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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
5
A casual reader warns against coffee as a “poison” that harms the stomach and brain, predicting nervous prostration and paralysis. The remedy urged is to quit coffee and switch to Postum Food Coffee after thorough boiling for flavor and value.
An aged damask towel fragment, once part of a flag of truce at Fort Lee during the Vicksburg siege, is owned by Indiana Civil War veteran W. C. Phipps. The souvenir could confirm the fort’s name as Fort Lee rather than Square Fort.
A collage of rural curiosities and local notes, including writer Will Dixon’s Tennessee ballad, wart hoaxes, trains avoided by William Shie, a corn shredder accident fracturing Norman Blue’s hand, a dog bite incident, Venus of Milo mischief, Mishawaka births, a Washington printer’s 8739 mile trek, and plans for a Chicago bound Anderson window shade factory.
In Wilkesbarre Pa 80 year old Joshua Lamereaux was found unconscious at his wife Edith Simp son Lamereaux’s grave after a year of eating meals at the grave and living beside her. The couple married sixty years ago and never spent more than four hours apart. After Edith died suddenly a year ago he kept a lunch basket and spent every day at her grave until he collapsed.
The Indianapolis Sun grows as Indiana a daily, bold in criticizing wrongs wherever seen. A Salem Democrat notes its plain speaking style andTruthful column on the farmer's son and the city appears in today's Democrat.
Newark mourns as John B. Riordan, ill at his home, speaks of being with twin brother Joseph at 7 tomorrow. Joseph died at 7 this morning six years ago, the twins born at 7 a.m. The vision reportedly foretold the moment of Joseph's passing, leaving watchers convinced of a supernatural link.
Louis Price, midtown Brooklyn jeweler, saw two men outside his shop watching his display as crowds passed. One man used a wire hook to pull rings through a hole in the woodwork, escaping before police arrived. Jewelry worth 1100 dollars was stolen.
The piece describes rumors of Fred Joss for Congress linked to Charles N. Elliott, with Elliott supporters denying the tale. It notes a heated coroner race with Dr. Brayton, Dr. Dunlavy, and a possible fourth candidate, plus factional fights among the Smith, Elliott, and Ward 14 camps and doubts about judges and secretary posts. William Bosson is touted as an independent circuit judge contender amid ring tensions.
A man recounts a past marriage to a cold, beauty marked by wealth and social praise. His wife, initially silent, reveals she loved him from the start and faced a plan by others to use her for money.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription claiming it strengthens weak or sick women and restores health. It cites a 40 pound weight gain example and includes a testimonial from Mrs Edwin H Gardner of Beechwood Mass. The ad notes additional products and offers free Common Sense Medical Adviser with a request for 21 one cent stamps.
An old advertisement touts Omega Oil as a superior liniment with a pleasant smell. It claims the oil is a pure vegetable base not turpentine or ammonium and includes four ingredients including a green herb that stops pain.
J H Weber Cascade Iowa, a leading druggist, endorses Cham berlain's Stomach & Liver Tablets noting repeat sales. He urges trying them for dullness after meals, bad taste, biliousness, loss of appetite, or constipation and promises prompt relief. For sale by all druggists.
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