City Bridges, Gas, and Growth in 1900 Indianapolis
The city notes 13 bridges worth 912000, with new Melan arch bridges on Meridian and Illinois streets across Fall Creek. It backs light contract renewal via open competition, praises police and fire readiness, hospital expansion plans, and urges no gas no pay ordinance amid rising natural gas costs. It reports major park improvements, River Side dam work, and a $59568 spend on permanent improvements, plus a detailed 1892–1900 financial statement and bond activity.
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Indianapolis
Meridian
Illinois
Fall Creek
White River
Washington Street
River Avenue
Board of Public Works
Supreme Court
Carter
Brookside
Garfield
Riverside
Shea
Annual Banquet Of The Woman's Christian Association
The Young Women's Christian Association held its annual banquet at the North Pennsylvania street clubhouse attended by many members. Decorated with green foliage and palms, menus featured illustrations and witty toasts about the hostess and the committee. Guests included numerous members and friends, among them Misses Cora Shepherd Edith Bell Edna Griffin and Amelia Zion with many others named in the crowd.
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Young Women's Christian Association
North
Pennsylvania Street
F. F. McCrea
Association
Bess McCrea
H. C. Segar
Addie M. Wallace
Margaret Scott
G. T. Howser
Cora Shepherd
N McKinney
Edith” Bell
Paul Collins
Edna Griffin
Miss Schock
Miss Winshop
Carler
Coffman
Bateman
O'Trenary
Mr. Pearce
Rose Kelly
Beard
Ratliff
Anna Wright
Isham
Amelia J. Zion
Mary Campbell
Flora Wachlittle
Edith Wachlittl
West
Berry
Thomas McGee
Jennie McGee
Mary McGee
McCulloch
G. T. Howeer
Addiece
Beas McCrea
Polly Sharp
Grace
Faith Kern
K. A. Wallace
Russell
Fowler
Belle Robinson
Kellogg
Tillie Holle
Carl van Briggle
Restless baby elephant roams from Zoo to barber shop
A baby elephant from yesterday's zoo consignments escaped through the front entrance, wandered into J T Armstrong's barber shop, toppled chairs, and then headed toward Illinois Street. Zoo staff and government officers secured the animal as it is held under bond and monitored before transfer to Puffato, with the nickname Carrie Nation arising from the shop window smashing.
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Zoo
J. T. Armstrong
Bela
Ilinois Street
Internal Revenue
Puffato
Seeming Hornse
Carrie Nation
Carrie Nation Praised By Dr Allen At Ministers Meeting
Carrie Nation of Kansas received commendation from Dr P C Allen for her work as read at yesterday morning’s weekly Christian ministers meeting. The paper, radical in tone, drew opposition from most ministers present at the Moeriland Street Church gathering. The event focused on the Twentieth Century Forward Movement as the implied agenda.
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Carrie Nation
Kansas
P. C. Allen
Christian Ministers
Methodist Ministers
Moeritlanestreet Church
Mt Stone
Green
Woman's broom and progress at Sorosis thirty first banquet
A speech by Mrs May Wright Sewall read in her absence at Sorosis Waldorf Astoria banquet marks the clubs thirty first anniversary. The sermon like address uses broom imagery to extol women cleansing society and expanding influence from local to global civic scope.
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New York
Sorosis
Waldorf-Astoria
May Wright Sewall
Indianapolis
Woteria
New England
Milton
Janet Welch Carlyle
Insular
Mars
Soresis
Sorosans
Redmond Attacks King Edward Title On Defending Faith
In the Commons Mr Redmond Irish Nationalist protested the kings title Defender of the Faith arguing it implied a state church. The chancellor said the titles would remain on coins. In the Lords Lord Salisbury declined to promise a war inquiry into South Africa policy.
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London
House of Commons
Redmond
Edward
Michael Hicks-Beach
Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster
Admiralty
Royal Naval Reserve List
Arnold-Forster
England
Arnold-Foster
House of Lords
Lord Salisbury
South Africa
Lord Wolseley
Lord Lansdowne
Suffocation by Mud After Suicide Jump
Norwalk report states McMahon leapt from a railroad bridge to the riverbank, a sixty foot drop. Her head sank in mud and death resulted from suffocation. Authorities believe she was insane.
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Norwalk
McMahon
Pan American Buffalo Line Akron Route Opens May
Pan American Buffalo Line and Akron Route begin passenger service from Indianapolis over the Pennsylvania and Erie lines. Beulers and Pan American exposition cement to W. Richard and D. Pergenty in Indianapolis, ba.
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Pan-American Buffalo
Akron
Pennsylvania and Erie
Indianapolis
United States Steel to Acquire Rockefeller Iron Mines
J P Morgan Co confirms plan to fold John D Rockefeller iron mines and related railways into United States Steel Corporation. Lake Superior consolidated iron mines and Duluth Messaba Northern Railway form key assets. capital stock details and bonds outlined. White & Blackwell oppose merger for National Tube Company stockholders. National Witch Hazel Company to form with 3 million capital, absorbing several firms including E E Dickinson Co and Linifret Co.
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New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Lake Iron
John D. Rockefeller
United States Steel Corporation
Lake Superior
Minnesota
Carnegie Steel Company
Duluth, Messaba & Northern Railway
Duluth
Iron Mountain
Minn
Wall Street
Rockefeller Iron
Robert Bacon
Ind
American Bridge Company
White & Blackwell
National Tube Company
William Nelson Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell
Tube Company
Cromwell
Clinton, Conn
National Witch Hazel Company
National Company
E. E. Dickinson & Co
Linifret Company
Essex, Conn
William A. Strickland
Pratt Chemical Company
Hughes Distilling Company
Colonial Chemical Company
Chester
Glennhill Company
East Haddam
Conn
Mystic Distiling Company
Mystic, Conn
Reverend Arthur D Edwards Dies After Long Editor Tenure
Chicago march 18 the Reverend Arthur D Edwards longtime editor in chief of the Northwestern Christian Advocate is dying of heart disease at his home his condition grew critical prompting his children to rush to his bedside
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Chicago
Arthur D. Edwards
Northwestern Christian Advocate
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City Hospital
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Royal Baking Powder
Oval
Woman's Christian Association
Baby Elephant
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International Council of Women
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International Council
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Lords
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J.D. Rockefeller
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A. D. Edwards
Convalescents
Duffy Spore
Se TY Malt Whiskey CO
Rochester
N.Y
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Doctor Tomson
Stevenson Building
Willig’s Cash Furniture Store
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McLean
J. H. MacLean Medicine Co
St. Louis
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Oriental
Pabst Milwaukee Beer
Delaware
Coke
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Cluett, Peabody. &Co “Makers
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E. Market St
W. Hi. Roll’s
East Wash
Johnson
Woodbridge CO
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Henry C. Smither
Roofer
A.b.meyer&co
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Faveetiqase
E. C. Atkins. & CO
South and Hilaoe Ste Indianapolis
Emery Wheels
Barry Saw and Supply Co
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J. B. Kirkpatrick
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Boston Mail
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