Overland Hazard Delays Speedway Contests for Hour
About 15000 spectators pack the track to watch speedway races as the main contests are delayed for a full hour due to hazards on the wooden hill course.
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28 May 1910
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1910
Page
1
Wheeler Schebler Trophy Entries At EBACE
Entries listed for the Wheeler Schebler trophy race at EBACE with cars in 600 cubic inch limit and various marques such as Marmon Buick Chevrolet and Nash. Saturday program includes one mile record trials then stock chassis events and ten mile free for all races with a two hundred mile Wheeler Schebler event for cars under 600 cubic inches.
Autos For Use Of Veterans Is New Suggestion
Indianapolis crowds pack the Speedway on Saturday for the second day of record auto speed events. A hazard race opened the program, with six drivers and a final won by Myers in 3:28.52. Weather stays ideal as 200 mile Wheeler Schebler trophy race looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Speedway
Gregg
Caird
McGee
Ricketts
Myers
Shessier
McGe
Auto Time Destroyers
Reed
Wyland
eeler-Schrebler
Special Speedway
Indiana
United States
Kincade
Chevrolet
Atlanta
Aitken
Dawson
Greiner
Tousey
Burman
Buick
Indianapolis
Chicago Record Herald
Eli F. Ritter
James H. Porter
Meridian Street
Vermont Street
Indiana National Guard
Sons of Veterans
Monument Place
Monument
Market Street
Capitol Avenue
Washington Street
Iilinoia Street
Crown Hill
Curtiss Delays 150 Mile Flight Amid Catskills Winds
In Albany on May 28 Glenn H. Curtiss could not start his 150 mile aeroplane flight to New York for the $10,000 New York World prize due to persistent gale conditions in the Catskills. He planned to reassess from his Rensselaer camp after dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Catskills
Glenn H. Curtiss
New York
New York World
Curties
Rensselaer
Insurgents win wire provision added to rail bill
Washington May 28 Insurgents secured a Senate victory by adding an amendment to the railroad bill placing interstate telegraph and telephone lines under the Interstate Commerce Commission. The move, opposed by reactionaries, shifted action on mergers to next week. Dolliver’s capitalization amendment failed 19 to 47 with several Republicans and some Democrats voting against it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brandagee
Dixon
Montana
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Dolliver
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Minneapolis Factories
A Saturday blaze in South Minneapolis razed six factories causing about 1.75 million dollars in damage. The Great Northern Implement warehouse district along Washington avenue to Third street and Sixth to Seventh avenues burned, with the Sixth Avenue Hotel among the losses. One man was fatally injured as St Paul engines aided local crews to control the fire and save lodgers in nearby hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sixth Avenue
Great Northern Implement Company
Washington Avenue
Third Street
Sixth
Seventh Avenues
Rock Island
Great Northern
Waterbury
Northwestern
Iceman in Mud Returns to Haunt Homes
A humorous local piece by Janice Conniston chronicles the recurring presence of the ice man. Residents grumble about muddy tracks and rising costs while acknowledging the welcome relief from heat his deliveries provide. The poem-like satire hints at civic action by a clubwoman to address the nuisance.
Estrada Ignores Surrender Demand as Surrounded Forces Fight On
Bluefields reports say Gen. Estrada, encircled in the provisional capital, rejected a surrender demand from President Madriz under a flag of truce. Rebels at Rama, held by Estrada’s forces, are under attack by Generals Lara and Chavarriia with superior numbers, isolating Rama from Bluefields and preventing aid to Estrada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Bluefields
Gen. Estrada
Madriz
Estrada
Rama
Lara
Chavarriia
Pluviose Sunk Submarine Still Lying in Channel
The submarine Pluviose, sunk with 27 men by the Pas de Calais, remains at the English Channel bed near Calais. Divers faced strong currents and danger as they probe the crushed hull seeking signs of survivors, while crowds watch in sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calais
Pas-de-Calais
English Channel
Strawn
Bacteriologist Koch Dies at 87 in Baden Baden
Berlin May 28 Dr Robert Koch world renowned bacteriologist died Friday afternoon at Baden Baden from a heart disease. He was 87 and had been in good health until a week ago. Born December 11, 1843 in Klausthal Hanover he discovered the tuberculosis bacilli in 1882 and the cholera bacillus in 1883. He was honored by Germany and France and visited the United States in 1908 for the tuberculosis congress in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Robert Koch
Baden- Baden
Klausthal
Hanover
Koch
India
Egypt
United States
Philadelphia
Man Scalded At Massillon Paper Plant
Massillon Ohio May 28 Mike Myers 35 a Hungsrao perhaps fatally burned after he fell into a vat of boiling straw and water at the Massillon Paper company plant where he worked
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon, O
Mike Myers
Massillon Paper Company
Governor seeks Democratic Zach Sweeney as Fish and Game head
Indiana Governor Marshall weighs a Democratic Zach Sweeney to succeed Dr. Sweeney as fish and game commissioner. The role pays 1200 dollars yearly, duties demand scientific zeal and independence. The governor says a suitable “crank” is needed and hopes to find one in the Democratic ranks, delaying action until after a southern trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweeney
Department of Fisheries and Game
Fish and Game
Indiana
Zachariah Sweeney
Crank
Fish and Squirrels
Democratic Party
Marshall
C. C. Deem
Dr. Sweeney
Department of Fish and Game
Prominent Indianapolis Attorney Horace E. Smith Dies at 53
Horace Emmett Smith 53 a leading attorney and lodge member died at 8 04 am Saturday at his home 1020 N Pennsylvania St after a four week illness He practiced about 20 years with Hawkins Smith Hawkins a Scottish Rite Mason and former Columbia club treasurer Born 1837 Pittsboro Ind he came to Indianapolis in 1866 educated at Butler and Harvard He is survived by his widow a brother Col Harry B Smith and two sisters Mrs Anna Greene and Mrs A B Tharpe Funeral plans not yet made likely from his residence Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Emmett Smith
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Street
Hawkins, Smith & Hawkins
Columbia Club
Anna Greene
A. B. Tharpe
Despondent Woman Attempts Suicide in City Home
Despondent Mrs. Virginia Bowen of 222 North Pine Street drank nearly a quart of medicine to end her life after quarrels with her husband. Two city dispensary physicians aided by Bicycle Policemen Todd and Schiangat saved her life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Bowen
Pine Street
Todd and
Schiangat
Lorimer defends senate seat amid vitriolic Tribune attack
Senator William E Lorimer denounces as vile conspirators those accusing him of bribery to win his U S senate seat. He rails at Medill McCormick and the Chicago Tribune charging manipulation of a bank opening to wreck his effort. He praises Lee O Niel Browne and says White wrote nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
William E. Lorimer
Mends
Lorimer
Chicago Tribune
Charles A. White
Lee O'Neil Browne
Ilinois House
Browne
The
White
Wiliam Lorimer
Miineis
United States Senate
Chicago
Tribune
Illinois
Ilinois
Lee O'Neill Browne
House of Representatives
Les O’nell Brown
Illinoia
Medill McCormick
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L. Chevrolet
A. Chevrolet
Knox
Oldfield
Glenn Gurfiss
Interstate Telegraph and Telephone Lines
Commerce Commission
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Sixth Avenue Hotel
Iceman
Janice Conniston
Hector
Nfe
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Viola Mertens
Iss
Sugar Trust
Charles R. Hetk
Zach Sweeney
Columbus
Gifford Pinchot
Horace E. Smith
Solon
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