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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1923
Page
7
The Indianapolis Times editors and owners extend New Year greetings and pledge ongoing improvements. They thank readers for feedback and affirm the paper serves as a public trust reflecting community life and aspirations.
In a column, the writer argues governments rest on consent and notes Dutch tolerance, Russian czars, and German monarchy. He warns Americans accept inequities like a 30 percent gas rate, links wealth to desire for power, and calls for curbing court backlogs with a pretrial referee system due to excess laws.
The article defines Portland cement as a chemical mix mainly of lime silicates and aluminates from calcareous and argillaceous materials. It offers reader questions to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, contains miscellaneous notes on engines crosshead timing, and lists addresses for several silent film actors and studios in Los Angeles and New York.
Jericho Vermont January 1 57 year old Wilson A Bentley self made scientist farmer piano teacher and lecturer pursues snowflake photography. For thirty eight years he has hunted flakes using a camera with a rocking mount and microscope to create a vast collection. He photographs about three hundred flakes in a favorable winter and now has over four thousand pictures forming the largest snowflake collection. His images serve as patterns in art education and fashion design for ties dresses and biscuits.
In a Philadelphia report a woman named Mrs Yev megh Yacoubian recalls how her four gold teeth charmed Turkish soldiers, saving her from capture in Caesarea. After imprisonment and a long march, she and her children were reunited and eventually reached Constantinople as Turks deportations began.
Mrs. Sarah Lesh, 79, mother of Indiana Attorney General A. B. Lesh, died of pneumonia at her son Daniel Lesh’s home in Markle Indiana. A Wells County resident since 1846, she had moved from Pennsylvania with her parents. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the family residence.
Ida M. Tarbell, famed author and editor, doubts a war over Near East oil fields. She predicts England will keep Mosul control, with U S insistence on access for nationals, notably Standard Oil, in a bargaining outcome.
A curious nautical verse evokes seafaring life with a rousing chantey full of helm terms and weather talk. The piece animates crew banter and shipboard action as phrases like reef the anchor brail and jibe her to the breeze drive the rhythm.
Iowa Congressman Burton E Sweet seeks to abolish the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation and the United States Shipping Board. He proposes consolidating their functions under a director of the Bureau of Merchant Marine reporting to the Secretary of Commerce. The move targets cutting high salaries and easing ship sales to private firms. He pursues Senate support, with Cummins and Brookhart backing the idea for inclusion in the ship subsidy bill.
Berlin January 1 Germany will settle reparations at 40 billion marks total, including payments already made. A banker close to the government outlined the plan to United News, proposing an international loan of 26 billion marks to fund reparations and a small portion for currency stabilization. The plan calls for an international consortium and guarantees as part of the settlement.
A jumble of witty lines and social musings. The piece riffs on New Year resolutions holiday cigars and social slogans with brief notes on a Cincinnati streetcar incident and marriage mores.
A letter from Mary laments dangerous driving and speeders in town and praises the mayor for efforts to curb speeding and keep the Arbuckle picture out of the city. She recalls an incident where a young driver honked at an elderly pedestrian and mocked her concern.
An advertisement by Chas. L. Rowe promotes chiropractic spinal adjustments as a cure for disease and a path to good health, framing health as humanity’s birthright. The notice lists 9 W. Morris Drexel as contact.
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