10 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
1
A brief note highlights that business leaders and residents alike turn to The Indianapolis Journal for daily news. It emphasizes the paper’s role as a trusted source of local commerce, community updates, and public notices for readers in Indianapolis.
The Indiana Journal positions itself as a reliable, comprehensive daily with AP market reports, national and local news, farm pages, sport, women’s features, and fashion notes. It claims prompt coverage, multiple correspondents, and Republican, conservative editorial stance, all for ten cents weekly.
The Goshen Democrat reports the Elkhart county prohibition convention committee on resolutions gains power to declare the Nicholson law a cheat and fraud. A new swindle scheme from Northern Ohio targets farmers with a fake wagon tongue offer. If refused, a confederate buys the pattern, and the farmer pays 250 dollars to the first man for the rights, ending the scam.
An exchange contrasts quests for justice and escape, savings for a house and selling below cost, romantic theater outings and costly divorces, indoor deer work versus outdoor longing, retirement hopes and business entry. Townsfolk share dreams of farming, big belts of countryside, and healthy outdoor toil.
The piece condemns wild tree cutting along roadways and argues for laws and coordinated trimming by telegraph and telephone companies. Citing the Indianapolis News, it urges systematic tree planting along state highways to shade, prevent road wash, and boost the state's wealth, noting New York's forestry acts as a model.
Reduced fares offered for many events with travel to cities including Los Angeles San Francisco Indianapolis St Paul Minneapolis San Francisco Portland Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Tacoma and East Lake City via Pennsylvania Lines. Tickets sold only from Indiana stations. For details contact Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents.
Excursion tickets to Indianapolis for the Paderewski Concert will be sold from Worthington Austin Richmond Dupont and connections. Tickets are available through Penne Lines Tickets Agent for Ouathantan.
Special rates apply for travel to Indianapolis via Pennsylvania Lines. Excursion tickets will be sold on April 22 and 34 to accommodate the Indians Republican State Convention.
A report on reforming public institution management in Indiana highlights a shift to business methods to curb waste. It describes centralized store rooms, duplicate invoices, daily requisitions, and precise cost tracking, showing reduced per inmate costs and savings from in-house manufacturing of clothing, shoes, and tobacco.
In Indianapolis the Indiana Republican Editorial Association heard Ed T. Staley of the Tipton Advocate discuss political topics. He argues expansion is settled, warns against Democratic shifts on territorial governance, defends tariffs, criticizes free silver, and urges unwavering support for McKinley’s memory and Roosevelt’s leadership to secure victory in the fall.
Hartford City daily Times notes Indiana’s manufacturing sector expanded markedly between 1890 and 1900. Establishments rose from 12,354 to 18,015. capital climbed from 131.6 million to 234.5 million dollars. wages rose from 42.6 million to 66.8 million. Indianapolis saw gains in establishments, wage earners, and product value, while slaughtering and meat packing and flouring and grist mill products remain leading industries statewide.
The article notes supposed Montana diamonds were found to be white sapphires. It also mentions salmon processing, immigrant demographics in Chicago, a Washington pension office machine sealing envelopes, a painting for Montana’s statehouse, and a segregated new village for African Americans at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Amy Lee ends her season while Maude Courtney tours London. Brooklyn plans a Jewish theater as Beerbohm Tree stages Ulysses to strong crowds. B F Keith contemplates Pittsburg expansion. A new drama titles Break For Life arises from the Biddle incident. Marie Derickson joins Robert Edeson's Soldiers of Fortune company. New York’s fifty leading amusement venues worth over 20 million. Mary Magdalen may reach London with Julia Marlowe before US debut. Baritone William Pruette slides on ice in New York, sprains ankle, cancels two weeks of bookings.
Mrs Jones asks Mrs Brown how she likes the new cook. Mrs Brown calls her a perfect cooking failure yet notes amusing compensations as she cannot eat her own food. In a separate note, Chicago and Alton plan to place a surgeon's chest on each passenger car with tools for simple operations before hospital transfer.
Mrs lanche Marshall of Whiting Kansas reports kidney trouble and female weakness left her unable to walk. After using Doctor Pierce medicines Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Lotion Tablets she says she was cured in three months and can do her own work.
A melodrama scene has the hero starving in a forest crying for water until an old spectator shouts to tap maple trees. Mame and IL argue afterward over whether the spectator was a real whiskers or an actor trying for a hit.
A waiter tells a diner he earns no salary because the gentlemen who dine there are perfect. The diner digs for a tip, muttering that curiosity is costly. This humorous exchange appears in the Chicago Post.
An employer scolds a clerk for showing up late, noting the staffer never appears before half past eight. The exchange highlights dress and punctuality concerns in a work setting at the office.
A narrator plans to overhear a lunch with a rival, using a screen for concealment. The scene hints at intrigue and shifting loyalties as overheard conversations promise revelations and tense dynamics between key characters.
Dialogue from a rural setting shows Farmer Corntessel and his wife discussing raising their son Josh. The exchange highlights their stern, hands on approach to discipline and moral instruction as they claim to be cultivating him "the best we go."
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