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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1902
Page
5
R T Reagin, superintendent of the vacant lots cultivation committee, touts 130 plots 50 by 16 feet each cultivated by charity workers. With favorable weather the 120 active plots are expected to yield about 86 dollars each, turning a $4 000 investment into productive acreage while teaching the poor essential gardening skills and ensuring daily oversight.
The piece describes a large hospital area with about 80 garden plots tended by a mix of Civil War veterans, widows, a factory worker and other residents. It notes yields, challenges, and plans to store summer crops in a charity cellar, while highlighting poverty near the hospital and individual stories of effort and toil.
John W. Sparks was jailed by Judge Leathers for three days after taking his seven year old son from his wife during a divorce dispute. Mrs Sparks had a prior injunction against Sparks interfering with her or the children. He claimed the boy boarded his buggy during a drive by the house.
In Vincennes Indiana on Monday Engineer Bowman of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train failed to see a stop signal amid heavy rain and, fearing a wreck, Bowman and his fireman jumped. Both sustained painful injuries as the signal warned of broken rails or washouts.
Gov Durbin orders CSI Wilson to apply whitewash to the state water bucket for a couple of weeks while he and his family tour the northwest. They plan to depart Tuesday with Mrs Durbin joining him. In Atlanta near Noblesville a new steel and tinplate mill valued at 250000 is to be formed with incorporation filed Monday. H B Hibben of Indianapolis sits among directors. State officials smile in anticipation of their quarterly salaries due Tuesday morning. William Roemsier, recently jailed after claiming to have smoked half a mixon cigarette, shows improved faculties and may be released Monday or Tuesday, police crediting confinement for the cure and say they have found a remedy for cigarette effects.
John Walter of 1130 Brookside Ave. was in a Saturday night crash aboard the Qtboune Broad Hippie car. He says he was thrown against the vehicle’s front and injured his neck, with more serious pain reported later.
An unsuccessful kidnapping attempt occurred in Vincennes Indiana as a stranger pried open a window beside 10 year old Ethel Paris daughter of George Paris on Sunday night. Officer reports say the assailant fled before seizing the girl.
A damaged fragment describes a kidnapping where a child was grabbed and the suspect fled. The text lacks clear details on location, identities, or outcomes and ends abruptly with the victim crying for help. No further clues are available in the readable portion.
In Grand Rapids a suit filed by Mrs. Mary Brooks seeks the return of $100 paid two years ago to Lewis Waldmiller a sylvanist who had promised to quiet trouble after Brooks planned to elope. Waldmiller later returned to his wife leaving Brooks without a family.
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