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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1909
Page
4
Advertises hats priced down to 2.75 with 15.00 hats at reduced rates and notes trimmings will last another season. Also lists bath mats 18c, foulards 1.00 at 38, fabrics 24 inches wide and 63c yard, black chiffon panama 44 inches at regular 85c, plus various gray grounds and spunglass at 10c. Located on the 2nd floor center aisle.
White goods 18c India Meen at 12c. Checked and striped Indian linen for shirt waists and children's dresses 27 inches wide. Be percale at 18c. Popular material for tailored waists 36 inches wide. $1.25 linen sheeting at 88c. All linen used for suits shirts waists. 2nd floor east aisle.
A dated appeals piece urges starting a savings habit with a strong company. It notes time passing and future changes in happiness and wealth, urging readers to place earnings in a weekly or monthly savings account. Financial figures show capital and surplus contrasts.
Russian refugee Christian Rudowitz was released after Secretary Root declined extradition. Deputy Griffith read the State Department letter at the jail, freeing Rudowitz who returns to his job at a West Pullman car repair shop.
Douglas Hamilton of Urbana Illinois arrived in Indianapolis seeking Silvia Hamilton his 14 year old daughter who ran away from home. He searched with police but could not locate her. Friends said she told them she planned to come to Indianapolis.
An unclear snippet notes Benjamin Guggenheim, described as one of the Guggenheim brothers, being elected to a national steam board or related body. The fragment references his status among the Guggenheim family and a possible election in progress.
Lawyers for Elma Dare Dodsworth filed a long motion for a new trial in Greenfield Indiana after Judge Mason ruled she was not legally married to George Rhodius of Indianapolis. The motion contains 164 clauses and no date for argument is set yet.
Members of the Indianapolis Bowling association meet at the Marion club at 3 p m Sunday to arrange attendance at the national bowling meet in Pittsburg the last of February. Four or five local teams expected. delegates to the congress will be selected with no contest for spots.
City notices list births for James and Edith Scott at 904 Concord Street a boy. Harry and Beatrice Bailey at 91 Eugene Street a girl. Garvey and Ethel Willams at 1073 W Twenty seventh Street a girl. Austin and Teres Myers at 1638 Hoyt Avenue a girl. Casella and Casella at 45 Blake Samuel and Hazel Stuard at 142 Astor Oliver and Carrie Cubert at 1016 S West. Gruder and Jennie at 452 Holton Place a boy. Deaths include Hannah Barth age 58 at 524 N Shefield Avenue intestinal tuberculosis. Mary Bushong age 71 at 1517 Olney Street mitral insufficiency. Nora Berkley age 2 at City Dispensary carbolic acid poisoning. John E Bastus Jr age 3 days at 2454 Prospect Street valvular insufficiency. Catharine Hafner age 70 at 216 N Blackford Street chronic nephritis. Edith Ward age 30 at 1000 W McCarty Street pulmonary tuberculosis. Albert Strausburg age 36 at 1444 W Thirty Third Street lobar pneumonia. Building permits show Charles A Helm 70 Colorado frame house 1200. Frank Schupert 527 G Minnesota addition 200. Mrs H M Van Horn 51 Lexington addition 215. S L Each 1646 Talbott two story house 4000. Henry Balman Singleton house and barn 700. Thomas Mann 1040 Gale frame house Life for Train Robber sentence: George Frankhauser sentenced to Leavenworth for life.
Indiana hogs see lower prices with receipts down from week ago and year ago. Hog top at 6.55. most sales 6.30 to 6.85. Cattle trade active with gains 0 to 5 percent. sheep and lambs sold steady to strong. News notes mixed demand near local killers and market details listed for steers, cows, calves, and hogs.
Cattle receipts were light as market quotes drifted. Peak Extra prime cattle traded around 6.10 to 6.25 with fair to good fat cattle around 4.68 to 5.85, and common cattle weaker. Hogs receipts about 20 loads kept market steady with heavy and prime ranges around 6.35 to 6.60. Sheep and lambs saw light receipts with prime wethers near 5.10 to 6.25 and lambs 5.00 to 7.50.
Cattle receipts reach 30,000 with prices weaker and lower across categories. Feeder and stocker values show modest declines while prime cattle and heifers trade near mid range. Pigs and other livestock volumes appear lighter with mixed demand noted.
Nonsensical OCR fragment mentions court or courtly action with unclear names and dates. Readable items are too limited to identify a clear event, person, or organization for a proper summary.
Irregular activity marked the early trading session as some stocks rose while others fell under moderate selling pressure. New York Central slipped while Denver led in specialties. Brooklyn Rapid Transit fluctuated and later weakened. Trading remained thin with fractions of losses across major issues.
The United Mine Workers convention continued resolutions on local field conditions in anthracite and bituminous districts. Tellers delaying election results to Friday morning mean business may extend to mid next week. A poultry show moves to German House. Rumors claim John Walker may contest if Lewis is re-elected. The body opposes arrest and extradition of political prisoners in America and demands release of Rudowitz and Pouren.
An eighty year old mother of Charles Hine, his widow, and his three daughters attend the Underwood trial in Indianapolis as jury selection proceeds. Prosecutor Hooton alleges Underwood kicked Hine after a dispute at Moore Packing on August 20, 1908. defense counsel Henry Spaan notes self defense as Underwood and wife sit nearby. Jury selection stretches as many report illness or work conflicts. twelve regular panelists are seated.
The coroner probes the death of Mrs. James Jackson who relied on divine healing and died at home without medicine on Shelby and Holiday streets. Six witnesses testified including two of her faith. James Jackson said she believed God would raise her and refused medical care. A niece named Mabel Callahan described her aunt knocking for help.
Nashville Tenn Jan 8 The third sensation in the Carmack murder trial comes as Juror Jim Leigh is removed by Judge Hart after charges of drunkenness and bias. The attorney general seeks a warrant against Leigh while Whitworth’s dismissal was sought for health reasons. The panel now stands at seven jurors.
A Carmel Indiana pastor and a woman in St Louis describe leaving homes for love. They sought forgiveness from families, but were arrested after returning to face consequences. The man, now jailed, says he will beg his wife’s forgiveness and awaits action from her relatives. The pair used aliases and lived at Delmar Avenue.
In Albuquerque New Mexico Charlotte Ewing Van Eman Jr a member of a wealthy Philadelphia family was granted divorce from her husband citing brutal treatment habitual drunkenness nonsupport and financial squander. They married in 1906 and the decree noted circumstances of the split.
Market notes show mixed prices for wheat corn oats and hay with several through billing and inspection figures. Wheat No 2 red steady at 12.07 while other grades range 1.03 to 1.08. corn white and mixed prices vary from about 59 to 64 cents. oats range from 51 to 52 cents. hay and rye prices listed with small movement. Inspections list multiple cars in and out by grade and type.
East Buffalo N Y January 3 cattle receipts show 50 head with light demand. Veal receipts 150 with active steady market and prices from 6.00 to 7.96 per hundredweight. Lamb receipts slow. yearlings 68 with steady to firm values. wethers around 8.25 and mixed sheep. Hog receipts 2 400 slow and lower. kettle of Yorkers and sows quoted near 5.
Fragmentary OCR text notes Toledo grain trade with references to May and prices around five dollars. Mentions R-Wh anh and Bioawe pers with unclear context. no clear event or outcome emerges.
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