Pythian Sisters elect officers and plan bonds for orphans fund
The annual Pythian Sisters convened at the Denison hotel with a close Australian ballot for grand outer guard and grand protector. Ada White of Kentland and Lida Roser of Richmond won key posts. a $20,000 orphans fund will be placed in bonds, and the next session will return to Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Pythian Sisters
Denison
Belle Ephim
Grand Protector
Grand Outer Guard
Ada White
Kentland
Lida Roser
Richmond
Harriett Fuller
Knox
Laura Smith
Marion
Cora Hood
Ossian
Tillie Fleming
Warren
Carrie Maillineaux
Grand
Iey Schaffer
Terre Haute
Anna Cooper
Greenfield
Belle Eohlin
Tangier Temple
Indianapolis
Want New Walks On Locke Street
The board of works approved asking City Controller Kimball to recommend a council special meeting to pass a $600 appropriation for laying cement sidewalks on Locke Street in front of the City hospital. The move aims to start work before cold weather and snow, noting the street’s urgent need for the improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Works
Kimball
Locke Street
City Hospital
Life of Dr. Patrick Henry Jameson Ends at 86
Indianapolis mourns Dr. Patrick Henry Jameson 86 a pioneer physician and civic leader who served as Butler college director for 30 years and helped draft the ordinance creating Indianapolis city hospital He died at home 1412 Broadway after a long illness survived by widow Maria Jameson two daughters and a son He was a respected teacher clinician and public servant born April 24 1824 in Jefferson County Indiana and arrived in Indianapolis in 1843.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Henry Jameson
Broadway
Indianapolis
Tts
Jameson
Henry Jameson
Butler College
Indiana
Indiana Central Hospital For
Dr. Jameson
Jefferson County
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Maria Butler
Ovid Butler
City Hospital
Indianapolis City Hospital
John M. Kitchen
Military Hospital
Diamond Ring Lost in Flood Recovered on River Rock
John W. Minor of the Sentinel Printing Co. misplaced a diamond ring during a flood while traveling from Nashville to Columbus. The ring slipped from his finger when a log struck a boat. A Nashville innkeeper’s boy retrieved it from the water after the river subsided, and Minor arranged a $16 reward plus a check to be presented to the boy.
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Brown County
John W. Minor
Sentinel Printing Company
North Capitol Avenue
Indianapolis
Minor
Moving Picture Men
Nashbville
Columbus
William H. Pittman
Boniface
Nashville
Grover
Clay Lake
Pittman
Practicing Doctor Jameson and Era of Old Medications
The text notes buggies limited by poor roads, mentions medieval doctors favoring quinine and calomel, and records Dr. Jameson teaching four years on West street between Vermont and Michigan. He left active practice a decade ago but still visits his Newton Claypool building office daily.
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Calomel
Jameson
West Street
Vermont
Michigan Streets
Newton Claypool
Street Car Strikes Freight Cars at Belt Crossing
Two passengers and a Riverside park car escaped injury when a city street car returning at 11 12 p m was struck by freight cars at the Twenty first Street crossing of the Belt railroad. The cars were shoved across the crossing when a switch engine coupled on. The street car was struck broadside and turned on its side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Park
Belt Railroad
Burglars Take Four Cents From Martinsville Plant
Special to The Sun. Martinsville Indiana October 8. Robbers entered the Branch grain and seed company via a broken window and made off with four cents. No one was injured and authorities investigated the daytime burglary.
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Martinsville
Ind
Branch Grain and Seed Company
Shuns Baths So He Is Divorced
In Kokomo Indiana on October 8 Judge Kirkpatrick refused to hear Mrs Salome Wagner as she sought to prove her husband did not bathe enough She said John loved to hunt bunnies and preferred chasing them to daily chores Mrs Wagner was granted a divorce and custody of her son Isaac Reed 87 who set fire to the home twice and is believed insane The report also notes Eli Dover talking pigeon Hunyak and Gus Albreicht complaining he cannot pay an attorney etc
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Kokomo
Ind
Kirkpatrick
Salome Wagner
Isaac Reed
Eli Dover
Gus Albreicht
Albreicht
Dover
Dan Homolgy
Jump Caught in Sewer Cave-In near Bosart Avenue
John FP Jump of 1008 South West Street was caught in a sewer cave-in on Bosart Avenue Friday afternoon. He was freed after about thirty minutes by fellow workers and was not seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John FP
South West Street
Bosart Avenue
Trustee Loans Township Money Larceny Alleged in 1900 04
Examiners Lloyd R. Christman and Ulyases Jordan of the state board of accounts allege that C. M. McConnell, trustee of Jackson township, Hamilton county, loaned township funds at 6 to 8 percent and kept interest. They cite charges of 527.35 including excess tuition credits and clerk hire. Evidence includes a letter by S. D. Stuart stating loans of 2646 dollars at 8 percent. Warman affidavit notes notes McConnell asked to assume a 2646 dollar loan. Gard, Peeve Pigwauatp trustee, is asked to account for 41.46 dollars received but not deposited and illegal expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. McConnell
Jackson Township
Hamilton County
Lloyd R. Christman
Ulyases Jordan
State Board of Accounts
McConnell
S. D. Stuart
Stuart
John Little
Thomas Hussey
Powell and Muncie Names Tie to Clay County Record
Php Powell Van Buren, 4 Clay county, and James A Muncie of son township in Clay county are referenced in a fragmentary note. The text includes names and places but lacks a clear event or dates. Further readable context would clarify the connection between individuals and local geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Php. Powell
van “Buren
Clay County
James A. Muncie
Son Township
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P.H. Jameson
LS Sres C
R &G
Kingston
A. J. Tron
Ain
Walter Ehlers
South Illinois St
M.theater
Arvine-Benton Players
Be Ane
Man
Ars
Sal
Matinee Daily
B. F. Keith
Grand Opera House
Belle Baker
Comedienne
Herbert Kelcey
Effie Shannon
Bearding the Lion
Hanlon Bros
Superba
Redford
Winchester
A. O. Duncan
Fennel & Tyson
Joe Jackson
Vagabond
Boy
John
Salome
Trustee Loans Township Money
New York
Richard B. Fen
Tress
Norfolk, Va
Saratoga
Frank Jones
J. P. Mullally
Monument Place
Amus
Park Theatre
Cw Eneur
Klaw & Erlanger
Mark
Web
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Amusements
Shubert Murat Theatre
WM. A. Brady (Ltd
Hyder’s
Princess and Garrick Theatres
Chicago
Daly's Theatre
Otis Harlan
Ashton Stevens
Chicago Examiner
Lew Fields
Stella Wayhen
Thursda Montn
Tonigh
Shriner
Mabel McKinley
Wolf & Lee
Leon & Adeline
the Lady Juggler and
the House Wrecker
Catherine Challoner & Co
Tulley
Harry Antrim
Genevieve Lyon
Coloniscope
Ethel Whiteside
Empire
Immer’s
Peters
Abe
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