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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1908
Page
5
A brief notice highlights a sale where customers can take ten percent more off by following the ad’s instructions. The ad emphasizes limited time and savings, urging shoppers to act quickly.
The Ernesto Sisters dazzle on the tight wire with cake walk, waltz and leaps in a Monday show at Wonderland. The Grand presents The Ship Owner’s Daughter a dramatic love tale of a sailor and a ship owner’s daughter with comedy songs and seven numbers on the bill.
Capital City Garden presents the latest vaudeville lineup drawing large nightly crowds. The bill rivals theater performances with paid admission and features premier acts money can buy.
A large matinee at the Grand drew the biggest crowd since talking pictures arrived in Indianapolis. A record audience filled the Grand for the day while ushers struggled to seat patrons, as one admission allowed access to any seat during any show.
The Humanovo company presents talking pictures at English’s featuring College Chums a farce and A Blacksmith's Revenge a melodrama. The bill includes the Oxford and Cambridge eight oared race and titles such as Italian Soldiers in the Alps A Modern Hotel Alone at Last The Two Guides Outcast Heroine A Bad Bargain.
An evening remark explains the phrase English is giving a dollar show for a dime as children pass through doors on half-fare tickets. The comment highlights a decayed value in entertainment pricing and accessibility for young concertgoers.
Bohumir Kryl cornet soloist and bandmaster, once an Indianapolis resident, travels with a large band and dramatic soprano Ella Bachman. Critics call him the world's greatest cornetist for his mastery and expression, attracting critical Indianapolis audiences.
In Marion County Indiana Thomas V Baker and Luna Baker seek leave to adopt Emma May Lippey a twelve year old girl alleging abandonment by Edward Lippey The defendant must answer by September 1 1908 or the petition will proceed in his absence Clerk Leonard M Quill delivers notice filed June 18 1908
Birth notices list Herbert and Enola Nield 2111 S East street boy and several other couples with addresses. City hospital entries note Charley English and Katherine Bigelow births a girl and a boy, plus still birth for Joseph and Grace Johnston 1814 E Ohio street. Deaths include Fletcher Wheatley aged 6 months and multiple adults with causes such as meningitis, tuberculosis, paresis, mitral insufficiency, cancer, skull fracture, and other listed ailments.
A series of marriage announcements lists numerous couples with hometowns in Indiana. Names include Samuel G Grossman with Dora Stein ing Frank P Emison with Alice Satter Newton M Lavene with Edna Cloud and others across Brownsburg Vincennes and beyond.
Spencer Ind June 30 Prosecutor Moss began the opening statement for the state in the murder trial of George Emory Cassel who faces the charge.
The criminal judge says appropriations must be spent only if funds are available and directs use of Bill Patten's Primer to verify funds. Chief Deputy William Patten authored the primer detailing sums in all criminal court funds, guiding expenditures. Juvenile Judge George W. Stubbs once sought $81.60 for furniture without the primer, a claim others say his copy would have safeguarded.
Bill Patten’s knee and followers have heeded his instructions on available funds by giving time to study the primer. This careful approach could have kept several accounts squared, avoiding snares, overdrafts, rejected claims, and suspicion.
Edward Hunter of Warren township and Granville Wright of Washington township are the jury commissioners tasked with drawing the names of men to serve on the new grand jury to be called for next Monday. They will likely meet on Wednesday to complete the duty.
A Weekend Evening Post fragment cites Herbert L. Bridgman of the Peary Arctic Club about a spoof set in 1506 where a woman on a bicycle asks a Wareham farmer for directions. The humorous piece riffs on timing and memory in storytelling.
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