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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1902
Page
2
Local wholesale trade was mostly quiet through the week ending August 2, with gains in fruits and vegetables. Butter prices fell to 12 cents per pound, while grain and produce markets showed weakness in some lines. however, overall outlook for August remains encouraging and multiple items show abundant supplies and steady demand.
The piece extols sea bathing as a tonic linking breath, plunge, and post swim warmth. It argues swift immersion, strong aftercare, and full-body exercise unlock vitality while warning against overreliance on water alone. Nature, not sentiment, governs health, demanding year-round steadiness.
Edith Lynwood Wine faults music education abroad and in the United States for grinding pupils through the same concertos and etudes. She argues practical teaching is missing, noting Berlin students who return ignorant of Goethe and American pupils who cannot enjoy or perform music or Latin and Greek literature. She calls for a middle ground and aims to nurture love of music and literature rather than rote memorization.
The list enumerates certificates issued to individuals including Increase, Reissue, Silay Lawrence, Meak in, Horton W. Rodgers, Manville, and William Dean Devore with varied amounts. South Bend’s Thomas Rares and Winchester’s Joseph L. Stine are noted, alongside Marion’s Sarah Fetheerling and Laura Bennett of Modoc among others, with amounts and placeholders such as percent and symbol references.
Hog receipts steady to higher with light hogs strongest. prices top near 7.75 while heavies show weakness. Cattle receipts up week over week with mixed demand. best export steers around 8.50, cows and bulls steady to firm. Sheep and lambs receipts light with prices slipping slightly, calves steady.
Maeterlinck discusses bee behavior as described in Harper's Magazine. He contrasts pacific bees with those guarding wealth in prosperous hives, noting fierce defense and strict laws even in abundance as wealth grows.
The passage ponders a bee’s response to a gutted hive as a metaphor for human behavior amid catastrophe. It contrasts instinct with baffling motives, suggesting the bee may seek a future nest from wreckage or embrace destruction with the theft of provisions. The narrator questions how to discern motives in both bees and people.
An extensive Jersey City wild animal farm on Plank Road near Newark houses diverse species from Africa to Asia in multiple inhospitable sheds called hay, cat, and bird houses. Animals are bred, shipped, or rented to resorts and zoos with seasonal summer absences and prices ranging from $0 to $600 for lions, tigers, elephants, and other creatures.
Era Magazine describes the Philadelphia money factory as the nation’s “largest” and “most useful” yet modest in size next to larger plants. It notes 500 employees, mostly highly skilled stewards and artisans, and highlights the mint’s valued output and high status amid Philadelphia’s industrial landscape.
The Philadelphia mint is praised as uniquely popular among manufacturing facilities, with its new building on Spring Garden Street described as a monumental granite and marble edifice. It is touted for elegance, security, and utility, designed to serve the government as palace, treasury, and factory for generations.
A Chicago Post reflection on reading a newspaper beyond ten minutes. The narrator recalls a conversation with the P G of M about fast reading, then argues that reading a morning paper is a grand act of presence of mind that opens the self to the world and to centuries of thought.
Indiana timetable lists passenger cars from Union Block through Meridian streets. First car at 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Last car at 1 a.m. Geographical routes include morning arrivals at Georgia and Meridian streets with afternoon departures. Express and combination services operate between Georgia Meridian, Indianapolis Greenwoood Franklin avenues.
Fifty candidates presented themselves for admission to the military academy. Thirty five passed successfully and were admitted. The event took place as part of the week’s examination process at West Point New York.
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