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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
6
Stanford announces plans to send its relay squad to Georgetown Virginia next March for the great intercollegiate event. Leon Hawhey notes Stanford believes Moulton’s old relay team, recently clocked at three minutes 24 seconds, is beaten by Stanford by about 50 seconds.
Indianapolis and Columbus lead the early race as the new American association struggles with weak attendance and uneven play. Managers hope road hold and home improvements will lift interest and improve fielding and pitching as the season progresses. Emil Fertig stays optimistic about crowds and the club's future.
The piece highlights Greminger as a faultless Boston third baseman and notes a quiet build toward racing season in Indianapolis. It also mentions California Pennsylvania field meet canceled for May 10, Yale setting new sporting records, Reginald Van derbdilt's three hour New York to New Haven auto run, and Kid McCoy seeking a match with Al Wenig ahead of Fort Erie, with wife’s concern noted.
Princeton and Cornell track teams resume after ten days work with Sears ready for 10 and 2 yard dashes and Vonnegut hailed as top hurdler. A training table for 25 candidates is in place as DePauw faces Notre Dame, stirring state talks on Methodist state titles. Percy Payne leads golf chatter amid Notre Dame’s usual strength.
Cincinnati supplies the middle west with baseballs produced in factories employing about 125 workers. The process uses scrap from shoe factories, slow drying periods, and hand sewing by women. A ball takes six weeks to complete, selling from three cents to 1.25 dollars, with five cent balls most common. The trade has quadrupled in five years.
The Riverview factory crafts footballs with skins cut per pattern and sewn by machine while girls finish stuffing and lacing. Each ball passes seven hands. boxing gloves, a Cincinnati product, go through about four. Daily output averages 150 pairs of gloves and roughly 35,000 bats are made yearly. Most bats use ash timber, with only the cheapest grade from poplar.
The article notes Corbett plans a crouching stance inspired by Fitzsimmons and the champion, proposing he train to kneel before matches. It suggests this posture could surprise Jeffries and entertain spectators, though current odds on a bout remain uncertain and contingent on scheduling.
Terry McGovern clashes with the owner of a rival horse at a New York speedway over a three minute pace. The quarrel escalates to a heated exchange with threats and a $100 side bet offered but not placed as both men agree to postpone. Eleanor, a mare, is cited in the overheated remarks as part of the background. The rival horse tires and the confrontation remains tense but nonphysical.
Two thousand stove molders in Detroit walk out in sympathy with Buhl stamping company workers. The plant keeps nonunion men inside with meals and beds as strikers seal the works. They refuse to let nonunionists leave or bring in provisions, aiming to force quits.
In Washington on Friday the Senate took up a bill opening 413,124 acres of Rosebud reservation in South Dakota to free homesteads after routine business. In the House Speaker Henderson read Moody's resignation letter as Navy secretary and the House resumed debating the District of Columbia appropriation bill.
Mrs Sarah Decker of Denver withdraws from the race leaving two candidates Mrs Demies T Denison of New York and Mrs Robert J Bur dette with Denison favored. In New York May 3 financial circles report President Lind say Coleman may retire soon and be replaced by Col Albert A Pope who resigned as board chair. A Pope syndicate including Sen D Rockefeller Jr and James B R Keene reportedly controls a majority, with Lozier and Gormuly holdings also passing to the group.
An Indianapolis hunter who toured the West reports abundant targets across Colorado Nebraska and Nevada with snipe curlew goose swan crane quail prairie chicken and more in season. He says western states offer constant hunting opportunities despite limits and remains a sportsman’s paradise.
May 3 1910s. Thomas Bailey jailed in Owingsville Kentucky after killing Alex Lemaster who allegedly won Bailey control over his wife. A mob is forming to hang the prisoner, but the sheriff guards the jail and will resist any attempt.
The Board of Works toured Irvington on Friday planning water mains. It aims to have water connections throughout the town before mid summer. Progress continues on the Rural St Main, linking the city and Irvington as quickly as possible.
Otis Densford, 22, of 19% North Meridian Street, narrowly escaped being crushed by a Big Four passenger train at the West Twelfth street crossing. His wagon was struck, horse killed, wagon wrecked, but Densford survived with a scalp wound and bruises. He was treated at St Vincent's Hospital. doctors found no brain concussion or internal injuries. No flagman at crossing. engineer signaled after bystander alerted. Train crew claimed speed about ten miles an hour. some say they were rushing to regain time north of Sixteenth Street. Locals report frequent narrow escapes at this crossing.
An Indianapolis citizen, W. H. Hicks, reports severe left kidney pain eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He bought them at Henry J. Huder's drug store and noted quick relief, with his wife also seeing loins and kidney pain diminish. Sold by all dealers. 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY, sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Dandylions leaving, fresh paint signs, canvass and shoes at .98. No clear people, places, dates, or events. Summarizes a jumble of urban storefront cues without a coherent incident or outcome.
An advertisement proclaims a new remedy called D D D discovered by Dr. Decatur Dennis. It touts dramatic skin disease cures with full proofs, citing Mr. Charles Jacobs with psoriasis cured in 45 days and Sammy Winkey in three weeks, claiming permanent results after three years in Jacobs.
An appeal presses for widespread print of a medicament claiming to cure skin diseases quickly and permanently. The ad cites cases of psoriasis and eczema, photographed for impact, and urges readers to seek D D D therapy available from the D D D Company at 70 LaSalle Street in Chicago, noting hospital and physician use and a claimed three to nine day treatment window.
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