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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1901
Page
6
The Indianapolis Journal lists subscription terms and carrier rates, with prepaid options and mailing details. It notes changes to club rates, and provides distributor and city notices plus editorial commentary on politics, corruption, and public affairs.
A column notes that declaring short crops better for farmers could reflect a favorable corn season. It questions the Board of Public Works push to finish a city contract before dissolution and hints at possible hidden land deals. Mississippi sheriffs and militia guard a prisoner amid ongoing tensions. Grand Army factions back Eli Torrence for commander in chief over General Stuart, with local leanings toward the latter. A critic laments neglect of manual labor amid book culture.
A writer contrasts Massachusetts culture with labor needs, noting three institutes and a free endowed library, girls wanting to write, boys studying law, and a state bureau for abandoned farms. He cites 19 year production values around $1,000,000 and 80,000 wage earners with total earnings near $225,000,000 in a calendar year.
An unsigned editorial defends U S warship deployments to Panama and Colon to protect American interests amid Colombian upheaval. It rebuts foreign criticism and Monroe doctrine alarms, contrasts German and European reactions, and urges restraint while stressing peaceful aims and non expansionist policy.
A discussion of recent bequests for aged homes and memorial gifts in Evansville and Richmond highlights the ongoing challenge of securing large gifts for elderly care institutions. The piece traces charity trends toward endowments for colleges, hospitals and libraries and stresses the community benefit of caring for abandoned or neglected children.
The piece rebuts John P. Brophy’s claim that Mrs. Surratt was convicted on Weichman testimony. It details Lloyd and Payne testimony linking Surratt to Booth conspirators, notes Seward’s attack, and recalls the fifteen officer military commission led by General Hunter, praising the court while lamenting its aging members.
The text argues Mrs Surratt was involved in the Lincoln conspiracy, notes the tribunal convicted her yet sought commutation, and counters rumors about the fate of trial judges and officials. It states most jurists who died lived to old age, denies suicide claims about Stanton and Holt, and asserts Johnson controlled mercy recommendations.
A discussion of Prohibition efficacy cites Maine and Indiana, where long-standing bans did not curb alcohol use among youth and travelers. It notes Rev. Pearson’s claim of 90 percent liquor use on Sundays, questions prohibitory success, and highlights reaction of black business leaders in Chicago. It mentions British medical congress remarks on railway neurosis, praise for President McKinley by Missouri’s Former Governor, and park management probes in New York City with private leases and club rents.
Discussion in National Review cites Findlater urging more war novels while noting Poland Russia and France produced great works like Sinkiewicz Tolstoy and Zola. War Department reports Archbishop Chapelle failed in the Philippines, siding with friars and leaving the church question unresolved for civil authorities.
Chicago writers hail an Indiana farmer and a Michigan woman as a romance of half a century yet both struggle to recall the bride’s maiden name. The county clerk records an incomplete entry revealing forgotten details and prompting questions about memory and sentiment in a third marriage.
The Buncombe Pioneer editor narrates two gunshots fired at him during a meal in Buncombe County North Carolina. Both shots fatally strike the foreman and his dog while the editor and Sister Trips, a long time subscriber, are unharmed. The piece notes the editor’s devout optimism and records a local trust in Providence.
A tense scene in a Baltimore American theater report describes the heroine in distress as the villain proclaims I am no surgeon. The audience hushes and the stage manager later instructs the actor to drop the line in the next performance.
A brief dialogue from the Philadelphia Telegraph shows a doctor diagnosing dyspepsia as cured by laughing before and after meals while Mrs Binks jokes about washing dishes due to her own discomfort. The exchange captures lighthearted humor and everyday health quips in the era.
A Chicago Post excerpt shows Professor Triggs praising Hamlin Garland while a dialogue jokes about Longfellow Lowell and the value of germs in medicine. The exchange references irony and speculative views on literature and science.
An announcement in the New York Telegraph notes Gen. W. J Palmer donated 1,000,000 dollars to the Rio Grande Western Railroad employer while selling control to the Gould Harriman faction weeks earlier. The act was widely known and discussed on Wall Street, though some reticence remains about the donor’s motives.
A tale of a stern father who ruled with rules and lectures, whose three children finally find relief when Grandma steps in. Her bold rebuke and switch to gratitude transform the household from a tense autocracy to a happier, more balanced home.
A dispenser of lavish bounty allegedly plans to keep the world in the dark about his wealth. General Palmer is said to be based at the Colorado Springs post office and to be worth $15,000,000, enjoying answering letters and promoting laudable enterprises.
A compact collage of literary musings and witticisms on death, religion, mothers opinions, city life, love, dinners, misery, aging, farming, Greek myths, memory, and trunks. Notable lines touch priests, mothers, and the charm of dinner, with reflections on memory and the miseries of life.
A compilation from the Atlantic Monthly surveys remarks by John Fiske about stating things, notes the Zola advertising misdirection, mentions Bleiberg and Mr MacGrath, and includes reflections by Fitzgerald and Baring-Gould on writing habits and historic study. The fragment ends with a remark on Salsa and a doomed sentence.
Mrs Ward yields a golf debt payment to a young caddy and keeps the check as an autograph memento. Maurice Hewlett will write a Mary Queen of Scots play for Mme Sarah Bernhardt to be staged in Paris with English to French translation. A London publisher lists twelve French novels considered representative with Edmund Gosse editing and introductions by various writers. The titles include works by Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas, George Sand, Merimee, Victor Hugo, Feuillet, Daudet, and Maupassant among others.
A Dumfries incident is recalled by a Lord Salisbury keeps a stone from a carriage window smashed in 1864. Chicago professor J Scott Clark retires from carpentry after roof work. The Shah of Persia amasses wealth, diamonds prominent. A Berlin tally lists letters received by popes and monarchs, with Pope handling tens of thousands daily. Edward VII, Czar, German Emperor, and others receive hundreds to thousands of letters. the Pope uses thirty five secretaries. Edward Kimball influenced Moody’s evangelical path and church debt reached ten million dollars. Paderewski fans learn what Chopin and his famous hair might think of modern adulation.
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