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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1901
Page
6
An officer recalls a column of deer in a military precinct near Manila that barked like a dog during moonlit nights. He and others investigated a possible intruder, later confirmed by a town president as a deer behavior, noting bucks bark most at running times and during the fall of the moon.
San Francisco reports Patrick Hart alias Robert James, a treason convict, escaped in Nagasaki while on the Sheridan voyage. He later used a fabricated soldier story to obtain transit to San Francisco aboard the Pennsylvania. An Army officer identified him and Hart was placed under arrest at sea and sent to Alcatraz.
In New York City the Ramapo water company faces a suit to annul its 1887 charter. David Bennett Hill argues the case to prevent private control of the city water supply. He recounts alleged corruption and a longstanding threat from the Ramapo contract to the city’s interests. The 1895 act granting powers is challenged as outside the original charter.
In Chicago on March 11 a dying mother, Julia Shevlin, speaks to her son John about legal duty. Julia, 45, fostered fear through the notorious Shevlin brothers, two of whom, Michael and Vincent, are convicts. John is a paroled prisoner, with police seeking Ed Ward, and the family’s long record of crime casts a shadow over the city.
Very Rev. Dean O'Grady of St. Peter's Church in New Brunswick argues at Sunday mass that early marriage helps young men avoid bad habits and build sobriety and industry. He says men must save to support their wives and that women should prepare for homemaking and shared duties as marriage carries heavy responsibilities.
Eleven years after New York city officials refused to renew Geo Steinson's public school license without cause he continued to report for duty and sued the city. A court awarded him nineteen thousand dollars in damages.
In Houston a recluse named Chris Roehl has lived in a squalid hut on Washington Street since his mother’s death. He shuns contact, leaving at 4 PM to sit on his front porch, amid piles of rubbish and a ruined neighborhood after the Sept storm, with little work and no interviews.
Anton Berg a 48 year old German from 277 Humboldt St Brooklyn had his esophagus closed leaving him unable to swallow any liquid. Doctors performed a gastrotomy creating a stomach mouth with a rubber tube to feed him. The operation, though rare and risky, aimed to prolong his life as he slowly starved. He underwent preparation at the Eastern District Hospital in Brooklyn last week.
The article notes a patient was securely tied to the wound edges and an incision made in the stomach with a small rubber tube fixed permanently. It describes a false mouth and gullet that can be cleaned like a tobacco pipe stem. The operation was antiseptic and the surgeons expect recovery.
Miss Cora Frost, lured by promise of pardon, testified against her brutal father in Kansas. With no accuser or conferrer, she was convicted to secure his punishment and sent to the penitentiary despite jurors' belief in her innocence. Her father and stepmother were also convicted.
A New York society colony has formed in Aiken South Carolina with wealthy socialites. They ride astride while hunting polo and shoot at pigeon traps as they practice baseball wearing tan shoes golf skirts shirt waists and straw hats for the uniform.
A Truth magazine writer details the cunning dacoits of Bombay who burrow under houses to reach zenana treasure rooms. They feign danger with a decoy head, slip into tents of British officers, and rob without waking sleepers or dogs.
Louis Decker of Brooklyn dies at eighty six leaving forty thousand dollars to fund an ocean burial. In his will he requests cremation and the gray ashes scattered over the Atlantic, expressing lifelong love for the sea despite never being a sailor by trade. His brother is to carry out the plan.
An early medicinal advertisement touts Dr Bulls Cough Syrup as a remedy for stubborn colds and all lung ailments. It claims quick results and urges readers to try it, with a price of 25 cents.
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