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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1903
Page
2
Derby, Conn, Oct 20 Patrick Mahaney, a farm hand, saved $3,200 over 32 years while earning only about 11.2 dollars a month. He lived frugally on cast-off clothing, bought newspapers, spent nothing on liquor or tobacco, and claims he could live comfortably without work again.
John Alexander Dowie faced a hostile reception as spectators hissed him during a Madison Square Garden address on October 2. Security included nine uniformed Zion guards and ten police to shield him, while Dowie denounced newspapers and Masons, threatening to confront a heckler and calling a man in the audience a “miserable one-eyed Judea.”
The Cephal rattan company has closed a 70,000 contract with the promoters of the St. Louis exposition to furnish reed Cyadles for a new kind of auto chair.
The article describes an early electric vehicle with an old-willow chair body, flexible mesh, and a simple driving gear. A safety guard rings the base and immediately stops the auto on contact, ensuring heightened safety for timid users.
At Monday night’s meeting an ordinance was introduced to shift 83 000 from the bridge fund to the permanent street repair fund on the controller Dust’s recommendation. The action followed standard stationer y and requisites procedures.
Rome reports the pope desires to walk the streets and lead public pilgrimages once the government ensures his security. Officials state his holiness will make planned trips after receiving protection measures and government approval.
The songwriter and his wife Nausbaum married in Indianapolis after he had spent time in New York and lived in the Empire State. His brother Harry Von Tilzer is noted as a writer and composer. The article mentions his recent Broadway success The Fisher Maid and its stage performances.
A fatal riot at Deloog's Ford left John Mall Jeff Stevens and Tom Music dead. The clash began in a church with gunfire and a panicked congregation. James Stevana fired a shot that killed Jeff, Jason Hall died of heart failure as Music was fatally wounded by a stray shot. No arrests have been made.
In Hammond Indiana, Mayor Knotts sends a note to the Daily News and Letter publisher amid criticism of his administration. He asserts SEC cannot stop him and promises action, tying it to a South Carolina assault acquittal and stirring tension with local media.
The state superintendent of public instruction, directed by the Board of Forestry, issued a colorful Arbor Day booklet for Clarke County schools. It covers arbor day history, tree planting, pruning, street tree layouts, Audubon notes, birds, poems, and an outline program. In Cambridge City, Oct 20, Mrs. John Carr saved her husband and many children from a burning house, though the family is left destitute.
Thomas Werter of 5 North East Street and Aries Reality of 1007 East Washington Street were arrested Monday on charges tied to a con game known as the lock game. They allegedly attempted to swindle Frank Brown, a local farmer, using the scam.
Daily Schedule explains reduced work in Elkhart Indiana on October 2. Beaties discharging 100 men from service as the Lake Shore railroad cuts daily hours from ten to nine. Unions expected to protest the move amid the local labor disruptions.
A fragment notes that weak hearts are neglected and linked to sudden death. It mentions a Dr. Milan Heart Care claiming to strengthen and cure weak hearts, phrased as promotional marketing with unclear wording and vague claims.
In Hanna Merrick and Harding, Jim Anspaugh known as Uncle Jim is a peculiar figure who attends every public gathering, records proceedings on vast sheets of paper, and proclaims himself the sole validator of right. He wears a derby at times, keeps notes with pencils in a bow, and shuns interviews while declaring world turning moments under his teachings.
Dr A W Brayton recovering after a fall and injury in hospital at St Vincent's. He sits up in bed reading Shakespeare, a gift from ex Gov Marton, and reports good progress and visitors. He notes a 100 day sentence and paying costs, praising treatment and expert operation. He has read about 35 plays and plans to go home soon.
In Vincennes Dayton W. Frazier, a Hancock county farmer, met his wife here entirely by chance. They had been divorced for five years, but their past troubles were forgotten and they were remarried by a justice of the peace in a brief ceremony.
Grief and despair grip Marion Scott a 49 Rurals painter as within weeks he loses infant son, wife, grandmother, and father in law. The family mourns amid a Wayne county tragedy with burial near Enfield and the father-in-law ill and hoping to join loved ones. A state Woman's Relief Corps convention is planned at Pierwon's hall with 32 corps expected and a public campfire tonight. Sixteen Die In Storm in Austin noted in the report.
At 8 am Tuesday Johanson, 53, of 68 West Eleventh Street, a teamster, was kicked by a horse and sustained a severely fractured hip. He was taken to City Hospital where the injury was dressed and treated.
Dead John Sullivan thirteen, crushed by an engine near Rayst crossing of Belt line Monday. He died early Tuesday, body mangled and unrecognizable. He lived at 62 Birch Avenue.
Listings tout tea kettles, tumblers, bone dishes, scouring cake, carpet beaters and more. Limited quantities and age restrictions apply. Readers urged to visit the ads in the paper for Wednesday specials.
Emma King, serving a near ten day sentence at the workhouse, was Monday committed to the insane hospital. She had been a frequent prisoner, previously displaying signs of insanity. Other notes praise California's prosperity and describe colonist rates and self-sustaining homes, urging readers to consider California as a land of opportunity with climate, power, and irrigation driving growth.
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