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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
2
Chicago hosts the Lakes to Gulf Deep Waterway association convention with Taft and Bryan as central figures. The three day event aims to attract about 5000 delegates and 30000 visitors, overlapping with the Association of Commerce banquet tonight.
The John Herron Art Institute opens its new year with stronger than usual enrollment for winter. Both day and night classes fill quickly, attracting many students from out of state. Lectures accompany instruction as the Herron building hosts monthly exhibits, including Ream fruit paintings and Persian textiles. The October exhibit draws praise. admission is ten cents on Wednesday evenings and also available weekday and Sunday afternoons.
A letter from a reader living in Mexico describes relief from heart and nervous symptoms after switching to Grape-Nuts and cream. He reports improved digestion, renewed ability for mental work, and energy for long workdays and teaching. The note cites Postum as the brand behind the change and invites readers to learn why there is a reason.
A dramatic claim outlines possum a skin treatment discovered a year ago that allegedly clears pimples rash and eruptions overnight. It says thousands cured eczema facial disfigurements and itching ends with first application. Available in Indianapolis at Weber Drug Co in 50 cent and 2 dollar jars with free samples from Emergency Laboratories New York City.
John W. Gaither of New Albany Rowena lodge No. 28 captured 642 votes to become grand outer guard. Five other candidates stood, including R. G. Miller with 253 votes and A. J. Lowe moving to grand chancellor. Harry Wade led as grand keeper with 816 votes. Grand lodge activities included an ebony gavel presentation by Indiana Odd Fellows and a session on constitution and grand castle hall plans. Shambah temple initiated members and held a banquet.
The fifty-eighth annual Illinois Central railroad report, distributed by local agent J. J. Clarke, notes mileage up 49 miles to 4,270 and total operating income of 57,187,686.22. Freight revenue fell to 85,357,810.92 while passenger income dropped 195,724.24. Expenses rose 815,182.88 to 41,580,353.76 as efficiency efforts failed to offset higher hire of equipment and wage costs.
The Democrats of Jefferson township in Worthington Indiana have formed a Bryan and Kern Thirty Cent Club. Officers include President Benjamin Bales Secretary and Treasurer Marion Maat and an executive committee of Dick Rude James McCarren John Hoagland Richard Wall Fred Slinkard and Emmett Dyer.
In Cedar Rapids W H Bryan assailed Taft for blocking campaign contribution publication and pressed his case across fifteen speeches. He mocked Republicans for taking credit for crops, sun, and rain and urged voters to judge by his arguments amid large crowds.
Beecher Meyers of 1023 W Twenty-eighth Street suffered severe burns when coal oil used to start a fire spilled on the floor. A lit match caused a flash and flames that engulfed his trousers and head before family members extinguished the blaze with water.
West Lafayette Indiana. Mrs Ephraim Coleman 52 was killed when dynamite blasting for stump removal sent a piece of a stump over trees and houses striking her breaking her back. Her husband is a bridge builder.
The article explains how the stomach and intestines process food and argues that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets correct lack of gastric juice, enabling proper digestion. It claims the tablets build missing elements, remove disruptive ones, and let a person eat freely. Forty thousand physicians endorse them. samples offered by mail from Marshall Michigan.
Dr. Edgar F. Kiser superintendent of the city dispensary has returned from Washington where he attended an international tuberculosis congress. He is enthusiastic about ideas to practical use to stamp out the spread of the white plague in Indianapolis and spoke after discussions by eminent specialists.
A. H. O'Neill, night operator for the Atlantic Coast Line at Nahunta, was killed by robbers who rifled the cash drawer. The murder was discovered when a train crew entered the office at 5 AM.
At the Marion county Sunday school convention held at Central Avenue M E church, speakers urged a city census to boost attendance. Cork of Chicago claimed 3,000 workers could complete the task quickly as Marion county reports 34,544 Sunday school members equal to public school enrollment.
The group agrees education is key to stopping tuberculosis spread. Dr. Kiser seeks to move TB clinics from the city dispensary and run a dedicated facility with a nurse and physician. He plans exhibitions and priced demonstrations to teach prevention methods and home sanitation guidance for families with consumption cases.
The Grand Lodge of Indiana Knights and Ladies of Honor reports a slight membership rise, totaling 79 since two years ago, amid overall cash balance of 2765.26. A Tuesday convention featured a four degree team drill for cash prizes, won by Friendship lodge Terre Haute with Sunbeam Lodge Indianapolis taking second. An election of officers was set for Wednesday.
Experts examining the county books report three-fourths of officers for the last decade are short in their accounts. The total shortage exceeds $12,000.
Democratic state chairman Stokes Jackson predicts a national and state landslide for W. J. Bryan and Thomas R. Marshall. He praises the party's strength, cites improving 60-day poll results, and says voters desire change from Republican extravagance and non performance. He adds Republicans fear a Bryan scare cannot be mounted.
Oscar Fatout sustained a dislocated collar bone and cuts after his motorcycle collided with an automobile driven by two women at the intersection of Twenty-second and Delaware streets. The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon on E Twenty-fifth street nearby.
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