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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1909
Page
3
Kellogg announces a free one dollar fat reducer box to every fat sufferer. Send name and address with 10 cents as proof of good faith to cover postage and receive a prepaid dollar value package by return mail. F J Kellogg 2543 Kelloggs Bidg Battle Creek Mich. NOTICE.
In Columbus Indiana on July 30 Bessie Gibson wife of James Gibson and William Wilson eloped on foot toward Louisville. They were arrested, brought back and jailed. Earlier the couple had eloped again and Gibson filed for divorce but she returned before the decree and they resumed housekeeping.
J S Woodard and family moved from Winchester Indiana to Brushill South Dakota in a 4000 pound wagon. They crossed the Missouri River by ferry and faced harsh conditions with bad water and no doctor within 75 miles. They describe the Pedro hills and Cheyenne River crossing, note high freight costs, plan a dug-out home, and say the region is about 75 years behind Indiana but will grow with more people and stores.
An Anty Drudge speech extols Fels-Naptha for cold or warm water washing. It argues boiling weakens vegetable fibers like cotton and flax and that Fels-Naptha cleans without boiling or hard rubbing, extending wear and improving whiteness. It also advertises washing dishes and floors with the product per wrapper directions.
Will Frazier of Cleveland Ohio, visiting Mrs Mary Griffiths guests at Bowling Green Indiana, began berry picking with two buckets. He returned to find a cow devouring the berries he had gathered, the second pail untouched as the animal swallowed the fruit.
Harold Weaver and Miss Lulu Dixon of Mount Vernon Indiana eloped to Mount Carmel Illinois after being refused a license in Princeton. A Lutheran minister Rev Kaufman performed the ceremony. The couple obtained a license at Mount Carmel and married despite friends’ surprise.
W M Rogers of Terre Haute has leased a room in the Colonnads building in Sullivan and will start a cigar factory there. He will also open a retail store in the next few weeks.
Creditors of P. P. Mast & Co. met in Springfield Colorado and elected W. T. Taylor of Logansport Indiana as chairman and James Fell of Fittsburg as secretary. A proposal by Howard D. Maize to lift the receivership was laid on the table for further consideration.
The Four Grenadiers bring The Sunny Side of Broadway to the Park theater tomorrow night with Boyle Woolfolk's revised musical comedy. The show features a new chorus of twenty five top beauties chosen from four hundred applicants and Max Bloom as the leading comedian with a loyal troupe. Daily matinees follow through next week.
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