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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
4
Theaters list matinee and evening showings for Suburban at English’s today with stage drama, vaudeville at Grand, and burlesque at Empire. Park presents The James Boys in Missouri with two more showings, while the Irwin burlesque troupe and Frasettis entertain.
A practical monopoly of pantomime with Mother Goose led by Dan Leno drew large audiences, with the theater’s spectacular production praised as equal to prior years. Suburban theatres and the Hippodrome also showcased pantomimes attracting big afternoon and evening crowds.
Indianapolis society page records a flurry of visitors and gatherings over the holidays. Residents travel from Detroit Harrodsburg and Louisville to visit friends including Miss Anne Jillson Miss Mary Pinnell and Mr. Ogden Gray while engagements and weddings unfold in Greenwood Richmond Bedford and nearby towns. A charity ball nets funds for the Girls Industrial School as social events span teas dances and formal celebrations across North Pennsylvania Street Meridian and Woodruff Place.
The article advises mothers to dress dolls simply with durable fabrics in bright colors, stressing practicality and economy. It warns against elaborate costumes that wear poorly, and promotes teaching children how to care for garments by dressing dolls correctly.
The article describes a doll wardrobe pattern 4002 with a baby blue dotted cashmere frock, bonnet, underclothing, petticoat, and guimpe adaptable to a doll of 14 18 or 22 inches. It specifies yardage for materials, declares the pattern coupon price of 16 cents, and directs readers to Pattern Dept The Journal Indianapolis Ind for return of the pattern within one week.
At St Pauls Episcopal Church a morning service at 10 45 features Clarence H Carson as musical director with a vested choir of forty. The program includes Venite Gloria Te Deum Jubilate and Gloria Tibi with a quartet and soloists. At 7 30 p m the cantata The Coming of the King by Dudley Buck is presented with solos duets trios quartets chorus and organ.
A red horse rider amid myrtle trees and a retinue of red sorrel and white horses is cited as possibly the earliest authentic horse show. The note ends with a mention of Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge advertised as strength without stimulants.
Edward J. Borman sues Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville Railway seeking 85000 damages claiming he was ejected from a Monon line train after presenting an interchangeable mileage book for travel. He asserts the railroad is bound by the mileage contract and sought proper fare payment via mileage.
Indiana National Bank moves in Superior Court before Judge Carter to be released from custody of a lock box and to have the court take charge of its contents in a dispute among Oscar E. Sandeborg and his Wisconsin sister, George Young, and the estate in Sweden. The bank seeks to withdraw from the suit as the case remains undecided after a demurrer to the interpleader. Young collected 21000 from the Sweden estate for the two heirs and claimed a 5000 fee, placing the balance in his safety deposit box under court restriction. The fee dispute and box contents are at issue as the case waits trial and a ruling.
Sixteen young men arrested at Goldwin Smith pool room at College and Massachusetts avenues were fined and costs by acting Judge Collins. Smith himself was not arrested but a warrant was issued for keeping a gambling house. Smith paid one boy's fine and fled. he was chased by a policeman and brought back to the station.
On motion by A. E. Manning and others the court replaced the receiver for Fox Manning from Archie Greathouse to William H. Stringer in Judge Vinson Carter’s Room 3 Superior Court yesterday. Manning’s lawyers objected to Greathouse as not a druggist and lacking knowledge to wind up the Fox Manning drug store at North Street and Senate Avenue.
Two saloon keepers Dennis O'Brien and August Braham were fined ten dollars and costs each in Police Court for possessing slot machines. O'Brien said the machine had not been used for two months. Acting Judge Collins offered to reduce the fine if O'Brien could prove the machines were inactive.
The trial of John M. Sullivan for assault on his wife was held in Police Court yesterday. Judge Collins took the case under advisement until next Friday. Sullivan was arrested three weeks ago with reports that Mrs. Sullivan was seriously injured. Insanity commissions found Patty Anna Turner aged thirty five a domestic and Mary J Kuhn forty five sane yesterday. Both women had suffered from peculiar hallucinations and insanity complaints were filed by friends.
The document lists ongoing cases in multiple courts including Vera Startz versus Andrew Startz for divorce taken under advisement, Fox versus Manning with a motion for change of receiver, Shafer liquor license application funding, American Brewing Company versus John Krupp on note, Borman versus the railway for damages, and City Bond Company versus Carlton et al on an improvement lien with a $1,25 demand.
Appellate records list petitions for rehearing and oral argument across several cases. Howard County board vs Garrigus, Citizens Gas and Oil Mining Co. vs Whipple, Bertram v State ex rel Lowell Dredge Co., and others appear with brief numbers and amended assignments of errors.
A fragment listing multiple cases with parties including Consumers' Gas Trust Company versus Joseph W. Littler in the circuit court and Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York versus Flora Sanders. Also mentions William J. Benner versus Adolphus A. Magee with assignments of errors in term bond.
Recents legal opinions cover an unlicensed druggist found in a store rear drawing whisky from a cask into colored jars, with barrels marked by a sugar company stencil and initials erased on delivery. Jurisdiction cites Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Colorado cases on liquor, divorce voidness, alienation of affection, telegraph delivery, cow limitations, and specific performance in real estate contracts.
A bargain sale of police badges in Indianapolis drew nearly all patrolmen yesterday. New shield badges, limited to 200, replace old star shapes. Special badges require orders from the Board of Public Safety and bear the words Indianapolis Police and badge number. Mayer produced the dies and 19,000 bicycle license tags plus 10 vehicle tags for the city.
Final action taken vacates parts of the first alley west of Arlington avenue and adjacent alleys near Paris and Missouri streets. Cement walks required on Tuxedo street from Tenth to Sixteenth streets with bids by J. Harry Roberts and J. D. Hoss. Bids referred to the engineer.
A brief item notes a New England farmer’s call for simpler living, trimming superfluities and domestic excess. Nel has cut off nonessential tasks and servants while focusing on kitchen economy and modest resources. The piece underlines personal discipline and practical homemaking.
The Indiana Academy of Science met in the State house with officers elected for the year including Blatchley as president and Bodine as editor. Dr. H. W. Wiley spoke on fruits and hoisted a broad view of Indiana’s scientific progress, health, and the pure food law, highlighting epidemics at Purdue and the state’s hygienic work.
Independent Turnverein held a Turners Hall Christmas show with calisthenics by 897 students directed by Oscar Ruther. Boys wore light trousers and white waists, girls in blue. a class of adults later performed. Prizes, candy, dolls and medals were given from a Christmas tree before a closing dance.
The Century Piano and Truck Company of Indianapolis incorporated yesterday with $1 capital. Beaver Meadow Natural Gas Company of Arlington Rush county seeks gas business with $1 106 capital. La Porte’s Tue Land Company forms with $120 000 capital. Grabill’s Egley & Co. files for $10 000 capital. Kehoe Boat and Company of Fort Wayne lists directors including T Kehoe and H Vi mark.
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