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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1900
Page
6
The 1900 Dawes comptroller report shows 3,871 national banks with total resources above 5.0 billion. Loans and discounts rose to 2.686 billion as deposits top 2.508 billion. Directors loans remain a major risk with 18,534 borrowing directors and 2,279 officers owing 202.3 million.
Exhausted from hunger, Arthur Brettner a four year old cash boy in a large New York department store fainted at work. His twin Max also works there and their mother recently found a Harlem nurse job. The store aids include feeding the boys and offering the mother a steady lunchroom position.
John J. Smith a prominent young businessman in Jacksonville is robbed by a well dressed woman on a main street at night. She blocks his passage and attempts an embrace then steals three hundred dollar bills and five twenty dollar bills from his pocketbook before vanishing into the crowd. Detectives face a puzzling case.
Local hardware and coal dealers report a sharp shift from gas to coal heating as cold weather approaches. Quotes from Franklin Vonnegut, R L Sare, E P Clancey, C L Wing, J M Caird, Frank D Stalnaker, A B Meyer and Albert Goepper describe record coal stove sales, rising coal grates, and widespread abandonment of gas stoves in favor of coal fuels.
In New Haven Conn on November 27 Marie Franham treasurer of the Childs business college senior class faced potential punishment for taking $21 from classmates to pay for class pins. Unable to confess to mother or classmates she bought strychnine and killed herself, amid reports of an unhappy home life after her father’s death and her mother's remarriage.
Miss Mae Bowen, 20, and her cousin were pursued by a black thief who snatched her purse but tried to force her to surrender her new red velvet hat. She fought fiercely, securing the hat’s safety as her cousin returned with help and the robber fled.
In Cleveland Ohio fashion able East End society women fear assaults as a colored man targets two Colonial club members and society girl Miss May Winsstall. Club manager Villeneuve vows escorts for women and warns of hanging attackers on club lawn. Panic suppresses women on residence streets at night.
New York City Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction restraining Boni de Castellane and Countess de Castellane from collecting rents on property left to Anna Gould in trust by Jay Gould. The order also bars trustees George, Edwin, Howard Gould and Helen M. Gould from paying rents to the countess. Plaintiff Anton J. Dittmar filed the suit. details of the claim were not disclosed.
In Parkersburg West Virginia on November 27 members of a leading church staged a charity event inviting well known bachelors and old maids to give brief talks on why they never married. The novel program attracted a large audience with unusual explanations from several speakers.
Edward Whymper, gold medalist of the Royal Geographical Society of London, prepares to scale all notable peaks along the Pacific coast that have remained unexplored. The celebrated climber is in Vancouver, British Columbia for the undertaking.
Steve Brodie and his wife with child are headed to Texas to start a cattle ranch, aiming to raise longhorns for eastern markets. He says a doctor advised retirement from his old life and that he will live quietly on a big-scale farm, leaving behind stage, saloon, sports and Bowery drama.
New York reports the ownership of two cows seized in New Brunswick by Constable Fielding G. Lucas has been decided after years of litigation through New Jersey courts. The cows were valued at under $100 and the legal costs far exceeded that amount. The pigs...
In Reading Pennsylvania the northwestern Jefferson Street residents organized 60 women led by Mrs. Harry Weand to clear refuse from the street after councilmen failed to act. Armed with brooms and buckets the group swept the street and notified the city engineer to remove the debris.
Mrs Annie Steinninger of 185 Twelfth Street died walking to the Church of the Practical Christians at Eighteenth and Pestalozzists to save five cents. Despite her husband's request to ride, she walked and collapsed in a chair saying I am so heavy. A physician came too late.
Observant physicians note a rise in catarrhal diseases and endorse Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as safe and effective. Dr Risdell and Dr Mstabrook report improvement in nasal throat and stomach catarrh after weeks of use, citing cleansing antiseptic action and absence of poisonous drugs. Tablets are tablet form, pleasant to taste, portable, and cost 50 cents for complete treatment.
An aged newspaper feature extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for womanly ills including headaches backaches and inflammation. It includes patient testimonials from Miss Jessie Simmons and Mrs. P. A. Graham and promotes correspondence with Dr. Pierce and his publications offers free medical advice and the Common Sense Medical Adviser with prices for cloth or paper editions.
A German statistician calculates that in 1899 total daily newspaper circulation reached about 12 million copies weighing 751,260 tons. To move that paper by rail would require roughly 39,063 cars, forming a train about 325 miles long with endpoints near Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Senor Agoncillo the Filipino agent in Europe will resign as head of the Paris junta in a few days and go to Hong Kong to direct importation of arms into the Philippines. He says McKinley’s election makes peace negotiations impossible and the only option is to fight to a finish. His likely successor in Paris is Edoardo Lete then living in Saragossa Spain.
Boise Idaho November 27 There is a bare possibility that a Republican may be elected senator instead of Dubois. The silver Republicans say if the Democrats do not stand solid for Dubois nine of the former will join the Republicans electing Shoup. Gov Steunenberg is trying to disrupt fusion.
George Turski hosted friends at his home in Pittsburg. After a dispute, his brother in law John Pretuski hurled a beer stein at Mrs. Turski striking her eight month old baby. The child died from skull crushing injuries and Pretuski is jailed.
Miss Yella Mullahan faces pocket picking charges after allegedly receiving a gold watch from William Bigelow following McKinley’s election. The watch was handed to her by her mother, who acted as stakeholder, prompting Bigelow to obtain a warrant. The case rests until next Monday.
The timetable lists various train departures and arrivals including connections to Cleveland New York Boston and Chicago. It shows sleeper and parlor car services with times for Benton Harbor St Louis Cincinnati and Springfield lines along with Columbus and Dayton routes.
Monon Houte and Chicago routes show ticket offices at 23 W. Washington and Illinois and Washington streets with multiple Chicago to Cincinnati Detroit and Columbus connections. Night and day services include express, vestibule, and local trains with varied departure and arrival times, plus listed stations at Columbus Piqua Martinville and Dayton.
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