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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1902
Page
7
A nostalgic reminiscence on brass bands captivating children in city and country parades. A lawyer reflects on happiness, childhood dreams, and the Power of music learned at country picnics and old settlers gatherings. The piece centers on memory, family, and the emotional pull of band performances.
Samuel Stevenson amends his suit against John Alexander Dowie in Chicago claiming constructive fraud while dropping direct fraud accusations. He seeks 178000 dollars and an interest in Zion lace industries, and now endorses Dowie as a righteous man with divine healing power.
Washington January 24 American sugar interests testified before the house ways and means committee. J D Hill planter New Orleans charged the American sugar trust backs the drive to cut Cuban sugar duties. He said Cuba does not need help and can compete with the world while the South asked no concessions after the war.
William J Charlton, a former Union terminal fireman, spent days immobilized on a hospital bed with a plaster cast linking his leg to his body while surgeons grafted skin to heal a years-old leg wound. After a 12 hour operation and subsequent dressings, he reports progress and hopes for a full recovery. Charlton endured two years of daily wound care and months of limb injury recovery after his arm was amputated.
President Theodore Roosevelt accepted honorary membership in a New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick lodge. The letter to the society, written in a humorous misfired Irish style, jokes about home rule for Ireland and notes Roosevelt’s thanks and acceptance as an advertiser or honorary member.
In Knoxville Tennessee on January twenty four, Congress may be urged to pass a special law for Nancy Jones, one of the four remaining Revolutionary War widow pensioners. She says Uncle Sam should do more for them, having married Darling Jones, a revolutionary veteran, and bearing a son William who also served in the federal army. Mrs Jones believes she is about ninety, with a long memory of her late husband’s adventures and Indian hunts. A brief ad for Dean's Ointment promotes eczema relief at fifty cents.
Washington Jan 24 The house agriculture committee finished considering the oleomargarine issue and sent a favorable subbill report. It retains the Great bill provisions taxing colored oleomargarine at ten cents per pound and uncolored at a quarter of a cent. The rest of the text includes unrelated ads and notices about Burdock Blood Bitters and piano prices.
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