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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
7
Business office and editorial rooms details with subscription terms and pricing. Daily and Sunday rates, with carrier and mail prepaid options. Reduced club rates and agent subscriptions noted across the Indianapolis area.
Notices from the Indianapolis Journal outline postal rules for manuscripts sent through the mails. It states eight page papers require an eight cent stamp, six page papers two cents, and twenty four page papers four cents. Foreign postage is usually double. The policy emphasizes including the name and address and notes manuscripts sent for publication must be for second class matter at Indianapolis.
The piece surveys a string of borderless remarks from various nations and figures, noting attacks on John Mitchell, Westminster Abbey issues, a German minister swaying at King Peter’s ball, and a Spaniard’s bequest dispute. It also mentions Senator Morgan, Hale’s Senate chaplain election, Rockefeller Christmas gifts, and coal rail rates.
The article argues that the House of Representatives has no real right to approve the treaty, noting that treaties often require funding to become operative and that current approval would be a mere form, not invalidating the treaty. It stresses that approval does not invalidate the treaty.
Democrats press to challenge a new legislative apportionment as unconstitutional, citing past failures and court rulings. Republicans warn against gerrymandering, recalling 1891 and 1893 disputes and General Harrison’s condemnation, while noting the issue belongs in the courts.
The piece explains Roosevelt's reference to Colombia's “sinister and evil political peculiarities” as a treacherous plot to seize Panama Canal concessions. It cites a Colombian Senate report proposing to confiscate French Canal Company rights and press the United States for a sale, with demands totaling tens of millions in gold and annuities.
A quarrel among seed suppliers for the Department of Agriculture grows as firms accuse each other of advertising in farmer seed packets. Reform proposals favor eliminating free seed distribution and redirecting funds to new plant trials and domestic crops. Also notes Peace Sunday observances, a Western railroad’s new cars, and light items on Indiana university and translations, with Booker T. Washington seeking Christmas cards for needy southern children.
William C. Rogers potentially last Cherokee chief. German honors Professor von Behring for diphtheria serum discovery. Germany's imports from Japan valued at 4.24 million. exports to Japan total 11.85 million. Pumpkin pie origins questioned. Czar army orders kitchen railroad cars for Siberia. First Paris newspaper appeared in 1600. J Pierpont Morgan rival Antionette Krupp, heir to Krupp iron works, among Europe’s wealthiest heiresses.
Conservative estimates place the Krupp industrial empire at no less than 75 million dollars in value. The estates include shipyards at Essen and Kiel, iron ore and coal mines in Westphalia, and holdings in Spain. Miss Krupp holds full ownership upon reaching age. she is nineteen.
A Philadelphia Press selection offers two brief vignettes from small towns. A church fundraiser faces a dubious donor, prompting the hard elder to accept mixed blood and nonblood money. In Philadelphia, a real estate agent explains dating leases on Friday to dodge a superstition, noting the practice is common to avoid the dreaded hoot.
Mrs Henson praises Dr 8 P Henson pastor of Tremont Temple as the youngest man she knows. The 70 year old clergyman enters the parlor lively and youthful, then returns to deliver his soul awakening sermons that thrill the big temple.
Dr John Cairns learned from guides that most landed gentry were Sunday folks a man who has many writs for debt stays indoors till Sunday when the law protects him. An Englishman at Lake Tahoe heard a proud fisherman boast the lake sank when the big trout was pulled out. Charlotte Smith, a local crusader, repeatedly presses reforms to Congress and Cabinet officers including a postoffice move, earning the quip that she fathers everything and mothers nothing.
A Popular Mechanics note praises Manila rope drives replacing belts. The Lancet reports silicate of soda preserves eggs for months and questions shell permeability to air. The Railway and Engineering Review describes calcium carbide powered submarines using gas generation to ballast. Guaranty periods for asphalt pavements, often five years, are debated by Ernest.
City engineer Adams of Newark argues for extended guarantees citing over a million yards of asphalt in use and noting New York's controlled testing and inspectors. He says five years may suffice there, but other cities with less expert control may need longer. Warren bitulithic pavements placed under contract must be 10 years maintained, at $2.25 per square yard for a six inch foundation and two inch wearing surface, with bonds of 25 percent, and final estimate retained 2 percent for three years and 3 percent for five years.
Lime acts as a three fold fertilizer providing plant food, activating inert nutrients, and improving soil texture. It neutralizes soil acidity, helps lightening heavy clays, and aids tile drainage. Useful for boggy and clay soils across states per The Epitomist.
Scientific American notes dramatic jumps in tensile strength from iron wire to steel types. Good black iron wire yields about 25 tons per square inch, bright hard drawn 35 tons, Bessemer steel 40 tons, open hearth 60 tons. Special grades reach 80 to 170 tons, with plow steel around 120 tons and some cast steels hitting 150 to 170 tons per square inch.
On November 21 the high speed electrical experiments on the Berlin Zossen Railroad were terminated for the season. A total of one million dollars has been spent to determine what a high speed electrical train can achieve. A syndicate of two major German electrical companies will soon publish the results, seen as highly valuable to electrical engineers worldwide.
A New Castle County Court witness swore on a Testament kissing it in the Scottish fashion, mocking sanitary objections. Judge Greenwell joked he would not kiss a court Testament for £1000 as another judge noted a Testament has been kissed by over 200,000 people in a different jurisdiction.
Peter Maher the Irish pugilist was knocked out in one round in Philadelphia last week while seeking naturalization papers. He faltered on questions about the Constitution and the election of the President, and the commissioner refused his papers. Maher remarked that the hard-fought bout was the toughest of his life, and he had lost.
A Schoolmaster editorialized on greed noting that a man whose goal is money will steal and praise his own skill in theft. He contrasts a genteel scoundrel with highwaymen, saying such a man excuses wrongdoing as self preservation and deems himself beyond moral law as wealth grows in business politics and religion.
The Springfield Republican notes that London bondholders hold 15 million dollars in 7 percent Confederate bonds issued in 183, placed in London. Contrary to belief, English bondholders have raised 60,000 to seek recognition and settlement of these bonds, and question where to apply for recognition of the Confederacy debt.
A quoted Outing editorial advocates a law requiring every able bodied boy to spend at least three winters of his youth in rural areas, arguing it would broaden outlooks, loosen cramped brains, and harden souls, unlike genteel suburb life.
The death of Hart Pease Danks brings to mind that he earned only a small reward for his popular song Sliver Threads among the Gold. Danks shared the money with Eben E. Rexford, the lyricist, after the tune's sudden success used by minstrel troops nationwide. The publisher profited from the hit.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat argues that an early national convention or a late one will not injure Democratic prospects. A convention held between these times is also unlikely to harm the party’s momentum.
W. D. Howells in Harper's Weekly explores youth faith hope and love as timeless ideals. The poem envisions youth eternal as time wanes with hopeful light, home and familiar love guiding through doubt toward a serene foreseeing of being.
The Seventh district Democratic chairman race opened with Fanning and Clarke leading campaigns backed by Taggart and Keach. Polster faces pressure amid shifting loyalties as internal factions clash over strategy and potential alignments, while Indiana Democrats debate Parker and Parker’s push from Taggart amid a national struggle for the presidential nomination.
United States Senator Reed Smoot and his family announce plans to move to New York the center of the feminist movement to defend his seat amid accusations tied to his Mormon faith. He says criticisms are misinformed, invites scrutiny of his home life, and aims to educate opponents by living in the city with his wife and children. He plans to seek education for his children in New York while facing ongoing political pressure from anti Smoot actors.
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