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A compact notes listing prices and years shows a July clearance entry with figures 88 cents 41 to 38 and a price range of 1.95 to 2.50 year.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1907
Page
2
A compact notes listing prices and years shows a July clearance entry with figures 88 cents 41 to 38 and a price range of 1.95 to 2.50 year.
About 175 residents packed the Board of Trade room to hear Linton A. Cox argue Indianapolis may buy the entire Indianapolis Gas plant under an 1887 ordinance after a six month notice. Prof. J D Forrest outlined a cheap campaign to back Citizens' Gas with stock sales and canvassing led by local business supporters.
A Tuesday campfire at Tomlinson hall drew many veterans though not all attended. Robert B. Brown of Zanesville spoke on Civil War causes and fighting, praising veterans as rebuilders of the Union. Also speaking were Vice President Fairbanks, Albert Baker, Judge Joseph W. O'Neal, and Maj. J. M. Ostrander.
Special to The Sun. Hammond July 24. John Sells was on a three story building when a hoist struck him. He was knocked to the ground and a skull fragment was driven into his brain. He is expected to die.
Indianapolis coal dealers warn of rising costs with forecasts of $9 per ton for hard coal this winter, citing higher wages feed and supply challenges. They urge preorders while noting a 1 to 50 cent jump over last summer and describing difficulties faced by small dealers against a rumored but disputed coal “combine.”
Joseph Foppiano, city market master, issued an order July 17 requiring all lunch stands in the market to close on non market days. He says the move is not political, but aims to curb theft and reduce foot traffic from outsiders. The policy aligns with a long standing market rule limiting stall sales to market days.
United Press reports Santo Domingo congressmen raised their own salaries and those of the president and cabinet following U.S. lawmakers. The president’s pay jumps to 3 500 from 7 2, with substantial increases for department secretaries, congress members, and all government officials.
James B. Duke head of the American Tobacco Company marries Mrs. Wanaline Holt Inman of Atlanta in a discreet ceremony at 210 St. John's Place Brooklyn. The couple depart for a honeymoon at the Duke country home in Somerville New Jersey after the wedding. The bride’s son Walter Inman and other family were present. The romance followed Duke's divorce from his first wife Nanaline Holt Inman née Inman of Macon Georgia.
George B. Ross former manager of the New Southern hotel and Chicago Athletic Club member died by his own hand last night in his club house apartments. The body, found this morning, shows a bullet wound behind the right ear. Authorities believe he was despondent over failed business propositions.
United Press reports the Marengo post office was robbed last night of about $1,000 in stamps money orders and cash plus $400 belonging to deputy postmistress Miss Annie Turner.
A Brown County farmer visited Indianapolis during a city crackdown on pure food law violators. Signs reading We Serve Skimmed Milk and We Serve Butterine appeared in several eateries, prompting the farmer to joke that Indianapolis residents demand elaborate labeling for everyday products.
C W Fairbanks 1522 N Meridian st delivers a patriotic address at the Morton statue unveiling after climbing to a press table. A stenographer records his remarks as he notes his absence from a formal speech yet speaks of representative government and monuments.
Rail executives from New York Central Erie Pennsylvania Jersey City Lackawanna Delaware and Hudson New Haven Hartford Boston and Maine Baltimore and Ohio and Seaboard Air Line meet to study a two cent a mile passenger rate. Central leads in favor while Pennsylvania opposes seeking data on financial effects and potential legislative impacts.
Florence Gray, 20, is in police custody charged with the murder of her sweetheart Frank Brown in Michigan City Indiana. After a quarrel at her home she shot Brown as he mounted the stairs and then attempted suicide. She is reported to recover.
In Danville Illinois on July 24 Dominiko Journo was fined $10 and costs for burying his friend Jacob Jerokibo in consecrated ground during the priest’s absence. He was ordered to exhume and relocate the body at once from the Catholic cemetery at Westville nearby.
In Evansville Indiana on July 2 a 12 year old girl named Hattie Compton was attempting to cross in front of a street car when she was struck and fatally injured.
Five survivors of the Mexican War stood on the statehouse steps for the Morton Monument unveiling. Three men from Company D, Fifth Indiana volunteers, are the regiment’s sole survivors: James H. Carr Jerry Hendren and Robert Smith of Greenfield. Others present include S. C. Downey and Gen. George E. McGinnis, who served in different regiments. Colonel J. H. Lane led the regiment. Carr noted they followed Scott into Mexico and remained there throughout the conflict.
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