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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
6
A garbled OCR page shows classified items and public notices including palm reading services, dry cleaning, auctions proposals for military supplies, and a dissolved partnership. It mentions Walter A. Kappela palmist, Kendall psychic readings, George Michelsen cleaning, lost opera glasses, and a February 1961 deadline for quartermaster proposals in Jeffersonville and Louisville areas.
Vital Statistics reports births with multiple names and addresses including ao Ad Smithers and Effie Cummings listing girls and boys born to various parents in cities such as East Eleventh Street Woodside and West New Street. Also notes several family entries and ages including a fifty-four year old Eneinda Arbuckle and a fifty-five year old person on 55 person street with causes listed as consumption.
Consolidations will benefit shippers as lines including the Pennsylvania, Erie, Panhandle, and Chicago routes report unusually favorable winter operations. No severe weather or major washouts hindered traffic, trains ran close to schedule, and costs were at historic lows with heavier trains.
The Police Pension Board began planning its annual ball for the pension fund. The event will be held on the Monday after Easter. Committees named include Arrangements with Sergeant Giblin Detective Asch and Patrolmen T W Griffin A P F Smith and Martin McGuff. Hall and Decorations by Captain Dawson Sergeant Calvin Warren Patrolmen William Larsh Jerry Hoolihan C Baumfuhrer and Peter Hahn. Music by Captain Kruger Detective John Morgan and Patrolman Henry Monninger. Printing by Sergeant Corrigan Patrolmen James Cronin and A F Mathey.
Trustees purchased a site at Sixteenth and Delaware streets for a new church. Cynthia Butsch sold property for 8,000 dollars and Omer H Porter sold two lots plus land for 16,000 dollars. Total cost 24,000 dollars. Building committee said no definite plans yet but a fine edifice is expected.
The Retail Grocers Association met at the Board of Trade to discuss Senate bills 319 and 34% and House bills 426 and 427. They praised Senators Wood Brooks Fortune Wolcott and others for backing the measures and formed a committee to secure broader business support for passage.
A. G. A. RK. appoints Allen C. Bakewell as special aid to the commander in chief for military instruction and patriotic teaching in public schools. Each department commander must appoint a similar aide. H. H. Shewmaker of Post 7s in Muncie was appointed yesterday to serve from this state.
Arnie Stevenson colored of Spokane was shot and killed Monday night by Henry Graves while playing cards in the private car of Richards & Pringle's Minstrels. The pair, both performers, had an altercation after Stevenson allegedly cheated and attempted to strike Graves with a stool.
In a letter to the Indianapolis Journal the writer denies serving in the U S Army Medical Department and challenges charges of illegal payments to clerks. He questions Rule 58 and the board’s use of local counsel, noting fees for temporary permits and the need for proper legal authority outside Marion county.
Emma Dawson sues her husband Sam C. Dawson for divorce custody of their five month old baby and $7.5 simony. She alleges cruel treatment and fraud including mortgaging her property at 18 Prospect street and a loan to him. They married April 2 1990 and separated Feb 24. She says he drew on her Perry township land and tore notes, borrows and owes her over 5150. He reportedly owns land, a mortgaged estate, and a livery stable with monthly income. A woman named Bessie Mackwell is a respondent.
Samuel Baldwin and Ed MecCartney were yesterday bound over to the grand jury from Police Court on charges of assault with intent to kill Joseph Reeves of 23 Kenwood avenue. William Jackson was held to the grand jury on a car breaking charge.
Margaret King sues the street car company for 5000 dollars alleging injuries at the intersection of Illinois and Washington streets when a street car started while she stood, throwing her against the woodwork.
The court affirms Odell vs Reynolds and rules widow gains full fee title to land set off. Other cases include Board of Commissioners ditch authority, Hollister assault rape standard, Miller vs Wells pleading body requirement, Prudential Insurance on premiums and bills of exceptions, Shirk vs Lingeman estate claims, and related appellate motions and briefs across counties Sullivan Vanderburgh Daviess Kosciusko Bartholomew Lawrence.
A compilation of circuit and superior court docket items listing numerous estate claims, foreclosures, replevin, mechanic’s liens, and judgments. Entries name parties such as Walter Smith, Mary A Hosbrook estate, John F McKee estate, T E Callahan, James L Thompson, West Indianapolis Building and Loan Association, and others with outcomes including allowances for costs, dispositions of possession, and foreclosure orders.
In a March 2 note from Comanche J. T. explains that veterans may appoint an agent to file for land once the territory opens, with six months hold if others settle first. Army service and an honorable discharge are required, plus limits on prior entries and acreage. agents unconnected with officials can defraud veterans.
A reader calls out the Indianapolis Journal for Sunday sermon summaries. He argues Rev J Cumming Smith's sermon on the 3d rests on false premises and attributes lynch law as its basis. The letter reflects public controversy over pulpit wording.
The man named Elmer Johnmans detained yesterday in Terre Haute as a suspected assailant in Miss Dorothy Carter of this city was released after a police conference. He was recognized as an ex convict who does not fit the description and had prior burglary conviction in this city.
The court in the District of Indiana schedules a February 23 194 bankruptcy discharge hearing for Charles B Howland. A March 9 hearing is set in Indianapolis with notice to creditors by mail and publication in the Indianapolis Journal.
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