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The Indianapolis Journal

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 04, 1902

Page

6

FOR SALE One of Fletcher av residence and adjoining cottage

The ad promotes a prime Fletcher avenue home at 730 with modern conveniences and a adjoining cottage, open for afternoon inspection. Also listed are two houses in Watash Indiana near city hall, and a brick storefront with a residence on main street. Other notices include secondhand furnace, a drug store for sale, and various rentals and services from Gregory Appel to Joseph Dennis.

Fletcher Av Watash Ind Sxtoft Main Street City Hall C. T. Thorne

Telegraphers form temporary union in Union Block meeting

Sixty five commercial telegraphers met in Union Block forming a temporary organization. A second meeting is planned for later today to complete the organization. Also noted is the rediscovery of asteroid Eros by Prof. C. J. Lyng at the University Park telescope in Denver.

Eros J. Lyng Big University Park Denver

Wabash freight decline seen in week ended Aug 2

Rail traffic at Indianapolis shows 24 607 cars handled with 20.7 percent loaded, 198 fewer than prior week and 4 fewer than 1901. Per diem car supply issues persist while local traffic boosts fruit produce shipments and dressed meats. Earnings for the twelve months ended June set a record gross but net dipped due to higher operating costs.

Indianapolis Chesapeake & Ohio

Novel Feeding System Serves Passengers on M K T Line

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad operates a farm on Limestone creek near Chickie Chockle Indian Territory supplying all pork eggs and spring chickens for the roads eleven eating houses. Six German families till 30 acres raising poultry swine and gardening. About 0,000 passengers fed monthly by the program with over 2 workers employed and $25,000 spent. The service began in 18% and has grown to its current scale.

Limestone Creek Chickie Chockle Indian Territory F. E. Miller Missouri, Kansas & Texas

B and O Builds Inspection Engine With Passenger Coach

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completes a unique Mount Clair engine for official inspection trips. The engine functions like a full train with a small passenger coach atop the boiler, asbestos covered boiler, Brussels carpet floor, and amphitheater seating for optimal track view. Passengers enter via winding stairs and the engine can be run in either direction.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Mount Clair Baltimore

Railroad and college notes in late July telegrams

Transportation updates include Vandalia purchasing agents heading East on vacation and Big Four trainmaster resigning. Seaboard Airline gains extended jurisdiction over East & West road, with Monon access via Southern roads boosting Chicago entry. Bowdoin College awards honorary MA to M E Ingalls, Big Four president. Santa Fe reports annual gross as part of system growth, while Niagara Falls branch double tracking progresses.

R. Peddie Vandalia O. W. Beckwith Big Four Kankakee C. B. Ryan Seaboard Logansport Big Four City Thomas F. Kelley Chicago & Northwestern Sioux City Erie Dispatch New York Central Niagara Falls Bowdoin College M. E. Ingalls Ingalls Maine Chicago Rivearson Queen & Crescent D. P. Brown Northwestern Ger H. J. van Denmark Passen Santa Fe

Socialists Challenge Beveridge on Trust Solution

Socialists in the city study Senator Beveridge's speech at the Republican State convention and press for a debate on trust solutions. They invite Wilshire to join, plan a discussion focused solely on solving the trust issue, with Beveridge and Wilshire agreeing trusts are inevitable but disputing control methods. The exchange aims to test business solutions over socialist doctrine.

Senator Beveridge Beveridge H. Gaylord Wilshire Canada Wilshire

The Cloud of Witnesses Sermon for Young People

The sermon at Broadway M E Church urges young people to feel moral responsibility. Rev Worth M Tippy stresses parents as a cloud of witnesses guiding youth toward virtue, self control, and public spirit. He warns independence can threaten duty to family and community.

Rev Worth M. Tippy Broadway M. E. Church Tippy Arabia

John the Baptist Sermon on God sent man and purpose

Rev. John Parker of First Presbyterian preached on John the Baptist stressing that every person is sent by God with a divine purpose. He argued John embodied past greatness and future promise, and that true power lies in living a life aligned to God’s plan, not in external signs or spectacle.

John Parker First Presbyterian Church John the Baptist God John John Chrysostom John Wyclif John Huss John Calvin John Knox John Bunyan John Milton John Wesley John Howard John Eliot John Hancock John Witherspoon Jesus Christ Abraham Moses Isaiah David Earth Jesus Jesus Israel Jordan Jordan Valley Herod Jesus Horace Bushnell Bushnell Elisha Nehemiah

Every Life Has a Plan and Purpose Are You Sent

A traveler admires Cologne Cathedral and learns from a laborer that mixing the mortar helped raise the grand structure. The moral: no life is useless unless one makes it so, and every humble effort serves a higher calling.

Cathedral Cologne

Market Gauges Quiet Trading in Fruits and Butter Decline

Week ending Aug 2 shows very quiet wholesale trade across fruits vegetables and grains. Melons berries abundant while butter slumps to 12 cents a pound despite oleomargarine price hopes. Grain prices softened with dull receipts, strong shows from local commissions, and a buoyant August outlook despite weak oats oats and hay.

Congress the Board of Trade Penne

Russia Mulls Tariff Reprisals Amid Sugar Trade Squeeze

A wide range of brief news items are reported from across the nation and abroad. Topics include possible tariff reprisals by Russia over sugar duties, a Chicago woman jailed over infant starvation allegations, royal recovery progress for King Edward, new rehearsals for functions, and several local incidents and political moves in Indiana and nearby states.

Russia Chicago Edward T. K. Irwin W. W. Calhoun Carthage Andrew J. Ground Whitestown Ind Carta

National League Split as Boston and St Louis Tie

National League games left the standings level as Boston and St Louis split victories and Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh won elsewhere. In the American League Chicago beat Baltimore twice while Detroit, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh claimed wins. Indianapolis defeated Milwaukee 5 to 2 in the American Association with Columbus, St Paul, and Louisville also winning. Bobby Walthour set a 28:11 3-5 for twenty miles at Manhattan Beach on July 26, a personal record, with Dan Patchen pacing Columbus late. The Kokomo meet drew a good crowd for top harness racing before closing the season. The Brighton Beach Derby went to Hyphen with Odom aboard in 2:41 3-4 for a mile and a quarter. Boralma injured in Hartford heat. Lord Derby won three heats, then a 2:20 exhibition mile. Interurban terminal franchise talks progressed. Nine men were arrested in Ed Beiser’s saloon on gambling charges. Ripple hosted the Aquatic Club regatta. County Commissioners opened an investigation at the poor farm.

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton N. Whalen Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Loveland Pennsylvania Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Road Carruthers O. Saxby Travelers’ Magazine D. I. Cooke Erie McGuigan Grand Trunk New York Chicago Hocking Valley Columbus Monon Louisville & Nashville Southern Railway Jersey Central Newark Bay David I. Forsyth Wabash Forsyth Rio Grande Road Trange Hocking Valley Road Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Algeo West Shore Road J. D. Besler Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Howard Elliott F. C. Rice Besler Pittsburg E. H. Talbot Railway Age Indianapolis Oral Advertising Corporation John A. Hanley Kansas City Southern Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad Arthur E. Stillwell W. W. Sylvester Orient Line London L. F. Loree Baltimore & Ohio Camden Station O. . McCarty Chicago & Northwestern Northwest Great Northwest Montreal Los Angeles Muskoka Wharf Lakes Detroit Kingston Richelieu & Ontario Windsor Ottawa Quebec St. Lawrence Boston St. Louis Baltimore Philadelphia Milwaukee St. Paul Louisville Bobby Walthour Manhattan Beach Dan Pateh Joe Patchen Boralma Hartford Lord Derby Moralma Ed Beiser Ripple

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