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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1902
Page
14
Indianapolis lists eight grain elevators with capacity 1 063 000 bushels and current 193 000 bushels on hand. Average per capita grain use implies five weeks of bread staples in city limits. If fully stocked, supply could stretch to nearly six months. Consumption patterns show corn dominates, with 260 pounds per 670 overall grain pounds.
New York May 12 at the annual meeting of the American Bible Society Abwai reported receipts of 433 and cash balance at home and abroad 1 733. This marked an increase of 164 663 over last year. The society's issues in 56 years totaled 10 617 225.
In Long Island City magistrate Connorton ruled that wives must be in bed by 10 pm with husband consent if out later. He warned penalties without redress for violations as Daniel Raphael, Astoria, faced assault charges after his wife Ida testified of a kicked ankle and bruises. Raphael claimed marriage to please his parents and complained of her dances and late nights. The magistrate declined to punish Raphael and advised separation in civil court.
New York May 12 J 5 Baldwin of California was arrested at the Fifty-first Street station for intoxication after officers noted a satchel bulging with diamonds and money protruding from it. He was locked up to await further questioning.
An ex gambler recalls a near ruin from poker in a border town. He tells how a hallucinatory bluff led to a massive loss, then a stranger in Omaha taught him cent ante, turning the tale into a cautionary memory of risk and salvation.
The speaker recalls agreeing to a game that would decide who pays fare across a bridge. He won about $600, his friend's pocketknife, and notes from selling a threshing outfit, then took a sleeping car back to Indiana.
On the Havana steamer a slender woman, Mrs Tomas Estrada Palma, vows to uplift Cuban women and educate children. She speaks of loving three countries and hopes Cuba will enter a new era as her husband becomes president. The Palma family lived in Orange County New York where her husband ran a boys’ school.
In Omaha on May 12 15-year-old Donald Eller son of Judge J W Eller died after Christian Science treatment no physician was summoned neighbors complained mayor ordered city physician to intervene Eller says he sought Reader Dr Chadwick of the church who had charge since the case began and Donald died this morning the family believed a gastric fever not typhoid
May 12 in New York a note dropped by stormes Adler led Annie C. Dion to uncover a secret marriage. The note, signed Louise and addressed to a husband, prompted Dion to investigate and return to her parents on Park Avenue after learning she had been married only a few months.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on May 12 Conrad Bock awoke from a dream of his father’s death as the father Louis C Bock fell while seeking medicine after a night illness. The fall caused the father’s death within a half hour. At Hanover Pennsylvania on May 12 Jacob Gettlinger who died at Sancyville aged unknown will be buried in a grave he dug himself years earlier and marked by a tombstone bearing his name and birth date.
An old classified style advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a permanent cure for cancer, eczema, rheumatism, and all blood poisons. It claims thousands cured, promises a free medical sample by writing to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, and lists Indianapolis availability with a suggested local address.
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