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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 29, 1907

Page

2

Hughes the Orator at Southern Indiana Teachers Meet

Caleb Millshall filled the Thursday session of the Southern Indiana teachers association with two general handshakes. Dr. E. B. Bryan presided and introduced Prof. Howard Laultison who spoke on The Spirit of the Teacher. Dr. Edwin H. Hughes followed with The Prototype of Teachers in Fiction. Attendance aimed for 3,000 by Friday night with officers to be chosen Saturday morning. Afternoon session planned at Tomlinson High School and the evening event at Catch Mills Hall.

Caleb Millshall Southern Indiana ‘Teachers’ Association Tomlinson Hs Catch Mills Hall

Men of Wealth Retrench Amid Wall Street Slump

Wall Street prices have tumbled causing a $2 billion decline in stock and bond values and prompting multi millionaires to retrench. Tradesmen report a sweeping economy among the wealthy with an estimated $50 million cut. Jewelers builders art dealers yacht makers florists and auto dealers suffer while savers hold spending. Department stores report their Easter finery sales for women the heaviest in history.

Wall St

Maxim Gorky Ill in Rome Feared Death Near

A Rome dispatch reports Russian writer Maxim Gorky seriously ill with consumption. Death feared as status worsens.

Scrippa-McRae Press Association London Rome Exchange Telegraph Maxim Gorky

Old Sores Cured by The Household Surgeon

Druggists refund money if Dr Porter s Antiseptic Healing Oil fails. The ad touts cure for sores with Household Surgeon and promises a money back guarantee of 250 dollars.

Train Wreck Killings Prompt Criminal Carelessness Probe

Colton Cal March 29 The Southern Pacific tourist train wreck yesterday near Colton killed 28 and injured many. Most victims were Italian laborers bound from New Orleans to San Francisco. George L Sharp of Muncie Ind and railway mail clerk Washie survived. The inquiry targets two weighing on the switch open by crew members I R Alvord W K Davis I G Guesenmeyer held on bail.

Southern Pacific New Orleans San Franciscvo George L. Sharp Muncie Ind Washie Thomas Davis Tucson Aziz Julius Kretch Coraspolish Cora Starkey Bowie Texas Wormington Golden Jones Florence Roberts Miss Roberts I. R. Alvord W. K. Davis I. G. Guese

Boy Wanderer Found After School Note Incident

Michael Haniahan a 13 year old boy wandered the streets in the early hours Friday. He was taken to the police station and later returned home by his father Thomas Haniahan of 23038 N Illinois Ave. The boy said he had been sent home from school Monday afternoon with a note but was afraid to deliver it and spent the time wandering.

Michael Haniahan Thomas Haniahan N. Illinois Jr

Guest of Fairbanks Delights Roosevelt in Indianapolis Dedication

Vice-President Fairbanks will host President Theodore Roosevelt in Indianapolis on May 30 for the Lawton monument dedication. A luncheon at Fairbanks’s N Meridian Street home will honor the president with a select group, and Roosevelt's party includes cousin W E Roosevelt of New York Dr E M Rixey and Secretary Loeb.

Indianapolis Lawton Monument N. Meridian St W. E. Roosevelt New York E. M. Rixey Loeb

Asylum for Jennie Burch Ordered After Verdict

Carmel New York March 2 The jury found Jennie Burch age six not guilty by reason of insanity of poisoning the Winship child Judge Miller ordered her committed to the asylum for the criminal insane She will be taken to Matteawan.

Death by Own Action in City Park

Elbere Miller of 2306 Columbia Ave took carbolic acid in University Park Thursday night and died soon after at City Hospital. Passersby heard screams around 6, saw her at the park, then she was taken to the hospital. Married to Dr Fletcher Hodges of 2 W New York St. The husband, a cementer, noted a year-long health decline and recent despondency. She had gone to her physician earlier in the day but did not return.

Fletcher Hodges New York St

Booker T. Washington to Lecture at Bethel Church

Booker T. Washington, renowned educator and civil rights figure, will lecture at Bethel M E church on Vermont Street Tuesday night under Colored Y M C A auspices. He travels from Nashville and will speak from Tuesday 3 PM to Wednesday noon before heading to Purdue University Lafayette for a separate address. Washington will be accompanied by his son and treated with respect befitting his status as a leading national representative of his race.

Bethel M. E Vermont St Colored Y. M. C. A Washington Nashville Tenn Lafayette Agricultural Department Purdue Univer Indianapolis Bethel Church Tomlinson Hall

Scots Rite Convocation Confers 32nd Degree on 99 Members

The forty second annual convocation of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Valley of Indianapolis closed Thursday night with the conferring of the thirty second degree on a class of 99. Total registration reached 1,488, the largest attendance in the order's history at the dinner.

Valley of Indianapolis

Blood as Police of the Body in Postum Ad

An advertisement argues that pure red blood built by food wards off disease. A Western lawyer credits Postum Food Coffee with curing Bright's disease symptoms after stopping coffee. It promotes Postum and Grape-Nuts as blood-building products from Postum Co. Battle Creek.

Bright Postum Postum Co Battle Creek Mich

Society Notes From The Indianapolis Sun Social Calendar

Miss Dora Wallace of Cambridge City and Miss Lulu Moorman of Richmond are guests of Mrs. Frank Clouds. Mrs. Emsley Johnson will host an informal supper honoring Greenfield friends. Central Union Telephone hosts a pie social on Friday April 5 at 15 W New York St with ladies invited. Various weddings and engagements noted across the city including Miss Lucy May Beuer and Mr. Hiram Raffensperger on April 11 and Miss Edith Olsen and Mr. Earl Wayne Lawson on April 10. Mrs. Thomas Taggart and Nora travel to French Lick. Several clubs and individuals host showers, dinners, and other gatherings, with floral Easter decor.

Dora Wallace Cambridge City Lulu Moorman Richmond Frank Clouds Cherry Grove Central Union Telephone Company New York-st Lucy May Beuer Hiram J. Raffensperger George Bauer N. Illinois-sr Edith Olsen c Earl Wayne Lawson Elizabeth Owen Irvington

Six Children Burned In Basin Gas Explosion

Six children were seriously burned when a ball rolled into a catch basin and gas exploded after a lighted match was used to locate the ball. A sheet of flame enveloped the youngsters as their clothing caught fire. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon in Cleveland as rescuers attended the scene.

Prof Hagaman's Crusade Opens Spiritualist Convention

Prof J D Hagaman has declared a crusade against mediums as the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists begins its third annual convention at Orpheum hall in Indianapolis. The event runs Friday through Sunday with advertised messages and an open invitation to the public.

Indiana State Association of Spiritualists Orpheum Hall N. Delaware St

The Handy Doctor In Your Vest Pocket

An enamel box titled The Handy Doctor In Your Vest Pocket offers Cascarets as a portable health aid. The copy markets six candy tablets claimed to exercise bowels, improve digestion, and prevent illness by strengthening bowel muscles, urging purchase of the genuine Sterling Remedy Company product stamped CC.

West Pocket Sterling Remedy Company

Civic Art association formed for city beauty

At a meeting of directors from the Commercial club Civic Improvement association Park committee Bridge and Streams commission and Boulevard commission permission was given to form a new organization named the Civic Art association to promote movements for the beauty of the city.

The Civic Art Association

Atkins Firm Publishes Fiftieth Anniversary Souvenir

E. A. Atkins & Company issues a Fiftieth Anniversary Souvenir Book to mark fifty years of existence and growth. The firm highlights its history and achievements while presenting the publication as a reminder of the finest laws on earth.

Atkins & Company

Prince Oscar Likely to Enter Harvard University

A Cambridge report through a relative states Prince Oscar, fifth son of Emperor William, will probably enroll at Harvard University in the coming fall, based on a seminar resident closely tied to college affairs.

Scripps-Methue Presa Association Cambridge Mass Osely Oscar Emperor Witham Harvard University

Terrible slaughter reported in Roumania bombardment

Budapest dispatch says peasants were slaughtered after government orders to bombard rebel fle inges. In one day nearly 10 prisoners killed and villages destroyed. In Vierus and surrounding villages about 50 killed and 30 wounded. Brailestie and another town suffered 175 killed and 50 wounded.

Roumania Vierus Vages Brailestie

Archie Out for Drive With Roosevelt Son at White House

Washington March 9 President Roosevelt yesterday afternoon drove with his new son Archie in the grounds at the White House quarantine there is lifted Archie has recovered from the napn theria and the baby is reported well The event marks a return to normal after the birth uncertainty and the public interest in the first weeks of Archie Roosevelt's life.

Roosevelt Archie White House

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