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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1904
Page
3
A city record day lists numerous deaths including Grace Fennessy and related notices. it also records several marriages and local names across addresses. It mentions a Cincinnati tragedy mirror in Huntington West Virginia with Mrs. Fennessy and Mrs. Ryshdon cases and carbolic acid as the apparent link.
An advertisement asserts that one tablet digests large amounts of meat and egg in a bottle at body heat to prove the tablets work in the stomach. It claims safety for children, ingredients include vegetable essence and diastase, and promotes relief from indigestion with a price of 50 cents per full-sized package sold nationwide and in Canada and Europe.
In Indiana and Alabama, William and Mary Davia were arrested on telegraphic orders from Sheriff Craft, alleged to be husband and wife linked to the murder of Jacob Fiertz of Chicago. Fiertz was found in a ditch near Wilder with a head wound. The couple ran a retreat near Wilder and vanished two weeks before the body’s discovery.
President Roosevelt will host a private Thanksgiving at the White House, spending the day with family and hosting few callers before departing for St. Louis. Henry Pinckney oversees the turkey preparation, sourcing birds from Horace Vere of Westerly Rhode Island, with vegetables from Center Market. Senator Leverett Ledge of Massachusetts is expected as a guest. Kermit Roosevelt is away at school.
Police court sent Lal Deaver to the grand jury on a larceny charge after a horse was stolen from in front of a business and found miles from the city. Patrolmen Shina and Hall arrested Deaver as he drove home, and officials described his character as bad while awaiting grand jury action.
In New York a dramatic trial over Caesar Young’s murder hears testimony on a skeleton and two skin fragments from Young’s hand to prove the weapon did not act as a suicide. Star witness cabman William Stemm describes the scene near Broadway and York Street as the prosecution details the bullet’s path and the victim’s injuries.
On November 2 in Culver's sawmill an explosion killed Cyrne Culver Orrin Bond and Otto Imboden and seriously injured a fourth man. Authorities report the blast occurred Tuesday evening at the plant in Oblong.
An official report to the Japanese legation from Teldo notes that the army at Port Arthur reports near noon on November 2 a fire near the arsenal caused by bombardment from our naval guns. the blaze remained on $49 per ppm. A Russian officer is landed and a lifeboat with provisions touched WerHai-Welfren Port Arthur. Telegrams from Chicago and Indianapolis list livestock receipts, prices, and market movements across multiple exchanges and commodities.
Chicago Board of Trade activity eased as wheat and corn futures slipped modestly while December wheat fell to around 1.00 and May to about 1.07. Ongoing cash market notes from Cincinnati and Pittsburgh show steady livestock receipts and mixed hog and sheep prices with several grains listed for import and local trade.
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