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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
6
County officials approved a $400 contract with Jenkins & Davis to clean the court house skylights on scaffolding after bids were reviewed Tuesday morning. The work covers inner skylights deemed too dangerous for janitors while outer surfaces will be cleaned by the janitors, with work to begin soon.
In police court on Tuesday morning Prosecutor Holes filed charges against John Bunyan for drunkenness. Bunyan pleaded guilty and was fined one dollar plus costs by Judge Brabba, illustrating a trivial case in a surge of minor offences.
Representative Wilson on Tuesday introduced a bill to bar minors from bowling alleys and bar mitre. He argues that water rights in bowling alleys are not different from billiard or pool halls. A second bill targets memorial monuments defacement, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a $1000 fine. The Michigan supreme court upheld Wayne County Court on Bell Telephone Co liability in contracts related to Detroit Telephone Co absorption.
A vintage advertisement says a mother's poor health harms the baby and Scott's Emulsion nourishes and strengthens. It claims scanty or thin breast milk becomes richer and more abundant, helping thin babies grow and weak babies get strong. The ad emphasizes benefits to babies when mothers take the product.
London dispatch reports King Edward addressing Parliament from the throne. He says relations with all foreign powers remain friendly and notes negotiations over Venezuelan blockades, boundary disputes with Alaska, and arbitration. He cites reforms for the Ottoman provinces and gains in South Africa as satisfactory progress.
Alfred A. Howlett, a Syracuse millionaire and director in 13 city firms, celebrated his birthday by hosting a widows dinner. He invited 135 widows, decorum was formal, and a four piece orchestra performed with widows as waiters. He explained the idea grew from a prior small gathering and aimed to include all widows of his acquaintance.
Chicago, Feb 18 The shadow of Ben Mason’s looming departure from the senate hangs over the Waukegan post office as bags and pouches weigh two tons franked for delivery. Postmaster seeks swift relief as local mail delivery grinds to a halt. speculation runs wild over whether the senator mailed his library or other items, while Mason denies sending household effects by mail.
A satirical exchange unfolds on the house floor as Jackson Boyd of Putnam taunts Alva Bamberger of Marion County over disputes about public rubbish and reckless spending. Boyd’s speech provokes Bamberger’s negative vote imitation before Boyd’s name is called and he briefly responds amid escalating theatrics.
The arrest records show Percival Watts age 28, brother of Lanter Watts, detained after an alleged theft from Mrs Justo’s home in Illinois Street. Watts refused to eat, claiming he is starving himself, and is being held at the police station for medical examination. A separate note from Springfield reports the General Assembly urging the governor to appoint committees to collect aid for Finland and Sweden flood victims.
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Lafayette youths planned a store theft at Bisler's Sporting Goods. Two boys entered via the rear door during Sunday school time, taking a rifle, shotgun, revolvers, cartridges, and a cartridge belt while a lookout stood guard. The boys were arrested and property recovered. One carried a Sunday school leaflet. Bisler declined prosecution.
Police seek George Fink in the stabbing death of Henry Freese a young blacksmith. Freese died at Lincoln Hospital after being stabbed during a dispute with Fink over his wife saved by Henry Thacke and others. Fink fled and detectives pursuing him through the area.
A physician notes many hearty older men dine well on substantial meats rather than health foods. He cites Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe aid for digestion, improving appetite and comfort after meals. The tablets are advertised as non-bowel affecting and widely available from Maine to California.
The piece notes fears Massachusetts natives may vanish as births fall to two per thousand, with foreign-born women driving per-m other trends. It reports decreases across counties except Bristol Franklin Nantucket Worcester where births rose, and that male births still outnumber females though mortality reduces the male share.
An unknown man died when his foot was caught between a cattle guard and a rail on the Long Island Railroad yard in New York. About a score of laborers struggled to free him but were forced to back away as the express approached and the man was crushed.
The dispatches report diverse local items from Indiana towns. Updates include Chesterton dedicating new town halls at about 1500 dollars, Nobomo unknown, Zion debating immortality, Huntington reporting a wandering elderly woman found near Simpson, Richmond Grand Jury on alleged short weighing, deaths of Hannth Gause and Sir Oliver Fouts, Lafayette hosting grocers’ annual meeting with speakers Moors and Kalter, New Albany selling can to the poor after a severe storm, New Castle mass meeting urging defeat of a pumping bill, LaPorte unsound mind case of Mrs Auguste Brettin, Evansville snow melt concerns and transport disruption, Richmond municipal electric plant sale bid rejected, and a reference to Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Robert Humphrey reportedly tried to pass four counterfeit dollars Monday night at a Blake and Indiana saloon and was turned over to federal authorities. Patrolmen Going and Whin arrested him. source location of the fake currency is unknown.
In Muncie Indiana on February 1 members of 13bar unlenis work on plans for a later temple. It is suggested funds could be raised by making each member a stockholder in a company if the plan can be followed.
Lebanon Ind March 18 petitions favoring a new county courthouse are being prepared for circulation across the county, signaling early support for the project and potential leadership by local officials.
A leading Stfian resident recalls a cold True Snake Story where a Fili-wing snake is killed after a hunt. The expedition drags the carcass four and a half miles through snow to a factory and river, and the mate is found the next day at the original killing spot.
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