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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1902
Page
4
The Daily Journal of Indianapolis outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, with prices for mail and carrier delivery. It details premiums for clubs, weekly editions, and mailing instructions, plus guidelines for submissions and payment methods.
A catalog of where to obtain the newspaper across cities including New York Chicago Cincinnati Louisville St Louis Washington Denver Dayton and Columbus with listings for stores and stands such as Astor House Palmer Bouts J R Hawley Blauferd Bros Union News Co Louthian & Jackson and Viaduct News Stand among others. The text enumerates outlets at civic centers depots hotels and streets providing circulation points.
The Journal offers mail subscription service to keep readers connected while away for the summer. Place your order before departure and request address changes as often as needed to ensure steady delivery.
The piece notes Bryan’s prominent press presence, Democratic hopes dashed by crop woes, and political comment from Chicago to Boston. It cites Taggart’s Pennsylvania strike influence, asphalt contracts in Washington and Philadelphia, Boutwell’s farming pessimism, and trends in shoe manufacturing.
In the corn belt with fair crops there is reason to believe cattle raising will greatly increase. The cattle are expected to be more desirable, reducing concern over foreign competition.
Indications suggest persistent expansion in business activity, driven by a booming iron and steel sector, record pig iron output, and high orders. Agricultural prospects improve with vast corn and harvest expectations, while cotton and vegetables show abundance and living costs may ease despite cattle scarcity. Southern Indiana sees notable prosperity with widespread robust trade.
The July climate report shows Indianapolis had 73 percent sunshine and wide temperature swings from 71.9 in Angola to 104 in Mt. Vernon. Rainfall varied across counties with Kokomo 6.96 inches the heaviest and Cannelton just over 0.2 inch, revealing regional shortages and surpluses. Maps depict rainfall patterns across the state, with notable west and central clusters above and below average, and an early note on the Northern Securities Company facing Montana governor opposition.
The Governor urged higher assessments after Northern Securities merged, lifting valuation by 1% for state revenue. The Montana Board of Equalization did not meet the full rise but increased the valuation, signaling a potential trend for taxing corporations with stock-heavy, water-asset charters.
Two sea serpents trade quips about weather and gossip in a Balt im ore American inspired cartoon. The first laments a cold from wireless telegrams while the second jokes about draughts and the cantaloupe season.
A collage of humorous snatches from papers including a Zeke city board incident in a pasture misfire and quips about luxury in Ife. Other lines parody dream fear in domestic life and a medieval drama craving unhanded etiquette as modern Miss Miami Brown and Coleridge framing entertain.
Kansas City traveler William Alfred Ward, a Chicago resident, spoke of his three years in the service and his stay in the Philippines. He criticized war news reliability, offered views on policing the islands, and proposed a frontier sheriff system as a faster route to settlement.
The Minneapolis Tribune critiques King Edward's drive to shape government and dissolve Parliament to crown himself with a distinct policy. It notes impatience tempered by long waiting. the piece questions whether motives are vanity or higher aims. It argues true kingly qualities would require patient restraint.
A satirical item from the New York Commercial Advertiser warns moral readers to watch Charles Francis Adams as party leadership frictions surface. It notes Cleveland, Bryan, Carmack, Schurz, and President Schurman in a tangled political reflection with references to a renamed issue.
A fragment suggests a court case where a wife’s claim of exaggeration in income upon marriage leads to alimony actions. The readable text is sparse and does not provide full names, dates, or locations.
The Chicago Tribune lauds George B. Lockwood’s history of the New Harmony Communities for revealing the pioneering roles in women’s rights abolition and education. It credits New Harmony with early women voting, first clubs, prohibition by law, mechanics libraries, Pestalozzian schooling, infant schools, and significant figures in geology zoology and ichthyology. The review notes the settlement’s influence across the West and its enduring educational and reformist legacy, praising the book as a valuable contribution to American history.
Ernest Seton Thomp son inspires literature on wild animals with facts woven into fiction. Hurlburt’s Forest Neighbors draws from northern Michigan nature, detailing beaver damming, beaver lives, porcupine, lynx, loon, trout, waterfowl, and the Glimmerglass story with lively, readable scenes for men and boys.
Dr Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davis of the Royal College of Physicians of London writes Foods for the Fat a practical guide for general readers. It promises a safe plan to lose four to eight pounds weekly with a properly arranged diet and notes gout requires different treatment. The twelfth edition is carried in London and pushed in Brentano's New York.
A note on L. C. Page & Co publishing Cap and Gown the third poetry anthology drawn from college periodicals. Prepared by R. L. Paget the collection compiles selections from Eastern Western and Southern colleges and oddly excludes Indiana college magazines.
A illustrated review of the Paris Exposition Universelle presents continental art through paintings sculptures and decorations. George Barrie & Son publish a twenty five part souvenir titled Chefs Doeuvre with photogravures etchings and color plates. The text covers art characteristics of European nations and highlights artists and decorative arts in a handsome printed edition.
Opening pages recount Alden’s chance meeting with a dime museum proprietor in Chicago and the vivid tales he learned about museum freaks. The collection covers the wild man of Borneo the sword swallower the fat woman the gorilla the mermaid the dwarf and others as both curiosities and human beings with loves hates and tragedies.
A compiled reference list on reciprocity from the Library of Congress shows where the theme is treated in books periodicals and congressional documents. Directed by A P C Griffin chief of the division of pineap hy the catalog is neatly bound aligning with other library catalogues.
Margaret Sidney guides the Pepper family through new adventures as Polly Phronsie Jasper and the others head offshore with grown readers. The story continues the Little Peppers series as the family journeys abroad from Boston publisher Lothrop.
This brief notes that The King's Gallant is a novelized version of Henry II et La Cour by Dumas. It highlights its popularity in France, unfamiliarity in America, and its dramatic, action filled plot with the Duke of Guise as the villain in Street & Smith’s New York edition.
Boston firm Henry A. Dickerman & Son releases a compact volume of Eugene Field verses including rhymes fables and quips illustrated by John C Frohn. The book adds to Field humor with ample witty illustrations and light verse.
The Chicago Magazine of Music adopts a ten month year with July and August suspended. The National Magazine summarizes Latta’s August short story and a senator Fairbanks portrait. Lydia Southard reviews Froebel education and school gardens. Masters in Art features Jean Marc Nattier with artist portrait and reproductions. North American Review discusses Cuba's claim and Salisbury’s prominence. Canadian MP Charlton argues for Canada’s US claims and imperial defense. Gertrude Atherton traces Hamilton’s maternal line. James Raymond Perry describes Carnegia’s imagined state.
The New Amsterdam Book Company announces an immediate edition of Matthew Arnold's Literature and Dogma as the second Commonwealth Library title. Booker T. Washington's new book title was changed to Character Building after pre empting. Doubleday, Page & Co. issues Up from Slavery at twenty fifth thousand, and Dodd, Mead & Co. plans Amelia E Barr novel A Song of a Single Note set in Revolutionary War era New York. Little, Brown fall fiction includes The Pharaoh and the Priest translated by Jeremiah Curtin and The Queen of Quelparte by Hulbert with Tower or Throne a Romance of the Girl.
A slate of forthcoming titles includes Harriet T. Com stock and John R. Carling works, Christine C. Bush novel, Caroline Ticknor edition with extra chapters, and Miss Toosey's Mission author’s Faithful. A key release is Professor Angelo Hellprin’s authoritative study on the Mont Pelee eruption of Martinique, based on his direct ascent and seismic observations, to be illustrated and published by Lippincotts.
The Milwaukee Sentinel discusses the Platt amendment's reach over Cuba and a proposed 35 million dollar loan. It notes Havana's strained finances, dropped customs receipts, and Congress authorizing the loan mainly to settle war debts. Critics claim the plan taxes Cuban resources and sanitation expenses while American control dictates costly standards.
Washington Letter notes pension claims from Spanish war volunteers far exceed regulars. Ware cites astonishment at volumes and regional differences with Northern and Eastern regiments leading in filings. Eighth Ohio with 1,395 members tops claims at 7,065. Ninth Massachusetts and Seventh Infantry show lower totals despite combat records.
Dispatches describe a bloody clash at a ranch in Arizona where Yaqui Indians fought for food, were overwhelmed, and compelled to surrender. Squaws fought fiercely as hunger and thirst drove desperation. white settlers opened fire. The piece condemns long-standing feud and persecution of desert tribes and lax white actions.
The New York American and Journal argue Cuba faces denial of promised help from the United States. They critique Roosevelt and Congress for bowing to sugar interests, limiting Cuba's ability to borrow for public needs and questioning US honor.
The Memphis paper argues that excluding foreign born or Southern men from the presidency hampers national progress. It criticizes regionalism in Congress, notes Alabama’s Morgen as a national figure, and warns that provincial interests inhibit national stature, urging abandonment of such customs and broader statesmanship.
Brooklyn Times remarks on Colonel Bill Devery facing accusations of derelictions yet denying any link to phytomastigoda ancestry. It notes he is not chlorophylaceous or halophytic, argues the colonel title should remain with his political leadership, and frames his role amid Tammany influence.
A Philadelphia physician warns of a soft coal sore throat epidemic driven by smoke from the coal strike atmosphere. He says bronchial folks are at risk and even healthy people feel irritation. relief may come only with an anthracite coal strike.
The New York Journal of Commerce criticizes Mr. Bryan noting his oratory allegedly aims to persuade small wealth holders that wealth equals crime and oppression. It argues public sentiment remains healthy and accuses Bryan of inciting hatred and envy as he seeks public attention.
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