Golden Specific Promoted as Secret Cure for Drunkenness
An advertisement touts Golden Specific as an effective secret remedy to cure alcoholism. It claims the product can be added to food or drink without a drinker's knowledge, with testimonials from Mrs. Harry Burnside and a free sample offer from Dr W. Haines in Cincinnati Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Burnside
Golden Specific
Golden
A. ‘W. Haines
Glenn Building
Cincinnati
Onio
Moore
Congressmen Wear Shamrock Hue While Watercress Confuses Pages
In Washington on March 18 the House wore green as shamrock from the German page caused a mix up with watercress. Burton explained river and harbor bill details noting 60 million dollars over two years, not increasing overall government expenses. In Fairmount Indiana a Central mines explosion injured none of nine workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Botanical Gardens
Burton
River and Harbor Committee
Fairmount
In. Va
Central Mines
Mother Prayed To Keep Her Child In Court
In Newark on March 18 a mother, Mrs Ida Post Tuthill, prayed in chancery court for custody of her daughter Mary. The court, led by Vice-chancellor Stevens, awarded Mary to guardian William H Hollis and ordered care changes ending with Mary to live with Mrs Williamson before entering Bodley School for Girls in New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Chancery Chambers
Stevens
Ida Post Tuthill
Montclair
Tuthill
Mary
William H. Hollis
Heniy
Williamson
State Charities Aid Association
Bodley School For
New Hamshire
Biddle Reward Divided Among Pittsburg Officials and Detectives
County commissioners allocate a $5000 reward for the Biddle brothers capture. Pittsburg detectives McGovern Roach Swinehart receive 950 each. Snyder 450. Splane 300. Holiday 650. Hoon 275. Ray 275. Thompson 200. Total to Pittsburgers about 3300 plus 606 to Allegheny claimants and 1400 to Butler county officials. Utica report covers a separate marriage of Miss Margaret Louis Raser to Edward Moore after ten hours acquaintance. Moore formerly of Brooklyn, later built a hotel in Ilion after a fortune transfer from his mother following his disappearance.
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Pittsburg
Pac
Biddle Brothers
Charles G. McGovern
John Roach
Albert Swinehart
J. G. Snyder
J. G. Splane
Frank Holiday
Rainey Hoon
Robert Ray
Aaron Thompson
Pittsburgers
Splane
Allegheny County
Butler County
Utica
Margaret Louis Raser
Faxton Hospital
Edward Moore
Mon
Brooklyn
Miss Raser
Moore
Tlion
Ilion
The Escape and Capture of the Biddles Melodrama
Frank P. Glass a city hall messenger boy with a dream of staging a four act melodrama faced parental objections when he planned a midnight performance for 1 cent a head. The play depicted the killing of Detective Fitzgerald and an escape from jail ending with a highway battle.
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Patrick Fitzgerald
Butler County
Glass
Paddy
Ed Biddle
Thompson
Jaci Biddle
Great shooting tournament arrives at Limited Gun Club grounds
Ammunition shipments arrive ahead of a major shooting meet at the Limited Gun Club. The event is set to attract top marksmen from across the United States with target shooting first two days and a Grand Central handicap with live pigeons on Friday. E H Tripp plans a dinner for the American team including Heikes Merrill Powers Marshall Crosby Budd Guibert Parmlee Fanning Works Worth Harrison. Indiana shooters Head Neal Voris join the roster. Entrance fee is 25 dollars and purses await winners.
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United States
Indianapolis
E. H. Tripp
Europe
R. O. Heikes
Dayton
Richard Merrill
C. M. Powers
Decatur
T. A. Marshall
Keesburg
William Crosby
C. W. Budd
Fred Guibert
Frank Parmlee
John Fanning
Emil Works
Paul Worth
Frank Harrison
Indiana
Out of Town
J. L. Head
Peru
Elmer
Neal
Bloomfield
Ed Voris
Crawfordaville
Western Union Once Poor As A Church Mouse
A letter from Samuel F. B. Morse to his Baltimore assistant recalls Western Union’s humble beginnings when the Electro magnetic telegraph faced funding gaps. Morse notes salaries would cease after February 15 1845 unless the assistant continued supervision at personal risk, while awaiting congressional support and new appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union
Maj. Macklin
Indianapolis
Col. C., F. Macklin
Baltimore
Western Union Telegraph Company
Morse
O.B
Sam
F. B. Morse
Elec
Henry J. Rogers
Merchant policeman disputes sleep claim in liquor arrest case
Police officer M Hoffstatter who arrested Samuel Duncan for attempting to buy liquor at Johnston's drug store on N Illinois street says he was not asleep when Duncan entered. He complains that newspaper reports misstate the incident and notes several witnesses confirm he was awake.
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M Hoffstatter
Samuel Duncan
Johnston
N. Illinoissr
Duncan
Young is Hanged at Mount Holly New Jersey
John Young was hanged at Mount Holly New Jersey on Tuesday morning after planning a New York robbery at a Bowery saloon. He and two others attacked farmer Washington Hunter at Riverside, killing him days later. Brown was hanged earlier and Otto Keller confessed to save his neck.
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Young
Mount Holley
N. J
Charles Brown
Otto Keller
Bowery
New York
Riverside
Washington Hunter
Hunter
Woffatt's generosity divides Blooming Grove church
David Woffatt the Denver millionaire and former Orange county resident sent a $2000 check to Blooming Grove Presbyterian Church to fund an organ purchase. The gift required moving front seats owned by longtime families, triggering resistance and causing factional split within the congregation.
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Newburg
N. J
David Woffatt
Denver
Orange County
Blooming Grove Presbyterian Church
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Prove Popular Across Nations
The article touts Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a nationwide success amid a difficult market, citing physician endorsements and patient testimonials. It claims widespread availability in drugstores across the United States and Canada, highlighting safety for children and benefits in easing head, throat, and catarrhal symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
St Patrick Parades and Late News From Many Cities
Wire notes show St Patrick parades in New York swelled while Chicago chilled and dampened events. Boston freight workers returned to work after a strike. crimes include a Findlay, Ohio murder suspect attempting suicide and an Edwin Douglass inmate hanging in Boston jail. A warehouse guard was bound during a burglary in Waterbury. Bryn Mawr dormitory fire damages $35,000 in losses.
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Chicago
St. Patrick
Boston
Belleville
Ill
G. H. Vantassel
Lake Shore Railroad
New York
Charles Royal
Findlay
Edwin Douglass
Edward Lowencelle
Platt Mill
Waterbury
Late Bloomers Spur Republican Tangle In Indiana District
Speculation swirls over GOP fixes in Congressman Croma's district with two late-blooming rivals, C A Van Matre for superintendent and James Bingham for attorney general, both from Muncie. A backer rumor links Geo B McCulloch to Bingham. Judge Read of Williamsport may back him.
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Croma
C. A. van Matre
James Bingham
Muncie
Geo. B. McCulloch
Bingham
Judge Read
Williamsport
van Matre
One-Cent Toll Not Feasible Says Secretary Sale
Secretary H B Sale of the New telephone company dismisses a one cent a call toll plan as impractical saying five cents per call is about the lowest profitable toll. He comments after The Sun dispatches from Elizabeth New Jersey.
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H. B. Sale
New Telephone Company
SUN
Elizabeth
N. J
Five Indianapolis youths find surprise at Turkish bath
William J. Mather recounts a tale of five well connected Indianapolis youths visiting a Turkish bath. One was to be married at a Jewish temple at 5 but the group slept in and woke to a chaotic question about the wedding. The story ends with the groom waking and questioning their fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
John Jones
William J. Mather
Handsome illustrated book on northwest settlement history
An attractively produced volume offers five pages of historical data on early settlement in the distant northwest. It includes half-tone engravings of Black Hawk Sitting Bull Red Cloud and other chiefs Custer’s battlefield and ten colored map plates noting tribal locations from 1600. Priced at 3 cents per copy with prepaid postage to W L B Kniskern 22 Fifth Ave Chicago IL. Aunty Storage and Repair Company advertises nearby.
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Black Hawk
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Custer
W. LB. Kniskern
Fifth-ave
Chicago
Fire destroys Irwin building in Chicago losses reach $100000
Fire gutting the Irwin building at 453 Wabash Chicago Tuesday caused an estimated $100,000 loss to the structure and stock. The Racine carriage and wagon company occupied the first and second floors while the Meade bicycle company occupied the third and fourth floors and the Knickerbocker feather case company and Princess waist company were on the fifth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Irwin
Wabashave
Racine, Carriage and Wagon’ Company
Meade Bicycle Company
Knickerbocker Feather Case Company
Princess Waist Company
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Ad and Dentist Move
Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets offer a money back refund if they fail to cure with E. W. Grove’s signature on each box. Also notes E E Reese, dentist, removed to room 244 Newton Claypool Building and mentions Post Bindera transfer binders and order blank holders by WM Burford of Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Grove
E. E. Reese
Newton Claypool Building
WM. B. Burford
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis voter notice for liquor and pool privileges
William C. Corhan notifies the Eleventh Ward voters of Indianapolis that he will apply to the county commissioners at the April term 1902 for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with customers allowed to drink on premises at 605 Russell Ave in Russell’s addition, Center Township. He also applies for pool-table privileges in the same room.
Notice of liquor license application in Center Twp Marion Co
Voters of the Tenth ward Center township Marion county Indiana will apply to the board of county commissioners at the April term 192 for a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premise drinking allowed The business is in a room facing south on Georgia street on the first floor of a one story brick building at ninety five feet east end of lot 10 in Indianapolis City Center township Marion county Indiana at the northwest corner of Georgia and Liberty streets No 543 B Georgia st Ward 10 I also give notice of applying for poor table privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indiana
Board of ‘County Commissioners
Russell Ave
Russell's
Center Township
Marion
County
William C. Corhan
Tenth Ward
Board of County Commissioners
Georgia St
Georgia and
Liberty-sts
Third Ward
Board of Commissioners
State of
Tenth St
Ketcham & Smith
James P. Drake
John Winkelhaus
Sixteenth St
Capitol-ave
MclKernan & Pierce
Henderson
Sixteenth-st
West
G. W. Clemmons
Shugrue Suffers Lip Cut After Fall on Curb
PD H Shugrue of 1060 Bates street fell on a curb Tuesday and cut his upper lip. Dr Hicks of the City dispensary dressed the wound and he was taken home in an ambulance.
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PD. H. Shugrue
Bates Sr
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Jerome Ellison
Wheeling
W Va
St. Patricks Parade
Bryn. Mawr
Bill Long
Long
Washington St. Bridge
Toran
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Aunty Storage and “Repair ‘Company
Ohio-at
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Lilly & Stalnaker
Washington St
Evas Chemica Co
C. U.S.A
Safeat
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Cor. Penn
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