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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
6
A collection of observations on American wealth rivalries and foreseen aristocracy, German and British safety debates, and a Chicago suburb's cooperative meal program. It notes De Beers diamond output, a Dublin biographical notice, dueling in Germany, language quirks, and New York rail safety statistics.
A Baltimore American excerpt extols the great unsatisfied men who pace progress. It praises restless laborers, planners, fighters, and builders who push humanity forward. The poem highlights innovation through rail, wire, and industry, declaring persistent effort will outpace debt.
The article follows Ingham, a celebrated college football star from freshman to graduation, who struggles after leaving school. His mother calls him modest, his father a dreamer, and Marie Franz predicts he'll get there. He moves to Chicago to support his mother, securing a bank clerkship and later a soap factory job amid personal doubt.
Joe Ingham reunites with Marie Franz after a failed attempt to confess his past. Marie rekindles a fragile romance while Charley Hughes, once aided by Joe’s oration, delivers a celebrated yet hollow reading, leaving Joe’s pride bruised as Hughes receives public adulation.
An old man doubted distant speech by telephone until he tested the line to his wife five miles away. After a successful call, a lightning strike hit the wire, knocking him down. He rose shouting that the voice was Sarah every inch. The Richmond Dispatch reports the curious incident.
The Baltimore World asks where yesterday’s slang has gone noting phrases like off his base goo goo eyes tumbled and the good old scared me idiocy have vanished. It laments the silent drift of old expressions such as the marble heart glad hand frosty guy and beat the band as new speech replaces them.
A collage of quips from Punch and other papers features lines about politeness honesty and self own opinions. Cartoon snippets include humorous exchanges about clocks gifts and temperate zones with a mix of names and playful banter.
Germany increases consumption of foreign fruits with 1899 import values: apples over 10.0 million dollars, pears 2.6 million, cherries 420 thousand, plums 2.9 million, berries over 500 thousand, totaling 16.23 million. Austria Hungary, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and America top the shipments. A 1900 Berlin market report warns only better German fruit cultivation can curb imports since apples pears and plums remain undersupplied domestically.
A wealthy man boasts of a 500 year old table while a guest claims an 8000 year old table, then a 3000 year old pie multiplication table sparks laughter. The note adds that sewing-cotton and pocket-knives are the only British made goods that still hold their own in Brazil.
Condensed schedule lists departure times from Blairsville for Salieburg Pittsburgh Butler Altoona and Indiana routes with weekday Sunday and holiday times. Notices indicate stops by agent and connections with lines to Allegheny City Butler Branch and Pittsburg via Blairsville Intersection. Authorities include J Huthinson Jr and Whos E Watt Agt Western District Pittsburg Pa.
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