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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1902
Page
6
D M Elliott predicts rapid changes in mail handling over the next decade with widespread home delivery, twice-daily town service, and swift transport by electric cars and trains. He envisions a larger Indianapolis, automated box collection, and night mail on passing streetcars, transforming efficiency and reach of the postal system.
The official season to begin in Washington with Mrs. Roosevelt and the cabinet likely hosting morning calls from 11 to 4. Diplomatic corps and unofficial society will call. Miss Alice Roosevelt’s Jan 3 ball looms as a premier event. Rumors link Senator Clark to Miss Marian Cockrell, Missouri heiress who christened the battleship Missouri.
William Ware born 1833 on the Norwood estate in Kentucky, recounts brutal master, sale on a Madisonville block, and escape via the underground railroad. He describes buying freedom on New Year’s Day 1857, later working on a steamboat and at Windsor Canada, now a Denison hotel porter in Indianapolis.
An old saying notes pain names vary by doctors but the pain remains. Omega Oil is advertised to stop pain everywhere from neck to feet and claims widespread use with many bottles sold. The copy states Omega Oil puts out pain like water puts out fire in a house and praises its usefulness as a general liniment.
William Sturgen gives notice to voters in Fourth ward Center township Marion county Indiana that he will apply at the February 1902 term to the county commissioners for a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in less than five gallons to be consumed on the premises. The business is in a room facing east at the southwest corner of Indiana avenue and Blake street on the first floor of a two story brick building on lots 1 and 17 in the P and I railroad sub of the east part of lot 158, known as 82 Blake street in ward 4.
Dennis Wilson seeks a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises consumption. The request goes to the Marion County Board of County Commissioners at the February 1992 term. The business sits at 220 S McCrea St in Ward 10, Indianapolis Center Township Morris sub sq 87.
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