Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — Baby Carriages for Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Baby Carriages for Indiana.

This is the season of the year when he Indian chiefs come in from the reservations to see the Great, Father. There are a score of them in the city now. A group of half a dozen standing on the curb watching an automobile recalled to some Texans who were passing the story Colonel Bill Sterrett used to tell about the man who went into the Indian territory to sell baby carriages. Everybody paid he was crazy. It wa*s admitted that there was a fine crop of babies in the territory, but no one could see what the squaws, who were used to packing their offspring on their backs, could do with baby carriages. Still, orders began to come back, first for dozens and then for car loads and finally Sterrett went up to investigate. He went into one of the Indian villages. “And I’ll be dashed,” said Colonel Bill, “if I didn’t see a dozen big fat Indians sitting in baby carriages, all scrouged up, while the squaws were pushing them around. The baby carriage man had made the Indians believe that baby carriages were the right kind of pleasure rigs for the noble red men.”—New York World.