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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
3
An ad copy touts Cascarets as a health insurance in a vest pocket box. It claims six candy tablets stimulate bowel muscles like a massage, improve digestion, and prevent future ailments. It warns against laxatives and promotes genuine Sterling Remedy Company tablets stamped CCC.
Sylvester R. Rush, longtime Nebraska deputy U S district attorney, is promoted to assistant attorney general. He led prosecutions of Bartlett Richards and W O Comstock, plus Lieutenants Fred Hoyt Huntington and A R Todd. His jurisdiction expands to other western states amid coal land fraud cases in Wyoming.
A Newport girl crediting Grape-Nuts with health gains says she improved in school arithmetic to 100 and gained weight after starting the food. She notes the product’s digestibility and brain nourishment, urging parents to provide it for growing children and students.
A sensational claim circulated as a letter alleges the pastor of a wealthy church eloped with a 17 year old girl. The letter sparked local uproar as readers questioned its authenticity and potential impact on the church and community.
Nassau county district attorney assigns a county detective to gather evidence to arrest Rev Jere Isnode Cooke for eloping with 11 year old Floretta Whaley from Hempstead Long Island. A formal complaint by Floretta’s grandmother may follow while Bishop Burgess keeps the Cooke letter private. The case expands to Peekskill and Poughkeepsie where a decoy couple registered under different names.
Ferori, an Italian laborer from Memphis, Tenn., is being detained by police after he shook his fist at White House guards. He will be examined for sanity.
Heavy snow roared through Minneapolis on May 4 with streets wearing a Christmas time look. The scene described by Scripps-Howard reporters notes deep snowfall and slick conditions in the city.
City residents listed for births marriages and deaths with names ages and addresses. Reports include illnesses injuries and causes such as pulmonary consumption burns bronchitis peritonitis organic heart disease and accidental falls. Building permit notices cite several dwellings with costs ranging from 600 to 2300 dollars.
A list of Indiana business leaders and professionals includes Medford B. Wilson of Columbia National Bank and Thomas Taggart, Democratic National Committee chairman, among many others. The text notes many farmers as stockholders but withholds their names to keep investments private.
An 11 year old boy named Jack Kinney told Captain of Police Asche of his lost parents, a brother in a circus, and living on his own after moving to Indianapolis. Patrolman Huhn found him with Richard Seeright near Fairview park and the boy sought work at Atkins Law Works claiming to be nearly 15. Seeright may keep him if his story checks out.
The report lists bid prices for Wheat and Corn futures with multiple grades and delivery months, plus timothy and mixed feed prices. It records inspections by grade, weekly flour output, and stock levels across wheat oats rye and corn as of May 1907, with totals for cars and bushels and changes by date.
Peter Savage and Joseph Charnosky were sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and fined 500 dollars each by Judge Lynch for complicity in blowing up the Welch Congregational church in Edwardsville with dynamite.
SAN FRANCISCO May 4. Telephone service remains in partial paralysis though improved since Friday. Operators are now stationed at all exchanges and neither side shows signs of concessions.
Pittsburg Pa March 4 cattle supply light and steady. Choice cattle 5.80 to 6.00, prime 5.75 to 5005.75. Sheep receipts tight and steady with prime wethers 5.85 to 6.00 and lambs 5.00 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 16 loads steady with prime heavy hogs 6.75, medium workers and pigs 4.80 to 5.90.
Scripps-Meline reports Cincinnati livestock receipts for May 4. Cattle receipts 227 steady with butcher steers at 4.65 to 5.50 and extra up to 5.60. hogs 1,354 strong with good to choice 6.24 to 6.46 and extras 6.50 range. sheep 11 steady with lambs extras up to 7.24 and spring lambs 7.00 to 9.00.
Chicago March 4 cattle receipts 200 steady hog receipts 14 000 down some 6 6 50 per cwt mixed 6 30 6 52 46 heavy 6 30 6 50 pigs 5 90 6 35 sheep 2 000 steady unchanged top lines show market activity and price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and pigs based on reported receipts
Chicago market bulletin lists butters creamery margarine poultry and cheese items with pricing. Butter extra 20 to 13 cents. poultry turkeys 12 cents, chickens 12 1 2 cents, ducks 18 cents. geese 5.00 7.00 per dozen. Cheeses Twins 18 14c, Young Americas 14 1 sc.
A wall at the Chuylsecar dam gave way trapping about 40 men beneath masonry and floodwater. Reports say 15 to 20 workers died, 33 injured, with several others unaccounted for. The TLS CoN crews and local authorities search the debris.
Superior Court Judge Vinson Carter ruled the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examination may refuse to examine or license John Am broke Barnett an osteopathic physician. Barnett had Diploma from Sail Cailoee of Osteopathy Des Moines two years study. board required four year medical course. Court declined to compel examination orLicensing. upheld policy to elevate medical profession.
The iron ore steamer James H. Reed with thirty aboard ran aground in a fog and snowstorm near Grosse Point Lighthouse. Evanston life savers reached the ship at 11 p.m. and attempts to refloat it continued into the night as crews described the heavy weather as the cause.
The Shriners advance guard begins arriving in Angeles California on May 4 2008 with delegations expected from Omaha Duluth Minneapolis and St Paul. Workmen labor to unfurl bunting lights flags banners lanterns flowers ferns and palms to finish decorations for the event.
A group of well to do boys from the North side appeared before Judge Stubbs Saturday morning. The Juvenile Court judge lectured them and withheld sentence, ordering supervision and probation rather than immediate punishment.
Navy officials learned from newspapers that Commander Fullam placed under arrest several Nicaraguan policemen and soldiers after they assaulted an American negro named Ceveral Davi Puerty Cortez in Honduras. This marks the second such action in a month, aiming to uphold law and order with administration approval.
Olver Goldsmith of Snyder shot and likely mortally wounded Bedford Kirk his brother in law. Goldsmith rode off on Kirk s horse and cut telephone wires toward the south. Ambushed near the Red River officers opened fire and a duel followed with six shots. Goldsmith was wounded and fled into Texas.
Frank Ry bandt, in a frenzy, hung his daughter by the feet to the ceiling and attempted to kill his wife. He was removed to a Chicago detention hospital this morning for treatment.
A Midwestern market list shows prices for produce and groceries including artichokes 5c each Florida beans 50 per peck and various vegetables I and fruits such as tomatoes 1b each onions per peck five cents and citrus and berries with items like strawberries 13 3e per quart apples 40 60c per peck and more for meats eggs and seafood listed with unit prices and weights.
Oak sole 27 38c hemlock sole 23 s5c harness leather 42 44c skirting leather 46 48c single strap trace leather 49 53c extra short lap leather belting 50 and 10 percent discount Standard leather belting 60 percent discount
May 3 market summary from Weltac Press Association lists pork quiet with spot at 17.25 to 17.00 per hundredweight, lard steady 8.85 to 8.95, tallow steady 6 to 6.5, butter at 27 to 26 cents, eggs 21 to 18 cents, full cream cheese 15 cents. Prices show limited movement across meat and dairy commodities in New York.
La Crosse officer says Jillian Setters abducted her 11 year old son from former husband William Mallette. The boy, seen last November, was located with his mother in Indianapolis after detectives traced her to a Flat on Prospects Street. James Setters accompanied Jillian on the police trip.
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