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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1902
Page
18
Suburban society notes bring Edward Bloom of Bellefontaine Ohio as guest of his parents and many others visiting relatives across Indiana. The column lists dozens of travelers and hosts with towns including Redkey Union City Columbus Terre Haute Evansville Crawfordsville and Indianapolis alongside local society events and club activities.
A long list of residents and visitors are noted returning from holidays or visiting relatives in towns across Indiana and nearby states. Names include Mrs. Samuel Bartel in Muncie and Mr. Charles Bartel in Mattoon Illinois, with many others traveling to Greencastle Peoria Pittsboro Chicago and more while attending events and lectures.
Mr Frank Caldwell visits friends in Chicago Mrs John Romme returns from Cincinnati Miss Bertha Jones visits relatives in Connersville Mr and Mrs John Yaryen spend holidays with Noblesville kin Baptists meet at Mrs Luella Snyder Elmer Owen and Montpelier guests of Mrs Charles A Wise Lowell Kirk returns from Julietta Wayne and Winifred Zimmerman visit Madison Ind Foster Bacret guest of Samuel Howard Mrs John Petty guest of daughter Mrs William Jones Jane Powell returns from Wisconsin I N Carpenter of Spencer guest of Manning Samuel Aynerson Franklin guests of L L Cornell Milton Hiatt returns home from Sheridan Thomas H Hazelrigg group from Carmel IL returns home Home department Baptist Church entertained Mary Horton and daughter Hortense attend Nellie Brannon wedding Elijah Brownell and daughter return to Bellefontaine OH Rev C Claude Travis returns from Crawfordsville Current Topics Club meets at 1 West Thirtieth Street Wilson S Dean to speak on John Bright.
Mrs. Frank Lout and Mrs. E H GeBauer visit kin in Indiana towns Anderson Madison Logansport Spencer Plainfield Sharpsville Marion Bedford Green Castle Coatesville Knightsville Brazil Bloomington Memphis Kempton Newman Newmen New Year banquet hosted by Twentieth Century Club at W A Fox home with Mr and Mrs W A Fox as hosts
The piece surveys how journalists and stage managers repeatedly alter their given and family names for branding. It cites Henry Terrence McCloy and Col George Harvey as examples, notes shifts from Mr to the absence of Mr, and discusses how editors and copy readers handle titles like Miss and Bishop Potter. The essay questions whether such name changes reflect vanity or practical fame in American media and theatre.
Poem excerpt praising the United States heritage and the Rock of Freedom. Mentions Washington and Franklin, echoes the nation’s history of liberty, expansion, and promise, and ends with a toast to the native land.
The Librarian Herbert Putnam reports on the Library of Congress operations from inception to date. The copyright office is a record office, not a grantor. registration requires simple forms and exact steps. The growth of copyright entries from 12,688 in 1870 to 97,467 in 1990 is noted alongside library history and milestones from 1800 to 1901.
The article describes Adirondack mountain mills processing spruce logs into pulp for newspapers. Logs are felled in winter, floated by streams, piled near mills, then cut by roaring saws and barked by barkers. The process includes waste control and conveyer systems feeding the fire furnaces.
Detroit Free Press praises Judge Wiest for rejecting sympathy appeals as grounds to alter or grant new trials. The piece condemns “sympathetic racket” crying by plaintiffs and their witnesses as improper persuasion, urging reliance on cold facts, law, and evidence.
Philadelphia Record reports a Paris paper claiming rheumatism is contagious. The piece argues medical authority misreads contagion, noting doctors often mismanage rheumatism and fear of infection affects health officials and immigration control. It compares to tuberculosis and calls for cautious, evidence based policy.
The piece argues against treating rheumatism as a contagious menace and criticizes Ellis Island officials for labeling rheumatic patients as dangerous. It questions policies that would deny entry or impose public shunning, stating doctors cannot declare rheumatism curable or safe to spread.
The New York Evening Sun reports a wealthy suburb resident is building an enormous dwelling with vast outbuildings for automobiles, leaving little room for grounds. Critics lampoon the scale, noting a mansion might require 5,000 acres to look appropriate. A shabby passerby revokes the boast, and the owner admits to being the “blamed fool.”
Poem excerpt notes longing for childhood places and the futility of reclaiming youth. The speaker travels fields streams and hills seeking forgotten joy, realizing one cannot return to youth though one may revisit birthplaces. From the Independent with dates implied.
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