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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1903
Page
6
Berlin reports Deputy Agster, a 30-year-old morphine addict, caused a scene in the Reichstag lobby by firing a pistol at himself. Deputies rushed to aid him, doctors were summoned, and it was found he had removed the ball from the cartridge, leaving a minor scorching wound.
Rochester Mags reports a town auctioning razors once owned by James Perkins a town dependent who died leaving a trunk of razors. The over seers of the poor took charge and found a cache of 259 razors in cases with ivory and horn handles, some valued by an expert. A rumor claims Perkins also left a large axe collection sought by locals.
A health advice note asserts many headaches in housewives arise from constipation linked to neglecting natural duties. It recommends a nightly spoonful of a product and continuing for weeks, claiming relief though it warns not to count on gastric trouble being the sole cause and to avoid cane insincere claims.
A May congress in Birmingham will express faith in the South as the Negroes’ home and outline the exact position of Southern Negroes toward white Southerners. Prof. W H Council is invited to give the chief address. resolutions urge Negroes to stay out of politics and pursue educational and industrial development, aiming for race harmony.
W Magansky of Lake View Michigan writes Dr H L Nietert, St Louis city hospital superintendent, asking for a bill for three weeks of board and treatment received about 18 to 19 years ago. He has since become a Christian and offers to pay any amount to a local charity. The hospital replies to consider contributions to a St Louis charity. Also noted is a tuberculosis sanitarium project in Deming New Mexico by St Louis philanthropists, building four room cottages for consumptives costing 400 each, with $1 annual dues for transport.
Sam Ghutt state house engineer abandons plan for heating and lighting plant. He says funds are scarce and his bill will not be introduced. He cites many state institutions already seeking or having their own plants and says he will give up the fight.
Washington Feb 5 efforts in the senate toward statehood compromise likely to succeed. Two new states to be admitted: one from Arizona and New Mexico territories and the other from Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Names tentatively Arizona and Oklahoma with New Mexico potentially gaining the capital location at Santa Fe or Albuquerque.
A Chinese opium and gambling joint is exposed in Ann Arbor, operated behind a Chinese laundry on Huron Street. Students and Chinamen from multiple towns frequented the place, with Sunday night gatherings drawing attention as gamblers and dope fiends used the rear alley to watch games through a window before rock-throwing closed the action.
Reports from multiple Indiana towns include S. P. Martindale found dead near Versailles. DeArmond and Seitz hotels changing hands in Greensburg. a brakeman hurt near Lafayette. a coal company organized at Bedford. a church hospital society formed in Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne street railway franchise delay. Evansville murder trial ongoing. Munice Welcomes new Carnegie Library head. Burlington-area farmer Andrew Carmichel dies. Tipton pastor replacement named. Franklin reorganizes its telephone company. Vincennes county council blocks informer’s fee judgment. Fort Wayne wife of electrical manager recalls diamonds hidden in room mirror.
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