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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1930
Page
6
The editorial argues crime and municipal corruption stem from a broken democracy. It links racketeering to public office, party rings, and voter apathy, urging education and civic responsibility to cure the system before democracy dies.
A jumble of quotations discusses overstatements in aviation feats during war and peacetime, with notes on Lincoln's courtroom tactic, British air maneuvers, and a Berlin professor tracing Hoover ancestry, reflecting on national defense and public perception.
J Monroe Hewlett, chair of the allied arts committee of the American Institute of Architects, urges a formal coop with artists to restore sculpture and painting to their place in design. He cites landscape artists, mural painters, and others, and notes plans for catalogs, reports, and collaboration with the National Sculpture Society.
Aug 25, 1839 Bret Harte, famed American humorist and short story writer, was born in Albany New York. He left home at 15 to seek gold in California, worked as a compositor, edited papers, served 1864 67 as Mint secretary in San Francisco, wrote The Luck of the Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and held posts as USC professor and American consul in Germany and Scotland.
Meditation quotes from scripture praising wisdom and the joy of union with God are presented as reflective religious thought without a news context or events.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains how gallbladder disease is detected and treated with X rays dyes and instruments. He notes liver links to digestion tests reveal inflammation infection or ulcers and highlights risks from stones poisoning and alcohol related liver damage.
The column laments beauty contests including a Miss Taxicab call by The Weekly Taxi Sun and recalls a Palm Beach misadventure. It condemns mob harassment over the American flag episode near N. with two jailed camp workers, urging accountability for mob actions and mild punishment for the provocateurs.
A collection of Q and A items discussing the salute's origins and various historical theories. It covers Roman dagger-avoidance gestures, British colonial customs, and headgear influences, along with answers about Ford plants in England and Ireland, the Dresden steamship owner, Rickard’s million dollar fights, and the first transportation subway built in London in 1863.
A long critique on patriotism used to justify tariff and immigration policies. Discusses Nami Minter born in Montreal losing Canadian and American citizenship, and exclusion from Japan. notes about Balchen, Byrd, and World affairs. Mentions Crispus Attucks and a barrel penny calculation.
A reader from City requests a copy of the bulletin Weather and Climate and encloses 5 cents for return postage and handling. The note is addressed to the Meteorology Editor in Washington Bureau of The Indianapolis Times in Washington D C.
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