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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1925
Page
7
The Indianapolis Times published daily except Sundays by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co. at 214-220 W Maryland St Indianapolis Roy W Howard served as president. Subscription rates: ten cents a week in Indianapolis twelve elsewhere. Contact via phone MA in 3500. Constitutional protection of free speech cited.
An examination of why water, gas and electricity are treated as public utilities while coal and ice are private. The piece compares delivery methods and regulatory reach, notes political tensions with Mexico, and likens nations to quarrelsome schoolboys in a broader commentary.
A German paper argues Secretary Kellogg’s Mexico policy caused a rift with Japan. It claims Soviet agitprop and agrarian law seizures fueled tension while Japan courted President Calles and offered to renounce compensation for its injured citizens.
The piece argues that government efficiency should extend to the costly fees paid to bankers and lawyers by the Interstate Commerce Commission in reorganizing a Southwestern railroad. Commissioner Eastman dissented, calling $500 daily fees wasteful and charged to taxpayers through higher freight rates, urging economy in both public and private railroad service.
Readers vent at The Times on the McCray pardon plea and city issues. Letters critique selective justice, smoke laws, taxes, industrial growth, and public spending while a separate item critiques local governance and educators.
Scientist Otto Warburg argues in a Rockefeller Institute lecture that life cannot exist without iron and oxygen interaction in cells. He warns that shifts in temperature drive death rates, linking weather to mortality and suggesting iron is central to life across ages.
The Indiana Secretary of the Civic Affairs Department cites a 363,467 estimated city population based on a thorough survey, noting 16,500 new dwellings since 1920 and a shift to stable family growth. The piece discusses suburban development, housing, and a demographic shift toward settled, non migrant residents.
A caravan of 100 Hoosier farmers and wives from Jackson Clark Harrison and Floyd Counties toured Kentucky Ohio and southern Indiana visiting famous estates stock and dairy farms and progressive agricultural enterprises. The week long trip covered over 60 miles and blended business with pleasure highlighting hands on observation as a key for farmer education.
A new malarial fever treatment for paresis was used at a city hospital on a patient from the Central Hospital for the Insane. The method, a recent discovery, aims to soften the brain and has shown efficacy in several cases in the East.
Indiana reports 581 858 passenger autos registered in the first seven months. The state now hosts 15 000 more registrations than all of 1924, signaling continued growth in automobile ownership and highway use across the nation including New York City.
A compact excerpt contrasts obedience to guidance with improper arrogance. It cites a Bible verse about evading truth and a Swift remark noting few will admit a mistake, reflecting on human folly and self awareness.
A divorce was granted in Paris to Mrs. Cecelia Tobin Clark from Charles William Clark. They wed in 1904 in San Francisco. Clark is a son of the late Montana millionaire Senator Clark.
A columnist cites Yale research claiming intoxicated individuals can sober up by vigorous breathing for thirty minutes. The piece humorously considers public scenes of panting in streets and cars, noting potential bystander effects and legal implications.
A humorous social critique of aging men who try to stay appealing to women. It mocks middle aged husbands clinging to youth through cosmetics and flirtation while questioning male vanity and moral aging. It contrasts female aging and male ego with sharp satire.
Readers ask about difficult instruments violin versus guitar, Samuel McCulloch’s daring raid at Ft Henry, British rubber control and export embargo, and methods to deter pigeons from roosting. Answers explain finger placement, McCulloch’s escape, why rubber prices rose, and spike deterrents.
A breezy description of women at the beach in neat bathing suits. They tease with playful capers before stepping into the cold water. The scene builds to diving boards and bold leaps that entertain shore spectators.
A Washington Bureau bulletin debunks common myths and beliefs such as giraffes at circuses, hoop snake myths, cats harming babies, drowning, and other popular fallacies. The notice invites readers to mail five cents and request the publication titled FACT AND FANCY from The Indianapolis Times with the provided address.
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