Pittsburg Chamber invites D M Parry to speak at banquet
Col Albert J Logan, Pittsburg Chamber president, extended an invitation to D M Parry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, to attend the annual Pittsburg Chamber banquet and deliver a speech. Parry accepted. Logan, a former guard and mattress maker, toured the Parry and Laycock plants, praised Indianapolis, and discussed a proposed Coliseum as a boon to community development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Logan
Pittsburg
Parry
T. B. Laycock
Indianapolis
Logan
Lively Chinese merchant seeks U S trade with curios
Zah Sah Moo of Shanghai writes to the Journal to announce Chinese curios for sale, asking smart youths to sell them and promising samples sent by mail if postage is provided. His letter is on Chinese business paper, in a red and white envelope, with Russian stamps and postmarks from Itobar Yokohama and Nagasaki.
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Shanghai
Zah Sah Moo
China
Itobar
Yokohama
Nagasaki
Winona and Warsaw Railway Union Incorporates in Indianapolis
The local Journeymen Carpenters Union of Indianapolis formed yesterday with Herman, Meyer, Floyd A. West and James T. Carney as directors. The aim is to foster fraternal ties among carpenters and to secure fair wages. A separate Winona and Warsaw Railway Company was incorporated with $6.00 to construct an electric line between Warsaw and the Winona Assembly grounds, naming J. B. Beyer, J. F. Beyer, S. C. Dickey, H. Worden and others as directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journeymen Carpenters’ Union of
Indianapolis
Herman, Meyer
Floyd A. West
James T. Carney
Reymen
Winona and
Oan Railway Com
Warsaw
Winona
J. B. Beyer
J. F. Beyer
Mew pianos at 165 and up at Wuichners
Mew pianos priced from 165 dollars upward are offered at Wuichners. The listing notes available models and upright and grand styles. Local shoppers see a range of brands and finishes in stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wuichners
Unchanged coal prices in Indianapolis spark exchange dispute
Indianapolis coal dealers, led by the Indianapolis Coal Exchange, are alleged to push higher local prices than Cincinnati Louisville Terre Haute and Evansville through agreements with mine operators. Independent dealers face pressure to join or risk being frozen out while anthracite arrivals from Pennsylvania loom.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Coal Exchange
Coal Exchange
Stevenson
Exchange
C. R. Jones
H. E. Brunner
A. B. Meyer
Indiana
Cincinnati
Louisville
Terre Haute
Evansville
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Armory for militia urged by local National Guard
Local men aiming to persuade Governor Durbin to mention in the next General Assembly a plan to build an armory for militia companies in the electric light and power plant site near the Friendly Inn. Captain Harry Franklin says current attic court house quarters hinder drills and enlistment. Officers propose clubhouses in armories to attract better, more numerous recruits and reduce arrest risk for drill absence.
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National Guard
Durbin
General Assembly
Friendly Inn
Harry Franklin
Second Infantry
Union
Halloween at M. T. H. 8 Students Plan After Dark Festivities
Social affairs at M. T. H. 8 highlight Halloween with room parties hay rides and ghost dances after dark. January and June 1903 seniors host a party at Mary Dillingham’s home near Plainfield, senoritas entertain Colonial Maids, new club guests Spain, YWCA Room H plans a hay ride to Southport with a supper, chaperoned by H. P. Hodson, while Lois Brown and Clarence Martin host a separate event in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dillingham
Plainfield
Colonial Maids
Spain
Southport
Stumpfelders
H. P. Hodson
Lois Brown
Clarence Martin
Lawrence
Suppse
New York Man to Lecture on Christian Science in Boston
Mr. Carol Norton of New York will lecture on Christian Science at English's Opera House Sunday afternoon at 3 oclock. The board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist of Boston sponsors the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Norton
New York
English
Opera House
The
First Church of Christ Scientist
Boston
English’s
Scholar Norton to Speak at First Church Lecture
Mr Norton, a respected theologian and East known scholar, recently placed in the Western field, descends from the Wadsworths and Longfellow kin. His lecture, under First Church of Christ Scientist, is free to the public with no admission fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ence
Norton
New
Wadsworths
Longfellow
First Church of Christ Scientist
State Charities Conference Set For Meridian Street Church
The State Conference of Charities will convene in this city on November 17, 18 and 19 with delegates from churches clubs and benevolent societies across the state. Notable attendees include Franklin M. and Ernest P. Bicknell of Chicago Dr William P. Spratling superintendent of the New York village for epileptics Joseph P. Byers recently elected warden of the Indiana Reformatory Lucius C. Storrs secretary of the Michigan State Board of Charities and George L. Sehon secretary of the Kentucky are
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Conference of Charities
Meridian Street
M. E
Charit Jee
Franklin M
Ernest P. Bicknell
Chicago
William P. Spratling
New York
Joseph P. Byers
Indiana Reformatory
Lucius C. Storrs
Michigan State Board of Charities
Ge George L. Sehon
Kentucky
Fire damages City Board of Health lab in courthouse
A fire at the courthouse laboratory of the City Board of Health caused about $2,000 in damage. Dr. Eugene Buehler, city sanitary officer, said spontaneous combustion likely started the blaze in a closet storing chemicals, destroying hundreds of phials and analytical instruments and many valuable tests that cannot be replaced.
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City Board of Health
Eugene Buehler
City Sanitarian
Dr. Moffett
Buehler
End of the Convention Promotes Fellowship for Threshermen
The third annual National Association of Threshermen meeting at the English Hotel ended with informal sessions promoting fellowship and talks on the thresher machine industry. Officers for the next year were elected: Gen. C. D. MacDougall president, George W. Hanly vice president, S. E. Swayne secretary and treasurer. The Bearer dinner preceded departures. next gathering to be held in Indianapolis at the Indiana Manufacturing Company conference call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Threshermen
Indiana Manufacturing Company
C. D. MacDougall
Auburn
N. Y
George W. Hanly
Marionette
S. E. Swayne
Richmond
Ind
A. A. McKain
J. K. Sharpe
O. S. Kelley
Want Assembly Hall Saved at School No 32
Faculty at School No. 32 at Illinois and Twenty first streets fear partitioning the assembly hall to add a German room. The School Board will study the situation before any partitioning. Officials regret altering the new improvements but cite funding limits for a growing pupil population.
Silk trunk theft at Union Station target well dressed man
Police and detective departments seek a neatly dressed young man who stole a trunk full of silk from a baggage room at Union station. He dragged the trunk from the station and opened it on Georgia street. The trunk held over $20 worth of silks belonging to D B Sanford of New York, a traveling man.
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Union Station
Georgia Street
D. B. Sanford
New York
Walker sells seventeen Polled Angus steers at Union stockyards
Farmer J. C. Walker of Clayton sells seventeen head of Polled Angus steers to Tolin & Co. at Union stockyards for 7 dollars per hundred weight netting over 2000 dollars. Steers average 1475 pounds each and will be shipped to the Pittsburg market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Walker
Clayton
Tolin & Co
Union Stockyards
Walker
Pittsburg
Doctor Sloan Improves After Apoplexy Strike
Dr George W Sloan, struck by apoplexy on Monday October percent, was reported last night as much improved. Physicians and relatives now think he will recover.
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George W. Sloan
Wreck of C H D Fast Train Kills Engineer Cohn
The C H D wreck near Oxford last Wednesday night left several dead including Engineer Cohn. The engine overturned after leaving the track in a deep gulley, flames consumed mail cars and day coaches, sleepers survived. Two hog cars burst open, hogs killed or burned, others escaped. three sleepers moved to Indianapolis then Chicago.
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Oxford
Cohn
Indianapolis
Colin
Waldo
Chicago
Government seeks missing 102 Indianapolis deaths in 1900 record
Clerk Carter of the City Board of Health investigates why the national census reports 102 deaths in Indianapolis not certified to the state board. Transcription errors may explain omissions, leaving well known residents officially alive. Other items: gas rate debate and Nowland avenue sewer progress.
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Carter
City Board of Health
United States
Indianapolis
State Board of Health
Census Bureau
State Board
Water mains extension toward Irvington announced
The Indianapolis Water Company plans further water main extensions toward Irvington with the current extension projected to stop at Sherman this year.
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Indianapolis Water Company
Irvington
Pers
Sherman
Remarkable Eatery Attracts With 75 Beefsteak Priced Dishes
Soneether offers seventy five foods and beverages priced like beefsteaks. The unusual place runs from 3 p m Friday to 8 a m Sunday with no animal sustenance.
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Delmonico
Bostock May Return as Fisher Co Plans Move
C G Fisher and Co auto dealers seek new ground for a building to house store rooms, an automobile stable, and clubrooms after vacating the Cyclorama. Two plots on North Pennsylvania and Illinois streets are under negotiation. A sublease is sought, with potential interest from the Bostock animal show offering additional rent. If moved within two months, an amusement enterprise may take a sublease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Fisher & Co
Pennsylvania Street
Illinois Street
Ohio
Sutoneotete
Fisher Company
Bostock
Automobile Company
Fisher
Letter by Hugo Joesten Hints at Suicide and Estate Plan
A laborer, Hugo Joesten, disappeared after leaving his job as stableman for Robert Keller. A unique letter to Keller claimed intent to kill himself and asked Keller to hand his body to Indiana Medical College, share $19 life insurance, give $50 to Herman Hunzinger, pay Joesten's debts, and send any remainder to his German mother. Police seek Joesten. Keller suspects he is alive with friends, hiding in a remote city area.
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Hugo Joesten
Robert Keller
North
Alabama Street
Joesten
Mr. Keller
Keller
Indiana Medical College
City News Notes and Social Whirl of Local Figures
Mr Clifford Arrick is called to Washington because of his mother’s illness. George Carter loses several valuable lawbooks by theft during lunch. Meredith Nicholson hosts at the University Club for Henry Austin Clapp who spoke to the Contemporary Club, then departs for Cleveland. Miss Mary Edith Dean hosts a tea for Miss Lena Brash and others with out of town guests. Dr S P Scherer treats Harvey Crossland with open air therapy for stomach trouble, showing improvement. The Y W C A and Y M C A plan their fourth annual joint Halloween social tonight, expecting large attendance.
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Clifford Arrick
Washington
George Carter
Vincent Carter
Carter
Meredith Nicholson
University Club
Henry Austin Clapp
Contemporary Club
Clapp
Calvin N. Kendal
Louis Howl
Don P. Hawkins
Miss Whyte
St. Louis
Cravens
Madison
Neuberger
Shattuck
Chicago
Miss Needham
Washington, D. C
8. P. Scherer
Harvey Crossland
H. A. Crossland
North
Alabama Street
Crossland
Scherer
Coach Coates Builds Vegetarian Restaurant Career
New York Press profiles Coates once popular among Acner Merrall Condit colleagues. A health foods enthusiast with Battle Creek roots, he ran a small up town vegetarian resort and drew patronage from former associates. Now he is transitioning away from that line.
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New York Press
Salercaan
Chambers Street
Acner, Merrall & Condit
Battle Creek
Coates
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L.sayres Indianas Greatest Co
Shell
Meridian St
D. M. Parry
Rew Electric Line
Social Affairs
State Charities Conference
Laboratory OF Board OF Health
Dr. Buehler
Assembly Hall
Smooth Young Thief
William J. Hancock
Polic
Hanesek
Wynne
John R. Pearson
Nowland Avenue
Board of Public Works
William Bossert
W. C. Allen
Allen
Rushville
Connersville
Hamilton
Menter, Rosenbloom & CO
N. Penn
Langenskamp Bros
Brass Works
Georgia St
Janes
Chris
Bernlohhr & Bro
E. Wash
City News Notes
Justice of the Peace
C. A. Tucker
Goodyear
T. Conde Implement Co
West
Garland
Willig’s Cash Furniture Store
Washington Street
Eatom Alive
Muellershoen’s
Geo. L. Knox
EO. Merritt & CO
Washington St
Trew
the Schrader China CO
Jap Rose
James S. Kirk & Company
Kirk
Armstrong
GORA
WM. H. Block CO
Ouest
Carl L. Rost
Arerrr
North Illinois Street
L, Oh
Saraim
John H. Holliday
Prost Martin
Hea
Market St. Latianatoll
LS State
Taggart
Butters
LEAVY
Eneand
P.m. Dai
Dayton
Oe SD
Sanday
City Ticket
J.H. Reed
Jeweler
Lilly & Stalnaker
East Washingt
Haffner
Vonnegut Hardware Co
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