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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1903
Page
5
The Indianapolis Journal details subscription rates for carriers and agents in Indianapolis and suburbs, with prices for daily and Sunday editions, weekly club rates, and reduced agent rates. It lists distribution paths including multiple city outlets and mentions tariff details for mail and newspaper exchange.
A concise travel ad urges readers to subscribe to the Journal for stay in touch during a summer trip. It promises flexible mailing and frequent address changes, advising to place the order before departure.
Report notes a Sliver Democrats committee seeking Bryan guidance in local campaign efforts while a Valparaiso sheriff remains calm about potential mob activity. The piece also surveys international issues from Pope Pius X to Irish land bills and Chamberlain’s tariff debate ahead of a Montreal congress with British business leaders.
An accredited representative of the Civil Service Commission will visit post offices in Indiana and several other states. She will travel with a railroad commission and will inform postmasters on civil service matters, presenting herself as a normal young woman of the period.
A note discusses civil service rule changes preventing transfers of clerks from local post offices to Washington departments. It suggests a circular would suffice and hints the young woman preferred summer travel. Postmasters are urged to make her trip pleasant.
In a sermon Rev. D R Lucas argued the mayor should enforce the law against winerooms. The piece lauds Governor Durbin for strong action in Evansville and urges Mayor Bookwalter to revoke licenses and shut down winerooms after a sixteen year old victim revealed ongoing patronage by youths.
The Senate finance subcommittee led by Aldrich of Rhode Island, with Platt, Allison, and Spooner, plans a conference in Rhode Island to frame currency legislation for the extra session. The likely Aldrich bill would shift public money from subtreasuries to national banks to boost circulation, but avoid radical banking change or inflation.
The article argues for banning margins and option speculation to curb the stock market slide and the cotton corner's harm to the textile industry. It notes mills halting noncontract work, questions the Wall Street disturbance's impact, and ponders a law to penalize selling what one does not own while distinguishing speculators from mills.
The article discusses limits on speculation and attempts to curb cornering by law. It notes the difficulty of proving intent, cites Illinois and other states’ laws, and suggests public support for enforceable measures to prevent speculators from manipulating futures while not hindering legitimate purchases of real estate, raw materials, or other goods.
The piece argues Russia seeks Constantinople through the Dardanelles while Britain protects India, making the Eastern Question a continuing powder keg. It contrasts Paris subway tragedy reactions with naval disasters, notes Serbia regime shifts, praises Battery A recruits, and reports Lafayette accepting meter-based natural gas.
A collage of jokes and comic dialogues from multiple papers like the Cleveland Plain Dealer Boston Transcript and New York Weekly feature stagey humor about elopement hermits solitaire markets oil painting and fortune telling. The snippets hint at light social satire and contemporary amusements alongside stray political chatter.
A respondent refuses abolition saying capital punishment was good enough for ancestors and remains acceptable.
A marshmallow roast honored Miss Marion Cole of Minneapolis last evening by the river. Charles Pauley bought a fine fifteen point catfish for lunch. The region anticipates two pie varieties this winter, huckleberry and blackberry. F Sonneborn returned from New York with sea crabs, a local curiosity.
Elkhart Review reports Rev R P Burton landed a fourteen pound carp Friday evening with help from another man. Connersville News notes Sam Atherton and Gene Turner fished north of the city, catching five after four hours with the largest nearly three inches, and Sam jokes about a booby prize.
Matthew Williamson, a prominent Fayette County farmer, stopped by this office this morning to donate fine eating apples and depart with the gratitude of the entire force from the devil down.
Residents protest milk costs as dairymen cite higher labor expenses. Cows yield standard output, but rising wages push prices. The Ft Wayne market asks eight cents per quart or fourteen tickets per dollar, with demand for cheaper milk.
A Kokomo farmer’s wife hosted visiting sister from Chicago. Threshers arrived hungry after work and were served a lone sandwich tied with ribbon, a marble sized cheese ball, a chicken croquette, and a buttonhole bouquet at each plate. The hungry men refused to return for breakfast.
A peasant near Strasburg ties a metal lump to a cow’s tail to stop it from hitting his face, shattering his jaw. Surviving members of 1877’s electoral commission include Mun ds Hoar and Hunton. Supreme Court justices on the board are all deceased. Brooklyn doctors push a bill to ban displaying vegetables and fruits to curb malaria typhoid and gastroenteritis. Miss Georgette Lummis donates a Catskills country home for women and girls unable to pay for board. A model theater at the world’s fair will run entirely on electricity with two stages. John D Rockefeller’s home games are light prizes rather than stakes. Rev Arthur T Pierson’s seven children work in missions in Japan Arizona Calcutta New York and Philadelphia. John Brainard recalls the wooden nutmeg tale from a clerk’s mix up at a New London grocer.
F W Collins, an assistant to the US attorney general, says Indiana likely supplies the Republican vice presidential nominee. He mentions Governor Durbin and Senator Beveridge as possibilities and notes Beech as a potential stand-in for the President’s campaign role. He recalls a debate with W J Bryan in Lincoln Nebraska before the 1896 Chicago convention.
Eighty four bodies recovered with the death toll likely to exceed one hundred as a metropolitan electric railway train fire and smoke trap passengers in a tunnel. Prefect Lepine and firemen lead grim salvage while officials vow aid for victims' families.
King Edward through the British embassy at Paris sent a message of sympathy to France after the Metropolitan Railway disaster. The event has caused deep concern in London about the underground system. Managers of the lines share reassuring interviews in the morning papers, describing fire safety precautions in place.
Berlin officials reviewed the citys new partly underground electric line after the Paris Metropolitan Railroad tunnel disaster. Experts examined cars motors and three underground stations and found no danger and no need to alter construction plans.
Rochester Indiana August 11 The Uniformed Bank Knights of Pythias encampment grows with recruits from across the region. Col John Warner takes command at Camp Jones after Col Riccard transfers control detailing committee efforts, praise for citizens, and call for disciplined drill and loyalty to the camp and brigade.
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