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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
6
A sensational claim proclaims ARACtion cures tuberculosis or consumption. The notice promises a free package to prove the cure, prepaid, to any reader who writes, claiming skeptics can be convinced and that those previously written off as dying have recovered.
A sensational ad proclaims Dr D P Yonkerman of Michigan as discoverer of tuberculo zyne the only cure for consumption. It promises free treatment and a genuine cure supported by state officials and world doctors, urging readers to write for a free trial package without delay.
Portable obituary run features Fields dead Portland Bedford Lemona dead Fort Wayne Ash badly hurt in a runaway. Young America mock company forming for drilling. Bluefton Haylett severely injured. Laporte Sorreon charged after fatal stabbing in saloon brawl. Ruberville Addison sold to Jones, plans move to Indianapolis. Young America Frank Brown charged with theft from Jacobson. Mount Vernon council grants Evansville Mount Vernon traction a one year franchise. Lafausatte Hileman whipped, charged with neglect of family. Valparaiso Skinner and Ethel Windle quietly married. Elwood fire damages meter and factory, several buildings damaged by smoke. Washington Seneff shot by Fields, may die. Laporte Kid Hennessey arrested on warrants for fraud and prize fighting. Columbus National Machine Co preparing plant. G W Caldwell elected president. Vincennes streetcar company bonds. improvements funded. Kokomo Ea Burger patents coal stove. claimed 50 percent fuel savings. Columbus canning plant expansion due to tin can trust. Marion county builds new jail contract let to Champion Iron Co. sheriff’s residence bid rejected. Bloomington founders day at Indiana University draws large crowd with speeches by Shively Lindsey Swain Boyle and Brown. Bedford William Stark sues Wilbur Mack stock company for color-based denial of entry. Bloomington Samuel Payne licensed to marry Hattie Lewis faces hostility issues.
A patchwork of brief notes reports arrests over perjury in age swearing, estates in London, street paving changes, subsidies to county firms, stock trades and impending price moves. Also listed are legal actions, separations, smallpox vaccination impacts on local gambling houses, and minor accidents involving traction companies and individuals.
The Practitioners' society of the Orange, a group of physicians and surgeons, has prepared a blacklist of people who do not pay their medical bills. The list targets those unable to pay, while noting the field is mostly well to do individuals who choose not to settle.
Loganport Ind Jan 22 Judge D D Dykeman will go to New Mexico to look on the estate of J H Tucker who recently died leaving his wife Mrs Anna Tucker sole heir to mines said to be worth a large sum
Marion Indiana January 2 Filipas McKinney has suffered hiccoughs for a week and is near death from exhaustion as the attack wears on. Citizens report the affliction began after a flighty incident and the loud sound echoes through the attic area.
Mrs Florence Brown wife of Rev Charles Stewart Brown a Protestant Episcopal city mission chaplain signed a contract to sing in vaudeville in Brooklyn. She will appear as Mlle Florence Halliday in church surplice then a Spanish costume number and dance to fund her 11 year old son's education amid criticism over a minister’s wife on the stage. She says money justifies the act and her husband supports it.
Capt. Francia Marion Schell famed scout and plainsman who aided a sick woman by carrying her 50 miles to safety during the 1849 gold rush era. A former army veteran, trader, hotelier, and public official in California, he died after a storied career spanning Missouri to Washington.
Lumber dealers continued their meeting at the Grand hotel. The Central association of traveling lumber, flash and door salesmen elected officers Wednesday morning: President Rawson Gribb of Indianapolis, Vice President Edward Ferhan of Dunville, Secretary-Treasurer John Oxenford.
ANDERSON Ind Jan 22 American steel and wire company negotiates for one independent plant at Kokomo. If secured the trust will face no opposition in Indiana. The move aims at purchasing the large independent plants that have risen across the country in the past three years.
A sensational anatomy feature touts Barnum type stomachs and claims a dyspepsia cure with Blood Wine. It pictures abnormal stomachs and promises digestion help, vitality, and kidney cleansing. testimonials from Everett and New York users are cited along with a free blood test offer from Worcester.
Robert Farnham, a Erie railroad woman worker from Susquehanna Pa, traveled to Cortland to marry Blanche Fuller of DeRuyter but could not find a clergyman or official willing to perform for fifty cents. He offered thirty cents to a minister who refused, then to Mayor Brown who declined, and a city judge also refused. The couple returned home to Susquehanna.
Photographe offers a $2.00 special. Clark promotes rates for commercial clients. Between Indianapolis and Springfield dining and sleeping car services listed by J. & W. There is an old nurse advert and Mia Winslow's soothing syrup for teething and diarrhoea relief priced at twenty five cents.
Through sleepers via Pennsylvania Lines Big Four route and G H L and D railway in connection with Chicago and Florida special. Double daily service to St Augustine. Through sleepers to New Orleans from Cincinnati. Write for Florida book at WC Rearson GPA Cincinnati. A Guarantee with SUN liners. Office 171-133 E Ohio.
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