Knickerbocker Disaster Reflected In Grim Train Tale
An engineer facing a deadly crash recalls a humorous story about a boy’s scalp graft with dog hide while the Knickerbocker, racing toward a record, nears obstruction at Thorntown. The crash injures many aboard, but the fireman reacts to save the engineer. Nearby, Gladys learns Edmund Morrill plans to propose to his sister’s friend as tensions arise between love and duty amid a dramatic hospital room scene.
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Big Four
Chicago
St. Louis
Knickerbocker
Lafayette
Thorntown
Lafe Pence
Pence
Congress
Colorado
Washington
Triple Invitation Snaps Gladys Love Triangle
Gladys Burton, a clerk at Stone & Hecker, grows certain Edmund Merrill is the nicest man she knows though an imaginary fiancée haunts her. When Edmund invites her to theater with his fiancée Alice Harcourt, Gladys is swept into a social visit that hints at a complex love entanglement.
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Edmund
Glady
Gladys
Miss Burton
Alice
Job Waiting for Good Athlete
In New York on May 20 Rev. E. L. Stoddard, rector of St. John's P. E. church in Jersey City, offered a job to any athletic man who would beat a wife-beater each morning. He said courts fail to help, citing a case of a woman forced to live with her husband’s family and give him her wages while she receives nothing.
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China
New York
Jersey City
E. L. Stoddard
St. John’s P. E. Church
the Heights
Sho
Heard About Town Pie Plea Sparks Casual Banter
A man with a wheat cake face and pork and bean complexion jokes with a new waiter about dessert. The waiter stands proud, eyes described as golden orbs above the horizon, while the scene hints at a humorous street-side chatter.
Lightning and pie in a curious old tale
A fragment presents a humorous scene of a hungry man seeking la mode ice cream and a pun about cheese. An Indianapolis storyteller recalls a barber’s lightning tale, describing a narrow escape when lightning nearly struck a razor and a powder mill fire involving four bushels of gunpowder.
Western artists feature at Herron institute exhibit
The Society of Western Artists showcase draws works from Denver, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Indianapolis and Detroit. Notable pieces include Osthaus of Toledo with Siesta and hunting dogs, Waldeck’s Companions, Stoddard’s Sunday Morning, Steele’s The Old Mill, Adama’s The Closing of an Autumn Day, Sylvester’s The Vista, Harney’s chickens and Maury’s three child portraits. The show runs through May 28 with free public viewing daily until 10 pm. visitors from San Francisco, Mexico City, Pittsburg and Hamburg have attended.
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Society of Western Artists
Herron Art Institute
Denver
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Toledo
Indianapolis
Detroit
Art School
Carl. G. Waldeck
F. L. Stoddard
T. C. Steele
Lieber’s
J. Ottis Adama
Fred Sylvester
Paul Harney
Cornelia Maury
Stangers
San Francisco
Mexico City
Pittsburg
Hamburg
Germany
Indiana
Modern Conveniences Drive Indianapolis Remodeling
The renting public demands modern conveniences as spring remodeling surges in Indianapolis. Builders cite renter independence and vacancy pressure, with many small dwellings being built by jobbers. Overall volume is down from last year, similar to spring 1900, while Indianapolis lags behind other cities in activity.
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Indianapolis
Miller
J. C. Adams
The
Adams Brick Company
System Found for Winning at Monte Carlo Falls Short
New York May 20 Louis Royolo succeeded in a Monte Carlo scheme only to lose the money he persuaded a friend to invest. Lord Roslyn’s system failed Royolo hoarded funds and sailed to Genoa then New York aboard the Leon XII detained at Ellis Island after presenting naturalization papers. Andrew Dodin and his brother William Dodin were involved. immigration authorities stepped in as the case unfolded.
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New York
Louis Royolto
Lord Roslyn
Monte Carlo
Royolo
Ellis Island
Royale
Andrew Dodin
Louis
Andrew
Dodin
Royalo
Genoa
William
Eighty-fourth St
Immigration
Titus
Elevator stunt at Monument Place caused laughs and accidents
A malfunctioning hotel elevator near English's hotel on Monument Place produced a comic mishap when a guest toppled from a chair into the sidewalk as a trunk rose up with a dusky porter cussing in surprise. Nearby, Postoffice workspaces undergo changes with stamp windows moving south and money order operations expanding to accommodate rising bank vault cash.
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Monument Place
Wza
Beef Trust
Money Order Department
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the Progress Clothing Store
Stevenson Big Innuanarouss NG
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Morrill
Gladys Burton
Mercantile House of Stone & Hecker
Edmund Merrill
Eamund
Gandy
Hooper
Sweetheast
Flowsense
Lilith
What Is
Castoria
Pany
Walter
N Feil
Pennsylvania ST
GEM Laundry Si
Indiana Ave
Johann Moris Farina
EAU DE Cologne
Sayres &Co
Indianapolis Gas Co
Majestic Building
Rouse & Mayhew Opticiana
Woodtine
E. S. Wells
N. J
U. B.A
Deutsch Tailoring Co
South Himnolstte
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