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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1903
Page
5
The Indianapolis Journal lists daily and Sunday rates, club and agent discounts, and mail options. Details include prices per week and month, foreign and domestic postage, and instructions for mail subscriptions and second class matter designation.
A stray Washington and Atlanta era column discusses Mr. Carnegie speech on degrees, Mr. Bryan and Roosevelt, Russo Japanese tensions, Senator Hoar Panama policy, and reactions to Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona statehood. It also notes Arkansas gubernatorial candidates and a clash between a governor and an associate supreme court justice.
In a whimsical note, two combatants are described as combat ants reflecting on a judge and a retaliatory exchange. The story depicts an arrest following a renewed personal encounter and presents the differences of Arkansas statesmen as edifying, in a lightly satirical tone.
Mr Joseph Chamberlain leads a new tariff inquiry with a 25 member cross section of ex MPs, merchants and economists to study British trade and report on tariff reform. The commission is aims to be open minded, not packed, and will assess from all perspectives, bolstering public confidence in reform. American observers are urged to prepare for potential shifts if the report supports reform.
A historic account explains Bertillon measurements used by police to identify suspects. It describes a system based on unique body proportions, height, limb lengths, and head features, supplemented by photographs, with cards kept at police HQs and shared across cities.
A collection of quips on statistics patience and industry, temper, and liberty. Banter includes a Washington Star remark on data collecting, a Chicago Record-Herald exchange about saloon life, and a Boston Transcript dialogue about Kittie-Paul’s compliments and evolving taste.
A slice of period humor shows Maud Muller's reason for not marrying the Judge and a playful burst about a quick man dodging a pistol. The Cleveland and New York papers share quick jests on fame and fate. Thomas Jefferson signs a membership letter to a New York protective tariff society.
A cross-petition witness describes the start of alleged cruelty two years earlier after a Christmas gift dispute. The lawyer questions when the husband’s conduct began, noting a gift to the mother and a bill that credited the husband. The testimony references a gold watch and a pocketbook gift.
A compilation of editorials from various papers noting reporters wearing badges in Indianapolis, Kentucky Governor Beckham’s self-succession, Chicago grand jury on policy keepers, Democratic timber concerns, shootings in Columbus, Attorney General Knox in the merger case, remarks on Panama policy, and Beckham’s inaugural ball amid evangelical influences.
In Washington a baby girl arrived at the home of William Frye White, the grandson of William P. Frye of Maine, who boasts of being the Senate's only great grandfather. The item notes Frye's family milestone amid other brief world items.
A full-blood Pottawatomie Indian, Albert Neghanquet, is the first of his people to be consecrated a Roman Catholic priest. The ceremony occurred in Rome, and he now serves as assistant pastor at a church in Muskogee, Indian Territory, after being born on a Potawatomi reserve in Kansas twenty-nine years ago. The Rev. Frank Oliver Hall urged gratitude to Herbert Spencer for shaping modern thought, noting Spencer’s influence on the idea of human progress and comparing it to Newton.
Premier Combes aims to curb religious orders by removing religious instruction from schools and dissolving orders. He plans to strip members of orders of teaching rights and repeal a 15 percent Fallout law cited as a key tool for achieving state control.
The Literary Digest reports that Napoleon secured support for a planned coup d etat and outlines Combes push against religious instruction. Repeal of Palloux would curb free instruction by lay monopoly, excluding members of religious orders from public teaching. The anticlerical majority aims to push reforms via local commune elections next May before church state separation is considered.
Ernest Crosby argues in the Pages of the Craftsman that Jesus was not a carpenter. He cites Mark VI 3 and notes Joseph’s old age, Jesus’ agricultural work and animal husbandry, and a life rooted in the soil rather than crafts, suggesting Jesus drew on farm life for illustrations.
A Buddhist archbishop of upper Burmah is recognized by the English lieutenant governor. The First Presbyterian Church of Wichita leads in size among U S missions with over 30 native helpers, scholarships, and annual foreign mission gifts exceeding 5000. New York Episcopal holdings top church property values, with Manhattan alone over 44 million. Methodists rank fifth with nearly 12 million. Hebrews just above. The British and Foreign Bible Society, near its centenary, has issued 180 million scriptures in about 400 languages. Malagasy Bible revision cost over 3000 pounds, highlighting early translation costs.
In a Warrensburg poisoning case a defense lawyer loudly argued before the justice of the peace. The judge, a heavyset official, rebuked him then warned him to hush, adding he might whip the devil out of him if he persisted. The lawyer promptly fell silent.
Iowa Representative Lacey criticized a House lobby portrait as poor art. Colonel Hepburn interrupted, sparring over art credentials. Lacey quipped that lacking painting skill, he still can judge a bad egg. The World notes the exchange as a sharp political quip.
Mark Twain recalls a Hartford minister whose Sunday school boys, who usually miss the session when the City of Hartford steamer docks in the morning, turn up en masse after the ship arrives. The minister is moved by their loyalty, and the boys cheer with a chorus of is she in.
Senator Spooner cites a Wisconsin trial where a sharp exchange with a youthful appearing doctor highlights sarcasm about concussion of the brain. The defense lawyer jokes about banging heads to test the point, and the physician calmly agrees the defense counsel would likely suffer concussion.
A boy explains a school that teaches by not telling students what not to do arguing that prohibition fuels misdeeds. His mother, hearing of these "new methods," notes the logic of avoiding direct warnings to prevent tempting children. The exchange ends with tentative agreement.
Indiana Republicans prepare a wide reaching love feast in Indianapolis to energize the 1900 campaign. State leaders including Senator Fairbanks, Senator Beveridge, Gov. Durbin and State Chairman Goodrich will speak. district conventions and hotel headquarters are arranged. Barcus's congressional plans loom amid hotel rate fears and Chicago conventions.
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