Fire and police notes from the city stations
At the police and fire stations, Capt Steve Childers of Engine No. 2 enjoys kite flying with neighborhood boys. Fire Chief fixed his office gong himself. Capt F E Owings returns from Kentucky river tobacco crop tour. Detectives Kinney urges dispersed crowds to deter pickpockets. Capt Manning treated his eyes to locate assailants at the Citizen’s Gas coal bunker. Albert Gibney, injured at the speedway, resumes duty driving police cars.
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Roosevelt Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Capt. Childers
Capt
F. E. Owings
Hose Company No. 12
Virginia Avenue
Kentucky River
Albert Gibney
Mrs H K Merritt Dies In Indianapolis Funeral Held At St Pauls
Mrs Henry Keble Merritt died Tuesday at her home 1610 West Pennsylvania Street. Daughter of Sir William Pearce Howland of Toronto, Canada. Funeral held Thursday at St Pauls Church. Body to be taken to Toronto for burial.
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H. K. Merritt
Henry Keble Merritt
Pennsylvania Street
St. Paul’s Church
Merritt
William Pearce Howland
Toronto
Canada
Automatic Gas Machines Attract Indiana Viewing
Jerome Herff president of the Indiana Automatic Gas Machine Co reports strong interest from State fair visitors who toured the firm at 905 N. Thios street. The fly Gann machine, claimed to produce odorless safe gas, uses air and water with gasoline fumes to create gas for home lighting, cooking and heating at lower cost than other fuels. Many machines have been placed in country homes, and Herff, well known across the state, notes rising attention.
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Jerome Herff
Indiana Automatic Gas Machine Company
N. Tliois Street
Herff
Mother and daughter die on same day in Indiana shock
Terre Haute Ind Sept 9 Mrs Sadie Hayes 58 died at 1 am and her mother Mrs Cole 96 died an hour later from the shock. Both were widows living near Clay City.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Sadie Hayes
Cole
Clay City
Indiana Banker’s Son Coffin Dies in New York After Operation
RaLston Robert Coffin formerly of Indianapolis died Wednesday in New York City after an operation. Born in 1884, he was the son of W E Coffin of the Indiana National Bank. A Yale and Columbia alumnus, he worked with Coffin & Co. bonding house and was well known as an athlete in college.
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RaLston Robert Coffin
Indianapolis
New York City
Mr. Coffin
W.E. Coffin
Indiana National Bank
Yale
Columbia
Coffin & Co
Bonding House
Health and Beauty Notes by Mrs. Mae Martyn
Molly O suggests bleaching ink stains with a moistened match end. Plain women who care for complexion hair teeth and eyes win husbands. Hair requires shampoo every two weeks and a tonic twice weekly. Recipes include plaincanthrax shampoo and quinine hair tonic. Complexion cream jelly almozoin with glycerine helps skin. Advice on weight loss parnotis and eye and face tonics. Ends with vinegar rinse for shriveled hands.
millennial forecast at Brooklyn meeting of Russell followers
At the Brooklyn Tabernacle a 1500 strong assembly led by Pastor Charles T Russell embraced a 1914 start for a gradual earthly paradise. Leadership asserted no world end, but a slow rehabilitation across 1000 years culminating in 2914, with reincarnation, testing, and potential second deaths for the unworthy.
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New York
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Charles T. Russell
Brooklyn Tabernacle
G. C. Driscoll
Russell
South Bend Hosts Home-Coming Celebration Invitees
South Bend Indiana chamber of commerce invites the Indianapolis Commercial club and the Indianapolis Automobile club to join the city’s home-coming events running October 3 to 9. An automobile parade is planned with a gathering on October 4 for the dedication of the court of honor, with business leaders from other cities also invited.
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South Bend
Ind
Indianapolis Commercial Club
Indianapolis Automobile Club
South Bend Chamber of Commerce
Swallows Poison When Wife Seeks Divorce
George Tucker aged 54 committed suicide Wednesday night by drinking carbolic acid at his wife’s home after separation and divorce proceedings were begun by his wife Mrs. Tucker said he had tried to assault their 2 year old daughter, and returned pleading for reconciliation before drinking the poison.
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George Tucker
Wonderful Dry Hot Air Health Treatment At Indianapolis Institute
Dr Wishelm of 24 North Delaware Street promotes a Dry Hot Air apparatus for chronic disease treatment. A heated asbestos cylinder surrounds a wooden carriage carrying the patient, who rests wrapped in Turkish toweling as air remains dry and intensely hot. The head stays outside, room air remains fresh, claimed to stimulate weak lungs and hearts. Endorsed by medical authorities as a strong remedial agent, the system is advertised as used in hospitals and sanitariums in the U.S. and Europe with alleged success in difficult cases.
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Wishelm
North
Delaware Street
Europe
Indianapolis
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