Indiana Women’s Prison Linked School Under Fire
Lawyer Hindman argues the Girls’ Industrial School, housed with Indiana’s women’s prison, unjustly detains destitute infants and exposes them to criminal society. He urges separating the facility to spare innocent children from a path toward crime and to end the school’s link to the prison.
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Hindman
Hartford City
Woman's Prison of
Indiate
Indiana
THE
SUN
Hinsman
Xaparete
Legislators Shrink From Voting On Divisive Questions
A dispatch laments how lawmakers avoid voting on closely divided public issues such as temperance versus brewers and Sunday baseball, while praising decisive votes on vital questions. It argues that legislators should cast honest votes reflecting their constituents, as abstention is cowardice and better than action without conviction.
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General Assembly
House
Senate
Legistors
Gratitude and Grievances in Indiana News Voice
A fragmented 1920s style column questions patriotism and public mood in Indianapolis. It attacks Weatherman Blythe over weather injustices, praises The Sun for challenging secret boards, notes legislative costs, and critiques editorial stances on trials and laws while mentioning agriculture, cattle vaccines, and forestry work across states.
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America
Weatherman Blythe
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indianapolia
Weathermay Blythe
Mr. Blythe
Sketches and Songs of a Singer From the Mall
A collection of verses and fragments recounting a narrator's travels and misadventures. Includes lyric sketches about a singing figure on rural roads, a barber scene, a townsfolk auction, and social observations. Names and places appear in sardonic vignettes alongside dated slang and rustic rhythm.
Quirky Capitol Banter and a Quays Statehood Chat
A satirical Washington scene shows Rep Bankhead of Alabama joking about a funding line of 42 187.75 for a southern mall as Rep Hank Smith of Michigan challenges him over 76 cents. Quay and Aldrich exchange barbed remarks on statehood and a tour through Washington including the Supreme Court. A San Francisco member, Mr Kahn, cracks a joke about cooking oysters and milk, provoking amused reactions at the house murant table. The piece ends with a lyrical aside about morning light and love as a Constitution reference circles the scene.
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Barkhead
Alabama
Hank” Smith
Michigan
Bankhead
Kahn
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Mr. Kahn
A Corner for the Women Keeping the Hands and Face Clean
Women across the city struggle to keep hands and faces clean as coal dust and cold weather irritate their skin. The piece lists daily routines including warm water rinses, glycerine, cold cream, powders, and occasional alcohol or olive oil, noting varying effectiveness and discomfort for busy working women.
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Corl
Uae
Pretty Walate Fashion and Rye Corn Bread Recipe
A fragment describes a white tunic style waistcoat with tucked sleeves and silver buttons, paired with lace and nets. The text also includes a rye and cornmeal bread recipe using rye flour, corn meal, salt, pijo jaseca, baking soda, and steaming for four hours, served hot with butter or cream.
President fooled by mistaken delegation tale at White House
Roosevelt burst into laughter over a mix up with a Baltimore delegation. A visit from the United Singers and a separate invitation to a St Patrick’s Day dinner led to a humorous misunderstanding about a German singers assembly in Baltimore. Senator McComas clarified the mix up, and the president recounted the incident with good humor.
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Battimore
Senator McComas
McComas
Roosevelt
Benator McComas
Lsten
Daltimore
United Singers
Baltimore
Wachter
Noted Authors and Marriages Highlight 19th Century Letters
The piece surveys Jules Verne nearing new books at seventy four, mentions Miss Alte Megan marrying Cale Young Rice, and notes Mrs Clara Louise Burnham of Chicago planning a music focus while writing. It also references Henry Seton Merriman and Robert Louis Stevenson musings, plus Robert Chambers preparing a fictional history of the American Revolution.
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Alte Megan
Mrs. Wigga of
Cale Young Rice
Kentucky
Clara “Louise Burnham
George F. Hout
Mira. Burnham
Chicago
Aoe
Robert Chambers
Carl Wann
Daughiter
Hosters
Origin of Greenhorn and the Senate Story
A Washington Post cited dinner talk among senators including West of Missouri and Turpie of Indiana. They recounted the origin of greenhorn from deer with green horns that slip into muddy water, becoming easy prey for hunters and giving the term to inexperienced men.
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Senate
West
Missouri
Turple
Indiana
AML
Turepin
Washington Post
Turpie
Greenhorn
Eminent writer and charity training vision voiced in Washington
Ridney Lee, an English writer in the U S, is described with his Oxford matriculation as Solomon Jazanis and hailed by Gen Wm Booth who outlines a charity worker university. Booth stresses volunteer training for rescuing the helpless as part of a broader effort to advance noble work. Freight rate changes could lift annual net mult they imply a substantial earnings rise.
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Ridney Lee
University of Oxford
Solomon Jazanis
Wm. Booth
Salvaten Army
Washington
Drasn
Little Shavers and the Morning Bath Tale
A fragmentary reminiscence shows a child named Tommy remarking that the water is too much, claiming he must bathe four times each morning. The piece recalls adults joking about chores and a lively, slangy dialogue with breezy, rural humor.
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Ion
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Edward Singer
Washington Stories
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Supreme Court
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United States of America
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White House
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Hugh B. Bott
Robert Louiz Stevenson
Gary Bhid
St. & Yard
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Ile Eaat Atale
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Callara
Mctinen
Columbia National Bank
United States
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A. A. Barnes
W.K. Sproule
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Hoston
ISM
Ike Frederick Tudoe
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Atlantic
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