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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1902
Page
8
Easter fashion faltered as a harsh wind and sleet kept crowds indoors. Many wore winter hats over new gowns, and hopes of display faded. Though some found moments of color among the colored communities, overall turnout and glamour were muted by the worsening weather.
Dr Kennedy of City Dispensary rushed to No 11 South Senate Ave where Mrs Laura Kurtz lay dying from morphine. An unknown man heard noises and fled after seeing her under the influence. Kurtz came from Muncie three weeks ago with two daughters in the city, but their whereabouts are unknown.
Aide seeks field work for Central Life Insurance, promising faithfulness and energy to earn around five to ten dollars daily by proselytizing and taking assignments. The ad hints at commission or daily wages for an insurance solicitor in a local market.
Easter Sunday brought solemn and beautiful observances across Indianapolis with Catholic and Episcopal churches leading elaborate preparations. Despite cold rain and snow, churches were crowded, and rich music filled the day from Meridian Street M E Church to Grace Cathedral and many others.
The most magnificent service in St Pauls Church yesterday Easter morning drew nearly four hundred communicants and overflowed the doors. Flowers adorned the chancel and the Rev. Lewis Brown delivered a sermon on life after death, stressing Christ as the dawn of a new humanity and the immortality of the soul. Other city Episcopal churches Grace Cathedral Christ Church St Davids and Holy Innocents held impressive services with notable preachers and hymns.
Readings describe Easter celebrations across several churches with stained altars adorned in roses and palms. Bishop Chatard led mass at St John’s Cathedral, choirs sang, and priests officiated with incense, bells, and the papal benediction amid festive lighting and floral arrangements.
Illness kept the pastor away as Easter services took place at Allen Chapel near Tenth Street. A morning song service featured an augmented choir and Rev. B French Hurley sermon. At 3:30 pm special Knights Templars exercises for colored members, with Mrs. Evelyn James singing and Edward Igleman performing cello solos. The pastor spoke on the Keystone of the Christian System. Nighttime services centered on singing.
John Slocum and Robert Kerr addressed a Drop forge and Hammer Men’s Union meeting in the Criminal Courtroom as organizers seek to unionize local blacksmiths. The International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths numbers about 50,000 members with a nationwide canvass underway. The Indianapolis group elected officers and will meet on the first and third Wednesdays at Reilb’s Corner. Separately, Cincinnati brewery workers’ strike over steam engineers and firemen draws national attention, with local engineers’ report likely to involve Indianapolis unions.
Mayor Bookwalter and the Commercial Club committee on smoke prevention are invited to a twelve hour test of a new chemical compound at the Newton Claypool building from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m. A preliminary test at the same location several weeks earlier was very successful.
An unusual feature at Third Christian Church connected Bertha Jameson’s sick bed on California Street to the morning and evening Easter services. The home listening via telephone enabled her to hear the musical program and sermons, as she is a church member.
A powder invented by a Black man named Day and refined by Mr. Francis of the Harry Francis Drug Company is mixed with water and used with slack coal and nut coal. It is claimed the compound could reduce smoke by about 75 to 80 percent. A test today will be conducted carefully with exact fuel measurements for comparison.
Capitol Council No. 276 of the Y M S initiated twenty three new members. Mass at St Patrick's Church followed by communion, then degrees at the hall. Vespers and speeches by Rev Joseph Duffy Rev W A Maher and others. Piano solos by blind musician Prof Topmiller. New members include Thomas Reidy Blasius Bruggner Joseph F O Donnell Martin Ryan Frank Heeg John J Moore Michal A O'Brien Arthur T Connor P A Boland John Bruggner John Flanagan W T Bowen Patrick Buckley Omer L Fisher William C Minea Edward Worland William J Lynch William J Cavin John Ward Timothy M Lyons Johnny Massing Oscar L Rieger John G Miller.
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