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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1903
Page
5
A mixed front of world affairs and local notes outlines Russo Japanese tensions and potential massacres in January while reporting on British and American diplomacy. It also covers German military discipline, Mormon era moral concerns, and a New York cathedral society’s views on dress and morality, with scattered notices on subscription details and distribution points.
The piece surveys public opinion on Senator Gorman and the Panama canal dispute. It argues his stance against the treaty harms his party, notes his plan to redefine his position after holidays, and compares to Maine’s prohibition stance. It questions administration choices, recognition of Panama, and implications for Britain and other powers. It also touches on corporate pensions and labor relations.
The next Baltimore and Ohio Railway annual report will show a larger pension list, reflecting an oldest in the nation system. The piece outlines relief and pension practices since 1889 and 1884, noting monthly payments, eligibility, and large-scale adoption by Pennsylvania and others, plus potential gas-plant siting near coal fields to cut costs. It also honors Indiana figure George J. Langsdale, lauding his role as Father of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
A Hungarian stage dancer in Budapest was sued by her manager for not dancing according to contract. To prove good faith she performed a few sample dances in the judge's private office. The judge ruled against her, saying she did not dance best in public but was pleased, and he proposed marriage, a decision hailed as a display of honor and upright justice.
A collage of jokes and quips from papers like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune. It notes playful lines about Christmas slippers and a theater show that broke attendance records, alongside light banter on Job’s death and a tale of a promoter named Coe in a cocoa company venture.
A collage of notes on notable individuals and curiosities. Miss Dorothea Beale marks forty five years as head of Cheltenham College for Girls. Patti’s diverse lineage and marriages are noted. Marks Nathan of Chicago plans a Jerusalem synagogue and housing. Daniel A. Sell of Gettysburg is a very short, active fire company member aged sixty three. The first corset in France is traced to Catherine de Medici. Justice Brown of the Supreme Court humorously reports difficulty seeing his shoes. A Rome traveler notes Pope John XXIII aging quickly after accession. W K Vanderbilt offers vigor and practical advice to a village church effort, suggesting consolidating churches to cut costs.
Collier's Weekly notes a near monopoly on church directories displayed in hotels. Each church pays 19 a year, with about 200000 churches in the United States. Observers say two Quakers controlling the business earn about 40000 annually, though many small-town churches do not advertise.
Miss Helen Gould of Irvington New York offers three prizes of 3100 500 and 250 for essays on the origin and history of the Bible version approved by the Roman Catholic Church and the revised English Bible. Entries due March 1 to Dr W W White president Bible Teachers Training School New York City. The judging panel includes Dr White and school faculty with five additional members to be named.
The text notes the unknown exact birth date of Jesus and criticizes Dionysius for dating from Rome’s foundation. It claims Herod died about four years before Dionysius placed Jesus’ birth and questions the December date.
The New York and New England ministerial conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod passed a resolution denouncing any presidential action recognizing the papacy. They urged maintaining the separation of church and state to preserve American liberties, signaling broad discontent with government endorsement.
A ragged man asked for food on West Central avenue claiming to be a professional man. When asked his profession he replied making ice, saying he was knocked out on business by the cold weather trust. The housewife gave him a bit of food while pondering the idea of ice making as a profession.
A drummer extols thrift quoting a saying on postage and mail business. He notes a merchant never spends more than 2 cents on postage and collects excess at the destination, claiming yearly savings. A separate anecdote from the Washington Post features a typhoid survivor who eats a seven course lunch for a dollar as a humorous observation.
A Philadelphia Telegraph item recounts a clerk who noticed two letters for Cleveland and Liverpool with mismatched stamps. He quickly corrected the error by changing the addresses, earning praise from his employer who called him a brick. The tale ends with the clerk reporting the mistake and the fix.
An early Hopkins man hauling cordwood using a rawhide harness faced a storm that stretched the tugs into fiddles on a long hill. After lunch, sun contraction snapped the console, pulling the wagon uphill into a tree and breaking the front wheels.
Commissioner West of the District of Columbia relates a humorous error involving a German storeowner at the national capital. An assessor questioned the stock value and the Teuton declared four thousand dollars, only to learn later the figure came from his own testimony. He protests, while recalling Bradstreet archives and exclaims Gott in himmel.
In the Marion Indiana News Tribune excerpt, the writer notes a change in Mr. Hoar's stance from opposing recognition of Aguinaldo's Philippines to supporting recognition for the Republic of Panama. The piece argues Panama is peaceful, unified in its drive for independence, and deserving of recognition, framing it as a practical business matter rather than mere rhetoric.
In a Cleveland Leader editorial tone, the piece argues Japan could become the driving force transforming China and eastern Asia, asserting that without Japan’s vigor no Western power could subdue or control China, the continent’s most populous nation.
In Indiana city politics a heated Democratic chairmanship battle rages as factions Taggart Fanning and Keach vie for control. Primary results hinge on delegate slates with Maines suspected as a Straw candidate, while Nolan faces a silverite challenge in the First district. Republican and Prohibition events with key officials add to a busy political eve.
Literary bulletin reports Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers agreeing to exclusive rights for present and future works including his autobiography. Twain jokes about contracts and lawyers, reflecting on money, morality, and his past, before departing for Italy for his wife’s health.
Judge Grostean discusses corporate policy citing a hypothetical room with a dollar, a table, and a fictionally named entity to illustrate how capital can be created. He notes a desire to avoid accusing a United States Judge of inaccuracy while questioning the precision of figures in corporate charter creation.
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