This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
2
Folding through fall and winter weights shirts with distinct cuffs and coat styles. Regular prices from $1.00 to $1.50 discounted to 85c to 4.15, plus imported fancy half hose at 19c, cotton ribbed underwear and wool ribbed garments at reduced prices.
In the Indiana legislature a new rolltop desk arrives for M. S. Hastings, principal clerk of the house, without a request from him. Several senators and representatives discuss licensing for architects and other professions, mileage errors, and possible lobby influence as they push various bills.
The civil service schedule lists February exams to fill several posts. February 15 opens for a late printer in the bureau of engraving and printing with no educational test. applicants must declare four years of practical instruction. February 18 seeks an assistant engineer at the San Francisco quartermaster’s department aboard the steamer McDowell at 0800 a year. February 2 offers an electrician position at the San Co post office building at 1000 a year. A superintendent of industries is needed at Haskell at 900 a year.
Governor appeals for food supplies as Mon day disaster toll rises with possible Americans among the dead. Eight Americans reported missing, hundreds feared dead, Myrtle Bank hotel razed, 35 tour bureau staff among the dead. Looters, provost guards clash. relief efforts mobilized across Kingston with couriers to islanders.
A Knoxville contractor, W. J. Oliver, with Anson M. Bangs, bids to build the Panama Canal and says he will take the project even at a potential loss. Oliver, 39, a millionaire, is a “shirt sleeves” man who lived with construction gangs and favors American colored labor, with Bangs holding a one third share in the contract.
The Metzger case likely cannot be argued to a jury before Saturday due to multiple character witnesses. Defense witness J. J. Keegan stood firm under cross examination by M. M. Bachelder, while the chief witness for the defense described the events surrounding Officer Metzger and the arrest of Farrington.
Two severe earthquake tremors were felt at 5 o clock in the morning in Kuba within the Baku government area. The shocks were reported from Peters burg via the Scripps McRae Press Association.
The Indiana Engineers’ Society met at the Commercial Club Thursday afternoon with 122 engineers present. C. A. Kenyon was toastmaster at a Thursday night banquet at Denison Hotel for out-of-town members, with speakers including Charles C. Brown Prof. W. Ir. M. Goss W. D. Collins W. Sc. Hart D. B. Luten and H. C. Brubaker. On Friday the group visited Atlas Engine Works and other city manufactories.
City records note births for several families at addresses on N Capitol Avenue Beecher Vermont and Alvinord Streets and include marriages among Arthur Hoyt and Jessie Miller W R Margason and Edith Bishop Walter Burkhardt and Alyce Kiefaber Fred Stuerts and Anna Hahn Robt Coffy and Margaret Kinnan plus notable repairs and home additions with listed costs across Pennsylvania at Collexe Ave Richland near New York Street and Delaware Eden Place totals 2500 1500 8474 indicates a busy municipal record day.
Robert Castetter reports being held up and assaulted on New York street near New Jersey street Thursday night. He sustained a scalp wound and was knocked unconscious but says no money or valuables were taken.
Former Congressman John Winans died in Jonesville Wisconsin at age 76 after dying last night. The late public figure served in Congress and was a noted veteran and community leader.
In Chicago on January 18 a move by Typographical Union No 1s offers to aid M A Donohue Sons at 427 Dearborn St in rebuilding and producing delayed work after a fire. The offer aims to aid the employer without resolving the strike causes and may be accepted or rejected by the troubled firm.
Advertises discounted men wear including madras shirts with attached cuffs and pockets, linen collars in multiple styles, wool socks, suspenders, hose supporters, corsets with attachments, and ladies linen handkerchiefs. Mentions various prices and color options across items.
Indiana Republican Editorial Association opens its thirtieth annual session at the Claypool hotel amid discussions of car fare woes and fellowship. Harry Smith presided at the banquet with speakers Duncan Smith and Richard Henry Little. The session resumed Friday with Harry Smith’s address and a briefing on “Makeup” by Robert P. White.
H P Swaim of Bluffton Chronicle and Jay Smith of Seymour Republican spoke on profitable job printing for newspapers. Judson Fitzpatrick led a paper on country correspondents with Leo K Fessler and W B Maddock guiding the discussion. Afternoon focus shifts to securing advertising. Hood's Sarsaparilla promoted as a tonic.
An old health notice extolls medical progress from barber-surgeon era deaths to modern treatments. It highlights dyspepsia as common and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the universal remedy, claiming digestion support and cures for related ailments. The ad invites trial packs and lists price and address.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.