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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1923
Page
7
A fistfight between Willie and Johnnie at an Indianapolis school escalated to the principal and drew calls for drastic measures. Willie questioned whether school board members ever fight, underscoring a childish scene in a recent meeting.
George A H Shideler the Indiana Reformatory superintendent and former head of the Indiana Boys the State Reformatory received a statehouse honor Thursday. The tribute highlights his reform minded work with wayward youth and his close rapport with prisoners shaping many successful outcomes.
The piece rails against a proposed official commission to study alcohol content and liquor laws, arguing it masks a budget raid by funding a select expert panel. It accuses Congress of creating costly bureaus to siphon public funds under the guise of reform.
A Massachusetts detective asked for a pint of liquor at a shop and received 89 percent alcohol. The court ruled the request too indefinite and that mixtures with high alcohol content are not automatically distilled liquor. distillation must be proven. The piece mocks legal reasoning with sharp satire.
In memory of child life sacrificed on the altar of haste and recklessness a monument rises in central St Louis amid a safety week that saw nine fatalities in one week. The piece calls for accountability of reckless drivers and equal law for autoists and killers alike.
A playful note on the short football season and the abundance of hair. The piece also mentions German Premier Marx, a Chicago preacher, and unusual deer hunting patterns with hunters resembling deer among the bagged game.
This article explains Mah Jongg setup with East Wind as the chief position determined by a dice throw. It describes wind order, East becoming permanent until a loss, and the wall building where 17 tiles are drawn twice to form a 34 tile square before breaking the wall.
Reader queries on subjects from tuckpointing to the Vulgate and prominent historic questions are answered. The column cites sources and provides brief factual responses including mortar mix, Bible history, water marks, rabbit breeds, Bayard, Julia Ward Howe, and Oberlin College’s 1841 AB degrees.
The Times reports mail for N. Armstrong, Box No. 13, Springvale, Ind. was returned due to a wrong address. If a correct address is provided, future mail will be forwarded.
Scientists study eye evolution from primitive forms to vertebrates and invertebrates. The text notes a third eye in prehistoric amphibians and reptiles, a remnant in descendants, and an active third eye in a Spenodon lizard. It highlights the beetle's compound eye enabling dual vision both below and above water.
This passage blends tales of insects as ecological agents with practical pest control. It mentions the ladybug saving California orchards, aphid dynamics under a tiny fly, and a method to kill aphids by dipping houseplants in hot water, revealing a mix of folklore and early garden advice.
An anecdote from a Smoking Room discussion notes baseball as the national game. Judge Brace of the Missouri Supreme Court attends a game, watches a foul tip strike the umpire, and amidst blood and chaos quips that the umpire deserves the blow for disturbing the contest.
John Carson outlines how railroad dividends and collateral trust bonds crippled the system during wartime. Executives argue insufficient labor and poorly prepared locomotives worsened delays, with examples from Boston & Maine and Baltimore & Ohio illustrating financial manipulation and distress.
A parade of quips and curiosities: mentions of Ford and Muscle Shoals, Christmas shortages, unsafe White House claims, rising prospective tenants, a Mt. Morris Pa gas find, shifting views on women finances, a Philadelphia department store fire, a New Jersey marriage case, a Goldsboro snake tale, Mary Pickford advice, hotel arrests in Pennsylvania, a New Yorker suing his wife over love valued at 100000 dollars, and other wry notes.
A compact meditation on time versus eternity inspired by a Schiller quotation. It ponders how steadfast truth can bind time and endure beyond fleeting days, urging constancy and moral resolve.
A satirical poem invites a reader to a reckless gathering featuring illegal bootleg liquor. The speaker boasts a potent lye and vitriol mixture that progresses from drunkenness to crime, warns of poisoning, and promises a wild night with friends risking health or death. The tone mocks risky decadence and prohibition era excess.
A Boston Transcript quip contrasts how a modern minister can pray for a quarter hour with a Bible era family that struggles to learn prayer. The exchange underscores evolving expectations of prayer length and practice.
In a Boston Transcript quip a speaker jokes about a knot tied in a handkerchief and recalls it may simply signal it is time to send the linen to the laundry. The line plays on domestic chores and memory.
The editor argues Indiana legislators should not convene to investigate or impeach the Governor while the McCray case is pending. He notes such action would be premature and costly, since the Governor is already arraigned in criminal court with broader jurisdiction. After the court verdict, the legislature could meet in judicial session to decide the Governor's fitness.
E P McCaslin argues Democrats should back Thomas R Marshall for president over Calvin Coolidge, praising both men as sound leaders and noting public indifference to the election between them from his Dewey Avenue address.
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