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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
6
Classified column items show requests and notices for trades and services. Listings include embedded ads for embalmers, harness makers, insurance agents, furniture and wallpaper sellers, dentistry, optical services, cleaning, and machine dealers along with public bids and trustee sales on West Washington Street and local road projects. Numerous names, addresses, and contact details indicate a dense, varied midwestern urban classifieds page.
The New York World reports George Gould's plan to unify a railroad system capitalization of 2000000 progresses with support from J Pierpont Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harriman syndicate. The scheme would bring Missouri Pacific and lines like St Louis Iron Mountain St Louis Southwestern Texas Pacific International Great Northern Wabash Missouri Texas Pacific and Denver Rio Grande under one control.
Local iron and steel makers were notified of higher trade quotations for beams plates and angles with beams and plates moving up a ton and angles up four dollars a ton. The shift follows steel interest consolidation and a New York pool revision after a Pittsburgh report. Brown Ketcham Co. predicts only healthy spring growth with no major building industry impact.
Frank D Stalnaker fell from his bicycle on Pennsylvania street yesterday afternoon and broke his left leg about two inches above the ankle, with a badly wrenched ankle. The rain made the streets slippery and his wheel slipped on a streetcar track. He was carried into a cigar store where Dr. C S Fletcher dressed the leg before taking him home. A Universalist church conference will be held tomorrow afternoon and evening at Central Universalist Church at New Jersey and Fifteenth streets. The afternoon session begins 2:30 pm and supper is served 5:30 to 7. The evening session starts at 7:15. The rest is poetry excerpt and an ad for tin roof repair.
The report details inspections by H Gamble and associates on the Cairo division and Indianapol is line. It covers farewell banquets for Col Moffett and E H Hitchins, the Pennsylvanias sleeper suspension Louisville Detroit via Indianapolis, a third Panhandle track Dennison Columbus, new Pennsylvanian smoking cars, earnings shifts on the Big Four, a West Virginia coal rate debate, Michigan fare rulings, Oregon Short Line and White Knob Copper contracts, Utah Denver Rio Grande system plans, Calvary Morris Garfield survey, and arbitration on Buffalo differential claims among several railways.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge returned from Washington and New York and stays at the Denison. He praises the recent Congress session as very important, noting Cuba as the most far reaching development of national power and criticizing the Hoar amendment’s effect on Philippine legislation. He adds that the river and harbor bill defeat will lead to more careful construction next time.
The United States Marine Band travels by special train from Cincinnati for a forenoon visit to Crown Hill Cemetery. Two musical numbers will be performed at President Harrison's grave after a march from Union Station via Georgia Illinois Washington Pennsylvania Market to Monument Place and Illinois Street.
Special agent F M Dice reports strong progress of the rural free delivery program in the middle division covering Indiana Michigan Illinois Kentucky Missouri and Wisconsin with headquarters in this city. Ten agents operate in various locations and 307 routes have been established in the state with applications on hand for more routes.
Rev J Cumming Smith delivered his last lenten lecture at Tabernacle Church at 4 pm. He argued liberty means using one’s full self, expands in stages, and questioned if voting alone grants true freedom for women. He urged mothers and educators to shape future voters through moral influence and public duty.
The Sioux City Stockyards Company board in Columbia Club sessions adjourned after discussing John H. Keene’s resignation as general manager. FP. L. Eaton to become GM, effective at fiscal year end. present bonds to be refinanced at lower interest. Col I C Elston notes Indianapolis as convenient meeting location.
Mrs Jinnie Cully of West Michigan Street went to police headquarters yesterday morning insisting her husband be arrested for spending $46 earned days ago in Indiana Avenue saloons. She said she tracked him for two days through alleys vacant lots and streets by impressions in the heels of his shoes but could not catch him.
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