Baby carriages on display at Gedel fair
The exhibit in Mies shows baby carriages and gear for infants including a 1908 Gedels model. A cart that converts into a stroller is demonstrated along with leather beds for cribs and other infant items.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
2
The exhibit in Mies shows baby carriages and gear for infants including a 1908 Gedels model. A cart that converts into a stroller is demonstrated along with leather beds for cribs and other infant items.
More than 209 strike-breakers left Chicago for Denver to fill jobs of union boilermakers machinists and helpers on strike at Union Pacific and Denver Rio Grande shops. The personnel were hired by J. G. Merrill.
Miners vote to reconsider holding the next convention in St. Louis and instead return to Indianapolis. A wage conference is proposed in the southwestern districts after a stirring speech by Mayor Bankwalter.
Selig Dre Goods company plans a May 1 opening in the Joseph Becker building at 2a W Washington. The entire three floors will house the business with the top floor reserved for wholesale trade. The building will be thoroughly remodeled.
Grand Gillette presents The Awakening of the Toys with Herrman the Great DeWitt Burns and Torrance plus vaudeville acts. Park features The Cowboy and the Squaw and Ning Casey. Majestic runs In Mizzoura with Nat Goodwin. Empire shows Tiger Lilies with The Brigadiers and a busy schedule.
Virginia Anderson Crand presents General LaVine a comedic juggler with an army of dummies and clever mechanical effects. The Forepaugh stock company debuts Thomas Wayes Hunter in The First Violin. Park Johnny and Emma Ray star in King Casey a three day engagement with a wittily tangled plot at Waldorf Astoria and Lalla Palaza Island.
The ad promotes Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a constitutional, time saving cure for neuralgia and headaches. It claims the pills soothe the nerves and provide relief, citing Mrs. Thos Laidlaw of Yates Center Kansas and noting the price of 25 doses at 25 cents and that they are never sold in bulk.
Ray showcases Goldie Mine as western heiress in a two act musical farce at the Empire theater. The Fukino Japanese acrobats and Chooceets the dancing marvel headline extra attractions alongside the troupe for the remainder of the week. Married by Telephone provides the humorous two act main show.
Four people barely survived when a long flyer train crossed a trestle near Laporte Indiana. The group halted mid span as the engine approached and the train halted above them. The engineer and conductor freed them as the car and bridge remained suspended until backed off.
New York reports Abe Hummel released from penitentiary today. He may depart for a European tour soon. Dr. Matz says Hummel suffers incurable kidney disease. Hummel was convicted of perjury in the Morse-Dodge divorce case.
James Edwards of Putnam rushed home after sensing trouble and found his wife, Mrs. Edwards, dead by a self-inflicted bullet wound in their Asheville home. The motive remains a mystery while authorities investigate.
Frederick W. Field once a Texas cow-puncher faces Recorder Kelley in Kearny New Jersey on a bigamy charge filed by his last wife Mrs. Anna Duckwood Parsons He admits the name Parsons and claims the alias is real according to Newark police report March 19.
Three people were seriously injured in a head on collision of two West Penn street cars near Fayette station in Connellsville Pennsylvania. Injured are William C. Berg motor man Edward Ward and Mrs Florence Inks.
The Rev. Frank N. Guneaulus of Chicago will address Memorial Presbyterian church Sunday at 7 45 pm. He returns after morning services to speak to the busi ness men's Bible class of the church of which he is interested as a relative, Mr A Brown, is a member. The class has about four years of activity with 151 last Sunday in attendance.
Indiana Auditor of State certifies a correct copy of the German Fire Insurance Company condition statement for December 1, 1907, filed and on record, with capital $300,000 paid-in $150,000 and liabilities $595,358.35. Officers listed as A. Sieccop president and A. D. L. Hwickert secretary. The report cites assets, real estate mortgages, bonds, loans and premiums, plus maximum single risk $56,000.
Charles Mr. Taylor a local merchant in Manilla Indiana fatally shot himself yesterday amid ill health. Police say the incident occurred at his store and he died from the self inflicted gunshot.
An advertisement claims constipation causes inflammation leading to piles and even tumors, but assures a painless private cure with Pyramid Pile Cure. It offers a free trial by mail from Pyramid Drug Co in Marshall Michigan, with full-sized boxes available at six cents through druggists.
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