Berkshire Life Commission Expires June 11 1907
The document states the commission for the Berkshire Life expires on June 11 1907. It records a formal end date for the appointed term and notes the authority issuing the commission.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
3
The document states the commission for the Berkshire Life expires on June 11 1907. It records a formal end date for the appointed term and notes the authority issuing the commission.
Special to the Sum. Lillie Allen, famed Lowell mill girl and heiress, shipped promised wealth from Berlin after a fortune transfer. She left Lowell amid fanfare, pledging to write from Berlin, but since the departure no word has reached friends or family. Reporters traced her boarding house and hoped for news as searchers puzzled over her disappearance.
Norman Hackett of the Louis James company will deliver Shakespeare and His Haunts in the Metropolitan School of Music parlors at 4 a.m. February 8. Cards have been issued. limited seating to £42. admission by card only.
The new basement fire sprinkler ordinance, requiring automatic rotary nozzles with adjustable tips in basements of businesses, public buildings and hotels, faces constitutional questions over favored equipment and monopoly claims. Chief Coots and insurers dispute promised premium cuts, while many firms delay upgrades awaiting open competition. The measure mandates iron pipe not less than 2.5 inches and one nozzle per 4000 square feet, with a 90 day compliance window and a fine range of 310 to 100.
Park View Sanatorium advertises treatment for cancer skin uterine and rectal diseases by Dr. L. T. Leach with offices in New York and California stations.
A promoter claims the combination cures cancer and tumors and warns against imitators. Readers are urged to contact Dr. D. M. Bye at 316 Illinois Street Indianapolis Indiana for free books.
The People’s Coal and Cement Co takes over the Logsdon Bros Fuel business as Kingston advertises 614 whisky. Celery Vesce is described as harmless and a note offers ten free words in The Wan for three days.
Special from The Sun reports Alfred Llewellyn janitor at 1233 Second Ave in New York drunk and enraged attacked wife Agnes Llewellyn choking her while 11 year old son Alfred Jr tried to intervene. The boy seized a loaded revolver from a bureau and shot his father as the mother lay in danger. The father survived the wound and claimed accident. Police investigated as a family tragedy with ambulance and detectives on scene.
A father and son dispute ends with the boy shooting his father. Police arrest the boy for felonious assault after the wounded man says it was a mistake and pleads for mercy. Surgeons reveal the bullet entered the back and pierced the groin, causing a fatal wound.
Andrew Baker a Black man employed with a Beech Grove construction gang was instantly killed Wednesday night when he stepped in front of a Big Four switch engine near Beech Grove. The body was taken to the city morgue in the dispensary ambulance. Baker likely hailed from Hopkinsville Kentucky.
The Merchants and Manufacturers association of Indianapolis announces spring excursions for two meetings. The first runs Feb 1 to Feb 4 with return tickets at one and one third fare valid to Feb 4. The second meeting dates Feb 26 to March 4 offer return validity Feb 26 to March 7. Circulars outline rates and city advantages.
The long time resident Mrs Dena Mollenkamp Teepe died at home of her daughter Mrs J M Copeland and will be buried in a Trunday service at 2 pm at 3910 E Washington St. She was born in Linden Prussia June 19 1827 and came to Indianapolis as a child. Surviving are four children Mrs Elizabeth Gipe Herman George W H and Gustavus Teepe. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised to aid digestion.
Special to The Sun reports Kansas has abolished the death penalty for murder, replacing it with life imprisonment. Gov Hoch supports abolition, noting past governors would not sign death warrants, ending the risk of executions for 59 inmates including two women and well known prisoners like John Collins and Tom Dalton of the Dalton gang.
J H Green testified at a police court preliminary hearing that Thomas Sullivan and John Edgey were the men who held him up and beat several North-side residents last Monday. Green, bedridden since the assault, firmly identified the pair, and Michael Ryan could not refute his testimony. Acting Police Judge Wilkinson bound both defendants over to the grand jury with bonds set at $5,000 each.
Edward Majors was taken to City hospital January 19 after colliding with a street car at Senate avenue and Washington street. Delirium tremens developed and caused death. Coroner G. A. Petersdorf will investigate.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a painless, safe home remedy for piles. It claims instant relief and complete cure with a trial package mailed free, followed by a full-sized box for 50 cents. Readers urged to request the trial from Pyramid Drug Co. Marshall Michigan.
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