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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
10
The Salvation Army asked the police department to furnish names of five thousand worthy poor people to whom aid should be distributed and to make a report.
The column lists numerous residents traveling to Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Cleveland and Atlanta returning from visits to Peoria Richmond and Washington with social invitations and upcoming dances. Notable events include weddings engagements and society gatherings at the Propylaeum Godruff Place and First Presbyterian Church with families like Downing Fox Pangborn Hall and Warren Oakes noted among attendees and hosts.
The piece compiles budget friendly menus including breakfast with fruit cereals fried smelts and coffee, lunch of fried oysters and fig short cake, and dinner featuring baked bean soup fish cutlets and custard. It also surveys shoppers notes on sheer china silk chemisettes eight rib umbrellas glass vases holiday stockings and dainty black silk hosiery. A New York Commercial Advertiser item explains pound cake method and variations while New York Post fashionizes velvet gowns with lace jabots and pink coral bead accessories.
Former detectives John Morgan and Thomas Dugan announce a new detective agency to open around the first of the year. Both bring long experience and have protected large stores during the Christmas season, aiding in guarding goods and preventing theft.
The English theatre presents Miss Bob White with Dorothy Hunting as Quaker maid and a strong company led by Neil McNeil, Frank Deshon, and Alice Dovey. Willard Spencer writes all music and lyrics, delivering a tuneful, diverting three act operetta with pleasing scenery, costumes, and solid chorus work. The Park hosts The Child Slaves of New York with sensational melodrama and fast pacing, featuring Homer Sherwood and a Broadway-style villain cast, drawing strong crowds through the week.
James O’Neill stars in a new drama based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Girard adventures with Creston Clarke Edmund Breese and Miss Selen Johnson in supporting roles. Liebler & Co. provide lavish scenery and stage fittings for the presentation at English’s tomorrow afternoon and evening.
An exhibition of T C Steele's old paintings hung in Lieber Gallery features Oregon coast and Brookville Indiana canvases. Highlights include The Purple Sea Cape Foulweather Lighthouse and From the Cliffs Lighthouse, with many studies of lighthouse approaches, weather scenes, and sea mist. The show ranks as Steele’s most important to date and mixes bold Pacific color with Indiana landscapes.
Mrs Emmet Hagan of Brookville Indiana and her mother urged the Governor to pardon or free her husband who is in prison She said she would stay in Indianapolis until the Governor returns believing his innocence and seeking his release
The Society of Friendly Visitors committee led by Rev. W. B. Farmer and others met in the assembly room to plan efforts to encourage church attendance among the poor. Members include Miss Harriet Noble Rev. George L. Mackintosh Rev. A. D. Berry Mrs. J. W. Inlow Miss Esther Barth and Nancy E. Warman as they discussed outreach strategies.
Harvey Emrich of Butler, a youth under twenty, draws notice from local artists. He spent a month with Otto Stark and J Otis Adams near Brookville making oil and black and white sketches praised by critics. He graduated last January from Manual Training High School as a standout pupil in Stark’s class.
A city committee proposes to visit families to address charitable needs and social issues. The plan seeks to increase church attendance among both older and younger family members as part of moral and civic work.
Frank Duffy, secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, was yesterday treated to a dinner at the Denison Hotel by a number of prominent city labor leaders. The meal celebrated the first rally on the location of the union headquarters in Indianapolis.
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