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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1910
Page
11
New York reports Walter L. Fairchild unveils an American built single plane monoplane at Garden City field. He claims speeds up to seventy miles per hour and demonstrates stable flight, sparking interest as the first practicable US machine to rival French airships.
Milwaukee dispatch reports ten persons were injured when Archie Hoxsey lost control of a Wright aeroplane at the Wisconsin state fair grounds late Friday. The craft swooped into the crowd after a poor start about fifteen feet up. Hoxsey was uninjured.
State librarian Demarchus A Brown, returning from Europe, urged standardizing blind reading into one alphabet. Five languages operate in Indiana. elderly readers use raised letters while younger readers adopt New York point, which likely will prevail.
Four people from Ann Arbor including Clarence Emory and H D Emory and their spouses, plus Harry Cobb and his wife, fell ill after eating cornmeal unknowingly mixed with poison. They had been fishing at Lakeland and used the meal to coat their fish. Cobb is out of danger, but the others face possible death.
Charles E. Sexton, a Missouri University junior in engineering, spends vacation in a twenty five foot motor boat of his own making. He cleverly uses junk from the campus and fairs, with a one and a half horsepower motor that once powered a motorcycle, a canvas cover from a university fair, and a bicycle front wheel repurposed as the rudder post.
Burglars entered the Hardy home at 1913 Wilcox street early Saturday by prying a side window with a jimmy and stole a five dollar bill from under the pillow of Mrs Hardy who slept. No other property was taken and bicycle officers Beblangen and Glenn found no trace of the thief.
In Avalon California on September 17 a colossal cheese destined for the Chicago national dairy show will be produced in Appleton this week. The giant cheese will weigh 4000 pounds and measure fifteen feet in diameter and about four feet tall, touted as the largest yet.
Portland Maine September 117 United States Senator Eugene Hale's thirty year service in Congress ends abruptly as a Democratic landslide seizes Maine. With the Maine legislature under adversaries the successor is assured to be a Democrat. Hale, seventy four, has held state or national office for about fifty years.
Government briefs filed in Pittsburgh Pa on the long running antitrust case against the Temple iron company and the anthracite coal railroads claim they fix prices and throttle competition. The government argues profits come mainly from transportation charges rather than mining and selling coal, harming independent miners.
Appleton Wisconsin September 17. Officials of the Southern Pacific arrange a train of standard and tourist sleeping cars on a side track to house crowds unable to find hotel rooms during the fair.
Claim of a free prescription to cure weak kidneys includes a mailed offer from Dr. H. Robinson. The ad asserts rapid relief from scalding or frequent urination, back pain, muscle weakness, and sleeplessness, urging readers to request the formula by mail.
Paris reports France plans to pay fifty million dollars to flood proof the Seine. A commission, leaving Paris, will study possible obstructing locks and bridges and deepening the river bed from Paris to Rouen. Authorities fear further floods this winter as heavy rains persist.
Special to The Sun reports Roy Engle a 14 year old boy from Noblesville Indiana who has reportedly joined his father in Sareen Ohio after disappearing from home. Roy is the eldest of four siblings whose mother, deserted by her husband four years ago, says the father is a heavy drinker and unfit to care for the child.
The Sun outlines contract rates on application with phone 1871 for rep contact. Death, funeral, bank, lodge, church notices appear in about six lines at 25c per insertion. Ads under 10c not accepted. The Sun may reject ads and is not liable for more than one incorrect insertion. errors will be corrected.
Deaths and funeral notices list in Indianapolis era pages. Clements Peter died Sept 15 1910 at 50 years 11 months 56 days with funeral at 151 Palmer St and Sacred Heart church. Bernamer Louisa A widow of W. F. A. Bernamer died in Chicago with brothers listed. Grim Minnie S wife of John H. Grim died at 410 W Twenty eighth St with funeral at home and Crown Hill burial. Also spiritualist notices at Colfax hall with lectures by Mrs D A Morrill of Grand Rapids Michigan. Several sale and employment ads interspersed in the column, including fur offers and teaching and trades positions.
A dense snippet shows classified ads for buy sell and rent in Indianapolis with multiple addresses such as 1529 Martindale 2026 Hillside and 718 Beecher 1607 Guifin, plus property slogans and storage services. It references Central Trust Company and storage firms, several flats and houses for rent, and local business names like The Oakland and The Marguerite, indicating a fragmented real estate and service listing from a historic newspaper page.
In the past decade all desirable property has sold to builders. Northview, the sole tract held by the owner, is now divided into large lots. The final land between Fall Creek and Broad Ripple is available on easy terms.
Northview on the car Une east side College avenue between Fifty second and Fifty fifth street is described as the best located and most desirable property in the territory. The tract that would have sold early has been reserved for late buyers.
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