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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1907
Page
5
Special to The Sun reports New York's Grandma Ella Marks aged 114 attributes long life to tobacco. She smokes a pipe for 50 years and serves as a shamieste performing wedding blessings, counting over 1,000 couples, with seven children and a 78 year old eldest.
Errick Thurston bulks at a broken courtship as his mother blocks a marriage to Sybil Knight. Dora Cavendish reveals a web of deceit by Mrs. Cavendish to trap Errick into an engagement. Dora agrees to wed Errick once free from the meddling plot. Sybil learns she has been fooled, and the family shifts to accept Dora as a daughter-in-law.
A P T Pierce advertisement discusses public demand for medicines with known ingredients. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets, claims endorsements from medical writers, and offers free pamphlets detailing components and benefits. The notice touts a large free distribution of promotional copies.
A vast lake of quicksilver covering over three acres was found high in Vera Cruz mountains. Depths reach ten to sixty feet with surface partially strewn with stones. Indigenous people reportedly knew of it for generations. Believed to have formed from volcanic action melting cinnabar ore, a tunnel is planned to extract the silver by gravity.
A survey notes royal fascination with motor cars as many European and Asian leaders including the German Emperor, King Edward, the Italian and Spanish kings, the Belgian monarch, the czar, Portugal’s king, the Dutch queen, and the shah of Persia are described as car enthusiasts and collectors with varying fleet sizes.
Hon Dustin Sands leads a Water Wagon event with music and a moving pictures tribute to Pierpont Morgan and E H Harriman. The parade plan divides riders into three classes A B and C with jokes about lifelong walkers and drivers and a quip about hotel trains and railroad bosses.
Washington report on the Pure Food law taking effect yesterday. Secretary Wilson says the act will curb fake foods and drugs, require proper labels, and protect buyers. It targets alcohol and narcotics. violations bring heavy fines or imprisonment. blenders protest imitation whisky labeling.
Charles S. Fairchild, 64, once secretary of the treasury, is indicted as Wall Street reacts to the insurance inquiry. Once a Cleveland administration official and banking figure, he heads the New York Security & Trust Co and holds charity posts.
In convention the Illinois teachers decide resolutions won t yield laws and plan to renew the teachers certificate fight this winter. They seek higher school taxes in some areas and appoint a five member committee under superintendents to monitor the legislature.
Mrs Alice Duer Miller asserts New York’s inhospitable reputation is undeserved as residents are preoccupied with many interests. She argues strangers will meet locals only when those strangers gain chances to engage with people they wish to meet.
The Crown Princess Victoria Louise of Germany and her son Prince William received the most gifts in the empire totaling about 200000 dollars. Prince William’s gifts reached 90000 dollars. The baby’s diamonds and gold plate from relatives added 19000 dollars. Toys for the prince were 35000 dollars and the Kaiser gifted a palace valued at 60000 dollars.
Old pewter items are in vogue with women digging through family vaults. A soda bath and sand soap polishing bring out luster, though some favor a dulled finish that shows years in the family.
A training school for elephants operates at Api in the Congo state with 28 elephants taking lessons. The training has yielded encouraging results.
The article notes Washington residents favor an early dinner around five o'clock, a practice long prevalent despite larger cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco adopting later meals. Hotel and restaurant staff accommodate early seating, while government work hours would need extension to shift dining times.
Mrs. Rigby of Flatbush New York drenched a crew with a garden hose to stop workers digging on her yard. She summoned a foreman, protested the intrusion, and the telephone company relented permitting the work with a pledge to consider underground wiring.
Queen Alexandria prizes her engagement ring above all jewels. The ring is set with a beryl emerald ruby topaz jacinth and emerald, and the initial letters form the name by which her husband is known in the family.
A local ad promotes Smierus dining option served between 11 a m and 2 p m. The notice invites patrons to try a different dinner selection with a focus on casual midday service at 489-41 Illinois Street.
An editorial note discusses Germany having a higher birth rate than England, attributing it to tall, well made women versus shorter stockier types. It mentions specialists labeling the German woman as degenerate, while acknowledging differences in appearance between the two nations. Scrofula, ew wi.
An old hematite ore pit system in Lehigh County, abandoned after the 19th century panic, has become a thriving, though risky, fishery. A boy's crate of sunfish led to secret stocking of bass and perch, with pits now teeming with fish and some owners planning seasonal fishing leases.
The North American Review article on woman suffrage notes that capable women voted and were not deterred. Miss Alice Henry suggests a motto of hope with cautious action and argues the ballot should come gradually for women.
In South Bend Indiana after a quarrel between their wives Joseph Schultz and Stephen Stochowski dueled with pistols. Stochowski was fatally wounded Schultz is jailed.
Special to The Sun reports Dolly Smith was accidentally shot in Hammond Indiana yesterday by her half brother. The incident details remain unclear as authorities investigate the mishap.
In Merom Indiana on January 2, women from the Law and Order league raided Ott Hosman’s saloon. They demolished doors and windows, spilled liquor, and forced men to flee through back room windows. They accuse the saloonkeeper of violations of the law.
General Manager Emmons of the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company said wages for conductors and motormen in Logansport Lafayette Penn and Wabash were raised yesterday by one cent an hour to 19 cents for old regular men. The scale scales down to 16 cents for new recruits.
Burglars ransacked five south side homes yesterday morning in Fort Wayne. The heaviest loss was at D. N. Foster’s residence where $150 worth of European souvenir silverware was stolen. A savings bank was taken from Clinton Wilson’s home.
Peoria January 2. Grandmaster John J. Hanrahan of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen issues an ultimatum to EB Harriman. If no immediate reply is received, a strike will be called on the Illinois Central Union Pacific Chicago and Alton Baltimore Ohio Oregon Short Line Kansas City Southern and all Southern Pacific lines not already affected.
Notice announces commissioners appointed to receive applications and premium notes for a Mutual Fire Insurance company to be named Metal Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Indianapolis Indiana. Books open January 2, 1977 at office Traction Terminal building rooms 702 to 704 North Illinois Street. GG HANCH serves as signer.
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