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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1901
Page
5
A dense listing of subscription prices and delivery options for the Indianapolis Journal, with rates for daily and Sunday editions, club discounts, and mail prepayment. Also includes address notices of where the paper is sold and a short local editorial note about the Bankers and pacings. The page mentions the summer tourist service and a note about the Taggart deficit.
At a Milwaukee convention a Weather Bureau official warned that each inch of rain has immense value to crops with cotton valued at 14 000 dollars per inch, wheat at 20 million and total earning potential around 42 million. The piece notes the need to qualify such figures amid current crop rains. It comments on farmers advice, arbitration views, and political observations including Representative Hull. It ends noting interest in Panama canal, French ownership, and Nicaragua canal prospects.
The report holds that the Panama Company may sell its property to the United States for 50 million dollars. If Nicaragua canal starts, the Panama venture loses value. A rumor says Pierpont Morgan controls a Panama stock majority, pushing a sale before Nicaragua construction advances.
The Journal highlights Mr. Bookwalter accepting the Republican nomination, praising his clear, forceful, and dignified pledge to voters. It stresses positions on natural gas meters and elevated tracks, asserts a commitment to enforce laws, and critiques Taggart's finances and levy history while predicting a thoughtful campaign tone.
The piece discusses government by injunction and the scope of strikers rights, noting prior orders prohibiting persuasion by strikers to influence employers or workers. It cites Debs and Indiana railroad cases, showing courts bar threats, intimidation, and persuasion as means to compel conduct by employees.
The court distinguishes between peaceful persuasion to change jobs and coercion to refuse duties. It rejects broad permissive language but allows nonthreatening wage offers and avoids restricting peaceful means. The Ohio case clarifies that orders prohibit coercive action while permitting lawful persuasion within a union context.
A Boston editor contrasts public misreading of the Monroe Doctrine with its historic stance, noting its early roots and Western Hemisphere reach. The piece highlights U S policy against foreign conquest or colonization, Britain’s Venezuela case, Lincoln and Napoleon III, and the doctrine’s imperial implications. It also covers the Lend-a-Hand Society aid to Filipinos, Bishop Turner on negro colonization, Chicago port competition, Indianapolis river issues, and Admiral Howison’s candid stance in the Bampson-Schley case.
The Boston girl’s manuscript drifts ashore in a witty exchange between Boston Joke and Atlantic. She does not weep but smiles coldly saying she now has a short story in the Atlantic. The Chicago Record Herald notes poets make many bold declarations.
A collage of humorous lines from various papers features banter about hay fever guests at a party, a whisky brand tainted by a colonel’s complaint, and a Chinese Emperor ordering beheading as a joke. The tone mocks sound bites and social pretensions amid playful mishearings and misstatements.
Chicago reports Pearle M Ball once of Lafayette Ind died at her home after an overdose of morphine. Funeral held private at Oakwoods with pallbearers Henry Willis Newton Claude A Cunningham Edward C Rowdon Elmer Depue Sydney Lloyd Wrighton and Charles R Baier among mourners. Police found no postmortem planned and no clear suspect. a mysterious man who accompanied her earlier at Calumet Cafe remains unidentified. Ball had expressed despondency and possible intent to harm herself tied to a dispute with Dr Denslow Lewis amid wedding plans.
The final session of the National Fraternal Congress in Detroit Aug 30 devoted itself to minor committee reports. It endorsed a proposed fraternal building at the St Louis Exposition and urged all fraternal societies to contribute. A fraternal ethics report criticized organizers and agents who disparage other societies to favor their own.
Charles A. Bookwalter, Republican candidate for mayor, sent a formal acceptance letter to Republican City Chairman Logsdon outlining his policy, critique of six years of city government, and pledges for economic governance. The document follows the July primary results showing Bookwalter as the party’s clear choice with 7,211 of 11,047 votes and signals expected voter turnout in October.
Eawin D Logsdon Republican mayoral nominee pledges open competition for franchises, just remuneration for street use, and opposition to mandatory gas meters. He urges track elevation or alternative relief from dangerous grade crossings, defends park improvements, condemns fund diversion, and promises swift action on related lawsuits and municipal finances.
The speaker pledges honest law enforcement and opposed hospital retention for contagious diseases. He advocates continued public improvements funded by property owners, voices taxpayer input on street work, and reforms to police and fire departments. He reviews a history of city finances, noting deficits, bond issues, and debt growth under prior administrations, challenging Democratic promises.
Charles A. Bookwalter pledges economical city government and low levies if elected in Indianapolis. He criticizes past actions causing an empty treasury and temporary loans, vowing no further loans and proposing special taxes on street-using corporations to raise revenue.
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