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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1901
Page
4
A page from The Daily Journal outlines subscription terms, distribution details, and postal guidance. It contains editorials on Democratic reorganization, the House speaker power, and banking, plus notes on school uniforms, wartime finance, and public schooling. It mentions various cities and figures, including rail and currency topics.
The text notes dividends averaging 5.7 percent and 742 banks organized under the banking act, with 3 banks holding capital stock not exceeding 4000 dollars. It cites a nationwide circulation of 223,863,007 dollars as of Sept. 1900 and discusses debates over allowing state banks to issue currency, noting small capital national banks have supplied circulation.
The President’s removal of Oklahoma Governor Jenkins highlights the rule that public office is a public trust. Jenkins accepted stock from a contract with the Oklahoma Sanatorium Company to benefit friends, prompting Roosevelt to demand a high standard of official ethics and to enforce accountability for public servants.
The Saturday Republican caucus focused on cautioning about appropriations amid calls for large bills. Critics warn of river and harbor funding and ship subsidies, urging fiscal prudence to avoid wasting public money before the fall elections. The rules were retained, preserving the speaker’s legislative power to influence debates and laws.
In the House disputes over policy surface as leaders fail to assemble a coherent Democratic position. Hepburn’s Nicaragua canal bill stalled last year. Old Populists join Democrats, while resistance to free silver and allegiance to rough party lines prompt committee-warded resolutions amid post election tensions.
The Sentinel touts the prosperity of Republican success in 189 and boasts its modern, complete newspaper setup in Indianapolis. The Journal congratulates the Sentinel while the paper claims to instruct its party in Indiana. It mocks Democratic leaders for shifting principles and argues readers should seek the Sentinel’s brand of Democracy.
Mr Payne urged Congress to curb expositions and avoid large or recurring appropriations. The Journal reports a circular for a Germanic Museum Association aiming to establish an American Germanic museum with Harvard's backing, seeking members through Herbert Small, secretary, 244 Washington Street, Boston.
A collection of light quips from Detroit Free Press Philadelphia Press Life Puck and Washington Star. The jokes touch on prosperity borrowing money religion puns and attitudes toward children with concise humor and familiar newspaper style.
The Baltimore American quotes the Honest Rustic defending turkey feed with poker checks to give a gamey flavor, a quirky remark that riffs on town politics and the comic tone of a local weekly. The exchange highlights playful media banter within a small community.
A compilation notes Queen Wilhelmina’s improving health but no change for Prince Henry. It comments on J N Babcock’s farmers' institute role after losing fingers, critiques Stuart R Young as Louisville treasurer, and mentions Chinese merchants in Shanghai raising funds for a McKinley monument.
The Portland Commercial Review notes Republican postmasters in the Sixth district backing Congressman Watson, while the Richmond Palladium calls it a mugwump stir. The Evansville Courier profiles Stuart R. Young of Louisville who killed himself over a gambling passion, a dramatic Kentucky tragedy reflecting a state marked by horses, whisky, and ruined fortunes.
A Chicago reviewer reviews The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker as a brisk psychological tale set in a Ontario village with Charley Steele whose moral renovation drives the plot. The second title Bagsbys Daughter is critiqued as a society novel showing Halifax and Violet in a London bound romance amid family schemes and financial mishaps.
A detailed review of Pauline Bradford Mackie s The Washingtonians set in Civil War Washington. It follows a double plot of love and politics centered on a Cabinet member and his secretary, with Portia the daughter shaping the political and domestic strands. The novel blends diplomacy, ambition, and Southern atmosphere, concluding with Ohio backing the President.
A brisk adventure filled romance set during the North South conflict. Antoinette Le Moine, a Southern beauty and secret Confederate agent, travels from Paris to a Southern plantation and Halifax where the blockade runner The Night Hawk loads ammunition. The story follows her love, daring captures, escapes, and loyal friends across France, the South, and naval ventures.
Henry Van Dyke offers The Ruling Passion a volume of eight stories each revealing a central passion. It features strong local color with tales of music children study and more with A Writer's Request of His Master quoted as striking as Stevenson's prayers. New York Scribner's Sons bound and illustrated.
Lewis C. Strang continues the biography and criticism series with a near complete history of American stage life for 1899–1901. Profiles cover Younger Sothern John Drew N C Goodwin John B Mason Fritz Williams Edwin Arden Mansfield Herne and other notable actors and roles with sharp critical insight and illustrations. Boston L C Page & Co.
Eva March Tarm presents a prose version of twenty two traditional ballads as sung by minstrels. Includes Willie Wallace King John and the Abbot How Robin Hood Served the King and other tales. Suitable for children and engaging for adults. Boston Houghton Mifflin & Co Joy and Strength for the Pilgrim's Day accompanies Daily.
This small 36 page book gathers selections from writers of many countries and centuries about courage faith hope and love to uplift travelers on their daily journey through clouds or sunshine. Published by Little Brown and Co Boston.
A James O. G. Duffy story travels from southern California to San Francisco New York and Europe. A woman betrayed as a girl by a senior teacher and preacher confesses her sin. Time brings vindication and her noble character shines as the tale ends happily.
Funk and Wagnalls announces a revised edition of Hirsh's Tabulated Digest of the Divorce Laws of the United States. It notes each state and territory has its own law and presents a compact compilation for lawyers and others, arguing for a uniform U S divorce statute.
The item describes a Caldwell Company picture book with a rhymed clue about a tree that stays near the house yet leaves in spring. A back-page color illustration shows a central tree. puzzles vary in difficulty, all drawn ingeniously and amusingly with high-quality color printing.
A Mary P Wells Smith juvenile tale follows four siblings as they travel from city to Aunt Malvina for a months long country stay. They explore adventures and mishaps, learn good behavior after leaving home, and return home content. The 300 page story is noted for pleasant juvenile reading with Emien McConnell illustrations.
Frances Margaret Fox tells of three children left in Mackinaw with an unsympathetic aunt while parents abroad. Bound to be punished anyway they seek forbidden thrills amid the household hardships and summer heat.
A child friendly volume from L. C. Page & Co. Boston with simple rhymes and pictures to teach the alphabet. It features black and white illustrations described as more attractive than typical early reader books.
The Henneberry Company of Chicago sues over a tastefully bound illustrated edition of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Alberta Hall is credited with the illustrations, and the work continues to have steady demand.
The Strand serial The Hound of the Baskervilles continues amid mystery and thrills while Broadway Magazine presents sixteen pages of stage portraits in its December issue. Everybody's Magazine spotlights flower-growing with half-tone illustrations and an amusing piece Hezekiah's Third Wife. MacClure's opens with Michael Angelo by John La Farge and includes An Independent Boy and Emmy Lou. St Nicholas Christmas number offers frontispiece, stories, poems, and children’s features including Uncle Sam's Toys. The Forum December issue surveys twelve current topics with The Empire of Islands as a centerpiece. Eclectic Magazine includes leading articles on journals and public affairs.
Living Age highlights include Pianists of the Past from Charles Salaman, selections from Blackwood's and the Monthly Review, The Spectacular Element in Drama from Edinburgh Review, Two Presidents and the Limit of American Supremacy from Fortnightly, plus Cornhill and Argosy pieces. Also Havelock Ellis on Spain, a Vagabond’s Wooing, a Londoner’s Logbook, and a symposium on Temporary Stars with notes from Lockyer and Huggins. The verse section features Hardy, Bridges, and Tylee with Outward Bound marking McKinley’s death.
The piece lists publishers introducing major titles in 1902 including Mahan’s Types of Naval Officers with six British admirals, Canfield’s The College Student and His Problems, Doubleday’s Furniture of Our Forefathers and related volumes, Scribners’ list with The Cavalier and other works, Stokes on new fiction by Burnett and others, plus Appletons revised Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas.
The editor of St. Nicholas urges preparing for holiday seasons by learning why days are kept across Germany France Italy Spain Greece and other lands. It notes Santa Claus and the Christmas tree entered American and English culture from Germany and suggests exploring other plant and person customs in books about holidays.
An experienced editor discusses the golden age of the novel and serial publication. He cites Dickens Thackeray Bulwer and George Eliott as early serials, notes George Eliot’s incompletion, and observes Hardy among the greats. He argues serials profit authors but warns demand is waning while dedicated readers eagerly await installments.
A reader of La zarre finds comfort in its blending of fact and fiction about the lost Dauphin. The letter to Mrs. Catherwood notes Eleazar Williams’s identity as the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, supported by family heirlooms and letters from French nobles. Lazarre is described as a handsome, dignified, and reserve-filled man.
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