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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1910
Page
2
The notice markets a sweeping contest incentive offering extra votes for paid subscriptions and contracts. It promises 80,000 bonus votes on paid subscriptions, 50,000 additional votes on the first $30, and 25,000 bonus votes on the first ten contracts per candidate, urging immediate entry to maximize the gains before December. It emphasizes energy and common sense, and notes subscribers and contractors can amplify their results quickly.
A bold purse snatching on Thirtieth Street near Martin dale Avenue left Mrs Bertha Weinar and her daughter Ester Welmar purse-less and injured. Police suspect a recurring black suspect, while others report multiple burglaries the same night at Nobles, Leeble, Roberta annex, and Stone and Langer houses. valuables including $110 diamond and clothing stolen amid a wave of small burglaries.
Miss Mabel of Dawking Fort Wayne Indiana writes that for ten years she suffered with catarrh. She describes persistent nasal congestion and related symptoms and notes a remedy or treatment she found effective. The letter reflects a personal health experience from a local reader.
Plumes and six pairs of socks were stolen from another room. Police issued a dragnet and hauled any suspicious person to headquarters on loitering charges to curb recent small robberies. Railroad yards are under watch by a special detail and trespass by tramps is barred in Indianapolis.
State board of health seeks legislature action on reducing blindness by enforcing childbirth care, approving schoolhouses before use, preventing water pollution, regulating sewer work, funding Pasteur Institute for hydrophobia victims, empowering weights and measures, and tightening pure food laws to prosecute dairymen and bad eggs.
Gov. Marshall and his legal clerk Bert New refused a requisition for the return to Peoria of Charles E. Warrick charged with horse stealing. Attorney R. N. Miller pressed merit. Miller quoted a sharp exchange as Indiana governor stated he would not repeat Mount’s refusals and ordered the party shown out by W. W. Spencer.
Indiana conservation leaders back the Good Roads association to improve highways for farmers profits and safety. Prizes are offered for student essays on Pollution of Streams Refertilization of Soils and Good Roads with entries due by May 1 1911. The program involves the Indiana branch and executive committee members across multiple cities.
Governor Marshall lauds Oliver P. Morton as the greatest Indiana governor to about 200 Grand Army of the Republic members in the nineteenth annual Morton memorial address at Central Christian Church. He credits Morton with welfare for the people and love for Indiana, while noting Civil War costs and the era of social ills.
An old advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day using laxative bromide quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. The box bears E. W. Grove's signature.
City health officials plan an anti tuberculosis campaign to begin within weeks with a big Tomlinson hall meeting on December 18. Dr C Q Probst of Columbus will give the principal address, Charles A Bookwalter to preside, and TB exhibits from the state board of health and city dispensary will be shown. It marks the third anniversary of the TB clinic and employers are urged to attend.
Emily Beeler Fletcher, 82, died at home Sunday after a long illness. Widow of Calvin Fletcher, she was granddaughter of George Matthews, earliest settler on White Lick creek. She tended the sick and wounded during the war at Gov. Morton’s request.
Simeon P. Gillett, former president of the First National Bank of Evansville, died Saturday by his own hand while facing eight counts of violating federal bank laws. The death likely accelerates the sentencing of his former cashier partner W L Swarmstedt, who pleaded guilty to false entries but awaits a court decision. Assistant U S attorney Clarence Nichols lamented the work could be filed away, ending what would have been a sensational Indiana federal trial since the Marker case.
Congratulatory messages poured in for Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Smith at 2122 North New Jersey street on their golden wedding anniversary Monday. A recent family death prevented a formal celebration. Rev. Smith, 80, long a Methodist Episcopal minister now a state board of accounts field examiner, is esteemed as Indiana’s historian and former Lafayette postmaster. Mrs. Smith, 74, shares good health.
The Lake Erie and Western railroad announces the start of through trains between Indianapolis and South Bend beginning June 1. Two trains each way daily will connect at Walkerton with the Co Lo and S railroad, as stated by H. M. Mounts, district passenger agent.
W A Colledge, ex Armour Institute English professor and ally of Henry M. Stapley, urged iron will as the path to success at a Sunday YMCA talk in English’s Opera House. He argued luck rarely makes legends, cited Rothschild and Fulton, and urged awakening to opportunity. The meeting drew 1,444 attendees with receipts totaling $93.69.
John I. Hennessey longtime treasurer of the Indiana school for the blind board of trustees is at the point of death at his home 2932 Broadway after weeks of a chronic stomach ailment.
William A. Green, 57, of Miami county and murderer of Enos Brumbaugh in 1881, was paroled and pardoned by Gov. Marshall late Saturday. Frederick Davenport of Wayne county, convicted of forgery in 1908 and paroled in 1910, is dying of tuberculosis and also received a full pardon.
A Sunday afternoon concert by the Indianapolis military band at the Murat theater drew about 1200 attendees to aid the Shriners Christmas charity fund. Mrs. Philip Goetz performed as soloist and the event netted a neat sum.
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