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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1902
Page
3
The Burgomaster Chicago musical comedy in its third season will headline English’s every evening this week and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Fred Lenox stars with many assistants in a lively show of singing and fun. New foreign acts join the bill along with comic and sentimental sketches.
A. M. Higgins, vice president of American Asbestos Company, predicts Terre Haute will become a busy commercial town with gradual growth and no real boom. He notes housing shortages, interurban links, and the town's center role for Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati as evidence of its rising prominence.
Oscar F. Avery of Logansport predicted the Head Camp of Modern Woodmen will bring the largest crowd Indianapolis has seen. He spoke at the Denison Hotel amid plans for the annual school of instruction starting today. Fellow deputies and lecturers from across the state outlined growth, with about 40 camps and 3,000 members in Indiana and over 700,000 nationwide.
Postmaster General Payne Dr Albert Shaw and Col Arthur Lee among President Roosevelt's guests at Sagamore Hill on Saturday. The anthracite strike shows no sign of breaking with unions firm and operators holding their ground. In cereal markets Chytraus in Chicago oat corner case sent to end corners. A mob in Butler Pennsylvania tried to lynch the assailant of a girl but was repulsed. several wounded. Empire State Republicans meeting in New York pledged to back Roosevelt renomination in 1904. Secretary Shaw moves to ease monetary stringency by depositing about 4 million with banks, and prepaying October interest of 1.2 million. Rail wrecks claim lives in Colorado and Missouri. hydrophobia tragedy in Evansville. Wabash Pioneer hat works strike settled by the union.
The German First Baptist Church at Singleton and Iowa streets was dedicated at 10:30 AM with full attendance. Rev R M Von Miller led services in German and English speakers praised the effort. funds raised for building totaled 4000 of 5200 cost, with gifts from Tualish-speaking friends and strong church support.
The feature back seam buttons and long buttonholes lead the way in advance styles. A graceful cheviot model in cruvasse gray with velvet strapings features a seven gore skirt that avoids fullness at the belt while maintaining a fashionable flare.
The notice describes a perforated front dip garment with a back seam closed by buttons and buttonholes, options to finish with a belt, and pattern yardage for several widths. Pattern 4223 fits waists 22 to 30 inches. send 10 cents for coupon, include name and address, pattern Dept The Journal Indianapolis, allow one week for return. Also includes a school-age verse about returning to classes and arithmetic.
A plea urges readers to write or call their grocer if they have not yet received a free flour sample. The notice promises delivery upon contact, naming the grocer and offering a direct path to obtain the product.
The Rev. J Cumming Smith of the Tabernacle Church returned from vacation to a refreshed church interior and delivered a sermon on Be ye transformed Romans twelve two. He urged adornment of sacred spaces, the necessity of spiritual rebirth, and that revival is a rational, ongoing growth of faith.
Indiana University opens fall term with record enrollment expectancy. Several faculty members return from abroad and leave of absence granted to others. New instructors join English, botany, mathematics, Latin, and economics, with a revised law department and a higher commercial course planned for business training.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Champaign Illinois reports heavy and fast Illinois football candidates reporting for practice Captain Stahl and others return and coach Holt expected soon. Illinois schedule includes Purdue Indiana Northwestern Chicago and Iowa among others with games at Champaign and Chicago. In Richmond Indiana the city schools plan an athletic association meeting to organize football for the full term and spring teams in basketball track and baseball.
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