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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1903
Page
7
A digest from the Indianapolis Daily Journal featuring brief items on subscriptions and mail rates for the Journal, plus editorials touching constitutional division of government, German socialism, gas asphyxiation tales, William J Bryan travels, Santa Claus mail, Swiss presidential tradition, Chicago labor disputes, Michigan masonry, postoffice frauds, and Panama recognition remarks.
The Elkins amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, shifting liability to corporations, is praised in the latest ICC report for strengthening enforcement against rebates and improving observed tariff compliance. Republicans are credited with the law’s success while Democrats are cast as denouncers.
The annual Republican love feast will be held in the city next week. It aims to unify the party, bury hatchets, and share experiences among leaders and members from across the state while avoiding public factional politics.
The piece argues Indianapolis suffers heavy smoke pollution from bituminous coal. It cites a drug factory with smokeless vents as proof smoking can be controlled. It urges engineers to adopt simple burning rules to reduce smoke from furnaces and avoid unnecessary pollution.
Mr. John P. Brown of the International Society of Arboriculture prepares an Indiana catalpa exhibit for the St. Louis world fair. Logs are sawn into lumber and furniture, crossties show decades of use, illustrating catalpa as a valuable Indiana product and timber with durability surpassing white oak.
A compact exchange features a smiling man recalling an old friend and a witty reply about age and a grafter. The dialogue style mirrors a humorous newspaper exchange with light banter and social observation.
A dialogue fragment shows Edith and Irene discussing a New Thought idea where a person becomes beautiful by persistent self belief. The exchange hints at a playful critique of the self help concept.
Publication lines present a humorous exchange about romance and expertise. A quip contrasts novice and expert lovers, suggesting mutual learning. The piece slots into I Illustrated Bits as a light, witty panel on relationships.
In a brief exchange from Catholic Standard and Town Topics, Mrs Gotham notes sharing an apple with a younger brother and Emerson of Boston plays with the idea there are only two halves. The town paper line then features a girl insisting that the past stays past while seeking finality.
Fragmented quotes show judges, authors, and a police officer in plain clothes discussing daily life and manners. The exchanges reveal a society novelist, a walking diligate hotelier in construction, and a detective in bold attire. Local humor and character sketches frame urban life.
Berlin to get an electric distance printing device linked to the post office and telegraph network enabling printed messages without the addressee present. World’s fairs may showcase battery powered wheelchairs with automatic obstacle detection and a three mile per hour pace. An electrical clock for the deaf and blind mutes uses sensors and a hammer alarm to wake sleepers and commuters.
The Southern Railway reports 20 new cotton mills under construction along its lines with 12,337 looms, signaling regional shift to processing cotton locally. Northern farmers have settled 75,000 in ten years between New Orleans and Corpus Christi, bringing 3,000,000 acres under scientific cultivation and boosting rice over 800,000 acres. One week saw 1,000 home-seekers visit Louisiana rice districts, while a Mississippi east rail line area drew 1,200 settlers in a year. a field transformed into a 40-person settlement in a single year. Illinois Central earnings reached 10,526 per mile, higher than many Western networks.
The turbine is expected to supplant reciprocating engines as surely as the screw displaced the paddle. Canada livestock breeders plan a large display at the St. Louis world’s fair and seek government aid of 250000 dollars. In October 226 unions employed 565106 members in England with 5.8 percent unemployed versus 5.0 percent last year. Pullman reports freight car orders strong through March, with more business after year’s start and a hopeful outlook for a presidential year. Foreign cotton demand unrest grows in England with cornering fears, disorganized trade, short-time work, and suffering in Lancashire, including soup kitchens and several Liverpool failures.
A London writer argues our coinage system defines national identity claiming roots in bone metaphors. He notes 40 pence per pound and 129 pence in half a sov, tying monetary units to bodily counts as a defense of the system.
The Chicago News quotes a whimsical comparison noting that limbs hold thirty bones, a half crown equals 3 pence, the spine has twenty four bones, a florin equals 4 pence, and twelve ribs per side imply pence in every shilling, remarking on the skeleton of commerce and its vigor.
Senator Hoar recalls Margaret Fuller tale about Dr Bartlett. A midnight call, a grim answer and a punchline about how much camphor is too much. Senator Perkins travels Europe and endures London rain with a leaky bus roof and a wry conductor reply.
Representative Adamson of Georgia cites a friend named Cox as an example of brainy staff leaving Washington. He notes Cox quit to become editor and proprietor of a top La Grange paper, now mayor, living well and enjoying perks, illustrating political staff limitations.
Mr. Cannon, arriving in Washington for the winter session, tells an old friend he will not stay at the Hotel Cochran this year. He has rented a modest house on Vermont Avenue midway between poverty and affluence and plans to reside there for the session.
A New York Times story recalls Major General AJna R Chaffee in China during the Peking campaign. He meets a corporal limping from a tent with a wounded leg and curses, and the general laments would trade a thousand dollars for a Chinese bullet to bring home.
An onboard observer recalls a talkative Pennsylvania dining car chef and hungry Philadelphia and Baltimore passengers. As the train moves, diners eat slowly then surge to eat when stopped, with plates and cutlery rattling as everyone hurries for the next mouthful.
A British paper reports a War Office routine where an officer seeking a screw driver is shuffled through multiple offices. He is told screwdrivers come only in tool boxes, then told tool boxes go only to carpenters shops, and finally he is granted a carpenter’s shop. The tale satirizes bureaucratic delay.
A Philadelphia Record quote questions listing chess results in sports pages, noting no gambling ties and chess as a contest of skill deserving scrutiny. The piece contrasts this view with a poetic fragment celebrating mythic imagery and nature, attributed to Maurice Thompson, followed by a brief scene of a maiden amid pillars and a sunlit scene.
County chairmen write to State headquarters asking how new delegate selection rules apply to precinct meetings and district conventions. State Chairman Goodrich explains all delegates must be chosen by townships and precincts by direct primaries or mass meetings, with limited exceptions, and that county mass conventions cannot select delegates.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes Chicago has been agitating and predicts a dangerous mood after a funeral procession. It warns citizens may actively defend the corpse of a deceased relative, foreshadowing potential serious clashes in a city long familiar with labor unrest.
Mr. Bryan questions Pius X tact after an interview raises whether the Pope expressed a high opinion of Grover Cleveland or referenced the Bennett will. The Pittsburgh Dispatch notes the inquiry as to the papal stance and its possible political implications.
General Jeema B Weaver voiced support for Jodge Parker and the judge appeared taken by surprise, unable to intervene.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat reports that followers of Herbert Spencer still claim the apple eaten by Eve was a pawpaw and that the Fall story is a clever device. They also suggest the Garden of Eden originated in Indiana, linking science and theology.
The Baltimore American comments on Andrew Carnegie denying remarks about calls for donations while noting that when millionaires give gifts, everyday consumers bear the cost through higher prices or taxes. The piece frames a clash over philanthropy and public funding in a national dialogue.
The board of lady managers has been duly organized and is in harmonious working order. This removes the obstacle to the simplex success of the big firm.
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