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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1902
Page
5
Royal Baking Powder uses a corps of chemical experts to test every ingredient and supervise manufacture to ensure a pure wholesome product. It claims to produce the most wholesome and most digestible food.
Lebanon Indiana reports the Catholic congregation nearly completes a $15000 church building begun after a $ town drive. Cornerstone laid November 3 drew trains from Indianapolis and Lafayette. Meanwhile plans for a $20000 Church of the Disciples face a split led by W O Darnall and H N Coons over north and south site options. Rev A J Frank as new pastor pacifies tensions as Rev Demetrius Tilleston travels. The town prides itself on moral influence of churches, with choirs and leaders shaping social life while a few saloons comply with the law.
Shelbyville, Ind. accepted Andrew Carnegie s 15000 offer for a new library and the city will match 10 percent annually for maintenance. A site opposite the high school was purchased while the interurban railway project draws public interest and potential routes through the public square toward J M I station and Greensburg connection.
Moe Fong, a Japanese girl, and her cousin Kong Fong flee a court decree that aims to separate them. After a perilous journey to the palace and an enticement by the mikado, they plan escape by carriage and board an English ship bound west, leaving behind Yong Fong and their homeland.
The article notes Harry E. Negley denying probate commissioner hopes if James Pritchard is chosen for circuit judge. Four candidates, Linton A. Cox, Larz Whitcomb, Joe Minturn, William P. Reagan, contend with party ring influence. Voters worry about the Marion Morgan joint senatorial slate and convention control amid opposition to the ring.
Voters discuss the sheriff race and county posts as six year county commissioner earns 2200 yearly pay. Henry Klausmann may seek renomination as surveyor while Bert Johnson looms as a candidate. Weather and turnout influence primaries on March 34 with Indianapolis ring politics and court house crowd dynamics noted.
Boston February 12 Prof Wood of Harvard Medical School develops a serum test to identify human blood. Rabbits are inoculated with human serum for weeks and then mixed with dissolved stain samples. Precipitation confirms human blood, aiding the Greenleaf murder investigation where animal blood showed no precipitate.
The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, former governor general of Canada, died at 6 25 o clock on Wednesday morning in London.
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