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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1904
Page
7
A long testimonial touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a definitive treatment for hemorrhoids. It includes a former sufferer’s praise from the Confederate Soldiers Home and urges readers to buy the remedy from Pyramid Drug Co with a free causes-and-forms pamphlet.
At the semi monthly Adscript Club meeting Monday night HF spoke on bank advertising strategies. Frank Cranea discussed the link between ad writers and solicitors, and EL G Roplkey of the Stafford ingreving company was elected to membership.
President Roosevelt invited the members of the Panama commission to lunch at the White House after they held their first meeting in Washington. A very small fire damaged the basement of an auto company on East New York Street early Tuesday morning.
A promotion for the White Ribbon Remedy from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union asserts an absolute cure for drunkenness. It claims gradual distaste for alcohol, secret administration, and safety. Endorsed by Anna Moore and others, with offers of trial packages and money refunds, shipped via druggists or mail from Boston and Indianapolis representatives.
March 6 engineer Timothy Nolan died after an electric shock at the Michigan City Electric Plant. Since then three men have resigned, claiming sightings of Nolan’s ghost near work areas. Fireman Repp reports a frightening nocturnal apparition that followed him, leading to his resignation and the company’s staffing changes.
City council meets amid debate on license fees for grocers and alcohol sellers. Moriarity accuses grocers of pushing a trust while an amendment sets maximum fees at fifty dollars, with retail grocers observing. further ordinances include crowding of streetcars, a five thousand dollar bridge appropriation, and changes to market hours.
A garbled local notice discusses a forthcoming fundraising request to support a tuberculosis hospital in Indiana. Amid faded prose, residents reflect on weather and daily life as a court house scene frames the plea, hinting at civic urgency and springtime resignation.
In Omaha on March 12 overs at the marriage ceremony are to be reformed. A committee led by Rev. T. J. McKay will draft an agreement requiring adequate identification and evidence of moral fitness for presenters to a mediator. A clause bars remarriage to those guilty of divorce.
The recently organized Ward 7 Republicans endorsed Biata Case Connaway for elite senator Frea Sheetea for representative and W Bangs for trustee with Himer Stout as chairman and Taylor Gronalnger as secretary. A resolution supporting these nominees was adopted Monday night. In other news Baby Burned to Death in Chicago and two deaths noted in Pasadena with Colgate and Marlintown figures mentioned.
The report details John Hamilton killed by a falling object and James McKinney fatally stricken while working. Capt. Albert Meurer, 28 years in fire service, was injured in the Bowen-Berril fire and later died from lung complications. Four horses drew the heavy contraption as authorities described the scene.
The city council Monday night introduced an ordinance to tax gas mains at three cents per foot on lateral mains. Frank Fishback led the measure, arguing the city needs the revenue. Central data estimated annual revenue around $50,001.
Cleveland electric railway company abandons six-ticket quarter plan effective last month and reverts to old one-dollar ticket system. The move follows universal transfer backlash and amid agitation over fare plans. Officials say the shift does not threaten Johnsons three cent fare plans.
A string of brief items from Crawfordsville to Muncie notes upcoming social and political events, business plans, and local accidents. Highlights include a May county convention, lodge purchases, wage talks, and several obituaries with ages and towns.
City clerk Fogarty presented a controversial public reading Monday night using a long lighting ordinance. He struggled with the dense legal phrasing while attempting to deliver the speech in a fighter’s cadence, finally finishing after forty two pages.
Constantinople reports the sultan values the Cramps of Philadelphia for warship work. He has ordered another cruiser from the same firm. The planned vessel will cost over 3 million dollars.
An Indianapolis man describes years of back pain from kidney weakness caused by overwork. After trying various medicines he credits Doan's Kidney Pills, bought from Henry J. Haseler’s drug store, with curing his ache and weakness. The testimonial notes a rapid improvement and no need for surgery discussed in a physician’s view.
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