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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
7
The 1903 Daily Journal lists subscription plans for carriers and city readers, detailing prices for daily and Sunday editions, weekly, monthly, and prepaid options, with rates for Indianapolis and suburbs and club discounts. The text notes office contact points and general subscription terms.
A collage of notices and editorial snippets from The Indianapolis Journal includes postal guidance for readers, distribution points in several cities, and a string of political and international remarks. It references the friars in the Philippines, Russia and Japan postures, Henry Reyes, the Southern Railway, and Roosevelt politics alongside Methodist Year Book data and religious and foreign policy commentary.
Washington reports note European representatives warned Colombia that recapturing Panama would fail and provoke no sympathy from rivals. The advance diplomacy contrasts with antiadministration senators who urge Colombia to pursue imagined rights, urging restraint and U S backing in the canal dispute.
The Senate delayed confirmation of Buchanan as Panama special commissioner, arguing Senate advice is needed for any office not created by law. The piece cites Blount’s Hawaii mission as a precedent of presidential power in crises, noting presidents have appointed special ministers without Senate input in past wars and emergencies to conduct diplomacy.
A collage of political quips and society notices ranges from Senator Gorman’s powers to be wielded by the President, to clerical labels as Unitarians or Congregationalists, and satire on Rockefeller fishing rights. It also spoofs journalist lore about Edwin Hale and a jab at J Pierpont Morgan over Gobelin tapestries. Governor Aycock advocates self salvation for the colored brother.
A fragment describes a scene of an elderly professor captured in a stark mood, likened to a mental snapshot taken from a curbside. The terse line hints at a candid moment amid a street setting, emphasizing character over context.
A collection of brief anecdotes from varied sources. A tale about a teacher and a boy mistaking money for art reveals general ignorance about currency. A Abilene man turns new Washington currency into a six foot roll and faces disbelief from shopkeepers. A Southern Society banquet features Thomas Nelson Page defending Southern worth with sharp quips, provoking humor about political figures.
Brief humor items note a bargain gown Diana, Dolly quips it looks half off. A child asks about a model man and learns a model man is a small putty facsimile of a real man in a Smart Set example.
In Atchison a bay horse named Pete transports mail to and from the depot. On cold days he shivers, paces, and frets at being left out. He wanders toward the Byram while weighing punishment, then obeys when the driver calls him back to duty.
Reader glimpses a collage of vintage humor and quips from Chicago Daily News Kansas City Journal Chicago Tribune Baltimore American and Philadelphia Ledger. The pieces showcase witty exchanges on print fame Christmas dates deadly weapons and umbrella jokes reflecting early 20th century newspaper humor.
Radium emits intense rays affecting electroscopes and photographic plates, enabling radiographs without thick shielding. Kelvin and geologists offer differing age estimates, with sedimentary strata suggesting 73 million to 680 million years for 100,000 feet of rock. A fifty-scientist panel on liquor finds variable effects, cautioning against moderate use for youth and workers, noting some brain workers drink, and that alcohol can be harmful or beneficial depending on person and context.
The piece surveys notable figures: the Pope’s postcard hobby surpassing 10 000 cards, Rev Burtsell tipped for Philippine bishops, Dr Franklin Alpine Hill a Massachusetts education pioneer dead, Wu Tingfang heading China’s Commerce Department, Leighton Parks honored with a $20 000 purse, Dr Robert Collyer’s eighty birthday, a colorful tale of Kor ko ya and luxury, John Wanamaker buying New York real estate for a $1 million cash, planning a $4 million store and a possible hotel, and Goldwin Smith in Toronto noted for daily carriage drives and a contemplative eighty years lived.
John Spencer Bassett of Trinity College lauds Booker T. Washington as a leading Southern figure since Lee and denounces religious intolerance. He recalls a Tarboro youth memory where a pastor used a walnut as a lesson on the church, ending with a grim note about a rotten kernel.
A quotation from Prof. Elie Metchnikoff argues life extension to 140 years, lists stages of love and instinct across ages, and claims death by natural causes is rare. It states the fear of death is an aberration and that most die from accidents, urging longer life for science and humanity.
Smithsonian ethnologists study Philippines tribes noting veins carry blood of many races. Rays of radium are three kinds with different penetrating power. A Salerno rainstorm colored by red desert dust. Wells warns blank cartridge wounds risk tetanus and urges antiseptics and antitoxin. New ideas link matter and force via ion and electron concepts.
A Philadelphia merchant famed for stinginess greeted his bookkeeper of twenty five years with a closed envelope as a memento. The bookkeeper opened it to find only the merchant's portrait and replied with a bow that the gesture was just like him.
The Chicago News notes Archbishop Howley’s reputation for profanity stems from a mischaracterized tale. It recounts Duke of Cumberland visiting the primate to discuss a disliked bill and claiming the archbishop would see the promoters before voting, with adjectives added in normal speech.
Logan E Bleckley argues that a traveler's trunk and its contents are closely connected to the passenger and should be exempt from seizure for debt. He compares arresting baggage to imprisoning the debtor for a short time and notes the deep bond between traveler and baggage, likening loss to bereavement.
A Dublin or Irish member of Parliament was known for refusing none of requests for aid, yet his checks never honored. The peculiarity became public, but his popularity stayed high. A visitor asked a politician why faith remained, and the answer said he tries to assist but lacks funds.
A Detrett Tribune report says a man with curly black hair and a marked face approached the Pope. The pontiff whispered to his secretary that the man was from Lincoln, Nebraska, betting 16 to 1 on his origin.
Toledo Mayor Sam Jones, returning from Texas, found himself short of cash in Chattanooga. He pawned his watch for five dollars with a checkbook on him and continued home, arriving in Toledo with about fifty cents. The tale emerged when the watch was returned for a check.
The Chicago Tribune reports President Roosevelt will be forced to implement his Panama policy despite clear disapproval from Representative J Ham Lewis. The long debated approach faces political strain as leaders weigh strategic and domestic costs.
The article notes Carter Harrison’s cautious proposals toward better Chicago, crediting the lasting impact of his multiple administrations. It suggests that his influence has eased the path to reform, describing progress as climbing toward a peak.
Indiana Republicans announce district conventions for January with cities Evansville Vincennes Jeffersonville Seymour Terre Haute Connersville Indianapolis Muncie Peru Fort Wayne and others to follow. Primary elections for delegates and precinct committeemen set for January 5 or 9, with reorganizational meeting January 14 at Indianapolis.
The Orleans Times- Democrat notes that the least desirable citizens seldom act to end their lives due to a lack of self appreciation. It quotes Pius X saying his life was guided by numbers during his nine years as a schoolboy at Riese and nine as a student, reflecting on his path to the papacy.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes that nearly every public figure has faced gunfire at the capitol, but not a single bullet has yet been secured, reflecting broad but ineffective opposition to threats against government.
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