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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1910
Page
2
A Republican Ninth district Indiana candidate, Neal recalls his shorthand training aiding composure amid a raucous Lebanon convention. He notes reporters must record verbatim remarks, keep a poker face, and concentrate on facts despite excitement and pressure.
Conductor Connor Hine, 26, told friends he would not work tonight after a dispute over $16. He drank ironbrew at a saloon on West Washington, then collapsed from carbolic acid exposure. He survived after hospital treatment, stating the shortage in his streetcar company account as motive. He rents a room near Geisendorf and New York Streets.
Addison C. Harris attorney for the Society of the Good Shepherd sought a new trial for Mamie Smith who won a 4000 dollar judgment in circuit court. He filed affidavits from two witnesses claiming overheard comments by juror Anton Holtzhausen and asked for permission to file additional affidavits before the motion.
The Board of Works may order Indiana Union Traction to establish a W minute service on the College avenue line from the terminus to Forty second street as part of the current hourly schedule adjustments.
Indiana State Board of Health hosts a corridor exhibit at the statehouse showing that two drops of 1 percent silver nitrate at birth could prevent one third of blindness. Dr. J N Hurty urges new legislation making neglect by physicians or midwives a crime, arguing early prevention saves lives and state costs.
In Tipton, Mrs. Alvira Rains sues to free her daughter Lodel Harlan from confinement at Indiana Girls' School Clermont claiming fraud and lack of mother’s notice. The suit alleges the aunt instigated the dismissal and commitment in under two hours.
State examiners reviewed Nineveh township accounts and found J B Foxworthy 1904 administration clean while criticizing Thomas W Cravens 1905 to 1908 for irregularities. He allegedly sold supplies in his name totaling over 300 dollars and undercounted 90 and 160 dollars in 1907. E E Cobb 1909 is credited with careful administration.
At Bloomingdale Glens the merchant association picnic featured a morning and afternoon baseball game won 75 to 40. Forty attendees from Indianapolis played or watched, with a noon chicken dinner and evening luncheon before returning home on a special train. Notable players included Henry Kahn and Arthur Vonnegut among twenty six attendees.
The Indianapolis board of health plans a legislative push for a special tax levy on assessable city property to fund hospital improvements. They seek $250,000 to $300,000 from the city council for urgent needs and aim to build a contagious disease hospital a children s hospital and a pathological laboratory.
Charles W Fairbanks will deliver an address at the Christian Endeavor rally at the Christian church on Columbia avenue and Seventeenth street Sunday at 8 pm. The meeting will feature special choir music and is eagerly anticipated. Also advertised is a sale of blue serge suits made to measure for 10.75 dollars by S. J. Singer & Sons, 43 W. Washington st.
Will Davis, 29, colored, needed funds for shoes but stole a pair from a store after deciding against work and money. Bicyclemen Murphy and Hanks detained him. Judge Collins fined him $1 and costs and sentenced him to 180 days in the workhouse. An all wool suit advertises for sale with a perfect fit guarantee.
The Board of Works after a conference with corporation counsel J B Kealing decides to modify the Beech Grove Traction franchise to cap fares at five cents within the current city limits, with possible future boundary extensions. Also mentions a woolen mill and 72 stores promoting a Saturday suit special.
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