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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
4
A Santa Clara resident denounces slanderous jokes about local fruit and asserts the value of fresh, healthy produce. The speaker, claiming substantial weight and quality, promotes enjoying nature’s bounty despite criticism and seeks fair treatment.
Jan Kubelik the young Czech violinist drew great applause at Englishe’s Opera House in his first U S visit. Promoted by Daniel Frohman he previously impressed New York and Chicago audiences. He delivered a refined performance of Bach and Schumann with a serene stage presence and superb tone earning enthusiastic praise from the crowd.
In a major city concert, violinist Jan Kubelik electrifies with a display of meaningful melody signaling his genius as he ages while pianist Maria Victoria Torrilhon earns praise but serves as a stop gap. The Park Theater presents The Last Sentence a melodrama featuring Bob Hickey whose fall from grace to detective work drives a long restitution arc across New Orleans and Manhattan Club scenes. The production boasts elaborate stage realism including a horse being shod and water pumped, across four acts.
Seats go on sale at English's at nine this morning for E H Sothern's two shows next Tuesday and Wednesday nights He will perform the new play If I Were King by Justin Huntley McCarthy In Paris Anatole France stage Les Nooes Corinthiennes in verse at the Odeon with music by Francoise Thome The drama centers on a love story across religious lines with Daphne and Hlippas in ancient Corinth
Ignace Paderewski arrives on the Oceanic with his wife to supervise the production of his opera Manru at the Metropolitan Opera House next month. The work has been staged in Cologne Dresden Prague and Zurich and will be performed in Amsterdam soon. King Edward and royal party attend Mice and Men at the Lyrie Theater in London, a first theater visit since Queen Victoria’s death.
Madame Lillian Nodica cancels all engagements through next Tuesday as she plans a concert in San Francisco. The notice notes her schedule will resume with a performance in the city following the cancellation period.
Last Ae Mme. Nordica suffered severe injuries from the Georgia railroad wreck and fatigue from recent nights. Her physician orders rest and quiet for several days. This morning she felt much better. In LaCrosse Jefferson De Angus learned by telegram of his son's sudden death in New York but continued the stage performance and departed for the East at midnight.
A wide sweep of Society notices from Indianapolis details dances at the Corona and Canoe clubs, visits to Cornell and Clinton Ind, Daughters of the Revolution meeting, concerts by Miss Renaldine Smith, and multiple luncheons, teas, and card parties. Guests include Misses Yaeger, Reaume, Hays, and many local families with Mrs. Cantrell, Mrs. Jelleff, Mrs. McKernan, and Mrs. Hamilton hosting events. Starr Piano Company rooms opening programs, and Central Christian Church women’s gatherings with numerous hostesses.
A social afternoon featured gifts and songs with Mrs Corinne Moore Lawson and Miss Lucile Saunders among a list of guests including Mick Croeftin of London. In Bloomington, Professor Harvey A Bordner and Maud Martin wed, both IU graduates, planning to depart for Manila. Sylvester Bell and Sadie A Smith married near Kokomo with Rev Choate officiating. In Washington, the White House hosted the final State levee in honor of military leaders and Cabinet members with Mrs Roosevelt's gown and the Marine Band performing.
A gypsy camp in Hammond Park awoke to a theft at nine o clock when D Stanley son of King Stanley reported $320 missing from his tent. Neighbors at Farm Saloon alerted others. by eleven o clock camp members returned to find $200 of the loot gone and the tent torn. The incident unfolded behind the dancing pavilion as firearms and watchdogs stood watch. A gypsy alerted others after discovering the damaged walls and disarray. The camp sprang to action, but sleep was interrupted and a search followed the silent lapse.
Pittsburg reports the Amalgamated Association has struck a radical deal with American Steel Hoop and Republic Iron to keep mills open next summer during wage talks. A new wage scale will be crafted at Wheeling in April with a three year aim and a salaried district official to settle disputes.
The Yoko hama Advertiser describes a clash between soldiers and robbers near a village. Discharged officers led raids on wealthy locals, six robbers captured, the outlaws’ rendezvous burned, and fourteen perished in the flames. Bank fraud at Yazadou Bank of Tokio may total 300000 yen with outside accomplices.
A Chicago New York contractor syndicate representing 29 million dollars a year in work plans to bid for building the Nicaraguan canal. Eight leading firms have prepared cost estimates, with Lyman E. Cooley leading the effort on the scheme and surveys of the Isthmus guiding detailed canal plans. If Congress acts, private enterprise will handle the project. if not, the group will refrain from pursuing the contract.
Chicago and Florida Special offers direct Pullman travel to St Augustine Florida with no changes. One night out with observation and dining cars aboard the finest trains in the South. Inquiries to C. H. Hungerford district passenger agent 20 Fourth Ave Louisville Ky.
Samuel Graham of Rockport and Marcus Sulzer of Madison visit Denison and reflect on Indiana politics. Sulzer recalls 1840s Whig shifts, Jefferson Davis connections, and Wilbur’s role in Bright’s senate career. He also cites Madison’s uptick in toll roads, new factories, a pearl button works, a planned paper mill, and forthcoming Kentucky river locks and dams that will spur coal and timber growth.
Samuel O. Graham a Rockport Indiana Democrat and mining and manufacturing figure urged the Indianapolis Southern Railway on Owensboro and Rockport at the Denison. He argued the line would connect southern Indiana with Indianapolis boosting trade and bridge links over the Ohio River, citing coal limestone timber and mineral resources along the route.
Ned G. Russell of Norfolk Virginia extols peanut wealth at Hotel English, claiming 29000 bags sold on a West trip and arguing profits for wholesale sellers. He notes Virginia and Tennessee grow peanuts, recounts a Harrisburg dealer turned millionaire, and outlines May planting to November harvest with local labor.
Ripley county resident E. J. Hancock among fifty prominent locals sued for damages by Mrs. Jenkins over the lynching of her husband. The case reflects legal action taken against a broad group connected to the event.
State fair managers plan liberal premiums surpassing prior years with as much as twenty two thousand dollars in awards. J E McDonald notes last year ribbons cost about two hundred dollars and the program includes a horse show and a Sousa band return, aiming to rival top fairs. Robert B Hanna, Fort Wayne candidate hope fades as he pursues a Fort Wayne streetcar franchise with sixteen miles of track and a four cent fare.
Crawford Fairbanks of Terre Haute at the Grand Hotel touts future growth, citing a coal shipping rate of 3 cents per ton from local fields, about 3 cents cheaper than the Indianapolis rate.
Frank M. Porch of Washington DC stayed at the Spencer House last night while R Harry Miller of Fairmount, a Lincoln League presidential candidate, was in Denison yesterday. Horsemen at the hotels discussed yesterday's horse sales and praised Indianapolis as the best market after noting success in Chicago and St Louis.
The garment makers strike at Louis J Meter & Co. over union scale and reinstatement of strikers ended in a conference between factory management and a joint committee of the Garment Makers Union and the Central Labor Union. About 1 girl participated as a striker with Mother Jones assisting in organizing.
The record lists cash on hand and with agents, real estate free of encumbrance, bonds owned by the company secured by U S bonds and various stocks, loans on bonds and mortgages double the mortgaged value, premiums due, all other securities, and reserves for losses and reinsurances. The maximum single risk shown is $25,000.
Governor Durbin honored a requisition from Ohio for the return of Robert Meenan wanted on arson charges. Meenan is under arrest in Indiana. Mrs Eleanor Hord plans a three story brick building at Massachusetts Avenue North Street costing 18 6m with eleven apartments. Mrs L Hitzelberger contracts for a three brick building at South and Meridian streets costing 10000 for a new baking company. In Butte Montana Joseph Ahafer a mulatto who killed John Hawkins was freed after four years and seven months in jail with witnesses dead or gone. He had been twice sentenced to hang.
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