Adjutant Describes Poverty and Shelter Slums in Indianapolis
An Indianapolis shelter operator describes stark poverty among residents in a cold season. He details families cramped in single rooms with no stove, including a sick factory worker left to starve, and a family from Cincinnati in a similar plight. He notes intake during winter, meals priced at 3 to 10 cents, and efforts to employ residents, with mixed results and personal stories of struggle and redemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iamus
Cincinnati
Jim
Adjutant McKenzie
Chicago
Indianapolis
Wary Scots and an English Cockney Debate Sir Walter Scott
A London Tit-Bits piece on a Loch Katrine steamer chat where a Scotsman dismisses a cockney’s ignorance of Sir Walter Scott. The exchange highlights cultural memory and the clash between Scottish literary pride and English vanity aboard a sea voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Walter Scott
Famous Literary Women in American History
A compact reminiscence praising women authors across eras and regions. It highlights Queenly writers in Japan, Voltaire era figures, and 19th century Americans including Anna Bradstreet, Hannah Adams, Catharine Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. It recalls their works, character, and impact on abolition, reform, and literature.
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Miss Sedgwick
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Julia Ward Howe
England
America
Royal
Voltaire
Mme. du Chatelet
Mme. de Stael
Connecticut
Hannah Adams
Boston Athenaeum
Sedgwick
Catharine M. Sedgwick
Maria Edgeworth
New York
Stockbridge
Sedgewick
Europe
Robert
Fanny Kemble
Philothea
James Russell Lowell
Lfe
Theodore Parker
N. P. Willis
Tme
Margaret
States of the Union
Mr. Emerson
Lillie Devereux Blake
Fire Island
New England
Mrs. Stowe
London
Italy
Charleston
S. C
South
Unsigned Observations on Crime and Suicide Patterns
A fragmented prose passage cites recurring incidents of suicide, assassinations, burglaries, thefts, and forgeries across years and months. It asserts that crime averages and patterns may guide future steps, quoting W. D. Howells and reflecting Victorian moral framing.
Novelist Tarkington Becomes Indiana Legislator Candidate
From Indianapolis, the literary center of the state, Booth Tarkington announces he seeks the Republican nomination for Marion county representative in the Indiana Legislature. The piece argues a novelist’s business sense and public appeal suit politics, and imagines a possible path to Congress, noting the income and influence of successful authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Avenue
Congress
Cabot Aes
Lucky Dog
Boo
Mis Terrifying Fate of a Kansas Politician
A western Kansas politician’s wife urged him to abandon politics for a garden task. He dug, found a silver quarter, washed it, and placed it in his jeans. Later he found a silver half dollar and kept it, joking about his hard work.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Coln T. House
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Treays
S. Illinois Street
Msurniture and Cappet Co
South Illinois Street
Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Providence
R. 1
Miss Fuller
Boston
Mass
Statistics
W. D. Howells
Indiana
Western Association of Air
Gilbert Parker
Fatere
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