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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
4
A nostalgic note favors horse drawn sleighs over gasoline powered Santa. The passage mocks advertisers who depict Santa in cars and argues abolishing reindeer as a crime compared to destroying landmarks. It praises a Good Fellow who helps a young woman find joy for a child and surrounds him with festive cheer.
The Forward weekly celebrates its first birthday while advocating federation of charitable organizations to end duplication and impostors. The plan aims to unify collecting departments, reduce costs, and direct more aid to those in need. Indiana scenes and political quibbles weave through the discussion.
Wisconsin leads in applying higher learning to public life. The University of Wisconsin acts as a model laboratory, delivering targeted instruction to towns, schools, merchants, and farmers. It extends its reach via visits, outlines, and extension classes, shaping policy and daily work across the state.
The article highlights strong cooperation between Wisconsin state government and the University of Wisconsin. It credits professors with drafting key laws, notes the public utilities statute as a flagship achievement, and mentions ongoing university led studies. It also reports plans for an industrial education bill shaped by university and state leaders after European study.
A Wisconsin discussion on why the legislature appoints recess committees to study issues, draft model laws, and report at next session. It notes how university experts and legal scholars shape road and water rights legislation, paying professors from state funds and aligning state needs with university talent. The piece concludes by praising Wisconsin as a model for Indiana and Purdue.
A compact roundup of light quips from Chicago Record-Herald and Toledo Blade. It notes a ban on Salome and jokes about Senator Lodge’s waning vigor, alongside a quip on preferring auto friendships to owning a car.
The Manchester Union notes Miss Helen Taft has come out though she is not a politician, and observes that public curiosity is muted about her stance or cause.
An Indiana judge sharply denounces a man arraigned after he ran down a woman while recklessly driving and fines him ten dollars. The remark is noted as an anti-climax by the Albany Journal.
Senator La Follette writes to President Taft urging removal from consideration of supreme court nominees whose legislative or judicial records reveal prejudice toward the special interests. The Kansas City Star labels him a revolutionary and dangerous figure.
The Topeka Capital notes that washing the Missouri River would help the proposed improvement, outlining support for environmental and flood control measures as part of ongoing discussions. The brief reflects public interest in river management and infrastructure planning.
A fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald remarks that knowledge is power yet notes a seven mile from home crisis with gasoline exhaustion, illustrating a cautionary line about practical limits of theory. The remark underscores the gap between knowledge and real world resources.
The Kansas City Star notes Senator Lodge questions the existence of an ultimate consumer but begins to fear the ultimate members of the Massachusetts legislature as a serious concern.
The Newark News editorial comments on the landslide’s political ripple effect and highlights the central issue of employment as the key demand. It frames the prevailing mood, stressing the need for a man who can secure work and stabilize the region.
A compact reflective fragment on human worth quoting Carlyle that laments that even Birmingham’s machinery cannot reveal the true and worthy meaning of man. The piece frames a moral meditation on value beyond industrial progress.
A Detroit Free Press feature laments children near toy shops in ragged clothes with blue eyes dreaming of stockings and toys. The poem pleads readers to remember hungry windows of Christmas, urging empathy over planning for personal merriment and urging action to help.
The piece argues universal suffrage shorter work hours and collective ownership won't erase all temptations. Even with bread and shelter many sins persist from love jealousy hate ambition and treachery, as crime in newspapers shows only a minority arise from want. It cites Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues that true genius is rare, appearing only once in about fifteen generations. He contrasts “best families” with mixed national origins, calling genius an accidental mosaic trait and noting distant relatives mourn but snub neighbors when a genius dies.
The Columbus News argues for a uniform legal framework to govern employer liability for workmen injuries. It notes voluntary relief by large firms and pension schemes, but urges state law to ensure fair compensation, reduce legal costs, and align employer and employee interests. Public hearings in Ohio should gather data to shape just, practical legislation.
The New York Sun notes a hush over the city with Christmas hints drifting in the air as Becker comments on the season’s quiet mood and the public’s subdued anticipation.
An education columnist argues teachers should extend geography beyond textbooks by using railroad maps, city and regional charts, and current newspaper content. He urges leveraging United States Geological Survey maps, local business districts, streetcar routes, and fire alarm boxes to connect students with tangible places and events, aided by daily papers and transport maps.
FE M Cobb of the Union Pacific argues at a fruit show for mandatory agricultural and horticultural texts in public schools. He warns there are more farmers than ever and urges legislative action to back the push, calling Mother Earth the oldest, safest banker for all.
A witty exchange between an English girl and an American girl. The English woman laments American complexions while the American retorts that noblemen are attracted by money rather than beauty, as quoted from Tit Bits.
A terse joke casts Santa as shrouded in secrecy between holidays, quipping that he hides from his creditors.
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