Liberal spirit in Indiana law cited as vital for justice
A discussion of Indiana statutes argues for broad interpretations to fulfill legislative intent. It cites Ross v. State and warns against strict word-for-word readings that could misapply treason, avocation, libel, and lottery provisions while praising the code’s clarity and urging careful future language.
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Indiana
Ross Va
Indiana Appeals
Burns
United States
Cervera
Annapolis
Maryland
Mbel
Tregard
Browning and the Hymn Book View of Genius and Faith
D. P. Baldwin at Chautauqua argues Browning is rugged yet brilliant but obscured, compares him to Wordsworth and Tennyson, and praises Browning’s intuition over science. He elevates hymnody as ultimate poetry, urging readers to seek visions of immortality in sacred verse rather than in secular editions.
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Robert Browning
Chautauqua
Richard Burton
Browning
Tennyson
Wordsworth
Lake District
London
Italy
Spencer
Darwin
Huxley
George Eliot
Satslaz
Burton
Porphyria
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Saul
Robert
Shakspeare
Srowning
Pippa
Doricote Mill
Bluephox
Pluephox
Abraham Lincoln
Gurns
Nannie
Bettie
Peter Bell
Burns
Longfellow
Shelley
Statesman
Burke
Lincoln
D. P. Baldwin
Chautaucua
Acrobatic Circus Incident and Birthday Revels Near Indianapolis
An audience dense as night crowds witnessed a daring escape under seats during a circus show in Indianapolis. A young man and his companion attempted to exit unseen, the man falling hard to the ground while the girl, brave, crawled down and helped him away. A separate note warns that a lone trombone disrupts neighborhoods nightly, while another birthday celebration in the levee district ends with a liquor soaked, penny arcade spree. The piece closes with a long column on seismic events and Krakatoa era theories, exploring Charleston’s quake myths and volcanic ties to tsunamis.
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Indianapolis
New Jersey
Ohio
Illinoia
Washington Street
Charleston
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
War Department
South Atlantic
Baltimore
Hampton Roads
North Carolina
Global seismic unrest dwarfs wars in restless year
In a gossip column tone the piece notes that despite peace efforts worldwide, the year has seen unprecedented earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It cites widespread tremors, massive disasters including Martinique, and a global wave of seismic activity touching multiple continents.
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South Africa
Chile
Argentina
Italy
Europe
Australia
Martinique
Rule Britannia Answers From Schoolboys
New Orleans Times-Democrat notes English papers feature schoolboy answers to the chorus of Rule Britannia. One student mangles the first line into Roy Brick Tanner rules the way. another starts with Rore Britanter. a third submits a nearly complete parody, garbled yet vivid, ending with Britain never will be slain. The piece ends by suggesting the boy could contend for the Prize Coronation Ode.
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New Orleans
Angles
The Month of Vacation in Country Life in America
The article extols July as a vacation ideal and August as its true counterpart, urging readers to seek escape at seashore, lakeside, mountains, and hills. It celebrates returning to primitive simplicity and communal bond with nature, viewing a week or month among the wild woods as fostering renewal.
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America
Brotherhood of the Wild Wood
Two Boys From Farm Promise and Peril in Youth Tale
Two farm youths embark on divergent paths with one showing early promise as a talent and the other meeting tragedy. The piece frames a biblical motif of gifts and loss as it follows their fledgling years and moral tests.
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Dees
Waysville and Joshua McClure Farm Life on the Indiana Line
The Waysville station post office and store served a small rail town with a telegraph clerk and a band on the second floor. Joshua McClure and family occupy a 20 acre farm nearby with Washington and Lincoln portraits, religious and literary volumes, a stereoscope, and vivid color prints. McClure’s sons James and Henry excel in class, while Joshua pursues land buying and lawsuits, often feuding over petty disputes and using legal action as a regular pastime.
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Indianapolis
Waysville
Rawlins
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
James D. Williams
Danville
Ind
Bunyan
Fox
Young
Gunn
Niagara Falls
Glens of the Catskills
Joshua M’clure
Joshua McClure
Henry
James
McClure
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