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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
3
The lease on the current building expired August 31 and owners seek possession. The business plans a temporary move to a new location not yet ready for weeks. New pianos arriving for opening display pressure space while used pianos from trade-ins must be sold, and workmen have begun removing shelving and fixtures already sold to out of town buyers.
The Igorrote Village and Streets of Cairo anchor the Pay Streak attraction at Seattle’s Alaska-Youkon-Pacific exposition. Striking architectural designs lure throngs as barkers and spielers entertain outside shows and Inside exhibitions. The area showcases global representation and elaborate performances drawing crowds nightly before departure.
The week’s bill at the Grand features Kelly and Kent with a satirical vaudeville skit and a bold boxing turn. Park Theater presents Convict 999 with 13 settings and a climactic jailbreak. Superba pantomime promises lavish new tricks and audacious illusions. Empire Theater hosts Fashion Plates in My Uncle From New York with Montague, Dunbar, Keeley, and Olyen plus a boxing exhibition by Hugh McGann.
The Indianapolis Military band will perform at Fairview Park on Thursday night. The program includes Overtures and selections such as Feast of Lanternes Bennet Reminiscences of Wagner Tobani The Passing of Ragtime Pryor Euphonium Solo My Regards Il Trovatore Anvil Chorus Ruy Blas Mendelssohn My Cousin Caruso 1909 Hits Daughters of America Dalbey March and more with Beissenkers Pink Hall art and electrical effects.
Elmer E. Watson and Harrison Errington were fatally injured when a buggy carrying them, both asleep, was struck by a freight train. The buggy was demolished and the horse killed, leaving both men unconscious on the locomotive pilot as the train halted.
A two part poem by Wilfred J Funk describes a dawn ride through sunlit pines and frost gleaming fields. The speaker bids good morning to a lass with gray eyes as dawn paints the landscape and embers glow in the hearth.
New York reports Nie Brugge and Maxwell located an 80 plus year old woman in San Francisco believed entitled to a 200000 estate from Waterbury real estate operator Joseph Kendregen who died childless in 1907. The claim concerns dower rights and involves a son named Mary who may receive the remainder.
In the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition Mines exhibit, the Philippines coal resources show potential for supplying ships of war and commerce. Government tests from Bataan and Albay indicate steam quality rivaling Japanese and Australian mines with extensive pools and near unlimited output.
Berlin September 2. Orville Wright the American aviator broke up the maneuvers of a battalion of German guards with a private 15 minute flight over the Templehof parade ground. It was his first flight above German soil and he planned to test the German built airplane before a public exhibition. The soldiers ceased drilling and watched the big machine fly overhead.
Three masked foreigners robbed six members of the Hipper-Dipper club at a Rac herson creek campsite in Beaver County. The victims were tied to trees and relieved of valuables before a woodsman spotted them and freed the campers. No injuries reported. suspects fled.
In a Commons statement London said Great Britain instructs the British consul at Fez to join the French representative in protesting the mutilation and torture of prisoners captured by the sultan in Morocco.
For twenty five years Botanic Blood Balm promises to cure thousands annually of Primary Secondary or Tertiary Blood Poison and all blood and skin diseases including Cancer Rheumatism and Eczema. It states B B B eliminates poisons purifies blood and heals ulcers pimples boils and itching restoring health and vitality.
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