18 Oct 1910
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1910
Page
1
Promptly at 8 o'clock the city pauses as industries join a parade to showcase the buyers' week. Trade association buyers' week takes center stage with a feature display affecting city routines and schedules.
The march route runs from Washington street and Capitol avenue east to New Jersey street, north to Massachusetts avenue, southwest to Pennsylvania street, south to Market street, west around Monument place, then north on Meridian street to North street where the parade disbands.
A massive industrial parade in Indianapolis dominates political campaigning with 175 major firms showcasing goods. Lieut. Gov. Frank J. Hall plans to review from Hotel English balcony. judges named for float prizes. bets placed on 10,000 roses distributed by Betermann brothers and other firms display innovations like a 9,000-pound steam boiler and electric lighting plants.
Shine, saloonkeeper at Missouri and McCarty streets, told Captain Coffin he was robbed early Tuesday morning after riding with a stranger. He disputed the amount, saying he might have lost 285 or 100 dollars. Ed Hall, a cabman, recalled Shine and a companion entering his back at Union Station. Shine did not know the man. Police found 367 dollars in Shine's pocket after a search, and Coffin could not locate the missing cash.
A rear end crash at Nineteenth street and Central avenue injured three passengers on the Meridian Heights car. Jacob Hermann Eliza Hermann and William Exner were cut by glass, with Hermann and Exner treated for facial wounds and dazed from the shock. Police and ambulances responded, the injured taken home by a private vehicle.
Havana reports indicate the second Cuban hurricane has caused massive flooding and widespread destruction. Rescue crews fear hundreds dead as towns like Martinas Guane La Griffa Punta Cortes Artemisa Cortes are erased and crops ruined. Communications are down and further storms threaten the island.
Severe storm strikes St Augustine Florida driving a tidal surge over the sea wall and inundating the entire business district. Winds rise through the morning as trees fall and houses are unroofed. streetcar service halted and communications down as officials assess damage.
Lightweight champion Wolgast, his fiancee Miss Mildred Ensign, and manager Tom Jones with wife, suffered injuries when Wolgast’s sixty horsepower car crashed into a fence and a farmer’s house near Jennings Michigan. Winded by a broken arm from a recent bout, Wolgast’s fiancee steered the car. The vehicle veered into a ditch to avoid a rollover. no one believed seriously hurt.
The Spencer county board of commissioners discussed establishing a new asylum with Amos W. Butler of the state board of charities on Tuesday. The proposed location is Rockport, with Thomas H. Axton and Commissioner Wells presenting the board.
The dirigible America carrying Walter Wellman and five crew was abandoned at sea after distress signals at 5 a.m. Tuesday. The Trent rescued them after three hours, bringing Wellman and crew to New York. The airship drifted off Cape Hatteras amid Sable Island storm conditions.
The fifth Gordon Bennett cup race from St Louis features ten balloons from four nations. Balloons aim for Canada. multiple craft report landings and positions over Wisconsin and Illinois as the field crosses Lake Michigan. Strong entities include James Gordon Bennett, America II Hawkey, Duesseldorf pilot Hans Gerike, Alfred Le Blanc, and La Blanc.
Theodore Roosevelt began a statewide campaign journey from Grand Central station accompanied by Job Hedges and a press corps. He spoke first in Yonkers, then Schenectady, with evening plans to travel to Troy before returning to Oyster Bay for a major invasion of New York.
Weather balloons drift toward the north as a Milwaukee Million Club ferrying crowd disperses near Racine, Wisconsin after crossing over the lake.
Coombs fanned 5 and Brown 6 as pitchers duel in Philadelphia. Cubs 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 fall to Athletics 9 3 at home. Steinfeldt, Tinker, Sheckard, Hofman key for Cubs. Collins, Davis, Murphy power Athletics as crowds packed Shibe Park. Umpires Rigler Sheridan Connolly ODay. Teams head to Chicago for Game Three.
New Orleans reports the steamer Mecalor Vacarro bound for an unnamed port sank off the Yucatan during a tropical storm. Sixty passengers and crew were aboard. The loss was confirmed in shipping circles amid unsettled atmospheric conditions.
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