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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1903
Page
2
An advertisement promises miraculous cures from a tonic named Doak’s Restorative. The pitch cites cures across neighborhoods and a city list of names, offering six bottles for $5.90 after sending a coupon. It claims permanent results and urges readers to demand proof through mailed orders.
The Thompson primary election reform bill was defeated in the house on Friday by a 60 to 36 vote. Opponents James F. Brutesman and J. A. M. Anair led the opposition on the floor and as lobbyists. The tally listed 36 in favor including Baird and Kirkman, with 60 in opposition including Adair and Linder.
In Morgantown West Virginia March 7 thirty law students composing the entire senior class secured an injunction from Judge John W Mason preventing the faculty and university president from carrying out an expulsion order. The dispute arose after riotous classroom conduct included broken furniture during a lecture by James C Frazer. The class refused to apologize or pay for the furniture, prompting the expulsion threat.
A divorce suit was filed in St Louis Mo on a Friday by Countess Annie Lee Reagers Brockenhaus von Vowenhielm against her husband Count Herold Brockenhaus von Luwenhielm a nobleman. The countess formerly Dallas socialite has been living with St Louis relatives for about a year and a reported trip to New York is noted.
The couple wed in 1597 after a brief courtship at Daling. The countess’s father’s fortune proved small, triggering the count’s cooling and a push to extract estate funds. Jewels were pawned, lavish living continued, and separations followed. The countess seeks restoration of her maiden name amid cruelty claims. The tale touches on a fiancé linked to an alleged murder insurance scheme and a jail death by suicide using gin.
Alfred Knapp, self confessed killer of five, sits in Hamilton jail playing cards with other inmates. He appears calm and cites insanity as his defense. He will likely plead insanity at the murder of Hannah Goddard Knapp, his third wife, alleging a traumatic childhood incident.
In central Johannesburg on a Friday two customs officers transporting 25000 dollars to the bank were attacked. Pepper投 was thrown into their eyes as the money bags were seized. A horseman carried the bags away, a man named Brandon was fatally injured, the horse bolted and the rider was arrested. Money recovered. Warner Will Sing at Murphy League Meeting.
A Tacoma woman recounts how coffee harmed her family and how Postum Food Coffee cured illness and weakness. She notes a son’s stomach distress and a man’s eye trouble improving after quitting coffee. Anecdotes include a gold field traveler who valued Postum highly and a claim of dramatic weight gain and sleep restoration.
In Pittsburg California on March 7 the Glass War Trust announced shutdowns of its trial plants on March 14 for an indefinite period. Glass blowing machines will be installed across American Window Glass Company factories, cutting production costs by about a third and risking thousands of jobs. The move follows term rejections from independent factories and comes amid a existing surplus of 2,000,000 boxes awaiting substitution.
Maggie Cress, previously unknown to authorities, has been identified by police in Anderson as the kidnapped girl. L. E. Ellsworth, charged with abducting her, was arrested but remains at large on bond. she returned home with her sister after learning of the looming search.
River systems rise across Indiana with Wabash now ten miles wide near Princeton forcing stock to hills. At Vincennes a flood reaches nineteen feet while rain falls and farmers move to high ground. Also reporting on a mystery cleared up in Rochelle Park New Jersey and obituary notes for Harvey B Walker a telegraph operator. Ruralwest Lackey horse sale at Cambridge City totals 32 sales for 80 204 and Southern Indiana Editorial Association officers elected in Indianapolis.
A fragmented ad style notice promising cold cure with laxative tablets. Mentions SUN Uners and a Bath phones number 880 and office 12-123 B. Ohio. Indicates medical product claim and local contact details in a terse, damaged OCR fragment.
The grand jury is nearing completion of the Indianapolis coal exchange investigation and is expected to report early next week. Several sealers are believed to face indictments though exact names were not disclosed. The work was interrupted Saturday by other matters.
Ant hracite price talks from Philadelphia dated March 1 indicate a possible April reduction in coal prices. Reading Coal and Iron Co officials say no definite reduction planned until later in the month, awaiting the strike commission's guidance. Consumers typically see a six-pence per ton cut, followed by a ten cent monthly rise after April until the old price returns. Shooting deemed accidental in Mitchell Indiana. Ambrose Braden dies and William Compton cleared. Pope Leo XIIE jubilee to be celebrated in Baltimore cathedral with high Mass and a procession led by Cardinal Gibbons.
A fragmented Indiana death and public notice column lists multiple obituaries and distant notices. Included are Mrs Achac Jones, John C Toler, John M Daily aged 75 from Richmond, Robe C Sroft near Muncie, Dr JO Luras Marton, Mrs Sarah Clemson aged 79 near Pittsburg Yorkvhd Lake Fry, and other death mentions with scattered locations and ages. Also appears an advertisement for Pazoo ointment claiming cures, a Union Pacific rail rate notice from Missouri River terminals to California Oregon Washington, and Florida New Orleans travel routes. Local commercial notes mention coal dealers and dental college hours, plus bread and photo ads and a nurse teething remedy.
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