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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
2
A public health pitch promoting Cascarets as a cure for constipation and all illness rooted in bowel health. It urges starting with a 10 cent box, then a 50 cent box for a month, promising money back if unsatisfied, and offers a sample and booklet from Sterling Remedy Co. of Chicago or New York.
Akron scenes report Huston Kepler receiving a letter from the man who swindled him out of 5 000 dollars in a green goods game. The con man warned Kepler to be cautious and not discuss the matter, while a pursuing posse and city marshal Kelly closed in after the suspect armed himself and fled.
In Leesburg Indiana on October 17 a Bourbon Missouri message reports Mrs Elias Hort was accidentally killed by her son while they were packing and preparing to move.
Readers are invited to write detailed letters about health gains from Grape-Nuts. Top 10 letters win $10 gold pieces, next 20 win $5, next 300 receive $1 greenback. A three person committee, not tied to Postum Co., will judge between December 1 and 10, 1901.
Downtown saloons stayed open late Wednesday night with heavy activity. Gambling slowed slightly but persistent betting continued into the early hours.
Revival meetings start Friday evening at Peniel temple Senate avenue and Eleventh street and run to November 1. Speakers include Rev. E A Ferguson railroad evangelist from Illinois Rev Budd Robinson the walking Bible from Texas and Rev A J Dolbow the Delaware cyclone. A daily children's meeting will be led by Miss Millie Lawhead of Ohio.
A new stamp window was opened Thursday at the post office in charge of James Wades. The dead division is now opened under Joseph Tarkington, with thirteen new men assigned to strengthen the force. Bone Carp.
The State medical board refused a certificate to Dr. W. F. Reinhart of Indianapolis after a complaint from Mrs. S. D. Brokaw of Washington Iowa. She says she paid $100 to an agent of the Indianapolis sanatorium and surgical institute who offered medicine and advice but received neither. She also found no evidence of the institute at the advertised location. The board will investigate.
In New York on October 17 Justice Leventritt granted Louise Barrett a divorce from husband. Barrett kissed her attorney Abe Hummell and moved toward the judge before court officers intervened. She accused her husband of infidelity. he said she agreed to provide evidence for the divorce. Barrett’s claim and details show a $39,006 fortune.
W T Malott receiver for the Terre Haute and Indianapolis line records August receipts at 870970.89 and cumulative receipts from Nov 14 1896 to Aug 31 1901 at 44305407.56. He notes excess disbursements over receipts for pre-receiver operation of 839788.10 and a net August profit of 55004.84 after a 3903.11 loss tied to Tv H and P operations.
London dispatch reports William Waldorf Astor’s bid for a title blocked by an Law Journal publication citing English law that bars naturalized aliens from peerages. The note underscores legal barriers over noble elevation for naturalized subjects.
ST. JOSEPH MO Oct 17 Mrs Ann Taylor 110 a historic figure in the state died Wednesday after a long life marked by more than a century of tobacco and liquor use. She was noted as a longtime resident with a famous habit that defined her later years.
Harry Cummings and Til Meek Sr. reported to police that Cummings lost or had his purse stolen from his pocket at the Beauti ful Orient on Wednesday night. The purse contained 27 dollars and a ring.
Jacob and Barbara Smith aged 61 and 71 from Butler died within 24 hours of each other in Pittsburg. They will be buried in the same grave, marking a shared longtime memory for their family.
A Wednesday night theft drained a quantity of canned fruit pickles and lard from the cellar of Mr McFarland at 1420 Pleasant Street.
Burglars entered the residence of W. R. Brown at 2408 North Capitol Avenue on Wednesday night but took nothing of value. No injuries reported and police investigation ongoing.
A chaotic update reports a failed arrest and jail release in England, a rescued boy in Ohio, Boer advances toward the sea, and political denials over the Carnegie letter. It also notes a major coal trust effort, the largest Boston voter roll, stock trades, legal entanglements in Nashville, a songwriter's divorce, and gowns arriving in Chicago.
An old advertisement touts internal remedies like catarrh tablets as superior to inhalers and douches. It argues the disease lies in the blood and that tablets containing antiseptics reach the root cause, while local applications only affect symptoms. The copy promotes Scuart's Catarrh Tablets as effective against germ activity in the blood.
Indianapolis Democratic figures widely back Tammany Hall in the Croker reform struggle with Platt and Low. Key supporters include former officials John W. Kern Alonzo Greene Smith and Henry Warrum, who praise Tammany and criticize reformers while noting mixed views on Low.
Richmond Indiana alderman David P. Whelan will present next week an ordinance to prohibit wearing trailing skirts on streets. He says the measure seeks to protect public health, claiming long skirts collect disease germs.
The Grand announces a notable program headlined by Pauline Hall once famous in comic opera with extra attraction Hilda Thomas in a short comedy. Miss Thomas is a longtime Indianapolis favorite. At the Park Thursday the bill changes to M Liss with Nellie McHenry leading the company. Harry Bryant's burlesquers draw big crowds at the Empire.
Providence reports the Rhode Island automobile association’s first race meet is set for Thursday in Narragansett. Competitor Henri Fournier holds a six mile record in six minutes forty seven seconds and aims for a one minute mile. Foxhall Keene and Albert C. Bostick are uncertain starters as Vanderbilt’s Red Demon was disabled last week. Col. Alexander Hogeland visits Providence for a national association executive board meeting as curfew reform spreads to about two thousand cities.
Mayor Bockwalter's image will appear in the fireworks display at Pompeii spectacle set for Thursday night at Newby Oval. The event marks a notable civic celebration with planned pyrotechnic effects and light show.
Twelve new members have been taken into the Commercial club including J. Baerman Fred Noelke W. QO Morck L. B. Davis J. D. Cowgill F. A. Hetherington H. C. Shaw C. L. Rost J. M. Connell F. H. Farnham W. A. Howe DL. Brown Jr The club now has 986 members.
The funeral for Sylvester Scofield, 99, longtime Indianapolis resident and early railroad contractor, was held at 10 a.m. Wednesday after dying Tuesday in Lebanon. He came to Indianapolis in 1883 from Connersville and leaves a widow, two grandchildren A. S. Pierson and C. H. Pierson, and nephew % B. Scofield. Joseph Penn, a Marion county resident, died suddenly yesterday.
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