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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1902
Page
5
A long reading lists subscription rates for carriers and mail, with pricing for daily, Sunday, and club editions. It notes postal rules, and includes an editorial column debating Roosevelt, Kipling, and other public issues. The piece also mentions debt reduction, canal policy, and Panama Canal investment opinions.
Mr Poultney Bigelow and other discerning travelers call the soldiers monument in this city the finest of its kind based on artistic judgment observations from extensive travel and correspondence with peers.
A critic lauds the area around a Washington monument in Baltimore, praising the surrounding architecture and condemning tall buildings. He warns that Baltimore already allows shadows from rising towers and fears a future skyscraper on Circle Street, urging public sentiment against it.
A long analysis notes that raw sugar in New York dropped from 7 to 10 cents per pound years ago to below 4 cents today, while consumption per person has nearly doubled. It discusses European beet sugar, tariffs, bounties, and impacts on cane sugar economies, urging careful study before Congress acts on routes for a potential isthmian canal and noting unrelated society snippets.
The piece laments partisan bias in economic and infrastructure discussions, urging broad, fact based analysis on the Isthmian canal issue. It notes Senator Morgan and Representative Hepburn pushing for quick action on the Nicaragua route while opposing the Panama Company offer, urging careful consideration.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports a jest about Jones who died yesterday leaving two sons and three daughters. A Boston girl queries about Paradise Lost while a St. Louis woman recalls three months in Paradise Texas. A Philadelphia clerk touts genuine Indian moccasins made on the Last of the Mohicans.
An assortment of dialogues and notes from newspapers presents a mix of dramatic lines about Miss Smith and Miss Jones in a music setting, a call to curb female opium use with a editor’s calm remark, and a preacher announcing a Mount Ararat sermon. The Chicago Tribune cites a plan to deliver Bible mountain sermons while Aunt Ann Peebles bids farewell after services.
Harvard and MIT undergraduates may drink German kommers with lager ale and claret in Harvard Union rooms during organized meetings. No limit on quantities, but all must be consumed or disposed of before students leave. Drinks ordered in the name of an officer. graduates may be served outside the organization clause.
Porto Rico news from San Juan reports the legislature convened January 2 and has introduced ten bills including a $300 appropriation to send a Porto Rican exhibit to the St Louis exposition. The education budget proposes $109,000 more than last year. Commissioner Brumbaugh plans resignation. Three Kings Day pauses work. German training ship Stein hosted Governor Hunt, dined at the palace, and sailed to Cienfuegos.
Judge Tuley ordered reopening of the Stevenson Dowle case to admit letters said to be written by Stevenson to his brother. The letters allegedly show Zion lace industries were established under conditions conflicting with Stevenson's testimony.
A review roundup surveys I K Friedman novel on labor strife near Chicago with harsh critique of its polemical socialism and sensational violence. It also covers Edward Usington Valentine poetry, Basil King Let Not Man Put Asunder, and Ray Clark Rose verse from the Chicago Record, praising some craftsmanship while noting flaws and promise.
A Boston volume purporting to be by The Countess es offers practical beauty guidance for women, while Chicago librarian Fred Hild argues fiction should not wait a year to reach public libraries. He defends patron control, criticizes paternalism, and urges careful yearly selection of popular fiction.
Edward Whymper reviews his Canadian Rockies expedition last summer with four Swiss climbers and G W Franklyn. He notes moderate temperatures for high elevations and details routes from Vermilion Pass to Lake Louise Field Yoho and Lee River valleys, mapping Mitre White and Pope's Column ascents before returning to Europe.
In federal court four years after an election incident in Louisville three men Robert Lock Hullen and J J ONeil pleaded guilty to interfering with citizens rights to suffrage. They received three months in jail and fines of 2589 for ONeil and 2008 for Lock and Mullen plus half the trial costs. The defendants have faced four trials with hung juries in earlier rounds and a three year sentence in the second trial that was reverse by higher courts.
The U S Supreme Court today affirm ed a Circuit Court ruling sending Benjamin Greene John T Gaynor William T Gaynor and Edward H Gaynor to Georgia for trial on defrauding the government while supervising public works at Savannah Ga The decision delivered by Justice Peckham upholds removal for trial and denies habeas corpus relief for Capt Oberlin M Carter in a related matter Justice Brown also ruled that the Varig cruiser deserter Leo Alexandroff must be surrendered to Russia under the treaty provisions with Russia and that the treaty applies to the case.
The United States Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice White, held that steamship companies cannot bind U.S. citizens with printed ticket regulations contrary to U.S. policy. L. L. Bleecker and Elsie L. Bleecker sued after baggage damage on the Kensington voyage from Antwerp to the United States. The decision follows multiple cases on inheritance tax, banking liability, oleomargarine laws, and other civil issues before the Court.
The U S Supreme Court affirms Kentucky long and short haul provisions as valid under state constitutional policy. The Louisville and Nashville case involved charges for coal shipments and a $300 fine, with the court ruling the dispute centered on uniformity of rates, not rate fixing power. The Court reversed lower injunction rulings as premature, sending cases back to dismiss.
Justice Brewer rules on cross appeals between Southern Pacific and the United States regarding land grants. The Court reverses the Ninth Circuit, remanding to quiet title for the United States to an equal undivided moiety in alternate sections within Atlantic & Pacific limits in California where they conflict with Southern Pacific limits, minus lands with prior adjudication, and dismisses other lands without prejudice to future action.
Justice Brown rules Leo Alexandroff a Russian deserter from the cruiser Varing must be restored to Russia. The case traces Alexandroff’s move to the United States to avoid Russian orders, his conscript status, and his time with the Varing’s crew during its construction and launch in this country.
Open air therapy for early consumption cases in Massachusetts and Rutland shows about 67 percent improvement or cures among treated patients. Ten applications were admitted, average age twenty eight, with some deaths and higher improvement in recent years.
Chicago Jan 6 The Harold McCormick and Mrs McCormick of Chicago donate one million dollars to endow the Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases in honor of their son John McCormick who died of scarlet fever. Funds will support work at the institute.
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