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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1904
Page
8
Indianapolis grocers carry Joseph Taggart's Indiana Bread sold in Indianapolis and nearby towns. Ask your grocer for it.
Fort Wayne Indiana June 2 Fort Wayne is preparing for the seventeenth annual state convention of Christian Endeavor societies, June 2 to 3 Speakers include Dr Wilbur Chapman Mrs Landmett Von Ogden Vort Charles S Medbury Robert Speer P P Wilhorn and Rev A B Philputt from Indianapolis others from Indiana will speak A special fare of one dollar plus six cents for a round trip is offered with tickets valid June 2 to 3 and return through July 1
William Hillman died Wednesday at his Wet Street residence after a lengthy illness. He leaves four children and a widow who passed years ago. Hillman served many years as a Marchant policeman and was retired for the last five years. The funeral will be held Friday at the residence. Excursion to Chicago and return on Sunday, June 5 1904 fare 2.75. Special train will depart Indianapolis at 6 o'clock am via Indianapolis and Northern Traction Co to Lebanon and Big Four Railway to Chicago and return. Inquiries to T D Norviel or C C Reynolds.
Sage argues vacations waste time and harm employers, condemns the vacation habit as a distortion of business. He cites Lazars age and leaders who never vacation, insisting steady work preserves vitality and profitability. He compares vacation to unpaid two weeks, noting lost momentum and increased workload for employers. He cites Gladstone as example of efficient recuperation through work changes.
A survey of chaotic scenes and crimes from Kensington to Chicago, including Matthew Wayland’s mob-driven expulsion, George Wooster’s failed attack on Charles Lamb, a saloon shootout near Cedar Grove, and suicides and drownings in Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia. Also reports arson, a tornado strike during a funeral, political figures’ deaths, and a fossil find in Wyoming. The mix reflects violent crime, disasters, and notable public actions.
Raymond Hitchcock, star of The Yankee Consul at Broadway, contributes to the Canandaigua wreath fund for Decoration Day. His father is a Civil War veteran. The county chairman’s tribute to his father, The County Chairman, is set at Wallack’s New York on September 1 for a few weeks, then tour big cities. Henry W Savage arrives June 7 in New York after open of Prince of Pison in London and plans engagements for next season’s English grand opera. In Boston Tremont, Woodland by Pixley-Luders proves popular with strong laughs and encores for Anders. Bartley Campbell’s My Partner heads to Park for the week. Mite Allee K. Berry performs songs by Louis Westyn Jones in Peek and My Island Queen. George Ade, pleased with Shogun at Sturtevaker, tells a friend he will back musical comedies next season if New York doesn’t please. Ade to spend summer on HighMade farm in Indiana watching potatoes and Iroquois rapids.
London readers recall a once famed yard of beer at Bexley and Eltham. The three-foot glass with a narrow stem proved nearly impossible to drink without spilling, as beer surged into the bowl and splashed the drinker, soaking attire and causing embarrassment.
June L Miss Estella Roney of South Chicago shipyards was shot and fatally wounded near her cousin Angist Raney's home after a dance. Frank Fessler, the man she was to marry, then fatally shot himself. Roney, 23, and Fessler, a Baltimore and Ohio foreman, had faced family opposition to their engagement.
Report from Riverside Golf Club states caddies demonstrated for pay raises from one to fifteen cents. When refused they hurled fines and clubs at players and five ringleaders were arrested as police quelled the disturbance.
Janet-Jesse Reachtel, a laborer, fired a shotgun at his wife in their Canal Street home Wednesday evening. The attack wounded her left arm and right breast and caused a gaping abdominal wound. Physicians declare the injuries fatal.
A local tag firm on West Seventeenth Street sued the Indianapolis Telephone Company for thirty three thousand damages. The firm alleges it was a patron of the company but was omitted from the Jaat Issue telephone directory harming its business. The husband and wife, Marr Jacob formerly, had been married about a year when the shooting occurred prompted by jealousy. the husband surrendered.
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