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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
6
Old rheumatism catarrh and bone pains are treated as a poisoned blood condition. The ad promotes Botanic Bloom Balm B B to destroy poison, cure worst rheumatism or foulest catarrh, heal itching boils blisters and sores, and restore healthy blood for a rich glow of health.
An unsigned advert touts Blood Balm Botanic Blood Balm as a universal cure, claiming to heal cancer sores, persistent pimples, swollen glands, and pains. It asserts 30 years of testing, boosts kidneys and stomachs, and offers mailing options from Indianapolis stores Hoder's Pharmacy.
A farmer market view notes eggs show tentative price stability with some improvement in receipts, though cold weather could curb demand and push prices down. Dealers report limited supply of imported eggs, a few cases entering market, and looming seasonal pressure as the season ends. Shippers currently offer twenty six cents per egg.
E. E. Springer, freshly elected president of Kokomo National Bank, once an express wagon driver, found a package containing 410.0% in the bank office night. He hid the money in an old reaper in an alley and later summoned A. H. Hunt, the agent, to handle it.
In Corvallis Oregon on January 14 authorities report a mob from across Tann County captured and dragged men from Beach to a settler area where they were stripped and subjected to fearsome humiliation. Henry Wortham the druggist supplied restraints and tripentine as preparations for further punishment.
Francis W. Homans of Gloucester gives his large city business to the city for the benefit of several institutions. Three ministers of different denominations are named trustees to carry on the business as Homans endowed Ice Company. The will directs ice by kept at 0 per ton as long as possible.
Ten year old George Mauvelt told truancy officials that he preferred being with boys and ran away with them. His mother Anna Johnson clung to him and said he was incorrigible, fearing he would slip away. He described a fractured family, the death of his father, and his desire to live with him. He later rejoined the boys, then vanished again as police joined the search.
In Kansas City on January 4 Miss Hattie Bergner sought the world neckwasher championship by aggressive neck cleaning with hot water soap and elf en grease. She displaced four vertebrae, fainted, and was hospitalized after doctors reset her neck and applied a plaster cast. She is expected to recover in a few weeks.
Baltimore January 14 plans of Democratic leaders to disfranchise Negroes are nearly ready though legislature will test sentiment before formal presentation as a bill. A constitutional convention would draft a new framework excluding the franchise clause modeled on the Virginian Plan, favored for its supposed fit to Maryland conditions and lessons from Virginia’s history.
An old promotional piece touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for women’s ailments and nervous distress. It argues mothers guide toward virtue, promotes consulting a physician, and cites medical authority from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo. It urges women to seek specialized care and promises confidential advice and cures for female weakness and related disorders.
Pang King, confined at the city hospital with a broken ankle, refuses to allow nurses to comb his hair. He keeps a fine long queue and insists on caring for it himself. May Kee and May Sing offer no reason for his peculiarity, Moy Sing says he would not object if someone else combed his hair.
The body of Elmer Uponer, a student at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, was found under a fire escape. He appeared to have attempted suicide by hanging, but the rope broke and he fell three stories to the ground. A second rope was seen suspended from the escape.
Hundreds of workers in Elwood Indiana faced sudden unemployment as local glass factories shut down. Special trains along the Panhandle and L E W railroads carried away workers in a mass departure that resembled an industrial exodus.
Marion man Hugh Mebor ough, an Ing, has devised a device enabling small items to be handed to train crews while trains run. The invention allows deliveries without slowing or stopping at stations, removing the need to slacken speed.
In Reymour Indiana on January 11, engineer George Kramer mistook a light for the headlamps of another train and leaped from his engine. He was struck by a coal pile and dragged, both legs amputated and internal injuries deemed fatal.
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