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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1909
Page
3
Chicago businessman J G Becker of Van Buren Street says after thirty years of catarrh and costly treatments Peruna cured him permanently and even cured his wife. He notes Peruna as a household remedy for colds and attacks.
Magnificent gifts valued as high as a king's ransom arrived at Dingwall castle for the wedding of Prince Miguel of Braganza to Miss Anita Sewart. Wealthy Americans and European royals attended as the ceremony was set for noon tomorrow.
In Pittsburg on September 14, the walls of the Planck storage house collapsed onto the adjacent three story Hotel Cella, burying many inside. One man, Herman Tiedse, 48, a solicitor, was killed. Patrick Downton is missing along with two Italian laborers, while eight people were injured.
In Columbus Indiana a revolver dropped from a man’s pocket inside the Lyric theater last night and fired. The bullet struck Miss Cortina King aged 18, below the knee. No one has claimed the weapon. Miss King is the daughter of Amos King a grocer.
A blaze in Monroe City Indiana destroyed a barber shop a drug store two restaurants and a dry goods store causing about 18000 in losses with 1140 insured value reported by local officials the flames heavily damaged the commercial block and authorities investigated the cause.
The passage urges readers to open a savings account with a strong company, noting that almost everyone has ambitions for prosperity. It promises that a dollar or more starts the fund and can be added to anytime, encouraging immediate action to turn dreams into reality.
Mrs. M. P. Curran of Boston, wife of the late Mayor Collins secretary, broke her ankle escaping from her Greenwich home after mistaking a maid’s entry attempt for burglars. She leaped from a second floor window as plumber Herbert Platt and others helped her inside, and she was hospitalized.
Governor Marshall plans year end review of all penal and benevolent institutions. The investigation would examine expenses for maintenance across the state’s large institutions.
Senator Shively, long the subject of rumors about his health, has arrived at his South Bend home and will spend weeks there. Friends report his condition has improved and is better than in four or five years, with no foundation to rumors of a fatal illness.
At La Paz Pueblo in Lower California a cloudburst last Wednesday caused a flood that swept through the town. Seven bodies have been recovered and several more residents are unaccounted for. Local authorities fear more deaths as search efforts continue.
New York dispatch reports four firemen injured and ten people overcome by smoke in a four story tenement at 6 Myrce Avenue. Firefighters battled the blaze with several residents rescued from potential death as the structure filled with smoke.
A Taft proclaimed land lottery will open October 4 and run to October 23 in South Dakota and adjacent North Dakota. About 2.5 million acres will be opened for homesteading with 160 acre farms, registrants to come from Pierre Le Beau Aberdeen Mobridge Lemmon and Bismarck. Registration ends October 23 with a drawing led by Judge James Witten in Aberdeen.
Richmond Ind Sept 1lt Joel L Bales seven of Winchester and Mrs Huth Chamness sixty seven of Dalton were married yesterday Bales smoked through the ceremony as the knot was tied in a unusual wedding in Richmond Indiana confirming the event with local details.
Washington reports that Panama Canal workers consumed vast bakery products in 1909. The subsistence department details flour imports of 4,809,124 pounds and daily bakery output at Cristobal, including nearly 5 million loaves and hundreds of thousands of pies and cakes. It notes hospital policies, biscuit sales, and the mix of uses from hotels to families.
Flames gutted a garage attached to Francis E. Drake mansion in Rye Beach New Hampshire. A Force hand crew and local volunteers saved fifteen hundred pairs of fancy birds after the building side was chopped away. Three cars were dragged from the flames. Fire under control after four miles. Loss estimated at 5000 dollars.
A virulent editorial condemns union leadership and the union label as a coercive force harming independent American workers. It cites violence in Wellston Ohio and Chicago, alleges brutal acts by union-favored leaders, and urges readers to defend free labor and oppose mandatory union fees and workplace control. It argues the labor movement has fallen under tyrannical tendencies, harming workers and families who seek honest work.
A tract argues against labor union leadership and the Labor Trust, claiming forced dues, strikes, and boycotts harm independent workers. It praises nonunion Postum workers, urges defense under Sherman anti trust law, and calls readers to support free labor and buy goods without the union label.
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