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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1902
Page
9
A garbled Vital Statistics list reports numerous birth announcements including girls and a few two month and forty three year entries. Names include Schaffner Rose Davis Hoffmann and others with addresses and a typhoid fever note.
Freight and service listings from the Journal include REEDY & CO freight phones, funeral directors Frank Blanchard, Benatermnn Bros livery, patent lawyers Thompson Bell, Horace Wood livery, Penance Foundry stove repair, H C Stevens wall paper, and notices for room and board, heating and hospital bids, with general ad rates and a church fair event.
A fragmented ad page offers mortgage and farm loan services from C F Sayles Co and Thos Y & Co. It includes city and farm loan offers, property notes, lost scarf pin notice, and Union Transfer storage services with Crating and packing plus contact details in Indianapolis. The jumble preserves names like C F Sayles Co 13 Market St and Union Transfer storage at East Ohio and Union Tracks.
Thirty four transfers were filed in Marion County Indiana for the 24 hours ending Aug 25 1902. The list includes Lynn E Kepler to George T Kepler multiple lots in Patsey Pattersons add and other subdivisions, plus numerous other buyers and properties with total consideration about 50445 dollars. City notices of new dwellings and additions accompany the transfer list, and several parcels are described in detail within various additions and subs.
The article reports on expected changes at the Big Four including the creation of an assistant general superintendent post on Sept 1 to ease General Superintendent Van Winkie’s workload. It notes possible promotion to Chicago division superintendent, confirms shop allocations to Missouri Pacific Osawatomie and Rock Island Horton, and lists various highway and railway leadership moves, resignations, and upcoming excursions.
The merger of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois with the St Louis and San Francisco will affect passenger and freight traffic between Memphis Chicago and the gulf. The St Louis and San Francisco plans to run direct Memphis Chicago fast trains by January 1. Rates from Minneapolis to Chicago and St Louis are cut September 1 to 10 and 13 cents respectively to reflect wheat-rate reductions, with no change to through flour rates to the east.
Cc E Cost travels in St Louis as freight agent while Wiliam Garstang spends two weeks at Georgian Bay. A E Robbins returns to Buffalo after a Sunday visit. Thomas Stokes shifts to a Mexican road. D G Edwards returns from Michigan vacation. William H Ely dies aged 68 in Beverly New Jersey. B D Lockwood named mechanical engineer of Wisconsin Central. H J Sagru to move headquarters to Detroit September 1. George Gould to inspect Southwestern roads. Anthracite firemen vacations withdrawn and idle crews to report Sept 1. Santa Fe machinists find work after layoff.
The Santa Fe Railway reports delivery of most of a sixteen locomotive contract while four moguls and four shifting engines remain. Cattle traffic is at a peak with freight engines hauling fifty carloads of stock. 440 carloads arrived in Kansas City last week. Track lengths hinder long trains, forcing passenger trains to use sidings. American Express refuses to move from Richmond, arranging with Adams lines to Dayton and Indianapolis. C R M accepts express as freight until a better plan emerges, with possible U S company operation over C R M lines.
A traveling men order in Indiana plans a large gathering in June 1902 as Post B, Indiana Division, Travelers' Protective Association of America, nominates Starr for president. The event signals a forthcoming publication of a history of the division and a history of the State of Indiana.
The Maine returned to Cramp's shipyard after a trial run that set a coast distance record. She covered 410 miles from Boston lightship to Overfalls lightship in 24 hours and 10 minutes at an average 16.9 knots, with earlier trials showing 17.96 knots and a peak 18.9 knots on a course angle.
Miss Rose Cornell of North Indianapolis was accidentally shot in the foot by Nellie Hackleman of Indianapolis while riding with a carnival vaudeville troupe in Lebanon, Indiana. They joked over a loaned revolver. Cornell said she was not afraid and Hackleman fired. The injury is not serious and Cornell was brought to Indianapolis last night.
The Board of Works records petitions for permission to construct cement walks on front of 474 and 476 West Eighteenth Street by Josephine Bell. Also notes improvement completed on a local sewer in the first alley east of Dewey Avenue and a contractor T. E. Kane. Final assessment roll approved for cement walks and gravel roadway on Jones Street. Final remonstrance overruled against Illinois Street improvement. Multiple contract awards and bond approvals listed for bridge and roadway works. Action items include rescissions and deferrals on several projects.
Local wholesale trade remains quiet across most lines as seed markets show slight activity and butter becomes easier. Exes and poultry hold steady prices, grain tones are firmer, and inspections reveal mixed carloads while wagon market offerings are abundant and generally weaker, with hay and corn prices easing.
A dense wholesale price list covering poultry such as turkeys and chickens, cheeses, eggs, beeswax, feathers, wool, hides, and tallow. Includes wholesale quotations for canned goods, dried fruits, nuts, various produce, coal and coke, bags, alcohol, spices, chemicals, and medicines with numerous per unit and per ton prices. Named items include turkeys 10 to 12 lbs at 10c per lb, geese 4.90 per dozen, New York cheeses, and coal types with regional prices.
A local listing shows spring patent flour at $4.25 per bri, winter wheat patent at $2.75, straight grade $3.40, fancy $3.25, low grade $2.50, and graham flour $3.75. Bleached sheetings include Androscoggin Street goods and many named brands with prices ranging from 4 to 7 cents. carpets, linens, and various fabrics such as Yankee and Pepperell items. Also listed are grain bags, coffee varieties, nails, wire, and farm produce prices including new potatoes, sweet potatoes, and fruits with per-bushel or per-bri rates. The page combines grocery, textile, and hardware merchandises with numerous brand names and regional references.
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