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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
3
A. B. Wilson, missing for years, returns to Muncie Indiana and locates his wife and their child. He had disappeared without explanation, living a roving life in the West. The wife, shocked yet relieved, realizes her husband is alive.
A Richmond crowd halted Sack's Orange blossom burlesque company on Thursday night. Police escorted the performers from the theater to a hotel amid jeering followings. In nearby Griffinfield traffic halted as a freight engine jumped the track, blocking eight trains and suspending service.
A fragment list of obituaries marriages and incidents across Indiana towns. It notes Mrs. Lurena Starbuck deaths, voting activity, Thanksgiving turkeys, marriage booms in Monroe county, injuries from a gun burst, postmaster recommendations, and Amos Rusie’s recluse life in a Muncie suburb, among other scattered items from Rockville to Kokomo with brief legal and civic notes.
The notice lists multiple wholesale branches with street addresses and telephone numbers in Chicago area locales, including East Washington street, West Washington street, Virginia avenue, and North Alabama street, indicating a network of wholesale offices and contact lines.
F Martinie a trained nurse and horse expert helped control a runaway horse that dashed along Mulberry street. Mr and Mrs Gull of Mexico and their 5 year old son were in the carriage when the horse threw the boy, breaking his arm and lacerating his face. Mrs Martinie halted the horse by grabbing the bridle and then carried the injured boy into her home for care.
The Mystic shrine of the Scottish rite masons met at 10 a m Friday, continuing in session until the shrine degree was conferred. William Rounds fined for giving liquor to negroes on election day. Fred Reece sick with heart trouble improving at City hospital. Church trustees elected for three years. Dublin reunion association annual meeting at Commercial club. Bankers’ association officers named. Propylaeum reception a brilliant affair. Odd Fellows expect largest sovereign grand lodge gathering in Indianapolis next September with prizes. American National Bank to begin Feb 1901 with Perrin president and Schlotzbauer cashier. Martha McClain died at City hospital after paralysis. Dispensary ambulance call noted.
The advertisement touts a remedy that cures baldness and scalp issues, claims thousands healed, and offers a free trial through the Altenheim Medical Dispensary in Cincinnati. Readers are asked to mail name and address with a 2 cent stamp to receive the prepaid sample.
A husband cradled his unconscious wife as she died soon after a left side attack. The Amphion club kept its engagement at the German house on Thursday evening despite Miss Charlotte Maconda’s wreck delay. Director Ernestinoff ordered a new program with Herr Baernstein performing 14 selections. Audiences refused refunds, while the club announced Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the next Russian pianist.
A festive New York group from the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse disembarked after a sequence of storms that damaged the ship, including loss of a propeller blade, deck damage, and a fatal self-inflicted death by a coal trimmer named Knick. Passengers, among them Harald Bauer, Baron Von Holleben, J Tod Sloan, and P F Sheedy, endured over six hours in the lower bay before final landfall three days late.
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on Thursday a frightened horse ran through the rear door and out the front of B L Owens novelty store. The animal trod a path between the middle counters stacking fragile holiday goods and caused about $3 000 in property damage.
A Narval torpedo attack caused a torpedo boat to run ashore to avoid foundering as damage mounted. The incident occurred almost simultaneously with other maritime actions, illustrating a tense naval engagement.
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