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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1901
Page
8
The piece contrasts fake patent medicines with Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, praising its measured claim as a radical cure for indigestion. It explains the tablets digest food, rest the stomach, improve digestion, the blood and nerves, and require no dieting, with emphasis on universal satisfaction noted by druggists.
In FIQBOKEN New Jersey on November 25 the Hobo keen teachers mutual aid association held its annual meeting and staged a two part lyric dramatic operatic megathonic orthoepedic entertainment The country school was a vaudeville style farce with school principals and pretty schoolmaams in short dresses and red wigs and knee breeches The farce was written by School Supt A J Demarest
A 999 year lease for a three acre Strand site signals a new American built landmark in London. A steel frame 125000 square foot building with a domed rotunda and lavish decorations will house banking rooms stores and offices. Nearly 1000000 square feet will be rentable with 6000 rooms and 200 staffers to maintain operations. Construction is set for thirty months with annual running costs around 75000 dollars.
An elderly notice states that a tenant for a house will be sought, with the advertisement published in The Sun on page 6. The item is short and mentions the publication venue without additional details.
Miss Bertha Petscher of Aurora will marry Arthur Spencer, a Wade Park Zoo animal trainer in Cleveland. Their romance began when young Bertha watched Hagenbeck's show in 1893, Spencer kissed her in a crowd, and years later they reunited at Wade Park Zoo leading to their engagement.
F S Southerland known as the human fly consults with Washington officials on mounting a 555 foot monument exterior without ropes or scaffolding. He demonstrates wall walking in a room and discusses permission to ascend the Washington monument with suction shoes and gloves. Southerland claims to climb many towers worldwide and jokes about taking risks.
Starting Tuesday morning November 26 the store slashes high grade groceries to prices lower than any Indiana retailer. No competitor. Motto 1607 to the pound and goods as represented. They buy in large quantities repay spot cash and aim for small profits. No bad debts to burden customers.
In Decatur Indiana a women run firm began in Huntsville Ohio three years ago with a capital of five dollars. The partnership has grown into the largest baby shoe factory in the country employing 38 people and producing about 200 pairs daily. Goods are shipped nationwide and four salespeople are on the road.
Crawfordsville Ind November 25 The wire and nail company's plant, completed just a month ago, burned Saturday night causing about $200,000 in losses. Fire believed to start from gasoline explosion. Insurance under $25,000. Local stockholders vow to rebuild. OSSIAN Ind November 25 Fire wiped out A A Kreigh restaurant drug store and Roe's store. Loss around $37,000.
Denis Mulvihill known as Old Rugged Honesty becomes Bridgeport mayor. A former Wheeler & Wilson factory stoker, he pledges open bidding for public contracts, end secret committee sessions, tax cuts, and a workingman administration to elevate honest labor and curb public expense.
Plainfield Indiana boasts a proud, old fashioned Quaker town image with new civic buildings, a dry reform school, a historic elm tied to Van Buren, and hopes for an interurban to Indianapolis. Locals note its gossip, churches, and growing football team amid a wary view of its reform school and Keeley Institute.
Indianapolis officials have rarely executed fines but Clerk Elliott now faces numerous unpaid penalties. He has prepared to send bailiffs to levy on properties after exhausting all postage to notify delinquents, with several executions already set to be served.
The speaker states that if no personal property is found the execution will be sent to the county sheriff to collect on the real estate, and that all assets will be seized.
Isador D. Blair a colored attorney is noted as a prospective candidate for justice of the peace in Baldwin block circles. Friends hail him as a strong vote getter with the nickname the Blackstone of Indiana, while recalling a courtroom moment with Henry Spaan and a sharp jury remark. A Home of Your Own ad appears with terms on pages 4 and 7.
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