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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
4
Charles Hurlburt spends a few days in Chicago. Dozens of local residents travel or visit relatives at Peoria Germantown and other places. Weddings, houseboats, summer trips and social events fill the season as friends and families plan visits, reunions and receptions across Indiana and nearby states.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports multiple marriages including Miss Lele Kern with Everett Ward Hanger in Muncie and Miss Laura Garretson with Melvin Hagerty in Pendleton. Also noted are engagements, visits, church society events, and local moves affecting Indiana towns such as Waterman Tipton Anderson and Franklin with many named individuals and families.
May Manton presents a versatile dressmaking guide for ladies offering elbow or long sleeves and options with or without a stock collar and fitted lining. The example uses hand kerchief lawn with a point d esprit yoke and Valenciennes insertion, lace bands on sleeves, front tucks shaping fullness, and Hungarian style sleeve tops for a dainty yet practical young girl’s garment. The piece notes materials include silk, wool, linen, and cotton with a smoothly fitted lining.
Instructions describe cutting a waist for misses ages 12 to 16 with a yoke option and varied fullness. Front tucks below the yoke, back length tapered, sleeves tucked upper portions, neck frill or stock. Materials listed include widths and yardage, lace insertion, and footing trim.
A New York Tribune inspired guide rich with salad dressings, from whipped cream additions to mayonnaise based emulsions. It details old and tested recipes, cream dressings for apple and celery, cucumber shells, beets, and elegant garnishes, plus tips on oil vinegar balance and decorative vegetable cups.
The article catalogs current fashions in fabrics, hats, and trims. White and gun metal silks, cherry accented hats on burnt straw, and white Banksia roses dominate headpieces. Blue and green color pairings, laces, tulles, and nets on collars and throat decorations are highlighted as fashionable. Green and black combinations offer subtler contrasts.
Arthur Rosenswig was arrested by Detectives Asch and Lancaster on a grand tarvenn charge. He allegedly sold silver items that belonged to his mother in law after recently marrying. some articles were recovered from him.
Two Norfolk and Western freight trains collided in Knoxville this morning. Thirty six cars were demolished. A tramp was killed and investigators found 31,000 dollars in cash on his clothing.
A long excerpt covers travel wardrobe tips with two skirts and sturdy footwear, then moves to home privacy and garden style. It contrasts American open lawns with English hedges, suggests hedges and stone walls for seclusion, and endorses fences that match house architecture. It ends with health guidance: drink pure water, fast judiciously, and maintain daily baths and deliberate eating for vitality.
Practical tips for laundering linen with soap and alum to prevent cracking and fading, cleaning mirrors with whiting paste, maintaining patent leather via careful washing and varnish, plus a method to dry dates figs and raisins after soaking for use as bonbons with sugared centers and optional fillings.
Multiple Indiana incorporations announced including John W. Ryckman Agency in Indianapolis with 4000 capital stock and directors John Ryckman W B Holton and W F C Galt F P Wilt Company Fort Wayne with 150 stock directors F P Wilt A F Dorsey N Zollinger F A Gocke and F W Getseking Ayer Mecarel Company Brazil capital 100000 directors J V Ayer W L Mectarel D B Reagan Oxford Water Company capital 5000 directors S V Parrett H C Ulen and A G Parrett Jackson Burr Company Anderson capital 640 directors William J. Jackson L J Burr James Larmore South Bend Hungarian St Stephen Kiralfy Roman Catholic Charitable Church Society incorporated with charitable aims noted.
A Noblesville party led by Dr E C Loehr M L White Charles M Darrah Asa Robertson O C Baker and Fred M White toured the Denison Hotel. They praised the Elks Lodge and expressed strong support for Representative Landis and state auditor candidate David E Sherrick amid town progress and Union Traction prospect.
Officials of the Big Four Railway met at the Grand Hotel for a 4 am session to discuss sweeping changes in how car payments are calculated. The new system charges a daily rate for borrowed cars, replacing mileage payments, ensuring revenue whether cars run or idle. Attendees included Thomas Reynolds, Tip Blizzard, Courtright, E Waldo, and O W Beckwith.
S R Bell Republican from the Eighth district arrives from Union City. He is renominated by Randolph county Republicans for the House seat, seen as a conservative and reliable former chair of the cities and towns committee. He notes Cromer may win Democratic votes and calls apportionment and the prison contract labor issue important upcoming Legislature matters.
J H Burger of Allentown Pa discusses European shoe makers versus American output at 1800 pairs daily in Germany. The piece also notes Joseph T Fanning has not set a date for the Seventh district Democratic convention and Albert Sahm would accept a nomination if asked, recognizing the sacrifice involved.
James P Goodrich chairman of the Republican state committee spoke at the Hotel English last night and postponed a Thursday committee meeting due to a Winchester lawsuit. He argued before the jury yesterday and left for Indianapolis. He has called a meeting for next Tuesday.
Fort Wayne notes report Rev J Webster Bailey a State Christian Endeavor speaker will deliver a morning sermon at Mayflower Congregational Church. A man named William Perie wandered in the southeast city, fell unconscious at City Hospital, overwork blamed. Capt W H Armstrong, Indiana Normal School trustee head, ill in Terre Haute, at his daughter Mrs Streeter’s home. Norman Nixon, hotel checkroom worker, arrested for petit larceny amid missing items. investigation continued as the room was searched.
William F Fowler resigns as chef of the Y W C A and will promote boxball as president of the American Boxball Company. Levi P Harlan and Mrs Lillian Carter marry with Rev Joshua Stansfield performing the ceremony and plan a European trip. Detectives investigated a cutting scrape at the Marshall House as Marshall family remains reticent about the incident.
The Board of Public Works approved the Northwestern avenue sewer plan by city engineer. The 7.30 foot long sanitary main will run from Fall Creek to Crown Hill Cemetery, linking with the White River Interceptor. Cost about 60 thousand dollars, 18 thousand from the Cemetery Association. remainder assessed on properties bounded by Twenty fourth street Annetta street Thirty second street and Senate avenue. It will include 51 catch basins 22 manholes and 35 inlets and will form the main sewer of the district with later branches for a complete system. An eventual main sewer west along a canal route is planned with costs borne by property west of Annetta street. Construction of this sewer marks the start of extensive improvements in North Indianapolis and may precede a street paving project on Northwestern avenue next spring.
A Brightwood committee led by J J Valdenaire J J Traub Calvin Bush Frank Busch and Dr B A Brown with Councilman Negley met Mayor Bookwalter to press a water rate increase. The mayor postponed any change until the annual plant statement from the controller is received and the plant is operated so charges are self sustaining. The party left pleased and no action is expected before 1903 appropriations are reviewed.
The Park Board agreed yesterday to charge a nominal fee for golf privileges at Riverside Park to regulate crowds, with possible rates of 10 cents a day 50 cents a week $1 a month or 5 for a season. The remaining half of the old wooden Washington Street bridge will be torn down next week by Superintendent Evans, leaving nothing of the famous structure.
Health Board inspectors find maldehyde in milk samples and 2.8 percent fat in George Bernhardt’s dairy wagon. The board’s standard is 3.4 percent, and Bernhardt faces prosecution for improper milk treatment and souring prevention practices.
The Board of Public Works yesterday adopted resolutions for Flint rock paving on Shelby street from Prospect to Meek and on Tacoma avenue from Washington to Michigan.
Final actions completed on cement walks on Pratt street from Park to Ashland and on various walks and sods on Eleventh twenty-seventh and Pennsylvania streets. Gravel roadways in Olney street and a local sewer work near Michigan, Beville, Hamilton, Jefferson avenues. A Tacoma avenue section altered to flint rock macadam. A Shelby street brick roadway project deferred. All actions rescinded for a first alley south of
A testimonial advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for rheumatism neuralgia and sciatica. It recounts Mrs. Margaret Bethel of Brainerd Minnesota who suffered thirty years of pain and nearly wished for death before using the remedy. She claims dramatic relief enabling more work and a renewed life, praising the product's long-term effects.
A compilation of street improvements and approvals including cement walks, gravel roads, and curb work on multiple streets such as Illinois Ray Morris Greeley North and Sugar Grove avenues plus alley refurbishments. Final remonstrance filed against Lockerbie street improvement. petitions granted denied deferred and plumber bonds approved. plat for Yuneker addition.
Tomorrow at Broad Ripple Park the clever canine performers trained by Tony Ashton will provide daytime and evening amusement plus 3 and 8 pm concerts. Fairview Park plans extra entertainments for large crowds with La Rose electric fountain’s final showing at 9:00 pm, and both sites feature Military Band performances and vocal solos as listed amid a busy afternoon and evening program.
June T. Merriah, former president of the Merchants' National Bank of Helena, has been adjudged bankrupt in federal court. His liabilities amount to 6448 dollars and assets to 2157 dollars.
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