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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1907
Page
3
Fire followed three explosions at the Borough bank branch in Brooklyn's eighth ward. Police ponder whether cracksmen looted or destroyed evidence related to the bank's failure. Indictments had been filed against three officials. President Maxwell died from wounds after jail release. Fire damage pegged at 15000 dollars.
Thanksgiving in Marion county sees 38 marriage licenses issued in two to three hours. Clerk Berner notes most marriages will occur Thursday. Previous years' licenses ranged from 64 to 74, with a decline from recent peak. Names listed include Landis Rubio, Johnson, Turner, Essig, Scott, Stuart, Berkes, Riddie, Neverburg, Rothans, Cullen, Thompson, Inmer, Luibhardt, Ballinger, Wahr, Hines, Jackson, Voliva, Walters, Evandinger, Minturn, Hessian, Coverhill, Kincaid, Singe, Drake, Cole, Barker, Neligh, Monroe, Owens, Durham, Musselman, Pence.
A four year old girl cried for Thanksgiving as Grace Wright and her five children faced no turkey and only a potato. After Humane Officer Al Smith learned of the hardship, city officers at headquarters organized a full feast for the family at 8 Bast Street.
An anti-saloon license conference will assemble at the Board of Trade building on Tuesday with attendees from the Anti-saloon League Prohibition party the W C T U and temperance leaders. Speakers include Judge Samuel R Artman D Leigh Colvin M M Parkhurst Mrs Culla J Wayhinger Sumner W Haynes Ennis M Barney W Trickett and Mrs Lillian M N Stevens outlining strategies for prohibition laws and saloon license history and enforcement.
Two thousand Thanksgiving dinners in baskets were distributed to Indianapolis’s poor from the Volunteers of America at KE headquarters on Washington Street. Baskets included bread meat beans corn potatoes apples pumpkins flour rice a chicken and other items. The drive to fund the dinners ran for weeks with donations from wealthy residents, mite boxes, and street collectors.
Max R. Hyman compiles a new Indianapolis book titled Hy mans Handbook to Indianapolis. The attractively bound volume features clear illustrations of main city centers, an historical sketch, and cuts of older buildings. A popular edition will be marketed.
The annual oil painting show by local artist T. C. Steele opens Friday in the H. Lieber company gallery and runs through Saturday December 7.
Thirteen men at the courthouse missed a Thanksgiving dinner as 12 jurors in the John Foran versus Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton railway case failed to reach a verdict on 5,000 damages for personal injuries. Bailiff John Myers watched the group while the jury retired at 12:40 PM Wednesday to deliberate.
A Sun survey collects ten word thanks from Henry Potter to Oscar Hammerstein, Carrie Nation to Admiral Dewey, Debs to Blakes, Bangs to Fields, and many more, each offering a personal or national note of gratitude from November 27.
Mrs. Wilton on Thanksgiving night gives a hungry tramp a red and blue smoking jacket white ties and shoes the husband notes the gifts but jokes about donating his dress suit and top hat the tale ends with her charitable spirit intact despite the skewed charity and a warning wink from reality
A speaker recalls returning after twenty years to a beloved cottage and garden, seeking peace and forgiveness. The piece contrasts city life with a remote home where loved ones await, envisioning a warm reunion and a shared Thanksgiving tea. The narrator longs for simple grace and a safe, familiar welcome.
The Salvation Army commander in America urges gratitude on Thanksgiving, praising divine provision and urging care for those whose lives have more rain than sunshine, calling for generosity and blessings toward others during the holiday.
The treasury plans a $1000000 issue of certificates of indebtedness with priority given to individual savers over banks. Small subscribers, farmers clerks and mechanics are favored, with 2 percent interest for one year. Preference goes to those far from financial centers and to the poor over the rich.
Dairymen of Indiana learn that a special dairy train will run on the Monon railroad as an educational effort. The Monon, Purdue Experiment Station and the State Dairy Association cooperate to provide the train, illustrative material, and speakers. The program includes 45 minute stops at key stations with dairy farming tasks for instruction.
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