Early shopping pleas and political musings from a coast to coast column
A dense, opinion driven clipping cites President messages and shopper advice, lampoons politicians including La Follette and Aldrich, notes transit reforms by Fr. Wayne, and reports a Pere Marquette rail liability plea amid a Milwaukee court case seeking $10,000 damages for ferry No. 18 disaster with 29 lives lost.
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Milwaukee
Wwis
Pere Marquette Railway Company
Florida
Pres
Gone Where Most Needed in a Shifting Population Trend
The Minneapolis Journal notes literary figures gravitating to New York and London as fifty six Indiana counties show population declines since the 1900 census. The Toledo Blade adds a proverb on diligence for a messenger boy rising to management before death.
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New York
London
Indiana
Minneapolis Journal
Let Us Be Conservative Says Food Prices May Rise
A Liberty Press editorial cautions readers against assuming cheaper meats will arrive soon. It urges restraint and prudence in spending and warns against embracing optimistic inflation forecasts.
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Liberty Press
Wedded to Ignorance
The Kansas City Star notes scant signs that the brief session of the old Congress will heed lessons from the November 8 elections.
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Congress
Kansas City Star
Fighting Democracy to the Victors Belong Broils
A Cleveland Leader discussion notes the winners claim most political strife and protection. A scientist claims one egg has the strength of a pound of beef, but the piece argues strength is not the point in eggs, reflecting satirical or editorial tone on public appetite and value.
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Cleveland
Poledo
Autos and Viewpoints on Cleveland Driving Law
In a Cleveland dialogue between an ex councilman and a prosperous businessman the ethics of autos and roads are debated. Coroner Blackwell notes nineteen automobile deaths in his term, nearly half from speeding, spurring talk of more night motorcycle officers. The piece argues fear, not duty, governs drivers and calls for harsher enforcement while lampooning efforts to curb pedestrian rights.
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Blackwell
Cleveland
Callow Rebellion at Shortridge School Split over Rule Defiance
A Indianapolis father criticizes high school fraternities and student disobedience at Shortridge after twelve suspended boys, all from fraternities, challenge a school rule. He argues the principal did his duty and that law and order must prevail to prevent schools from becoming lodging houses for underclass youth.
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Shortridge
Indianapolis
Exeter
Andover
Lawrenceville
St. Paul’s
Groton
College Fraternity
College Club
Christ and the Cross in a World of Wealth and Pride
A poem by Harry Kemp laments modern hypocrisy as society worships wealth and fashion while exploiting the poor. It contrasts Christ’s humility with gilded crosses and profit, accusing the rich of freezing mercy behind luxury and social respectability.
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Christ
Harry Kemp
American Magazine
The Law's Delay in American Courts Compared to England
Judge John D. Lawson tours English courts and argues that American criminal procedure lags a century behind. English judges earn higher salaries and enjoy prestige, contributing to efficient trials, while U.S. circuit judges face political influence and lower status, hindering performance according to Law Notes.
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John D. Lawson
Law School
Missouri State University
England
Lawson
The Scrap Book on Sports Moral Values
The Scrap Book stresses sport as a moral training ground. It praises self discipline under fatigue and teamwork over personal glory. It lauds temperance in victory and grace in defeat as signs of will over impulse.
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Edward A. Ross
Be He nowhere else. God is In all that lnberates
Poem fragment from Lowell praising universal divinity in nature and memory. The speaker reflects on shared hereditary thought and blessed wanderers, noting the guarding fold of faith and the hope printed by beloved footsteps, before ending with a reverent, time divided.
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Lowell
The Well Read Man Reflects on Books and Innate Taste
The Providence Journal muses on a well read man who must know many books casually and a few intimately. He may be reticent with few hearthside friends or liberal enough to trust many, yet he needs worldly book knowledge to compare and judge who earns entry into the inner circle.
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Providence, Journal
A Supreme Epoch in the Panama Canal Era
BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER argues the canal opening marks a supreme epoch that unites oceans, reshapes U S outlook toward the Pacific, and ends the Columbus dyke. He highlights the need to celebrate in a place where East meets West, with the two oceans becoming a single highway and civilization moving toward its final phase.
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Pacific
Asia
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America
India
China
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Euphrates
Nile
Syrian
Greece
Globe
Rome
Spain
France
Germany
England
Mart
Shattlefield
Just a Minute From a Photographers Portrait Note
A woman complains to a photographer about her husband who she says looks like a chimpanzee in a family portrait. The photographer recalls pleading with the man to look natural, while the wife laments the result and mispronounces a joke about the awkward pose.
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Pher
Camera
One Thing The Minister Tells Sunday School
A minister speaks to the Sunday school about a remarkable organ that never stops beating inside us all the time. A child interrupts with a humorous answer, saying the gas meter is the organ in question.
Good Roads Drive Indiana Road Plan At Convention
The article reports on a national good roads push led by the National Grange and delegates at an Indianapolis convention. A Marcus Whitman road proposal would run from Walla Walla to Omaha funded by timber revenue, with construction by convict labor. J. E. Pennybecker previews a state road bill creating a nonpartisan highway commission and a state highway engineer to oversee plans, surveys, and contracts. The plan favors county initiative with state aid, adjusting costs by county wealth, and aims for a unified highway system across Indiana and other states. N J Bachelder and Samuel Hill scheduled to speak, with leaders from multiple states presenting on road policy.
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National Grange
United States
Indianapolis
American Roadbuilders’ Association
German House
McDonald
Tomlinson Hall
Indiana
J. E. Pennybecker
Logan Waller Page
State Highway Department
State Highway Commission
Eaid
N. J. Bachelder
Samuel Hill
Washington State Good Roads Association
Hill
Maj
W. W. Crosby
Maryland
Ballinger Pinchot Committee Finds Ballinger Honest Official
The congressional majority report declares no case against Secretary Ballinger. It finds water power site restorations in good faith and criticizes reclamation policy for overreaching funds. The Cunningham coal claims are deemed largely unsubstantiated with Alaska coal fields still under government ownership. Glavis is commended for triggering the revocation order.
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Bullinger
Cunningham
Alaska
United States
Tifth
Land Office
Schwartz
Cunninghaum
Glavis
Glivis
Nelson Minnesota
Flint
California
Sutherland
Utah
Root
New York
McCall
Massachusetts
Olmstead
Pennsylvania
Denby
Michigan
Ballinger-Tinehot
House
Congress
Uplift Move Gets Citywide Civic Support in Indianapolis
Two hundred citizens at the YMCA auditorium on Tuesday voted to join a nationwide effort to uplift men and boys. Seven men were elected to a committee, with another 100 to be appointed. Rev C Fearson chairs the current committee.
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Indianapolis
United States
Canada
Indienapolis
Ms C. Fearson
Commander for Scouts to Speak at Indianapolis
The boy scout movement in Indianapolis will be launched Wednesday after an address at the Boys' Club by Hugh S. Miller, secretary of the American Boy Scouts for the Middle Western states. The lecture will feature stereopticon views and a company of drilled boys from the Navy recruiting station will give Miller the commander’s salute on arrival.
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Boy Scout Movement
Indianapolis
Boys’ Club
Hugh S. Miller
American Boy Scouts For
Middle Western States
Navy
Miller
Traction Firm Adopts New Wage Scale for 1911
The Indianapolis & Cincinnati traction company adopts a wage scale for mentormen and conductors effective January 1, 1911. New workers will earn 20 cents an hour, and yearly wages for existing employees rise from 35 to 17 percent.
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Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company
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