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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
6
Pierre Schwab emphasizes self discipline and hands on learning. He argues workers should start at the bottom, seek self education, and stay up to date while avoiding excessive college focus. He notes opportunities for the right young men and value of practical chemistry and laboratory work.
The article notes a spike in pneumonia cases linked to la grippe, with City Sanitarian Clark reporting higher January deaths and a continued February pattern. It cites doctors as skeptical of a new flu variant, insisting it remains the traditional grip with pneumonia as the main killer. The elderly bear the heaviest burden, while child fatalities remain typical.
A captain, deemed insane, commanded the Sill to sail toward a supposed floating island off England. The crew resisted but the captain persisted, insisting England moved, and the ship struck a reef near the coast. Only some aboard survived as the vessel sank amid mutiny and fear.
A bank clerk overdrew $25 after his wife shaved his face at home to buy a hat. A society woman’s plan prompts husbands to join the fad and joked about cost, while an old bachelor notes the novelty and expense of home shaving.
Michael J Fahey of New Haven a cable company manager says he holds an unconditional mining lease for 45000 acres of coal oil and mineral land near Gastonia on the North Carolina South Carolina line. Rev Elam who located the land and secured four sites in a King’s Mountain area confirms the claim and a rich oil well was found February 22 with sample bottles sent to Fahey.
An electric vehicle from the New York Electric Vehicle Co bursts into action in Manhattan. Patrick Rafferty loses control on Forty Seventh Street, backing in circles and smashing a bakery window at Frank Racks 777 Eighth Ave. Newsboys watch as the auto finally stops and wreckers corral it.
The Southern Pacific offers special low colonist tickets to California starting Feb 12 and every Tuesday through April 30. From Chicago 30 dollars, from St Louis Memphis and New Orleans 27.50, from Omaha and Kansas City 25, with reduced rates from other eastern and northern points. Details on routes and schedules available.
A Honolulu steamer report describes a giant South Seas shark killed with dynamite after being driven ashore by high tides. Half a hundred men towed the carcass to shore and cut it into steaks, the creature measuring over 18 feet and yielding a cache of miscellaneous articles from its stomach.
In Baltimore on March 6 a household became charged with electricity as nearly every item from furniture to fixtures gave shocks. A daughter felt blue light flashes from a picture frame and shocks spread to the reporter and Miss Maddox touching bed springs. An ad for Dean's Ointment follows.
An old nursemaid advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. The copy claims the remedy soothes the child, softens the gums, relieves pain, cures wind colic, and assists with diarrhea, priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
A 13 year old boy James Thompson in Brooklyn after years as housekeeper and target of gender expectations drinks rat poison to escape being treated like a girl. He says he wanted to work and play like other boys. He survives and seeks a trade.
San Francisco reports American silk and engineering back a grand Tokyo project. J A Brady of Chicago helped construct the three story fireproof steel palace for the mikado, with 3000 tons of steel, white granite walls, and Italian Renaissance styling. An initial 5 million dollars funds the palace with potential more for grounds and embellishments in Tokyo's Akasaka district.
In Chicago on March 6, plans are set for a good roads special train to educate farmers along the Illinois Central line from New Orleans to Chicago. The eight to nine car train will tour about three months, visiting 20 plus points to demonstrate building a mile of roadway with advance agents preparing the site and farmers providing materials.
A March 6 Omaha feature explains the “jury habit” where local men seek jury service for pay. Talesmen crowd the courthouse, earning about 2 dollars daily for roughly 200 days a year, creating a steady but aging group of nonworking advisers who influence cases with legal lore.
Robinson Crusoe figure Crusoé plans a hasty marriage to Hannah A Henderson to secure inheritance as illness nears. Crusoé, a Virginia born mariner of 38, lately returned to Philadelphia after African adventures, faces pygmy tribes and a perilous voyage past wrecks and rescues narrated by the Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Edwin Gould purchases thousands of dollars in antiques in New Orleans to furnish a Georgia resort cottage at Jekyll Island. The haul includes a 300 year old mahogany sideboard, a grandfather clock from the revolutionary era, a jeweled octagonal French clock, a silver piece once owned by Joseph Bonaparte, and a Louisiana marriage basket.
WAVERLY N Y March 6 Robert Scott Edminston a Pennsylvania state senator from Bradford County and Miss Victoria Louise Thompson his sweetheart of forty years ago were married recently at the bride's brother James B Thompson's home Both aged 60 the couple rekindled a long friendship that began before the civil war Edminston served in Company H Forty seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers later remarried a friend of his former sweetheart after his wife died the pair renewed correspondence and now wed The senator will return to Harrisburg to resume his duties
In Ostend a duel ends with the death of John McWilson Durant of Albany after a clash with a Russian count over alleged letters to the count's wife. The count's nephew, who first sought a court settlement, died from a water bottle wound Durant inflicted earlier. Durant was said to be insane.
An advisory article claims heart disease among Americans stems from weak digestion and nervous interference rather than organic illness. It promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe, effective remedy to improve digestion, with a full package priced at 50 cents and free literature available from F A Stuart Co., Marshall, Michigan.
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