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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1910
Page
10
London dated report on Charles Spencer of Kent detailing a 42 day fast to study hunger as medicine. He notes initial hunger pain, eventual relief, then cautious refeeding after hunger returns. Spencer plans a broader trial with his wife joining.
Washington May 16 Prohibition boosts moonshine making and blockading says Internal Revenue Commissioner Cabell to the house appropriations subcommittee. He cites large territorial shifts to no license and a flood of cases in dry states. Georgia counts 24 distilleries seized last year versus 623 to June 30 1909. Oklahoma shows about threefold rise in arrests after going dry.
In Flatbush's Snyder Avenue station Captain Creamer told married patrolmen to fund a charity gift for the first baby born to their wives. The plan, aimed at celebrating family growth, would collect several hundred dollars, later saved in a bank until the child is 21.
In Little Rock on May 16 Dock McLain a Black man who allegedly viciously assaulted Benest Hale a white man at Ashdown on April 2 was seized from two deputy sheriffs by two men and hanged.
A newspaper promotes reading The Spendthrift, urging women to heed its lessons on marriage finance. It portrays Frances Ward, a spendthrift wife, and Richard Ward, whose lover pays the price of lavish spending. The piece warns against extravagance, urging readers to value economy, support, and partnership in marriage.
Hartley Dale, a famed playwright, faces fame and guilt after a late-night encounter with a pale, shabby man who confronts him about his treatment of Dorothy Barnes. A thunderstorm, a pistol, and a fatal flash end the scene as the intruder vanishes into rain and a passing policeman.
Paris reports Count de Lur Saluces confronted a shopkeeper selling counterfeit Sauterne with genuine trademarks. A municipal lab analysis confirmed the fake. The dealer was convicted, sentenced to six months in prison and fined $1,000.
In Washington Indiana on May 16 striking B and O workers learned the paymaster’s notice placed them outside the regular shop payroll. They were to be paid at the station and found that two hours of morning work was not paid.
A brief note records Bil Jake threatening to break up a suffragette meeting the other night. The report states that Jake did not carry out his plan, according to Life.
A New York mother appealed for blood to save Dora Blumenthal, a 10 year old in hospital since April 23 after foot amputation. By day’s end 12 responses arrived, including three women, with donors willing to help though no reward was expected.
New York May 16 A Passaic New Jersey census enumerator reports a house with 292 occupants including 12 families whose boarders sleep there by night and day workers fill all rooms averaging eight and a half per room. The dwelling lacks beds with occupants sleeping on straw while straw is piled during the day.
Crawfordsville Ind May 16 Virgil Badgley seven year old boy who in a fall of fifteen feet into a basement of a house where his father worked burst an eyeball and after regaining consciousness said I guess I dont want to be a carpenter.
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