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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1904
Page
14
A dispersed set of short items from Indiana towns reports mayoral candidacies, charity gatherings, flooded road conditions, and a fatality. notes include a Kokomo mass meeting, Purdue students failing a teacher exam, and a minister visiting a sister in Kansas. Also describes Japanese living quarters and diet shifts, plus local incidents and property notices.
The article notes Japanese houses favor wood with growing brick and stone use among the wealthy. Typical homes appear flimsy and on stone foundations due to frequent earthquakes. Interiors show sparse decoration to reduce quake damage. Exterior rain doors are solid wood, sliding in grooves, and remain locked even in storms.
A fragmentary account describes daily life in Japanese cities and rural areas, noting food habits such as rice and soy as staples, modest dress and behavior in public, and ceremonial costumes. It mentions women painting hair, communal baths, and evolving gender norms in urban centers, with reference to foreigners observing these practices.
A petition organized by Parise Herod seeks support for Metzger to enter the race for renomination. The document notes that 40 signatures were gathered by noon Monday and that Metzger has not given a definite stance. Some see the petition as indicating he is awaiting the broader call to run.
In New York a woman named Mrs Well Rosenbroom carried her crying husband from a first floor blaze. She used her arms to shield and lift him as they reached the roof above a carpenter shop between a tavern and a brick house. Firefighters contained the fire which caused heavy smoke but little structural damage.
At a Chicago Progressive Health Run gathering Mrs Laference Hodgkinzn and Dr Annan Helm discussed wealth and its societal impact on women. The crusade to aid homeless working girls expands beyond the club, with plans to involve massachusetts women and a new lab initiative. In Cantinvile a man shot his wife and then killed himself in a jealous tragedy, leaving the wife in critical condition.
Mrs Chris Heinhold of Bikudo Michigan confessed to killing her husband with an ax last Wednesday as he sat by a tree. In Topeka Kansas Leon Grady son of M Grady was ground to death under a street car while attempting to cross the street.
An ad touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe vegetable tonic for women addressing weakness and female disorders. It claims long clinical success, no alcohol, expert medical guidance by letter, and offers the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser with postage paid appeals. Mothers and young women are urged to seek confidential advice from Dr. Pierce in Buffalo, New York.
Notices from voters in multiple wards in Center and Ward areas of Indianapolis Marion County Indiana. Multiple residents including Henry Echwartz David Rosuck Frank G Ankenbrock and Harry Wolpa apply to the Marion County Board of Commissioners at the April term for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in defined rooms within specified brick or wooden structures. Each notice describes the business location, premises details, and pool table privilege requests with exact street addresses and ward numbers. The document consolidates declarations by several residents across wards 1 10 11 12 regarding licenses to sell vinous spirituous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons and the right to drink on premises.
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