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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1903
Page
3
Correspondence from Indianapolis Journal reports on passports as travel documents. It notes past flaws in identification, post office fraud, and a proposed federal bill to add signature and photograph to strengthen passports, with details on current procedures and fees.
Mr Jerome criticizes graft in public life linking it to private vice and labor disputes. He cites a tin goods firm where a superintendent faced bribery demands and the firm eventually sold, illustrating systemic graft across executive, legislative, and labor sectors.
Harvard Medical School researcher Dr W B Cannon uses X rays to observe a cat’s stomach during digestion. A bread and milk with bismuth meal outlines a pear shaped stomach. waves move in cycles every ten seconds, revealing two stomach regions a reservoir and a churning section. The mind affects digestion as anger stops stomach motion in male cats while calmness allows continued digestion. The study notes pellets of digested food move to the gate and are softened before exiting, with digestion ending around 6 o clock.
There will be no more international races. Our yacht builders have reached the end of their resors. This twenty years hence. But you don't mean to say that a yacht of sixteen ounces displacement carrying nine square miles of sail and costing four billions of dollars is the highest possible achievement. Practically, yes. They can doubtless cut the displacement down an ounce or two and increase the sail by a square mile or a. but they can't push the cost up another ollar.
Andrew Carnegie joins a long labor dispute over the Bethesda blue slate quarries in Wales. Lord Penrhyn, famed philanthropist and owner, refuses arbitration as strikes devastate the town. Carnegie backs a cooperative buyout plan with Lever, Cadbury, and Bowring to field 800 acres and employ up to a thousand workers.
A bronze chariot, possibly the world’s oldest of its kind, was purchased in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum. Dated to about 7 B.C., it was found last year on a ware estate near Rome and offered to European museums at 200000 dollars. The New York sum paid is not known, but likely under 100000 dollars.
A recent educational venture trains clairvoyants and trance mediums with voluntary self culture and involuntary hypnotism. Students practice eye fixation, quiet rooms, and vivid mental pictures to transfer impressions and enter deep sleep states, then test perceptions of familiar places and objects for claimed psychic accuracy.
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