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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
5
It is conceded that Royal Baking Powder is purest and strongest of all baking powders, absolutely free from alum, ammonia and every adulterant. "Royal" makes the best and most wholesome food. royalty Baking Powder Co. 100 William St New York.
Indianapolis agents for New York Boston and Chicago tailors struggle as a $25 daily license fee drives away representatives. Some agents were arrested or fled after brief orders. others avoided showing their samples. Local tailors warn customers may have to shop sight unseen or travel to Chicago.
A nostalgic look at the once common street grinder who used a treadle grindstone and handbell to sharpen knives and remove rust. Ordinances banning bells and the rise of bicycle and repair shops reduced his presence, turning him into a curious relic of urban life.
A familiar authority on house furnishings extols couches as essential for the overworked housekeeper. He praises broad, soft, luxurious couches over hard chairs, urging every room have one to ease cares, avoid hysteria, preserve beauty, and aid eternal salvation.
In Shelbyville rumors of a smartly armed public arise with a joke nickname jack the peeper while men rush to buy shotguns and revolvers. A Marion auto line is proposed carrying a dozen passengers. A mishap injures Miss Ethel Richie of Greenfield with a revolver. Spring chatter includes Rainbow clubs in Mishawaka and a bluebird sighting in Warsaw. A Ben Davis apple joke from Ben Davis train stop closes the round of light local notes.
Home workers can choose stylish waistings with whites leading and mercerized fabrics popular. Prices range from 25 cents to 1 50 a yard for the best, with cheviots at 19 cents featuring white grounds and colored stripes. Imported madras with fine stripes and thin, better madras lines also attract buyers.
Cleaver returns with market notes on spring openings. Black suits lead the trend with the Gibson suit in front, jackets echoing shirt waist lines and broad plaits. White shirtwaists stay popular, while prices ease and lighter jackets rise. Separate skirts in silk and net attract attention as ready made lines grow sturdier.
Miss Harriet Eitel plans a Saturday afternoon party while Meridian club hosts a half month card game at Woodruff Place. Mrs. L Dunning hosted W C T U activities, Glenn Montgomery wed Dr Robert J Russell in Greensburg, and Laura Warner married Frederick E Beerbower at the bride's mother's home. The minister and wife plan to sail for Italy March 15 and the bride's gown is crepe de chine. Local council of women met Tuesday with Mrs Sewall recounting a Washington gathering and Friedland's discussion of privileges.
A report recalls a past practice where 16 workers cleaned Indianapolis streetcars on shifts, with conductors once cleaning inside and outside between runs. Weather and depot access slowed cleaning, but now conductors have little time for such chores.
Harold Robling, long estranged and now wealthy from California, returns to confront his stepfather Squire Halstead. He meets Dora, a loyal servant mistreated by Halstead, and declares his intention to marry her, offering a home and equality. The Squire is silenced as Harold takes Dora's hand and they plan a life together.
A brassbound warning on diet and digestion cites the power of the stomach to sustain the body and health. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for stomach ailments and related organ disorders, with testimonial claims of dramatic personal recovery from near death.
Fire in Poplar Bluffs on a Tuesday wiped out Lowell M. Palmer's stove and box plant, one of the world's largest. The blaze started in a heading room from an unknown cause. The plant employed about 600 workers. Palmer, a New York owner, faces an estimated loss of several million dollars.
Kate Moran 25 of 628 Douglass st attempted suicide with a grain of morphine in a room above a saloon at 50 W Washington st. Dr Kennedy of the city dispensary revived her after a half hour. Domestic trouble is named as the motive. Later Frank Huffman a discharged Philippine soldier announced to a bartender at Dan Smiths saloon that he had taken morphine but was found to be drinking and alive. Police and dispensary doctors intervened.
In Paris on March 5 a new gelatine based technique for engraving glass emerged. The process relies on the glue like adhesion of gelatine which, when ripped away forcefully, pulls off glass flakes it has stuck to.
Detroit reports Orion a summer resort 40 miles from the city with a population of 800 was practically destroyed by fire early Wednesday hiding the extent of damage and loss.
The cases charging cruelty to Hazel Orme were brought again before the police court at 10 30 a m on Wednesday for the hearing of new evidence.
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