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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1901
Page
5
The article surveys neckwear options ranging from 50 cents to 2 25, detailing heavy silk stocks, automobile ties with varying ends, black velvet styles, white taffeta bands, and four in hand ends. It notes style appeal versus value and mentions women's view on certain looks.
R A Brown travels to Buffalo for the exposition while Scottsburg curio collector J E Mitchell sends a ground hog skull and a Clark County mound bone needle to the state museum. A Chicago Sunday editor fails to locate W S Blatchley in Terre Haute, where the state geologist is noted for his local prestige.
Attorney P W Bartholomew representing Romus F Stuart seeks to revive a county suit after Judge Allen dismissed it. The amended complaint names Sterling R Holt William H Schmidt county commissioners and Auditor Smith as defendants to overcome prior legal objections and obtain standing in court.
Sanctioned in Bedford Republican editorials for Fairbanks as a potential president. New Harmony Register notes happiness over boots and jokes about an electric line. Kent Cooper reports from Indianapolis as state papers attack Gov. Durbin over Kentucky requisition and praise his stance. Local papers announce ownership changes and editorial quips from Kirklin to Walkerton, with mixed satire on circulation and editors.
A report says Joe Kealing may fail to be confirmed as United States district attorney. Fairbanks selected him, with some Senator Beveridge allies initially willing, while Beveridge himself reportedly did not consent. Roosevelt may oppose if Beveridge objects. Others keep opposing Kealing, and Stilwell is alleged candidate for congress. Roberts sent Russian industrial reports with limited decipherable words.
The state prepares to battle in U.S. circuit court against American and National express companies over mileage based tax assessments. The firms seek to exclude bonds and other securities from taxation and argue mileage totals should include ocean river and foreign segments. Merrill Moores travels to New York and Boston to gather depositions for evidence.
President Hugh McGowan of the street car company reports record trade last week with New York and Rink stores closing due to crowding. He notes his firm served regular patrons and overall business surged as carnival crowds filled the afternoon.
A collage of short items from Indiana towns including a Coatesville firm giving shoes to newborns, a Walkerton youngster story, a Kokomo railroad man and a two ton frog, a Deep River sea serpent tale, and humorous reports of folks harpooning should the serpent not be caught. Other notes cover game law violators, a Lafayette woman claiming to be dead and mother of four, a lemon tree in Whitley county, rodent damage to a family in Albion, a Cromwell editor’s sewer-linked stove, a snake in a Liberty township classroom, and various local mishaps, crimes, and curiosities among Indiana residents.
The Claypool office building in Pennsylvania and Chicago is dated to be finished by November 15 and will rank among the country’s finest. It features fireproof construction with oak wood and iron detailing, a central 50 foot court with a large skylight, 336 rooms, extensive lighting, hydraulic elevators, water tube boilers, dual gas and electric service, concealed wiring, and marble corridors.
Art Deeres shot and fatally wounded Harley Marshall and Lee Markin at a dance near Upland. He was arrested. Saloonist Noah Fuquay of Evansville shot William Battag five times after a quarrel Sunday night. Miss Lon Gammon of Kokomo, colored, was sentenced to prison for stealing jewels worth 300 dollars from G. P. Wood. Madison county circuit court ruled J. A. Guyman Windfall entitled to a retail liquor license. Temperance people will take the case to the supreme court.
William S. Ryan, a lawyer and former New York reporter, interviews the notorious Harry Hill about the Sullivan-Ryan prize fight. For three nights Ryan visits Hill in his dive and records a grim confession as Hill muses on how many people he has sent to hell and how many more he will send before he dies.
The presbyterian assembly met in Madison Indiana on October 21 and decided to hold their next gathering in Goshen in 1902.
When you wake with a bad taste in your mouth visit a drug store for a free Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sample. One or two doses are said to make you well and relieve biliousness, sigh, headache, and constipation.
Constance Fenmore revisits Saddle Island where a quarter acre once deeded to her by Leroy Stanford becomes her inheritance after his death. Ned Channing reveals his long-held love and asks her to marry as she plans a summer cottage funded by her Treasured legacy.
Mayflower Congregational Church was dedicated with a $17 500 building cost. Memorial windows honor Rev. N A Hyde. Sermons by Rev. Graham Taylor of Chicago and local pastors urged civic Christian duty and uplift through faith. Italian Catholics plan fundraising for church land. rummage sale supports St Joseph’s industrial school.
A Woodruff Place deputy auditor Fred Shepard reveals his one year old son runs things at home. The boy dismisses parental limits and when asked to choose between mother or father, he refuses to name names and adds it’s not the oldest.
Station-master Polen estimates last week’s visitors at 100000, about half of the state fair and I O F gathering. Few special trains ran though excursion rates were common all week. The peak came Thursday with arrivals rivaling fair week, a record breaker.
Report claims large US donations for Shensi famine never reached sufferers as Li Hung Chang is accused amid scandal.
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