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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
4
The listing promotes miscellaneous shop items including an A9 size for 25c sleeve and boards, a 10 bucket with mop wringer attachment, a 98 25c coal hod, and a galvanized water pail, all priced to attract customers amid a busy sale.
The Grand features Bob and Tip Co with Little Tip the jealous star dog aloft alongside Carlotta the loop the looper as headline acts. Tip vents playful bravado about his tricks and a million dollar dog collar. the piece also extols the Cohan show Forty Five Minutes From Broadway at Park Theatre with Scott Welch and Frances Gordon in lead roles.
Readers are invited to a Thursday through Saturday performance of The County Chairman a refined comedy noted for clever satire and lively characters. The production features a large cast and elaborate situations that have generated strong audience enthusiasm.
Forepauga Stock at Majestic will present a merry new play titled A Stranger in a Strange Land next week. An Englishman escapes difficulties in his country and returns at his rich aunt's request to recount his adventures in America, a tale full of comic complications and lively humor.
This vintage notice extols Tabasco as a universal cooking staple used by hotels steamships and restaurants and invites readers to join the Tabasco habit. It urges home cooks to keep in mind its versatility from soups and roasts to eggs and salads and notes a promotional offer via Avery Island and Geo W Young & Co Bankers New York City.
The Buffalo ranch motif and daily Omaha trek headline Forepaugh’s latest uproarious revival. Following last season’s crowd pleasers Mr Smooth and The From Mexico, A Stranger in a Strange Land is praised as a whirlwind of humor and a rare week of laughing entertainment.
The passage notes the widespread appeal of a novelty trick for acrobats. Byrne brothers helped popularize its use in their Hight Belles act. Wells and Sells at the Empire this week perform dives through a trick house, exiting from blank walls to strong audience impact.
Claire Schade at the New Gayety changed her act to a tee dance specialty and clever impersonations. A new program of motion and talking pictures was shown today and is among the season’s best. Tomorrow features amateur night, a first for the family theater, with amateurs performing after the second show.
The Battle stirs Chicago like few plays in five years with Wilton Lackaye leading a strong cast. E. M. Holland H. B. Warner Grace Filkins Josephine Victor Gerard Griffin and Charles Abbe deliver notable performances as audiences fill the Grand Opera house nightly and in matinees through the week. The show’s attendance has grown steadily since opening.
The performers will travel directly to New York for an extended metropolitan engagement and likely perform at Wallack's Theatre.
Miss Augusta Raible and Ed ward H. Knight wed at Woodruff Place clubhouse in a refined October ceremony. Eda Louise Steeg married Dr Frank E. Long at Central Christian church and departed for a wedding trip. Eda Marie Cook and Carlin H. Woodbridge wed at Dyterian church with notable uncle Mayor Bookwalter leading the bride. A quiet home wedding followed for Alice Casey and Dan J. Sheperd. May Irvin and Earl I. Vincent married at the bride’s Trowbridge street home. Gertrude May Riley and Edward Alfred Peterson wed at the bride’s Salem street home and will tour the east to Boston. Roxana Gordon and Herbert Stafford Herin wed by Rev H C Clippenger with only immediate family present. The couple will reside at 29 Randolph street.
A survey notes songs like Yankee Doodle Boy and On the Banks of the Wabash each sold around a million copies, with many others earning six figures. Yet most returns funded more attempts to repeat success, while a few still wealthy owners prove the rule’s odds. Also a Sunday school anecdote has a child claim God looks like a potato because it has eyes on all sides.
East Buffalo N Y October S cattle receipts 100 firm veals 75 cents to 16 25 sheep receipts 8000 lambs 12 58 13 03 yearlings 4 26 to 4 75 hogs receipts 8280 10 to lower Yorkers 75 to 6 40 sows 68 60 69 heavy rough 509 590
On N Delaware Street, owner William Moeller advertises pest control service for £13. The notice states he will provide treatment to customers at the address.
John Chambers alleges Mary J. Chambers nagged and quarrelled, causing serious injury to his health. He claims she hurled a dish and once an axe, wounding his leg, and that she alternated threats and curses with references to another man. Married 1895, separated 1908.
An elderly woman traveling with bundles falls asleep as a brakeman calls stations. She wakes to ask where they are, with her grandson unable to answer. The boy notes the brakeman only sneezed and did not announce the station, and she learns they are in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where they will alight.
City of Indianapolis Board of Public Works announces on September 30 1908 a declaratory resolution adopting a plan to alter the alley system. The route begins at the first alley north of North Street and extends from the first alley east of California to the first alley east of Blackford.
The proposal details opening and extending alleys and streets around California Blackford and North streets. The Board of Public Works sets Monday October 19, 1908, as the remonstrance date, with a hearing at 16 oclock A.M. At their office to consider objections. Final action to follow.
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