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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
3
An early 20th century health ad warns appendicitis strikes the unclean interior and promises Cascarets laxatives as a cure all for stomach liver and bowel diseases. It urges regular use to stay healthy and offers samples from Sterling Remedy Company in Chicago or New York.
Prof. B. Britts of Richland Center Wisconsin arrives in Omaha with a mysterious machine he claims can take power from the wind and store it for later use He asks Omaha capitalists to invest promising it will work with the slightest breeze and could replace windmills electricity and compressed air for locomotives street cars and navigation
Louise Chalbeau testified Cruger obsessed with polishing silk hats using a shoe brush and blacking despite many servants. She described frequent drunkenness and repeated abuse of Madam Cruger, including being thrown from a room and struck, with accusations of theft and ongoing quarrels.
Seth Low, fusion candidate for New York mayor, vowed at Grand Central Palace that officials under Murphy and Devery would be removed soon after January if elected. He contrasted his stance with Edward M. Shepard’s pro home rule and mocked the Tammany nominee. Betting on the election grows with Low money and nightly hits against fusion opponents shown at the Fourteenth Street wigwam.
Gen Lord Kitchener reports Gen. Botha has crossed the Bevaar river north of Vreyheid in the southern Transvaal and moves further northward. The seven-pounder gun lost last July has been recaptured. Botha appears to be eluding British forces and slipping past Lyttleton’s cordon.
Four men died and three were seriously injured after a freight wreck on the Chicago Great Western road east of Lombard Illinois in dense fog. Engines and 14 freight cars were wrecked with crews pulled from debris. Deegan Brady Coughlin among the injured.
The Fort Totten Indian School in North Carolina seeks a disciplinarian to manage tasks at the school beyond others. The role requires civil service exam success across subjects, plus skills in manual training, physiology, hygiene, pedagogy, law, and military tactics. The position pays $600 yearly, with potential rises to $3900, and exams will be held in multiple cities soon.
Captain Roberts of the steamer Oringwild reports a 14 mile long mass of sea snakes with black backs and white stripes encountered 43 miles southeast of Ceylon. The snakes averaged three feet, with some reaching six feet, spanning four miles in width as the ship passed at seven miles per hour. He gathered seeds from the area but forgot to bring any snakes aboard.
Georgetown Kentucky October 10 defense lawyers sought extra time to file an affidavit for a continuance and were granted until 2 PM. With only 16 term days left a jury and hundreds of witnesses may push the trial beyond the current term.
Macabebe forces clashed with several hundred Filipino insurgents near Lipa in Batangas province on Thursday. The Macabebes were forced to retreat, and Lieutenant Bau was killed in action.
In St Louis 256 members of the Jefferson club depart at 7 p m Thursday on a Big Four train to Monticello Virginia to visit Thomas Jefferson's tomb. They will erect a granite shaft bearing donor names and tribute words with national Democratic leaders attending. Eleven cars carry the crowd and many out of town Democrats will join.
Paris officials report that the law on associations has driven Jesuits from France. They mostly rented houses to nuns seeking authorization, avoiding confiscation of property. Remaining Jesuits have moved to Jersey and Belgium or become private tutors in French households.
Ito formerly in town for the Wall-Slade wedding departed this afternoon heading east. He plans to stop in Chicago then go to Indianapolis Sunday night to attend the grotesque parade at the Indianapolis carnival with Senator Beveridge.
The bodies of Mrs. Pugh and Fred Witwer were exhumed to remove organs for analysis. Dr. Hockwall delivered organs to Chief McBride for transport to Columbus for tests by Prof. Howard. Coroner Hatcher expects Howard's report within 24 hours as Mrs Witwer remains a suspect in multiple murders.
Carl Loutham worried his wife in Muncie Ind by sending signals of accident and death from Attica. She rushed home on the first train to find him alive. They celebrated with a banquet at a hotel with friends after the scare.
In Madison Florida Will Jones killed Minnie Willis at a turpentine camp and fled. He shot at Dave Anderson who confronted him in the woods. A sheriff and posse trapped Jones after a gunfight with about a dozen shots exchanged. the sheriff and two deputies were wounded while Jones was badly shot and captured. The woman's husband and friends attempted lynching but the sheriff stopped them.
Birth announcements include S. R. and Blanche Fine a boy at 802 W North st and Otto and Emilie Kuermann a boy at 405 E McCarty st among many others. Marriages listed: John L Force and May McCarthy. John M Littler and Anna Dunlap. Lemuel Gibson and Anna Francis. Alfred J Gulloper and Ruth Kissel. Harry E Phelps and Addie Conrad. Oscar H Koster and Mary Hotz. Harry Pryor and Zola Carmichael. Ira K Thayer and Aimee G Aughinbaugh. Hiram Staley and Ida Kimberlin. Charles F Jeffers and Maude M Bricker.
A list of addresses and structures with prices shows properties from Michael Grimer in Delaware street shed to Anna Priegnitz Spann avenue res modeling at 70. Other entries include Fessler cottage near Thirty-fifth Illinois streets 600 dollars and Wilson Morris addition 125 with several frame houses and sheds priced up to 1 400 dollars.
Wheat and corn futures edge lower or hold near unchanged as October contracts slip and December positions mix. Livestock and dairy items reflect fractional declines with pork lard ribs and butter varied by grade, while live poultry prices list hens roosters ducks turkeys geese with per dozen values noted.
The president announced on Thursday the appointment of Eugene R. Hendry of Hawaii as marshal of the United States for the Territory of Hawaii. He also named Walter H. Neill and Geo. K. R. Somerville as second lieutenants of cavalry and Vernon W. Boller and Samuel T. Mackall as second lieutenants of infantry.
James Long, 55, resident of the Marion soldiers home, was killed by a train in Jeffersonville Indiana after a thick fog prevented him from seeing the oncoming locomotive. The accident occurred Thursday.
A Chicago message reports Walter Scott killed himself in Chicago. He had recently been employed at the Younts woolen factory in Yountsville but was discharged due to drunkenness.
West ern Flint Glass Company Eaton files suit in Muncie for a permanent injunction against union strikers who attacked non unionists and to restrain interference with employees. The firm also seeks $10,000 in damages.
Jeffersonville Indiana reports Joan Bower a 28 year old prominent life insurance agent disappeared Saturday. Police and investigators probe his business affairs for answers amid the missing person case.
Joseph Newberger founder of Matthews will refuse the mayoralty when the town incorporates, despite a mass convention selecting him for the post.
Mrs. Anna Graham fell from a second story window while shaking bedclothes in Muncie Indiana and suffered fatal injuries according to local reports on October 106.
At a Wednesday meeting the Teamsters union called a citywide general strike by drivers from all transfer companies to demand higher wages. Two firms have signed the proposed schedule, but merchants report significant disruption from the walkout.
Gas City Ind Ont 10 The new Diamond window glass factory will begin operations next Tuesday. It will employ 203 men.
Matthews Indiana October 10 The Indiana Glass Company has decided to enlarge its plant here. The decision comes amid plans to increase production capacity and create additional local jobs.
Longstanding stomach and bowel troubles can mimic female disorders causing headaches melancholy and languor. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and Herb Laxative claims instant relief and is offered in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with a trial bottle and booklet on stomach troubles available from Pepsin Syrup Company Monticello Iowa.
A historic advertisement promises relief and cure for constipation among sedentary workers such as ministers lawyers journalists bookkeepers and stenographers. The copy targets indoor occupations and suggests a patent remedy as a solution.
Alma Michigan’s Alma Bromo Spring offers a nature based laxative remedy. It claims to cleanse the bowels aid the liver and kidneys and relieve nervous irritability while providing a pleasant effervescence and no gripping effects.
A Free Sample Bottle will be mailed postpaid upon writing Michigan Drug Co. Detroit Michigan who distribute this natural product. Alma-Bromo Salt is sold by druggists at 50 cents per bottle.
At Union Stock Yards Indianapolis October 10 cattle receipts about 200 with varied bids. Prices list for steers heifers cows and calves shows ranges from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds for export steers to lighter stockers and calves with bids around 3 75 to 6 50 for different classes. Hogs receipts about 3,000 with price bands from 4 50 to 6 50 per hundredweight for various weights. Sheep receipts 400 with Good to choice sheep at 2 75 to 3 00 and lambs at 4 75 to 5 00 per hundredweight reflecting market tensions.
Hogs receipts at Indianapolis on October 10 total about 500 head. Prices ranged from 4.75 to 6.50 for good to choice weights with mediums and heavies at 6.10 to 6.25 and lighter classes from 5.75 to 6.20. Roughs and bottom types sold around 4.75 to 5.75.
Wheat prices for No 2 red steady at 70c to 68c track freight with milling freight. Corn prices mostly 55 to 59c with various white and mixed grades. Oats and hay hold steady while inspections list several cars by grade and status.
Old turkey hens five cents per pound old toms four cents young turkeys seven cents and over seven cents fowls seven cents cocks three forty two cents ducks five cents geese four cents per pound spring chickens seven nine eggs Fresh sixteen to nineteen cents cheese New York full varieties domestic Swiss Mecorick Hamburgers twelve cents butter choice eight cents per pound eggs ten cents hides tallow etc green salted hides grades No 1 and No 2 calf nine and eight cents wallow prices coffee good ten and one half to eleven and three quarters cents prime twelve to fourteen cents strictly prime fourteen and one half to fourteen cents fancy green and old government Java twenty two and three eighths to thirty eight cents roasted Rio six to seven cents Bourbon Santos golden Santos twenty four cents prime Santos two cents package coffee city prices Arios one dollar twenty five and a quarter cents etc sugars various prices from six to five cents per pound granulated five and four tenths to five and seven tenths cents per pound flour straight grades thirty three dollars and thirty five cents patent eight ninety first grade three eighty rye flour three twenty five bran seventeen dollars per ton beans prime marrow kidney hand picked two to three dollars per bushel molasses New Orleans thirty to thirty three cents fair to prime three to three and four tenths syrups twenty two to twenty four cents rice Louisiana four and a half to six and Carolina six and three quarters to six eighty four.
The list shows cabbage at 1.50 per barrel or crate, yellow onions 80 cents per bushel with other offers. Oranges Valencia boxes 4 dollars, lemons fancy imported 3.50 per box, California lemons 5.00. Beans 1.00, peaches per bushel 0.75 to 1.00, potatoes 3.00 per barrel and 3.00 per bushel, tomatoes 7? per bushel, pineapples 1.73 per dozen, watermelons Indiana 8.10 per hundred.
A detailed Kingan & Co price list itemizes canned goods and groceries including corn peaches raspberries and pineapples with standard and light varieties. It lists oysters fish and game items such as oysters in New York counts clams lobsters frog legs shrimp and assorted meats with unit prices and bulk options.
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