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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1901
Page
3
The ad touts OUR OWN COMBINATION-30 coffee as pure and well suited to taste. It highlights delicate flavor and aroma and claims most people like them. It suggests asking a neighbor for a verdict and asserts broad satisfaction.
News of the theaters notes street parades at noon by Uncle Tom's Cabin and Al G. Field's Minstrels. Al G. Field's performs tonight at English's Opera House. Uncle Tom's Cabin opens at Park Theater this afternoon with six performances of Valley Forge to follow. Viebler & Co. highlight Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne's The First Duchess of Marlboro in Atlantic City. Wagendale & Kemper promote Arthur Byron in Petticoats and Bayonets with a $100 design contest for play and star naming details.
Kansas City report notes Ellen Terry doubts playing Marguerite and Olivia again as she ages Fay Davis slated to replace her in Irving repertoire after his American tour. In Sydney Seabrooke debuts in A Modern Crusoe, succeeding late Roland Reed in the romantic comedy amid a large, receptive audience. He aims to move from comic opera to straight drama with the vehicle.
A fragment references a Mrs Aus and an ongoing action, hinting at a local note or public display. Details are incomplete, but the mention of a person with a clipped surname suggests a social or civic item awaiting clarification. The tone remains concise and archival.
Dr. J S Jenckes preached on The Duty We Owe Our Fellowmen from the Good Samaritan text at Meridian Street Methodist Church. He urged mercy and neighborly aid, spoke on Central America and the Nicaragua canal, and urged support for his Honduras college. Plymouth Church also heard Mr. Meserve on manliness and faithfulness amid trials.
The Central Christian Church filled with attendees as nine members joined after a sermon by Rev. Allan B. Philpott on The Grace of Cheerfulness. He urged kindness to job seekers and highlighted Christianity’s call to hopeful, cheerful living despite life’s sorrows.
The Rev H C Meserve, pastor of Plymouth Church, preached his first sermon after a vacation yesterday morning and told the congregation it could be the last one preached there. He noted the sermon yesterday morning might be the final one in Plymouth Church.
The Rev R H Moore of Madison Avenue Methodist Church preached on Civilized Crime using Matthew 6 23. He argued civilization does not abolish crime and that modern criminals exploit broad systems, creating greater opportunities for wrongdoing.
Dr Reginald Gasstung returns from Virginia mountains. McLain and Gordon back from northern Michigan. Henry Hope and Harry Myers brought from Paris IL to face horse theft charges in Littles stable case. Ladies Society Turnverein to host lawn fete at Turner Park with Peck's Boys' Brigade Band. Prohibition League to meet tonight with C M Lemon as speaker on prohibition party benefits. Arabic translation request for Ben Hur to Alexandria Egypt via Neghib Gargour and Khedival Mail Steamship Co. Notes on Bedouins and horses in the story praised by New York Literary Review.
In Santiago de Chile on August G, Henry L. Wilson United States minister to Chile publicly rejected rumors that he will retire soon to devote time to commerce. He stated he would remain in his diplomatic post with the United States government.
Sir Frederick Robinson baronet clerk of the Surrogate Court at Osgood Hall and son of the late Sir Lucern Robinson drowned today in Fairylake near Huntsville where he was summering.
Trust to luck is foolish for fire risk and for title to real estate. Indiana Title Guaranty and Loan Company at 129 East Market Street offers title insurance and loan services with fast access by telephone at 3005.
A Minnesota visitor recounts a striking case of atavism in the Burns family. Two sons born to respectable parents become neighborhood terrors, terrorizing a community with horse stealing, dance hall trickery, and brutal conduct toward their parents before eventual arrest and exile. The tale traces inherited vice from childhood to crime and flight.
Huntington County Loan and Savings Association versus Simeon T Cast et al involves the assignment of errors in term bond. This case records appellants briefs and additional authorities for Howard C C Ap pellants and Ruth J Crampton administrator against Susan E Logan in a new case.
About 5 000 people attended the German day event by the united German societies of Indianapolis at Germania Park after a rain delay. Parades through downtown featured multiple bands, flags, and society banners. At the park, two songs, brief addresses by Frederick Francke and Ernst Knodel, and Mueller's Orchestra accompanied athletic contests by the South Side and Independent Turners with prize scores led by Andy Niebling and Joe Barry earning top gold and silver medals for overall performance.
A stock jobbing scheme implicated Shaffer's organization alleged to involve fewer than 14,000 members. Officials report the fraud network used alias accounts and fake trades to extract funds. Investigators pursue key figures as court filings begin.
In a tale told by a chemist, a wholesale druggist bet $10,000 that plain granulated sugar in nostrum form could be sold as a malaria cure with fanciful labeling and certificates. The sugar remedy sold for $1 a bottle, proved a hollow claim, yet many educated buyers believed it cured malaria. The piece also recounts the broader frauds of patent medicines and the public credulity that sustains them.
Appellate court records show petitions for rehearing in the North Mercer Natural Gas Company case against Duncan Smith et al, plus a motion to dismiss in the Southern Indiana Railway Company versus James B. and related proceedings. Randolph C. C. appears as appellee. brief filings and proofs referenced. Attica Bridge and Machine Works noted in connection with the docket.
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