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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1902
Page
17
A lively plea to owners to buy books not borrow them, arguing borrowed volumes risk loss, disease, and damage to authors and publishers. It lampoons borrowers and praises buying, with anecdotes about a famed scholarly visit, library fines, and a call for better care of books.
In The Gossip's Corner a detailed critique argues against land irrigation sewage farms in Indianapolis. It cites British and continental cases showing odors, disease outbreaks, subsoil water pollution, and increased fevers and diarrheal deaths. The author warns that variable conditions undermine purity and notes parasites spread via sewage residues on crops and meat.
A collage of Q and A pieces covering deaths dates and historical asks. It includes questions about Billye the humorist death date February 22, 1896 and inquiries on marriage law in New York, military figures, language counts, and practical etiquette. It preserves era tone with brief direct answers and tangential notes.
The New York Evening Post notes a wide price spread for steam ship fruit baskets from $10 to $50. Surprisingly, domestic out of season fruits like peaches and plumes command the top prices, even higher than tropical Indies imports. Winter hot house fruit mainly comes from New Jersey, with limited supply and reliance on dealer orders due to uncertain shop demand.
Poem by Joseph Traxler from Indianapolis expresses sleepless prayer for dawn and relief from tears. The speaker, like a blind seeker, endures endless nights and unchanging years, worshiping despite wronged faith as light follows darkness and the debtor finds life in death.
Written lichens form a large group with diverse appearances resembling scripts from notes to grand inscriptions. They appear on tree bark and stones, with crusts varying from white vellumlike to deep cinnabar red, creating living epistles that tell of growth, age, and environmental history.
An 19th century observer discusses a Tibet tree described by Huc and Gabet with bark and leaves marked by script. He suggests markings may be lichens or natural formations, not deliberate writing, and notes that exotic lichens stain living leaves creating striking crusts. The piece closes with tribute to Hugh McMillan.
The First ward's Bathhouse John Coughlan and Hinky Dink, long loyal political figures, are profiled as powerful Chicago aldermen whose influence defies reform pressures. Their mutual support sustains nonvoting hotel residents and immigrant groups, while they exploit civil-service laxity to secure city payroll jobs. Next spring Hinky Dink is expected to win reelection.
A New York World column playfully notes Congress resists poetry about sunsets and love while cow and butter debates stir orations. Senators Spooner and Quartes evoke farm imagery in oleomargarine talk as a German fire insurance ad closes the piece.
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