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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
7
Burns and Davis advertise a sale in The Otterbein Sun with Wade S Bolt as publisher editor and proprietor.
The article notes a wide array of famous figures including Gittora Pinchot Beveridge Landis Quayle Heney LaFollette Dixon Borah Gore Poindexter Kenyon Garfield Stubbs Hanly Ferris Murdock Hobson Bryan Hillin Black Rijs Sullivan Haple and others speaking on the lecture platform. It describes their years of effort and platform ability to convey messages to Americans.
The county Democratic convention in Fowler is criticized for machine politics and centralized control. The author argues that seating, ticketing, and rules show anti democratic tendencies and reflect a troubling pattern seen in other parties, warning that the party risks ruin through machine tactics.
The Lyceum spreads through outreach by managers Meyers Colt Alber and the Lyceum Bureau to secure statesmen poets philosophers sociologists preachers journalists travelers explorers evangelists scientists educators and entertainers for national lecture tours as Col Roosevelt called it the most American thing in America.
The Lyceum program features Benjamin Chapin as Abraham Lincoln, Leland T. Powers in dramatic monologues, Elias Day with character portraits, and Margaret Stahl, America's premier reader. Musical acts include Evelyn Scotney, the Schumann Quintet, the Metropolitan Grand Quartet, and ensembles from Boston artists, plus Kaffir boys, and Albert Gale with Red Man songs and stories.
Detective Burns and Senators Kenyon and Dixon head a list of twelve master lecturers from the Colt Lyceum Bureau. The piece argues the Lyceum movement remains vigorous with about 15 000 courses and 40 000 000 listeners across the United States and Canada, praising the freedom and reach of Lyceum platforms.
Fragmentary text describes neglected areas producing noxious weeds and negative effects on communities. It suggests infection of civic life, degraded morals, and a deteriorating social fabric due to lack of cultivation and care.
A humorous vignette imagines French baseball in action with a high hat umpire and a braided dialogue about balls and strikes. Players and fans exchange polite puns and exaggerated accents as a six hour clock meeting is proposed behind the Grande Hotel. The piece notes the effort needed for a full nine innings in France.
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