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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1928
Page
7
The Indianapolis Times argues for keeping the electric utility public under city ownership, urging citizens to resist efforts by speculators to gain control. It details the franchise terms, the stocktrustee arrangement, and the potential for non political management while warning of campaigns to undermine public ownership.
The Anti-Saloon League promotes prohibition from near the Capitol while Harvard’s Thomas N. Carver calls editors who oppose it “nullificationists.” He argues voters favor prohibition, urges acquiescence, and condemns civil rights limits and law enforcement overreach amid enforcement failures and violence by agents.
A California Institute of Technology proposal outlines a 200 inch telescope on a Pacific coast mountaintop, with one third of the system on site and two thirds in Pasadena laboratories. The article notes similar Mt Wilson planning and the rise of astro physics linking astronomy and physics through spectroscopy.
The piece muses on Christmas as a test of character involving loving neighbors and enduring disappointments for children. It notes shopping’s role in lifting souls, the need to perform hard duties well, and touches on Coolidge naval funding, Newton’s market wisdom, a rescuer’s poem, and Chiang Kai-shek’s treaty pressures.
An essay argues that South America offers vast opportunity and needs Western support. It contrasts Spanish colonial aims with English settlement, notes large native populations and underdeveloped infrastructure, and urges American investment in trade and industry to mutual benefit.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes climate affects TB recovery but no single climate suits all. Rest in bed for severely ill patients, and travel may require $1200 to $1800 yearly for invalid care. Government cautions on shipping patients to distant health resorts. Good food and lodging are essential.
A reverent meditation by Frederick Landis on Christmas as a unifying, humane force. It celebrates childhood joy, aging memory, and the shared duty to carry Christmas spirit through life, challenging war, injustice, and impersonal society.
A fragment urges those in theology to remember their duty as comforters and ministers to safeguard faith that has shaped the world. It emphasizes lasting Christmas spirit amid ongoing contending ideas.
A reflective sermon-like meditation decrying infighting among Christians over beliefs beyond the unknown. It argues for tolerance and justice, suggesting even a simple gift of Christmas would elevate humanity above conflict.
In the given five trick bridge deal South leads with a hand showing none of the hearts and no diamonds or clubs, while North holds a queen ten eight with no diamonds. AY lays out the cards in the diagram and asks readers to find a method of play to secure three tricks for North and South against perfect defense, with the solution printed in the source.
The Solution HIS puzzle shows how to avoid trouble as opponents push. South leads trumps, North discard, West king of diamonds, North discards ace of diamonds, South voids spade, and West’s clubs and diamonds set up a decisive sequence.
A chronology lists 1942 wreck of Columbus ship Santa Maria, 1776 Washington crossing the Delaware with 2,400 men amid ice, and 1866 Johnson amnesty for Confederates including Jefferson Davis. The question then shifts to watermark making by shaping gauze-wire cylinders in paper production.
The reviewer debates what defines a play while praising Ethel Barrymore in The Kingdom of God. He calls her performance deeply felt and unusually moving, despite critics’ differing views on the work’s theatrical nature.
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