edward Gesser, a clerk from 710 Hoboken Street North Bergen New Jersey, shot himself after a quarrel with his 15 year old sweetheart who spoke to him harshly. He lies dying at North Hudson Hospital with a bullet wound through his body.
Sammie Thompson age 15, the oldest in his class, hanged himself at home on Winthrop Street and Old Clove Road in Flatbush after failing to pass school exams. His father Walter Thompson, an engineer, and a large family had urged him to work, and his death was confirmed by Dr. Benoit of Kings County Hospital.
Wabash Indiana February 4 church societies that run markets must follow same rules as merchants for sale of food. General order from state food and drug commissioner HH E Barnard says women selling home kitchen products at bazaars and church markets must safeguard items from dust or be arrested for violating food laws.
The Postum Cereal Co. Ltd denounces a Chicago Federation of Labor claim that peanut shells were shipped in its products as a willful falsehood. The firm cites its open factory policy and offers 10 000 dollars if proof of peanut shells is produced, asserting labor leaders aim to ruin the company's independence and workers' wages.
Shelbyville reports Frank M. Cole testifies in circuit court that a gossiping neighbor spent much time at his home stirring trouble, contributing to marital strife with his wife. Judge Sparks grants the divorce. Mr Cole, 62, and the former Mrs Cole are noted Fairland residents.
In Richmond Indiana on February 4 Frank Hart and Harry Stewart used a sob story to elicit postage stamps from housewives. They posed as a deaf mute brother and a sorrowful mother plea to mail a letter before dying. Detected converting stamps to currency, they were fined for vagrancy and jailed.
Greenfield Indiana February 4 affidavits filed by the prosecuting attorney against pool rooms barber shops cigar dealers grocers and druggists charging them with selling tobacco to children under sixteen the prosecutor said he would remind older users they are liable for contributing to the delinquency of minors for giving tobacco to boys under sixteen or cigarettes to boys under twenty one on second offense dealers may face jail sentences
Goshen Indiana February 4 1900s marshal Samuel Self announced that card playing would not be tolerated in billiard halls and poolrooms. Poolrooms must confine business outside of retail counter trade to billiards and pool.
In Shelbyville Indiana on February 4 Miss Liszie Belle Phillips of Jeffersonville and Arthur Wyrick of Boggstown wed after a record eight week courtship at the bride’s parents’ home.
Miss Cora Pendleton and her mother inherit 100000 from the Ball estate in Virginia probate. The 32 million estate has about 30 heirs nationwide. Jonas Ball died intestate. Pendleton’s mother is related to Ball through her grandfather. Mother and daughter return to Denver to claim their shares.
In Denver a dying man, William G. Jackson, married nurse Helen C. Buehler at 150 Nineteenth street with Justice of the Peace C. J. Gavin presiding. Jackson, dying in days, hoped the union would secure a $15 000 inheritance from his Brooklyn mother, while the couple planned a brief honeymoon to St Anthony's hospital.
Col Albert Scott, visiting Lakeland asylum, had his withered little finger snapped straight by a strong handshake from a inmate. The 20 year old injury reformed after the pull and he can use the finger as before.
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