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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
7
A newly chartered institute with a capital of 100000 dollars operates to teach personal magnetism and hypnotism by correspondence under state law. The organization aims to provide instructional materials and correspondence courses to students seeking self improvement in these subjects.
The American Institute of Sciences of New York offers 16 000 copies of a new work on Personal Magnetism Hypnotism and related topics for free to the first 10 000 respondents. The volume, produced at over $5 000 cost with 36 expert contributors, promises home study and practical results including health prosperity and success. Letters from early buyers praise its learnings and effects and urge immediate response to Dept 264 Broadway New York for delivery.
Mrs Laura Scott a small woman with great nerve nabbed a Brooklyn burglar solo inside her home. Hearing intruder she quietly climbed stairs spotted theft in progress then grappled him to the door as he struggled. Police officer Mayer arrived and took the suspect into custody.
A critical discussion of Indianapolis vaudeville and theater booking during the week, noting crowded rooms for popular acts yet uneven attendance overall. English's opera house faces losses amid competition, price gouging, and public passivity, while Park and Empire fare better with varied pricing and audiences.
Indianapolis readers are offered a balanced Grand bill with acts from London and local favorites. The Taylor twin sisters skate in novelty routines, Edgar Atchison Ely performs society caricatures, Monroe Mack and Lawrence present a top vaudeville sketch, the Quaker City quartet showcases glossy songwork, and Carrie Graham returns as Sis Hopkins alongside Phyllis Allen and Jessie Couthous. Biograph pictures close the program.
World featherweight champion Young Corbett will appear at the Park next Thursday in a limited tour stop with a sparring bout. The farce A Stranger in a Strange Land previously delighted New York audiences and returns with an excellent cast and metropolitan production values. Also on the bill Sol Smith Russell's A Poor Relation, in which Frederick Summerfield plays Noah Vale, comes to the Park for three days with a reassembled company and elaborate scenery and costumes.
The Empire hosts two shows starting Monday featuring Harry Bryants burlesque troupe led by Kitamma Imperial Japanese group of six. Also in the bill are Perry and Burns trio with singer willian Perry Bryant and Saville, Lew Palmer and others, plus a City club program with new acts and scenery Thursday. The City club seaside opener and the Pan-American burlesque promise humorous sketches with the chorus and side shows and scenic lighting.
The Pike theater company of Cincinnati with Byron Douglass Lizzie Hudson Collier Angela Dolores Thomas Reynolds John B. Maher and others will perform William Gillette's Secret Service at the Park in Indianapolis, a production never staged there before.
Mrs Pat Campbell performs at Harlem opera house at regular prices while Sarah Cowell Le Moyne plans a New York matinee of Browning drama this spring She weighs two Shakespearean roles and a romantic drama as next season options Augustus Frohman and Augustus Thomas sign annual produce contracts with the author supplying plays and casting The row of collaborations by Frohman Clyde Fitch and Thomas makes playwriting seem labor rather than inspiration.
Providence March 1 Rhode Island senate judiciary committee issued a radical divorce reform act. It sets two year residence requirements, retains non support but tightens grounds and adds six month waiting period after decree. It requires oral testimony except for ill witnesses and transfers statutory evidence to the attorney general for criminal action. It lists wilful desertion for five years and cruelty among grounds.
An appeal to President Roosevelt seeks removal of Chief Justice Webster Street of the Arizona supreme court. Charges include bribery by several large mining companies. Street's supporters say Attorney General Knox protected him by letting him complete his term. Alleged bribes total many thousands of dollars.
An old public notice promotes free samples of remedies claimed to prevent and cure consumption. It asserts the disease can be blocked and vanquished by four universal treatments, urging all threatened individuals to obtain free medicines and lists numerous associated symptoms and conditions.
Albert Van Camp of the fire department died Friday evening at City hospital from Brights disease following injuries last December when thrown from a hook and ladder truck near the covered bridge on Washington street. He joined the fire force in the 1870s and was connected to Cortland, Samuel and Raymond Van Camp of the Van Camp hardware firm. Theodore Coleman aged 26 of 443 East Market street died Friday after a weeklong typhoid pneumonia illness, leaving a widow. W. Colestock died Friday at Deaconess hospital from grip and will be buried Sunday at 2 p m from his sister Mrs W H Laird's home, born in Indianapolis, aged 67.
Noted American actress Mrs Fiske to perform four shows at Park Theater starting Monday March 10. She will present The Unwelcome Mrs Hatch on Monday and Tuesday, Miranda of the Balcony on Wednesday including A Bit of Old Chelsea as curtain raiser. Box office opens Monday.
In Wilmington on March 1 Chancellor Nicholson faced a curious distraction as two young women at the opposite side of the courthouse used a hand mirror to reflect sunlight toward him. He sought to determine if their aim was self admiration or annoyance.
An antique advertisement claims Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure the grip in two days. The box bears E. W. Grove’s signature.
Dr Georg A Sigler is removed to Newton's Claypool Building on the third floor for medical care. The note lists the floor and building with terse directions.
Fragmented notice lists political name Charles F. Baron for Courtly Commissioner followed by unrelated business items including E. E. Reese dentist removal to room 244 Newton Claypool Building, massage cream, Barber Supply Co, post binders transfer binders order blank holders, and WM. B. Burford Indianapolis with doctors A. W. and N. D. Brayton in Newton Claypool Building rooms 330-329.
Indiana Dental College advertises patient service from 8 a.m. to p.m. for all kinds of dental work. The listing appears as contact copy for location at S. W. Cor Delaware and Chloets, noting morning hours and general dental offerings.
An old ad offers four remedies for catarrh including Cod Liver Oil Expectorant Ozorell Catarrh Cure and a free Doctor Book. Readers are told to write to Dr T A Sloc in New York for samples and instructions and to mention The Indianapolis Sun.
The Painters and contractors fail to agree on this year’s wage scale with the painters seeking 35 cents per hour and bosses offering 30. Overtime and Sunday rates are fixed at eight hours and time and a half. Other trades including carpenters, laundry workers, and paperhangers face stalled talks. Tailors fear losing home trade to New York, Boston, and Chicago shops, while engineers announce a non smoking event at Central hall.
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