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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
4
Our Suit and Jacket Dept under new management is greatly enlarged now offering a far broader display of styles. Purchases are larger with greater assortments ensuring the best and most stylish suits jackets and furs for the season. Immense buying facilities provide better prices enabling great savings for customers.
The theatres feature Englishs Burgomaster and Grand vaudeville shows with Superbe and American Burlesquers. Minnie Dupree may star in A Rose of Plymouth Town, a Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland drama. Reports on Aunt Jeannie with Mrs Campbell are mixed as Frohman weighs control.
Mrs H L Gordon of Corry Pennsylvania suffered nervous prostration and heart trouble for a year. Medicines damaged her stomach. she survived on beef tea and lime water. After using Grape Nuts dry her condition improved rapidly. within days she began eating three times daily and recovered significantly.
Indiana locale advertises Mr Riley as a gimmick while Herbert Hall Winslow penned the piece. Kendall's Joe Miller sells sewing attachments and moves to town, shaping a love story amid a village street set and Indianapolis home. Willard tour dates, future plays, and cast moves are detailed with arrivals in New York and London.
Local notices reveal a stream of travel and visit updates. Alfred Ogre heads to Princeton while Edward Mayo and Alan Williams depart for Cornell. Mackinac hosts several families. Sara Dunn and others move rooms for winter. Engagements, weddings, and visits recur across Kokomo, Crawfordsville, Maxinkuckee, and Terre Haute, reflecting a lively social season with relatives and friends visiting Maine, Chicago, and New York.
Manager D R Mills from Des Moines reports 400 entries secured with promise of more for the Indianapolis Horse Show. Festival field work advances with grandstands arches over White River Bridge, electric lighting planned, and rapid sale of boxes and club season tickets. Notable box holders include A A Barnes, W R Brown, Hilton W Brown, E C Atkins, and others.
Two intoxicated youths entered Moy Kee’s chophouse on East Washington Street at 11 am yesterday and ordered chop suey. A scream echoed from Mrs Moy’s room as one man raced upstairs with the other fleeing the shop with an old pipe claimed to be celona. Moy Kee restrained the man until police were summoned.
Lesh placed the young man under arrest after he identified himself as John Calhoun of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
The Sixth Presbyterian Church elected six trustees to hold church property formerly held by the Second Presbyterian Church. I H Bennett and Samuel Bennefield will serve until 193, W C Robinson and Frank Perlee until 144, and David Hutchinson and John W Stumph as long-term trustees until 1905. The deed was turned over to the Sixth Church for safekeeping.
May Manton presents a Gibson style coat for girls aged 4 6 and 10 with broadcloth in castor color and brown trim. It features a box plaited back skirt, double breasted collar and roll over cuffs. Pattern details and return pattern information are given with a note on a separate raid arrest at 756 Indiana Avenue.
Officers interrupted a gambling game at Haskins's cigar store and poolroom when they arrived to the word that police were coming. Two men escaped. Haskins and three others were arrested. Two stand tables with a lap robe served as the craps layout and players used money as stakes.
The sixth annual Cen tral States Water Works Association convention will be held in this city September 23 to 25 with delegates from Indiana Illinois Kentucky Michigan Ohio Tennessee and West Virginia. Members will discuss improved water supply filtration and hygienic methods for pure water. Notable papers will be read by leaders such as C. W. Wiles A L Holmes F A W Da John Langan Joseph J. Pater Charles E Rowe and others. Indianapolis will host with the Denison Hotel as headquarters and a Commercial Club exhibit under Mr. McK Landon. Officers include President ee J Patel First Vice President Joseph T Blair and others. The local committee is led by H J McGowan with F A W Davis as secretary.
The New York session featured Chief George W. Horton’s paper on the Fire Department of the Future and remarks by six foreign visitors. Dublin, Manchester, Leicester and other chiefs debated high rise fire tactics, standpipes, building laws, and keeping training aligned with firefighting realities as they toured American methods.
State health board records show 169 August deaths from violence including accidents and self harm. Personal crisis cases total 20 with 11 men and 7 women, ages average 41.3, youngest 16 and 19, oldest 69, with methods including drowning gun and hanging among others.
William Smith a veteran living in this city was arrested at the Union Traction Company on West Maryland Street for petit larceny by Detectives Splan and another officer. He was intoxicated and admitted taking a basket of pickles from a woman in the waiting room after her child spotted him. He was stopped near St Johns when apprehended.
Dr. R C Moore of Omaha attacked the idea that climate helps consumptives, arguing the Southwest offers no real advantage and may raise infection risk. He supported sanitarium treatment and urged plenty of fresh air food and dairy products as aids to curing consumption.
Gov Albert B Cummins of Iowa travels by train through Chicago with staff and family en route to Quincy Massachusetts where the US cruiser Des Moines will be launched Miss Elsie Macomber will christen the vessel as part of the party during the visit
In Lacon Illinois on September 18, an assailant placed a twenty five pound powder can under attorney R. M. Barnes bedroom and detonated it with a slow fuse. The explosion was massive but Barnes escaped unharmed. He offers a reward for the capture of the responsible party or parties.
Glenwood Springs Colorado September 18 Thomas McNulty a rancher is dead from a bullet to the head believed self inflicted or by one of his two sons aged 12 and 8. The boys and the mother are under arrest. John Babtist an Armenian naturalized in 1896 and 29 studying for the ministry is described in the same dispatch.
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