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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1903
Page
5
The Indianapolis Journal lists subscription rates and delivery options including daily and Sunday editions, with mail prepaid reduced club rates and agent terms. It notes postage, locations for manuscript submissions, and distribution points across Indianapolis and surrounding areas.
A fragmented column blends vacation tips with political chatter, noting Journal subscriptions, yacht races, Hearst vs Bryan, and prompts about immigration, taxation, and summer amusements. It reflects a lively, irregular press voice with dispersed references to Lipton, pensions, Chautauquas, and public events.
Schmidt hinted the fete’s proceeds would go to the preacher, sparking dispute. The clash left his accuser seriously injured, though by all accounts the lawn fete was deemed the season’s most interesting social function.
A writer condemns a recent brutal crime and urges strict liquor licensing and enforcement to shut down dives. He argues ties between corrupt money, fragile law enforcement, and urban vice endanger Indianapolis, urging swift action to protect life and property.
The Ohio gubernatorial battle pits Tom L. Johnson against John L. Zimmerman. Johnson represents demagogic progressivism and populist influence, while Zimmerman embodies traditional, rational Democratic values with solid means and experience. The contest tests whether the party returns to sanity or drifts with radical leaders and isms.
The piece argues social ostracism as a potent, humane check on wrongs difficult to reach by law. It notes people ignore suspect money and corruption when tied to inviting social circles and prestige, urging cities to apply social pressure to promote honest government.
In Indiana discourse, social ostracism governs behavior more than law, urging moral reform in women’s cookery and education. Discussion covers family reunions, journalism standards tied to yellow press, and local pride through historians. Public interest centers on the international yacht race and impending political contests.
A fragment from a humorous exchange in a newspaper page shows Aunt Margaret prompting moral Heaven in a joke while Littl Dorothy zings back for a quarter. A Brooklyn Life scene with Mr Newsubb and Miss DeLaney hints at social gossip and comic dialogue about drivers and conductors.
The Detroit Journal notes a stage aspirant considering a Chastauquy role. A Duluth dentist marries a sentimental widow Ruth, nicknamed Twoth for her views on dentistry. The Kansas City Journal and Lucky Year pieces recount clipped humor about luck and the number thirteen from Dugan and Maginnis, noting a twelve month year of fortune.
A Philadelphia Press item mocks Bargen & Co advertising summer silks as rich while a wife jokes about being reduced to cents. A Chicago Post vignette shows an old farmer and his wife agreeing to separate with a crude property split, the wife keeping the child and canned fruit, the husband the pig and apples.
In tearing down a corn pen at John Gross's farm about forty five rats were killed. The infestation had ruined roughly fifty bushels of corn from three hundred stored. Nearby Albion reports a Mendow man opened several barrels of apples packed last fall in dry sand to keep them dry and sound.
Shelbyville Indiana farmer Sylvester Thomas of Hanover township says his 100 acre field yielded an average of twenty one and a half bushels per acre from the wheat crop.
Allen Ferguson of Monroe township displayed two timothy stalks from his farm in Madison Indiana. One stalk stood forty eight inches tall with an eleven inch head, the other fifty six inches tall with a fifteen inch head.
North Manchester Indiana readers note excellent growing conditions for pickles. Prospects show a large yield with about seventy pickle bushes delivered to large vats on Saturday, just as farmers finish harvest and begin seeding, promising a handy cash influx.
Ivan Miller of Angola Indiana shows a potato grown inside another potato feeding on it, forming a large egg sized specimen. He suggests patenting the vineless bugless variety, noting it could become popular. The curious find was taken from a cellar barrel and is described as one of a kind.
Tipton Indiana reader T. J. Harper brought a limb from a Wealthy apple tree to the office. The limb measured ten inches with thirteen apples before three dropped off. Harper, son of James Harper, has sold the fruit in Tipton and hauled more than forty bushels in recent days.
The Liberty Express in Liberty Indiana prints John W Kern s stern screen lit piece defending Bryan s position and denouncing reorganizers He claims Indiana will send a reformist delegation to the next national convention to nominate a candidate opposed by Wall Street pirates and bloodsuckers
William J. Kern warns Indiana Democrats that reformers backed by Wall Street seek to capture party control from Bryanites. He describes reorganizers as aiming to Clevelandize Indiana, urges primaries and proxies caution, and predicts a pro Wall Street platform at the state level. The piece frames a coming death struggle for the state organization and notes A S Jackson as a possible State chairman candidate.
Leslie's Monthly September notes William E. Corey’s ascent to nominal assistant to the president and real head of United States Steel Corporation at age thirty seven. It highlights his youth, conservative leadership impression, and rise from Carnegie mill superintendent to chief executive power.
Columbus Indiana paper notes Congressman Griffith and others like Mr Slack of Franklin giving Sunday school speeches across the Fourth district. Writers praise the moral aims and pledge the cause will endure under Democratic candidates, contrasting public careers with the Sunday school work.
The Wabash looked beautiful as water levels fell and small crafts sought deeper channels. Calm air produced a ripple free surface while distant hills and green banks framed the scene. Visitors noted Vincennes offers river scenery rivaling any seen, a sentiment shared by locals and newcomers alike.
Greensburg Indiana notes scarce housing with a lodge meeting turning chaotic as members debate rent, size of homes, and availability, interrupting proceedings with questions about costs and living space.
Ten men are fishing for mussel shells on the lower bar near Tanner's creek mouth. Seven work on the river, three on shore. Some earn a day’s wage, reported almost as good pay as civil service jobs.
Rural Scorn, Goodland Indiana Herald notes towns renaming street carnivals as harvest celebrations. Wry comment suggests quirky local names like houcthe-coutehie and Old Hy ronimous misused to dodge tradition.
Amid the din of political debate Governor Durbin argues the path to halt dynching is to stop i
A lengthy critique of J. P. Mowbray’s novel The Conquering of Kate portrays Kate Bussey and John Burt in a South versus North rescue plot. It praises natural dialogue, strong character study, and a satisfying ending while noting social reform and labor themes amid a broad circle of named characters and settings.
A studio to sea set of stories on the underdog theme by F Hopkinson Smith, soon to appear in the Beacon edition. Tales like The Crime of Samantha North and Eleven Months and Ten Days critique law and fate with broad sympathy for the misunderstood, while others analyze odd characters during vacation months.
A critical review of Frank Danby’s Pigs in Clover calls the work a sombre, powerful novel about ingratitude and illicit love set against London’s new rich and South Africa’s influence on England. The piece notes misprints in the published edition and credits J B Lippincott Company Philadelphia as the publisher.
A syndicated vignette by Annie E. Trumbell centers on a strong willed young woman with solid ideals, the considerable Onander, and his wife whose vanity and lack of humor complicate a circle of other characters.
Harper & Brothers cautioned that the book does not read as fanciful fiction but offers a solid economic study. It analyzes the rise of a typical trust from the promoters’ view, contrasts with Tarbell, and lauds Gilbert Holland Montague’s concise examination of the gigantic corporation while noting defended but objectionable features such as price reductions in rival territories.
A critical reading notes Thomas Nelson Page’s Gordon Keith as weaker than In Ole Virginia and Red Rock, calling it a dime novel in tone. The reviewer cites saintly heroism, villainy exaggerated, melodramatic fake deaths, and English syndicate in the plot, ending that Page trades high art for popularity, with Scribner's backing.
W C Stiles writes a vigorous protest against the Kishineff massacre of 1905 comparing Russian Jewry with New York Jews and urging humane relations between Jews and Christians. He condemns Russian government brutality, cites Gorky, and portrays the tragedy as a moral indictment by Christian readers. G. W. Dillingham Company, New York.
Laird and Lee of Chicago present a school and library edition of Webster's New Standard Dictionary with 738 pages. It features clear type, concise definitions, plain pronunciation, foreign phrases, weights and measures, abbreviations, illustrations, several color plates, and a United States map showing boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase. Price information follows.
Jack London, famed for Call of the Wild, writes a humorous love story for Leslie’s Monthly in September. Harper’s Weekly in August features a tribute to Phil May, and Ainslee’s prints The Blue Moon by Lucia and Esther Chamberlain. Prominent contributors include Atherton, Nesbit, Loomis, Maccrath, Carman, and Davis. Good Housekeeping’s September issue carries Jane Addams on the servant problem.
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