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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1910
Page
9
A serialized tale recounts George Rand's aluminum stock swindle plan, using public subscriptions to fund United States Aluminum. Rand seeks control via 25 percent cash deposits and later misleads Hannock as millions flood in. The scheme hinges on timing, trust, and deceptive deposits, with a cliffhanger ending.
The narrative follows George Rand and his mentor Hannock as they pursue a vast aluminum trust. It traces Rand’s alignment with a crooked “inside the law” father, the formation of the United States Aluminum company, and how control of European power plants and clay deposits propelled him to wealth, amid reforms and political entanglements.
At a two-building blaze on Pitkin avenue Brownsville crowds watched Capt. Isaac Frank and a civilian rescue Mrs Agron Reiser and her newborn from a third story window. Fire and smoke drove rescues as Officer Hellman and Marcus Palley aided including saving a nurse, a girl and other residents. Sixteen families displaced. Fire from rear store caused $7500 damage.
Harry Goldberg a Green Castle merchant filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court on Monday showing liabilities of 9190.07 with a substantial share owed to Indianapolis wholesale merchants and assets of 3304.25.
Beauty expert Claribel Montague advises not drenching the head with water when hair is dusty. Use a dry shampoo by mixing four ounces of therox with four ounces of orms root. Lightly lift powder through the hair and brush out to remove dust and dirt. Therox reportedly leaves the hair glossy and well styled.
A destitute man, dressed poorly but with a pompous air, challenged a bar regulars by ordering ink and nicotine then drank repeatedly. After a dispute over payment, the bartender assaulted him, and the man left with his companion. He later returned to ask if he had been bold enough.
Paris May 8 Hotel management will be raised to the status of an exact science at a school opening here next fall. The two year program will give students a thorough education in all a modern hotel manager should know and diplomas will be issued to those who qualify.
The program trains in kitchen wine cellar and apartment economy with foreign languages architecture electricity and sanitary engineering. The school is started by the association of hotel managers.
E R Gates, a clerk in the city delivery division, resigns his post after nine years of service. Oliver B Newhouse, a substitute, is appointed to replace Gates.
In Berlin a court heard Fritz Kluge defraud Arthur Koppel Berlin of about 126000 dollars through a gambling spree. He traveled to Paris for baccarat, spent eighteen hours calculating a three-based system, and never spent money he had won believing it brought luck. He carried out most winnings intact.
A companion journeyed from Paris to Bertin without eating to avoid spending 5000 dollars won in baccarat. He kept a prayer book, prayed thrice daily, while robbing his employers. Kluge, age 34, a shy student, rose rapidly with Koppels, trusted as a capable executive.
Berlin May 3 A railway tram in Cologne yielded a curious find when a conductor discovered an urn containing the ashes of a carpenter from Neuwoid. The thief, thinking it a meal container, stole the urn from a railway carriage and abandoned it on the tram after realizing its true contents.
Paris May 3 A French statistician claims exact figures on conjugal felicity in Paris. He reports 1 362 wives left husbands, 2 371 husbands left wives, 4 120 separations by mutual consent, 191 023 couples in a state of war, 162 320 detest each other yet stay, 510 132 habit indifference, 2 102 couples considered happy but not, and seven couples truly living together in wedlock. The origin and method of the survey are unspecified.
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