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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1928
Page
9
M E B Tracy lauds Edison for forcing tens of millions to change their customs and habits without public animosity. The piece notes Edison’s lasting fame, the slow pace of recognition by politicians, and his universal appeal across nations, including China, while praising free government and peaceful progress.
The Indianapolis Times editor argues for reform against Coffin and Leslie. It links past indictments and alleged corruption to current campaigns. It cites police crackdowns on workers' party meetings and defends ballot expression as the path to change.
A Minnesota case questions if a state judge can issue a permanent injunction to shut a newspaper without violating free speech. The Saturday Press faced a civil injunction after criticizing public officials, raising issues of jury trial, laws against criminal libel, and dangers of judges' broad injunction power.
The St Paul Daily News reports that Arkansas Senator Caraway’s burlesque speeches are shifting Minnesota voters toward Herbert Hoover. It criticizes ridicule over facts and accused false claims about Hoover’s war wheat price and birthplace, noting sarcasm may backfire on Democrats.
In a history of microbiology two scientists dispute whether life arises from air or from preexisting microbes. Pasteur, defending biogenesis, tests air-borne contamination with Balard's sealed-air flask, yielding a decisive result against spontaneous generation and highlighting Balard's pivotal role.
The text outlines an American delegation including Henry Ford and Owen D. Young invited by China to aid reconstruction. It argues government as economics, expansion of manager governance, and compares democracy to a raft versus a ship, urging integration of private enterprise methods into public administration while preserving popular control.
Dr Morris Fishbein reports that despite extensive research the common cold resists clear prevention. Studies from Punjab and Amsterdam link temperature changes to infection rates and respiratory mortality, urging regulation of body heat to keep defenses stable in cold weather.
The passage mockingly juxtaposes fascist expansion, the exile of Doom’s bearded fugitive, airship leaders like Eckener, Lincoln’s birthplace links, and social campaigns. It contrasts political theater with real power shifts, noting leaders and events while lampooning opportunistic rivals and aging political tricks.
A collage of remarks on 19th century politics and world events. References span Confederate money found in New Orleans, Kellogg treaty punctuation, Franco Italian fortifications, a grasshopper plague in China, a 6000 pound shark off Point Reyes, Clarence Darrow debates on machinery, Mussolini farmer aid, and the Krassin ice breaker’s return.
A Times reader from Crawfordsville Indiana urges open discourse on religion and voting. He questions the call to prayer against Alfred E Smith and suggests voting for the best national issues, while defending religious influence in public life and noting a prior public scare. The letter ends with a factual note about Ann Pennington and George White's Scandals.
On October 22 dates note milestones from 1811 steamboat travel to 1894 Miss Jerry as early moving pictures. The first commercially shown film is often cited as a serpentine dancer in 1896 at Lester and Beal's Music Hall New York.
As election nears two weeks out, the United States campaign centers on carrying eastern battlegrounds. Smith needs New York Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and New Jersey to tally enough electoral votes while Hoover concentrates on the Atlantic seaboard with elder statesmen backing him.
The street commissioner’s office promises Mr Fixit will clean Thirty fourth street from Illinois to Central avenue after dirt from wagon traffic near Shortridge construction. Several other streets and alleys named for possible work include Elder avenue south of Washington grant avenue 524 South East street 2000 Hillside avenue 500 block North Concord street and 1508 Villa avenue.
A collection of maxims and biblical verse lines including Psalm 72 9 about enemies and a Swetchine quote praising a malicious foe over a clumsy friend. The piece presents brief reflective sentiments without narrative events or named individuals.
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