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Newspaper

The Indianapolis Journal

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1903

Page

7

Subscriptions and notices in the Daily Journal 1893 style

The page blends subscription rates for carriers agents and mail with a list of New York city and national notices. It includes postal handling rules, price points, and locations where the paper is sold, followed by political and cultural commentary on finance, railroads, Armenian citizens, Venice floods, and the Carnegie Institution.

United States Sixralentil Communications Lua D. B. Sherrick Senate Committee On Post Offices Dryden Marshall Cushing New York Acws Peace Dd. Marry Indianapolis

The Library of Congress Vast Yet Burdened Notation

The Congressional library is valuable for research yet holds much rubbish under U S copyright law requiring a copy of every book. It contains many volumes not worthy of preservation though it also houses many valuable works. Washington’s national library ranks among the world’s largest. Its building alone surpasses all others.

Librarian of Congress National Library National France British Museum Germany Congressional Library United States National Library At Washington

Arrests of Armenian American Citizens in Turkey Spark Protest

The piece condemns Turkish actions against naturalized Armenian American citizens, noting repeated arrests and assaults on U S consular protection. It cites the 1868 expatriation right, treaty limits, and calls for forceful backing of protests to safeguard American citizens abroad.

United States Alexandretta Turkey Great Britain Congress

Mar ines Camp Established For Health Check At Empire

A dispatch from Colon and Washington says two companies of marines from the Dixie have formed a sanitary camp at Empire near Panama. More units may join if health conditions warrant. Admiral Glass leads the isthmus forces as the marines, praised for past actions in Cuba, China and the Philippines, reinforce operations at Panama.

Admiral Glass Panama Empire Colon Washington United States Dixie Washington Dispatch Isthmus Military Cuba China Philippines Marine Corps Navy Army

The Humorists No Regret and Witty Exchanges

A Chicago Post humor item quotes a boy who stole mince pie and faced his mother’s scolding, admitting it was worth it. The Philadelphia Telegraph shares a brisk exchange where a man jokes about barely staying out of his grave, reflecting light humor in daily banter.

Gorman Post Office Department Chicago Post Philadelphia Telegraph

Fragmented Quotations From 1900s Newspaper Bits

A collage of archaic quips and vignette lines from multiple papers includes dialect humor about aging, parental scenes with slippers, Amphion’s mythic echo, a jab at Chicago Orchestra, Belinda shopping fantasies, and a wedding bill gag. The text blends dialogue and satirical snippets.

My Angel and the Money Question Specter

A fragment from the New York Weekly shows a witty exchange about finances in a domestic scene. One character reveals that after her second marriage all her money went to her late husband's relatives, prompting a surprised reaction about mentioning the late husband in the other's presence.

New York Weekly

Dated Miscellany of Wealth Fame and Wit

A collection of brief anecdotes on high pay for performers and executives, the humorous mispronunciation of names, a Minsk peasant jailed for algebra, Mrs. Leslie Shaw’s wit, Senator Hanna’s rheumatism joke, and a flood of treatment offers and letters after his claim. Named figures include Harry Bal lin, Mme Hegion, Mme Breval, Ian Maclaren, Henry M. Stanley, Major McDowell, Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw, and Senator Hanna.

Harry Ballin Anglo-American Shipping Trust Mme. Hegion Paris Opera Mme. Breval Ian Maclaren Henry M. Stanley Major McDowell Leslie M. Shaw the Treasury Senator Hanna Hanna United States Philippines

Miscellaneous anecdotes and traveler observations from era papers

A collection of short, humorous vignettes and foreign traveler impressions. Includes cabinet discussion remarks about a public figure and anecdotes about Mrs Gibson, Charles Dana Gibson's mother, plus Scots and English storytelling, and a wealthy English couple visiting Washington with a broker named Hibbs.

Yeats Lectures at UPenn On Ireland’s Revival

W B Yeats spoke at the University of Pennsylvania last month about Ireland's literary revival. In Houston Hall he chatted with reporters and compared America to France, noting Parisian light sparked daydreams and prompting him to imitate bad French in shops.

W. B. Yeats University of Pennsylvania Ireland Houston Hall Paris Kansas City Journal

Winter Echoes of Autumn’s Loss in a Frozen Landscape

The poem reflects on a bleak landscape where winter quashes memory of green, gold, and spring. A speaker surveys a barren forest, meadow, garden, and heart, questioning whether love and promise endured. Yet Bayard Taylor envisions renewal, as frozen seeds await thaw and the womb of snow conceals future growth.

Bayard Taylor

Commerce and Labor Department Report Highlights Bureau Work

The first annual report of the secretary of commerce and labor outlines department progress, bureau duties, and financials. It notes 1,289 Washington staff and 8,836 nationwide employees, with appropriations of 9,706,847, and discusses postponement of the Bureau of Manufactures due to funding. Plans for bureau reorganization await Congress.

Washington Dec Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou Bureau of the Census Bureau of Statistics Congress Department

Duty of the Bureau of Corporations

The Bureau of Corporations gathers information on interstate and foreign commerce, investigates corporate conduct, and reports results to the President through the secretary of commerce and labor. It aims to publish data on corporations, including insurers, to guide future inquiries and curb unfair practices while safeguarding private rights.

Bureau OF Corporations Interstate Commerce Commission Secretary of Commerce and Labor Commissioner of Corporations Inerstate-commerce Commission Bureau States Burea

The Bureau of Labor And Its Functions

The department is empowered to acquire and diffuse useful information on labor subjects, especially relating to hours and earnings, living costs, production prices, and the effects of trusts on wages and prices, to promote workers material and moral condition and understand employer relations.

United States

Labor Department Aims to Educate on Labor Conditions

The department seeks to publish information on labor conditions to aid understanding without direct involvement in disputes. It emphasizes education, nonpartisanship, and cooperation between employers and employees while expanding its bureau’s reach. Future bulletins will cover unions and global labor topics.

William M Springer Desires No Monument

The will of late Representative William M. Springer of Illinois filed today orders his remains interred at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Springfield with a plain stone bearing his name and service as Member of Congress from Illinois 1875 to 18%. His wife’s remains to join him and her tombstone to list her books. Bulk of property left to wife, son Ritter W. Springer named executor.

Washington William M. Springer Illinois Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield Congress United States Court For Inpom Hamez Ritter W. Springer

Labor actions and wage talks across industries in 1920s era

Trade and labor news report advances in hosiery prices at Southern Manufacturers in Tennessee, impending large scale strikes in Fox River Valley firms in Illinois, and wage changes for traveling circuses. Pittsburg building trades see deal easing, sheet steel workers consider six hour days, and Asbury Park investors face a receiver. A new federation forms from suspended lodge members amid regional labor reorganizations.

Southern Hosiery Manufacturers’ Association Chattanooga Tenn Fox River Valley Manufacturers’ Association of Northern Illinois Batavia Building Trades Council of Pittsburg Builders’ Exchange League National Alliance of Billposters and Hamburg Bremen Reichstag Pittsboro Asbury Park N. J Frazer Mountain Copper Company New Mexico N. B. Childers United States J. M. Lanning Monmouth Trust Company Wee Company Frank Shangy Herhood Prosanet Danan Oe Ford Age Suspen Itimore H. F.arles Jenkins Thomas Nolan Respect Resse

Indiana Rivers and Harbors Seek Moveable Locks Survey

Indiana members push to cost and survey movable locks and dams from Lake Michigan to Ohio River. Crumpacker and Hemenway urge funding 45000 for Mich City turning basin. Talks of ship canal and nine foot depth at low water surface. Debates include postal service reforms and Dryden bill, with various Indiana officials named.

Indianapolis Journal Washington Dec Indiana House Crampacker Calumet Michigan City Judge Crumpacker Messrs. Hemenway Charles B. Landis Holliday and Miers Lake Michigan Ohio River Committee On Rivers and Harbors Hemenway Big Miami Ohio

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