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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1903
Page
5
The item outlines subscription rates for carriers, mail, and clubs for The Indianapolis Journal with details on weekly editions, accepted payment methods, and submission requirements for communications. It notes preferred addressing for manuscripts and stamps for postal rates.
Readable fragments list multiple distribution points in New York Cincinnati St Louis Columbus and more. The entry names several news stands and street corners including Astor House Palmer House Auditorium Annex Dearborn Station J R Hawley Co Arcade and various hotels and depots.
The notice promotes mailing the Journal to readers on vacation and changing the address as needed, urging preparation before departure. It also surveys political gossip from the era, railing at Democratic shifts, foreign affairs, labor disputes, and figures like Bryan, Roosevelt, and Lipton, with critical commentary on war, unions, and finance.
A crop-moving season strain could raise public estimation of the official. The plan would supply about 40 million dollars to be deposited in national banks as needed by business. The decision's announcement reassures markets and should keep money rates stable through the fall.
The Turkish minister in Washington uses the press to reach Americans, signaling a cautious but steady bid for good US Turkey ties. He defends reforms, discusses doctors and missionaries, and argues domestic turmoil should quiet before full agreement on disputes.
The article compares Sam Parks, convicted in Sing Sing for bribery and extortion as a labor union official, with John Mitchell, UMW president, and previews a forthcoming book. It contrasts old school labor hostility with modern conciliatory aims, noting Parks sought strikes to extort money while Mitchell represents employer employee cooperation.
The Alabama mines arbitration award sets a wage scale aligned with other industries and bans child labor under fourteen. The Journal notes this as a first strong southern victory, contrasting northern progress and urging continued schooling and humane labor practices.
A critical look at the German Socialist party led by Herr Bebel. The coming Reichstag convention debates whether to accept a vice presidency or stay aloof. The party trends toward moderating, favoring gradual democratic change over revolution.
The league seeks a Cuban Congress special session to subsidize steamships from the Canaries to Cuba for cheap labor during peak season and return, plus railroad subsidies to grant a 4 percent rate cut for planter products. It would require all Cuban classes to pay for planter benefits, a move unlikely for President Palma to authorize.
A column reflects on American democracy and broad public interest versus privileged classes. It notes a historical image of Terre Haute’s old state bank and cites Grover Cleveland’s humor as heavy with consequence. It mentions saloonkeeper appeals by Keach and Polster, a pending railroad grade crossing franchise, and a light note on a last race’s expected outcome.
Journal entry notes that Kubelik the violinist will play no more solos. The exchange reveals the reason as no marriage. The brief item conveys a change in performance lineup and a personal life remark.
A fragmentary humor piece features quick banter about boxing and a joke on a rain check. It then shifts to a playful poem about misread signs and photo mishaps in Vincennes and New Jersey with a recurring mosquito motif and flirtatious sight gags.
A man used a chilly excursion to declare he will not sleigh ride again until the next Leigh. He joked about freezing fingers and the bitter air as a reason to retire the pastime for the season.
A humorously tense exchange unfolds about an attempted shooting of the American vice consul in Beirut. The vizier, who reads American comic weeklies, jokes that the attacker was only half-shot. The Sultan, amused, orders another massacre in Macedonia, and the rulers continue their correspondence with grim levity.
A compendium of editorial takes from Indiana papers covering Tom Johnson’s Ohio Democratic convention win, labor disputes in Marion, urban ambitions of Indianapolis, carnival licensing, and reflections on Democratic and Republican dynamics. It notes Riley’s upcoming Hoosier tour and recalls Nasby’s warning from 1864 about party turmoil, with regional commentary from Lafayette Courier, Anderson Bul, Vincennes Commercial, Elkhart Review, Anderson Herald, Fort Wayne News, Lafayette Journal, Indianapolis News, and Middleboro News.
A review of Some of the New Books Earths Enigmas by Charles G D Roberts notes the collection blends short stories sketches and dreams aimed at probing life and natures unsolved problems The author warns the book is not for the faint of heart or children who fear ghost stories The tales include dream narratives and symbolic episodes with references to The Accident Word The Hill of Chastisement and The Stone Dog The reviewer praises Roberts as a gifted writer while acknowledging a generally somber tone may not lift readers spirits
Henry B Boone and Kenneth Brown present Trueman Gault a New York reporter who moves to Virginia to manage Redfields. He loves Virginia Sanford, vies with Robert St Clair, and forges a will to keep the estate, then returns to New York and reconciles with Miss Sanford to plan a Virginia honeymoon. Harper & Bros New York.
Mary MacLane, the Butte writer, releases My Friend Annabel Lee from Herbert 8 Stone & Co. Chicago. The work features a Japanese image as confidant and exchanges on manners and life with fewer startling assertions than her earlier memoirs. Critics note familiar colloquialisms and overfamiliar Virgil references.
A Russian nobleman's arrival in New York drives a social circle tale. The countess marries an English lord but belatedly is revealed not to be the sister of her traveling companion. The lord abandons her as she consorts with a heiress daughter of a New York magnate, exposing social pretensions in Josephine Zeman's work.
A novel set in China during the recent war follows the romance between a Mongolian chief named The Ta-tze and an English girl. The rugged chief and the heroine clash and grow affectionate, while the tale critiques Hindoo rajahs and mandarins. The author is Louise Betts Edwards, published by Henry T. Coates in Philadelphia.
Sir William Magnay presents Count Zarka as both hero and villain in a tale of violent love and jealousy. The male lead embodies vindictiveness bordering criminality, while the foreign setting and frontispiece reflect garish sensationalism. L. C. Page & Co. Boston published the work, which critics deem unsuitable for refined tastes.
A Brentano’s New York hand volume titled Colloquial Spanish by Swan offers pronunciation guides and practical phrases for English travelers in Spanish speaking countries. It includes a comprehensive analysis of Spanish sounds and well chosen phrases for common needs, part of a series with French German and Italian volumes.
A children’s verse collection edited by Wiggin and Smith offers a rich mix of English and American poets. The Posy Ring showcases notable juvenile verse, while McClure, Phillips & Co. publish the volume. W. Clark Russell debuts a new sea tale in The Captain’s Wife set in London.
The reviewer lauds Rus s sailing tales shifting to sea adventures with sacro teance and crime, praising The Captain's Wife as among his best stories and noting its vivid ocean life and action without repetition.
This first issue introduces a new monthly supplement to the Manual of Statistics. It records current security prices and month to month tones and notes new industrial organizations. Published by the Manual of Statistics Company in New York.
The issue highlights features on popes and the Vatican, a Costa of renowned essays, and extensive coverage of science, music, and industry. It notes numerous portraits and articles on Diaz, the Abyssinian and Indian matters, and a strong lineup of fiction, poetry, and travel writing across McClure's and Everybody's magazines.
Doubleday plans a Color Key to North American Birds by Frank M. Chapman to aid bird identification. John Fox Jr. will publish The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come with illustrations by F. C. Yohn. The Wings of the Morning is slated for fall. E J Clode and Bobbs Merrill announce several authors as prominent figures in coming titles.
A catalog of fall publications from Houghton Mifflin and others. Titles include sixty five works across novels, biographies, poetry, and children’s books. Parsifal retold by Oliver Huckel marks the first English version. Gells Easy Guide to the Constellations revised. & Peters announce Protean Papers by Foulke. Poultry literature from Doubleday Part II by McGrew and Rice. Lilian Whiting’s Life Radiant and On the Wea Trail by Caroline Brown highlighted with Indiana Revolutions and Fort Sackville scenes.
Prof. David K. Goss critiques forms of school governance. He argues against concentrated executive control by a single superintendent, praising a professional multi-board model as in New York City that preserves debate, accountability, and democratic ideals while ensuring teacher selection, licensing, and evaluation by separate professional bodies.
The United States, once valued at a few hundred million, saw horse stock depreciate over half amid competition from substitution. By the end of the last fiscal year, June 12, its value rose more than two hundred million dollars as business revived.
A proposal to add a department at Columbia to train adept magazine editors aiming to enter the newspaper field. The idea is excellent if the course can be made sufficiently robust and practical for real-world journalism.
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