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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1902
Page
3
A sale offers 100 dozen men ands fast black cotton half white feet hose, seamless with a new patented machine. Regularly three for 50 cents, today price is 10 cents per pair. Abbreviated notice to customers.
Special services at Broadway M E Church installed Epworth League officers for the coming year. Rev Joshua Stansfield urged youths to heed their inner conscience and avoid unworthy alliances in commerce society or politics. Officers installed by O H Palmer include Burgess Allen Limps Cora Olmstead Clarence Clark Augusta Hiatt Ida Hilsaback Roy Kerr.
Commercial Travelers notes list active agents visiting western and southern parts of the state this week. George Matheny reports strong business from a southern state trip. George D Estabrook appointed to complete the unexpired term as secretary and treasurer of Council No 4 and installed by Past Counselor 8 G Harless. W H Melchner resigns as secretary and treasurer at the last No 4 council meeting due to starting a business in Arkansas.
Mrs H S Tucker and Miss Tucker host an informal reception at their North Ware Street home Thursday afternoon to 6 o'clock. The Indiana branch of the Western Oxford College alumnae for young women plans its annual cargo Bybee on May 23 with Mrs H S Tucker listed as host. All former students are invited and lunch will be served at 1 o'clock.
Simple children's dresses with box plaited dacks and sailor collars are in vogue. A stylish model shown on a small boy closes at the right side and can be adapted for girls by lapping from right to left. Original is made of natural color.
A detailed description of a dress pattern for women and children with sailor collar and bishop sleeves. It notes fabric types like cored linen, Galatea, Pique, serge, and wool, and explains cutting sizes for ages from four to six years. Include pattern coupon instructions and address for Pattern Dept The Journal Indianapolis.
Patrolman Lee arrested George and Hallie Hendricks ages unknown who reside at 14 Blaine avenue on charges of stealing papers. He says residents north of Sixteenth Street and east of Illinois Street reported thefts of Sunday Journals. The boys allegedly buy a few papers downtown then steal many more elsewhere and sometimes snatch papers from drug stores during cashing scams.
Real estate ad promoting title assurance in Indiana. Claims secure title and no abstract fees with reasonable charges and market street address for the company.
Rev J W Parker preaches on Jesus the carpenter from Mark six, urging work as sacred duty. He frames toil as gospel, citing Columbus Herschel Angelo and Livingstone, and urges fidelity, fear of God, and daily labor as path to nobility and purpose.
The pastor of Third Christian Church preached on The Lordship of Jesus using Acts 11 38. He urged recognizing Jesus as Lord in government business and personal life, citing martyrs and poems to urge discipleship and heroism in following Christ. The sermon then shifts to The Doctrine of Hell.
E A Cantrell of People's Church argues that infant salvation by the Presbyterian General Assembly is a step toward a universal heaven. He criticizes harsh views of eternal torture, cites Emerson and Tennyson, and redefines hell as the pain from unclean thoughts within the soul, a consequence of life’s two teachers joy and pain. Death has nothing to do with it.
The Rev. W. B. Rader, pastor of Madison Avenue Church, spoke to Epworth League members on the topic In the Spirit Rather Than the Letter. He praised the league as a potent youth force within Methodism and urged a sustained spiritual life and organized work to transform members into practical goodness.
Rev. T J Villers spoke on Herod the Great and John the Baptist at First Baptist Church last night. The audience praised the service and the pastor urged obedience to Christ as the path to happiness and immortality.
Hotel lobby chatter records Judge D P Baldwin of Logans Post at Spencer House on war methods, water cures, reprisals, and civilian discipline with references to Sherman, the Boer war, Milligan, and Civil War practices. He also discusses the new Presbyterian creed, praising its shift to universal love and a broader church mission.
Wilton Brooke, a Yorkshire bottle manufacturer, and foreman Benjamin Stoner visit the Hotel English. Brooke boasts a yearly output of 27,648,000 bottles and that his firm ships to nearly every country except the United States. He says American brands must carry American names and notes English patents influenced American bottlemaking. He also observes U S plants lag behind England in progress except possibly in one factory, and mentions U S firms focus more on ventilation.
Public notices warn that Bondy and Lederer transplanted American grown Vuelta tobacco to Southern soil for the Tom Keene cigar with a 5 cent price. Some dealers charge 10 cents, while the cigarette’s identity and Sumatra wrapper disguise the 10 cent value. The advance plan aims to beat import duties and boost sales, with dealers cooperating expected to gain in coming months.
Henry Watterson and wife visited Indianapolis at Spencer house. A past joke arose when he sought a room and the night clerk could not read his illegible signature. Watterson pressed for a room and later laughingly admitted the clerk was right. Dr. W H Hickman, chancellor of De Pauw, was in town from Thorntown for Epworth League events. Dedication of the Minshall laboratory in Greencastle set for June 11 includes two lectures by Lattemore of Rochester and Bishop Hamilton of San Francisco with a public alumni reception planned.
Do A Van Matre of Muncie is likely to run for state superintendent of public instruction. He dined at Denison yesterday and was discussed as a possible candidate before the Republican State convention, though his name was not submitted. He says if T B Millikan had been nominated for treasurer he would have garnered votes that went to F A Cotton, and Cotton’s nomination would have affected the superintendent race.
Catholic delegates from local societies gathered at the Grand Hotel to discuss a two week ahead meeting to organize a state federation. The plan envisions uniting Catholic bodies into a state and county structure, while preserving each society's autonomy within the federation connected to the national American Federation of Catholic Societies.
Charles Brendel of New Castle Indiana was killed instantly when a westbound express struck him as he sat on a cattle guard. He was en route to Charleston Illinois to work in a broom factory and was found by two boys after the accident. His belongings included letters and meal tickets likely linking him to New Castle and Evansville.
Bicycle policemen Griffin and Hull arrested a man who gave the name Harry Williams after finding him at 34 East beating a horse. He was reportedly intoxicated at the time.
Gentry brings a traveling troupe of dogs ponies monkeys camels elephants and more into the city halted on Sixteenth Street at Capitol and Senate Avenues. A baby pony joins the lineup debuting in today’s parade at 9 30 am with route along Capitol St Clair Illinois Market Capitol Washington Alabama Massachusetts Avenue Pennsylvania Market Meridian and back to show grounds. The show runs all week with daily downtown parades and afternoon and evening performances.
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a remedy for aging. It claims to purify the blood brace the nerves and regulate digestion to banish rheumatism and weakness and restore vitality. Testimonial from Mrs Mary E Burgess of Clements California praises improved appetite strength and happiness after use and notes savings on doctor bills.
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