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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1908
Page
3
Work is going begging for laborers who cannot be secured. There is a shortage in Indianapolis due to farmers' encroachments with offers of higher pay. Indianapolis East company could use 260 laborers if it could obtain them.
Unsolved mystery at Akron as a submerged coffin shaped box is found in Tow Lake. Locals link it to the 3 year old Dan Johnson disappearance and possible murder. A bystander named Bitters tried to move the box. search efforts paused due to rough waters. Also reported: John Hindmarch reappears after 22 years in New Albany. Indianapolis steeple tack company incorporated with $18,000 capital. LaPorte fatal accident: father kills his young son, grief driving him toward insanity.
Stella Wood, 17, faced cruelty charges in juvenile court after testimony that she left her seven month old baby in an alley while she drank at a saloon. Witnesses described the child being bumped by a drunken man and the mother taking the infant to drink with men at the tables. Judge Stubbs sent Wood to the Home for the Friendless, opting to keep the child with its mother at a tender age.
El Reno Oklahoma July 13 Lieut general Miles rode 90 miles by horseback from Fort Bi to El Reno in eight hours with Capt Sayre of the eighth cavalry. Miles said he enjoyed the trip and recalled lunch with pack handlers south of the Canadian river. Also reported is Thomas Curl 11 struck by an ice cream wagon on Michigan street suffering head and leg injuries and taken to City hospital. wagon not located.
Frank Brotes, an American formerly of Mansfeld Ohio, writes U S minister Combes from Bolola Prison Guatemala after an Italian was wounded by his accidental shooting. He says he is mistreated, hungry, and sleeping on a stone floor, and asks for liberty. He claims the prison is infested with vermin and seeks aid.
Three more graves were opened at Union Chapel cemetery near Nora Indiana by Detectives Asch and Manning but failed to locate the body of Mien Carrie Selvage from a March disappearance. Suspect Rufus Cantrell may offer new information only if his sentence is shortened, as police press on with the case aided by the victim’s brother Joseph Selvage.
Mrs Blaine dies at age near 100 in Augusta Maine after three years of declining health. Widow of the late Mate Stalesman, she passed away Wednesday morning following a long illness.
The Indianapolis, Logansport and Chicago railroad asked the Board of Works for permission to enter the city. Charles X. Thompson presented the application. The plan outlines multiple tracks from city limits to Blike street and Drake to Market areas, ending at a Missouri and Washington streets passenger station. The board will consider the request and expects further details before deciding if the road is needed. The timetable suggested completion by December, 194. Fredericka Jule and QA Meyers spoke for the road.
A garbled Indiana page reports lycrophobia among cattle north of Indianapolis and a veterinary scare with Dr. Craig narrowly escaping harm. It also mentions Shively of South Bend, a veteran politician, in Indianapolis, plus state tax board talks with multiple traction firm reps and a Chicago grain update with July wheat and corn moves.
Mary Smith, a colored woman, is described as unable to stay away from the workhouse. Arrested Tuesday night at Ohio and Teledysts for profanity, she had just been released Monday after serving a long term and expressed a desire to return.
A chaotic incident at the Richmond Country Club involves aggressive snakes terrorizing players on the links. The melee ends with two men wounded and a third still unaccounted for, as witnesses report a five foot serpent and a frantic scene on the course.
July 15 report from Topeka shows harvest workers stranded by a wheat shortage. Many receive public aid while others are sent to southern and western counties where jobs exist. With little local work, men seek distant employment or relief.
New York July 15 Mary J Plerer aged 40, who weighed only 4 pounds, is dead. She was widely known as the smallest woman in the world.
Readable portions show Indianapolis markets for stocks, bonds, live cattle, hogs, sheep, and grain with fluctuating bids. Prices cover beef cattle, feeders, heifers, cows, calves, hog receipts and bids, sheep values, and Wheat Corn and Hay quotes from Chicago and Toledo exchanges with nearby futures activity.
An advertisement for Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root claims to cure kidney liver bladder and uric acid troubles with a sample bottle offer and a free pamphlet. It urges readers to mention the Indianapolis Sun and provides Binghamton New York address for orders.
New York and regional markets show mixed signals with gold export hopes and money tightening amid reports of Vanderbilt travel and International Mercantile Marine concerns. Farm prices in East Liberty and Cincinnati reflect varying cattle hog and sheep values as markets adjust to late spring demand.
Short note indicates a furnished front room for two gentlemen, location near 188 Lexington Avenue, with a late evening schedule and contact for leasing or inquiries.
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