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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1901
Page
13
A survey notes growing attention to sociology, economy, and labor amid major strikes. It highlights the Pennsylvania anthracite conflict, machinists, and steel actions, with authors, unions, and policymakers examining race, wages, and trade organization. It cites works by Thomas, Dawson, Hough, Robinson, and Calkins and discusses negro labor, union barriers, and reform proposals.
A collection of quirky facts and statistics covers unusual perquisites for Danish M P s, polar explorations, global money flows, camel deaths, ocean depths, Philadelphia tax effects, German souvenir cards, Havana yellow fever shifts, Williamsburg courthouse, Japan's early football links, Russian Protestant freedom, multilingual preaching in St Petersburg, and Philippine land ownership estimates.
The article from New York Mail and Express humorously examines loafing as a flexible concept. It argues loafing masks itself as other activities and that true loafing is paradoxically tied to doing what one loves rather than required work. It contrasts fishing as a pretext with leisure seen in cards drink nature and social pursuits.
In Yonne Burgundy the editor of Le Proupion de l Yonne and three writers a municipal councilor Auxerre a young college professor and an ex professor in a lycee faced slander charges for accusing the army of corruption and moral contamination The trial drew attention as the paper issued to denounce conscription and the army failed to convict with the jury acquitting the defendants amid cheers from the courtroom audience
A poetic meditation on labor and purpose. It contrasts daily toil across beings from hens to worms with cosmic time, urging steadfast effort. The speaker, The Harlequin, frames life as a series of ceaseless tasks where individual meaning emerges through persistent work, despite unknown ends.
Governor Durbin has reviewed many clemency appeals since January. He grants few paroles after thorough investigations. A southern Indiana youth awaiting release was found to have escaped prison and is now listed as a refugee, stopping the parole.
Widdrington heads for a brief bridal trip and plans to settle at 1545 Woodlawn Ave after Jan 1. Ethel Reiff of Kokomo visits the Tylers. Mrs. Vandawalker and daughter return from Milwaukee. Mrs. Fox to entertain Chapel Club Wednesday. Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson from Chicago expected to visit her parents T. C. y. Mrs. Leathers sang at the Doll Fair and duetted with Mr. Mercer. Mr. Clayson composes the opera for the event. Needle Society of First Presbyterian holds Christmas sale next Tuesday at 2 pm in the new building at Fifteenth and Alabama. souvenirs from old church wood for sale. Harmonic Fraternity, Miss Fidella Lester's pupils, presented a program on East Tenth Street. Women’s Mission Circle of First Baptist meets Friday Dec 13 at 2 pm at Mrs. Jordan’s home with listed hostesses. papers by Mrs. Alice French and Mrs. J. M. Berryhill. musical selection by Mrs. J. D. Johnson. Kappa Kappa Gamma Club met with Miss Lena Byrd. R. B. Gruelle discusses Two Peasant Painters and The Peachbloom Vase from Sketches, Critical and Biographical, with copies displayed. Next club meeting Jan 4 at Mrs. Otis Greene’s. topic Things Japanese. Girls’ Industrial School hold annual box opening and sale at Savoy on Wed Dec 1, 2 to 4 pm. various women in charge of aprons, towels, dust caps, handkerchief and necktie displays. refreshments by a long list of young women.
Shoppers already see holiday signs as merchants meet demand with a wide array of novelties. White crepe de chine ties with embroidered fronts, military collars, tucked stocks, and four in hand scarves appear in silk and wash fabrics. Gloves include white stitched kid and white buttoned wrists, with bright red and mauve gauntlet tops. Fur hats with velvet embellishments rise in East fashion but may remain costly.
Fashion notes describe chic hair ornaments, including velvet flowers, marabout feathers, and rhinestone accents, plus furs with longer boas and large muffs. Home comforts appear in silk velour divans and carved mahogany parlor pieces, while men gain exclusive chiffoniers in oak or mahogany with mirror tops. Novelty leather chairs hide magazines and a library book rack slides open to hold six to twelve books.
The piece compares U S library holdings with major world institutions noting Paris British Museum St Petersburg and Munich holdings while praising American public libraries for openness and access. It argues the United States should boast the greatest library by number of volumes and literary standards, reflecting an American ideal of disseminated governmental power through libraries.
Dr. Carpenter of Chatham New York relays a Paris Pharmacologia 1835 notice about the Everlasting Pill of the Ancients made from metallic antimony. It claims the pill can purge with each swallow, promising economy as a family medicine though a reader reports distress after taking one pill.
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