Telephone Calls and International News in The Daily Journal
The Daily Journal of January 15 1902 lists postal rates subscription options and advertising terms for Indianapolis readers. It notes international dispatches from England on wheat sugar duties and Cobden policy while outlining public notices and distribution points across cities and states. It discusses isthmian questions naval shipbuilding remarks by Mr Shepard and Mr Roosevelt energy on Cuban trade tariffs and reciprocal arrangements with Cuba.
War risk seen as lower by nations in today’s balance
The passage argues that few fear Russian hostility, asserts France and Italy would struggle in a great war due to burdens, and notes growing indifference among the powers toward the dreibund, suggesting rulers no longer see war as likely as a decade or two ago.
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Europe
Germany
Italy
Russia
Austria
France
Gor
Ger
Diplomatic Yacht Dispatch Highlights US Germany Ties
The Emperors English dispatch to Roosevelt and the President’s warm reply spark debate in European circles. The exchange signals Germany seeking closer ties with the United States amid Anglo German strains, with naval diplomacy and a planned visit by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia to witness the yacht christening. The public welcomes renewed cordiality and predicts a broader friendly relation as Germany aims to join favored nations in American policy.
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William
Roosevelt
Great Britain
United States
Fatherland
Whele Land
Germany
Washington
England
Prince Henry
Prussia
All water routes via electric canals eyed for US traders
The article discusses American plans to secure canal concessions or purchases to create all water routes for U S grain shipments from inland ports to England and Europe. Vice President Hawley notes English canals with rail line ownership and potential gains from electric operation, while warning of a trade war with glass makers and criticizing Bryan's leadership with Democratic standards.
Humor of the Day features quips from Philadelphia Press and Chicago Post
A humor item showcases a beggar remark about losing relatives and a crusty retort about poor relations. It follows with a man proposing and a woman noting timing. the brief exchanges read as light newspaper humor from two papers.
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Philadelphia Press
Sugar as a Disturbing Factor in World Trade
Sugar dominates economic debate across nations as Britain considers a countervailing duty for imports from bounty nations. The West Indies press for protection, warning of collapse within a year, while free traders recoil at new duties. A Cabinet meeting in Britain may shape West Indies policy and broader sugar markets.
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United States
West Indies
Europe
Brussels
Great Britain
British West Indies
Fair Arrival and the Mirth of a Royal Request
The New York Weekly presents a witty vignette where a visitor asks for a crown of the latest style, insisting fashion endures. The exchange reveals light satire as a misdirected traveler mistakes the scene for heaven, adding humorous confusion to a fashionable scene.
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New York
St. Peter
Were all awfully ashamed of father quote
In a clipped Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange, a child’s quip about a father’s mishap reveals humor in a narrow escape tale. The joke hinges on a mistaken cause of harm, originally misattributed to an automobile but clarified as a horse car incident.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York
Denver Republican Dialogue on Deaf Brother Arrest
A brief exchange shows an officer asking about a deaf brother and Bridget replying he was arrested yesterday and will regain hearing in the morning, implying a humorous or ironic prompt in the Denver Republican.
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Denver
Bridget
Farmer Corntessel and wife discuss Josh's town tale
In Washington Star dialogue Farmer Corntessel and his wife debate Josh's claim that he went to town to work for many things folks did not know. They warn that discovering the truth often reveals that the tales were not true.
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Washington Star
Farmer Corntessel
Josh
The Preposterous Stead in Philadelphia Record
The Philadelphia Record ridicules editor Stead for impractical reform schemes. It mocks his plan to move the British political capital to Washington and parodies his Chicago Holy City idea as equally ridiculous.
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Philadelphia Record
Chicago
British Empire
Washington
Colonial Furniture and Ohio Valley Works Featured
Recent publications include a comprehensive study Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood detailing English Dutch and French influences from Restoration through Queen Anne styles with hundreds of illustrations. Also John James Pratt’s The Hesperian Tree a wide valued collection of Ohio Valley writing with famous names like Howells Riley and Hay. a dream interpretation guide completes a varied catalog.
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Henry James
Chippendale
Sheraton
Bynglish
England
Holland
New Amsterdam
Lockwood
Salem
Boston
South
William
Mary
Netherlands
Charles Scribner's Sons
Whats in a Dream scientific interpretation from Gustavus H Miller
A survey of dream phenomena tracing their history in Bible and profane lore. It cites Camille Flammarion on inner sensing and discusses dreams as possibly prophetic or spiritually influenced. The piece previews Miller's book Whats in a Dream a scientific and practical interpretation of dreams.
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Christ
Herod
Pilate
Camille Flammarion
Gustavus H. Miller
Exiernal Traction Company gains control of 500 miles of canals
The External Traction Company has secured practical control of about 500 miles of canals in England and on the continent. It plans to equip them with electric motor power to operate in connection with American waterways, signaling major progress in enterprise abroad.
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Exiernal Traction Company
England
She May Have Learned Something
The New York Mail and Express notes the Chinese dowager’s return as a personal triumph, with her once more at the head of the Middle Kingdom. It suggests her absence may influence future ideas she could carry back to the Imperial City, and wonders about the world’s reaction.
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Tamean
Nework City
Richard Croker
Buss
Tammany
Lewis Nixon
Poli
United States Academy
Croker
Tam
New York Mail and Express
Middle Kingdom
Imperial City
London
Victoria
Harper Brothers
New York
Joplin syndicate aims to buy land for bloodhound ranch
A Joplin syndicate plans to purchase twenty acres in the area to operate a dog ranch breeding bloodhounds. Local authorities suspect an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" trust may have set up its headquarters somewhere in Jasper county.
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Kansas City Journal
Uncle Tom's Cabin” Trust
Jasper County
Hawthorn and Lavender and Munchausen Review
The review covers William Ernest Henley\u2019s Hawthorn and Lavender praising its lyric nature and seasonal imagery, plus a memorial to Queen Victoria. It also touts Mr Munchausen by John Kendrick Bangs, noting its humorous interviews and original device of a Gehenna Gazette manuscript.
Book Lovers Series installment on famous male writers
E 5 Harkins compiles Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books a companion to the women writers volume. Sketched lives with mezzotint portraits follow in chronological order of first publications, from William Dean Howells to Winston Churchill, with notable names and younger authors included. Published by L C Page & Co Boston.
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John James Pratt
Ohio Valley
Wiliam Dean Howells
James Whitcomb Riley
Coates Kinney
Henry Watterson
W. M. Clemens
W. H. Venable
Robert Tinderwood Johnson
Alice Williams Brotherton
Maurice Thompson
John Ari Liegd
Murat Halstead
Robert Burns Wilson
Madison J. Cawein
James Lane Allen
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
John
Stedman
Pratt
John Scott & Co
Three Rivers Elm
North Bend
E. 5. Harkins
Harkins
Page Press
William Dean Howells
Howells
Mr. Howells
Bret Harte
Mark Twain
Lew” Wallace
George W. Cable
Henry James
Francis Richard Stockton
Joel Chandler Harris
S. Weit Mitchell
Robert Grant
F. Marion Crawford
Thomas Nelson Page
Richard Harding Davis
John Kendrick Bangs
Hamlin Garland
Paul Leicester Ford
Robert Neilson Stephens
Charles D. G. Roberts
Winston Churchill
L. C. Page & Co
Boston
Dumas Purporting English Version of a Novel
A critical note questions the book’s claim to be the first English rendering of a Dumas work. It outlines alleged literary fraud in Dumas's career, describing how he used hired writers to produce works and how this book is said to be an English adaptation of a play about D Artagnan in Portugal, with Richelieu guiding a king making campaign that ends with Don Juan installed on the throne.
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Alexander Dumas
Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo
T'Artagnan
King Maker
Portugal
Cardinal Richelieu
D'Artagnan
Spain
D’artagnan
Richelieu
Don Juan
The Love Letters of an American Girl reviewed
A New York edition titled The Love Letters of an American Girl edited by A. H. presents Laura Livingston's epistolary narrative to Royal Strong. The letters trace friendship and affection through two years after a wedding, with a concluding mezzotint portrait and naval toast dedication. The work is described as well printed, beautifully bound, and good reading by L. C. Page & Co.
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A. H
Laura L. Livingston
Mr. Royal Strong
Laura Livingston
Royal Strong
Mr. Strong
Copley
L. C. Page & Co
Boston
By the Higher Law book blasted as insipid critic says
Julia H. Twells Jr is praised for knowing the smart set yet her novel By the Higher Law earns sharp scorn for vagueness and dullness. Characters Daphne Ormerd and a murdered impulse are examined but the work offers no clear answer and wastes reader time. Henry T. Coates & Co Philadelphia comments.
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Julia H. Twells, Jr
Daphne
Ormerd
Henry T. Coates & Co
Philadelphia
The Fortunes of Christina McNab reviewed
S Macnaughtan is praised for an attractive witty tale about Christina a Scottish tradesman’s daughter who seeks to marry a lord to fit her £15000 yearly fortune. She enters an English gentleman’s family to shedAccent and manners, aided by a duke’s brother, promising readers a warm confident heroine.
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S. Macnaughtan
Christina McNab
Christina
D. Appleton & Co
New York
New Abbey Press Titles Explore Love and Life
The Abbey Press catalog lists Dr. Josephine a Willis Barnes novel pairing economics with a love story. A Gumbo Lilly by Stella Gilman offers Western frontier tales. Henry George Jr discusses New York municipal conditions. Albert J Klinck’s The Quest for the Empress is a first novel. Sue Edwards writes Jewels of Paste short stories. Harry Marschner examines life and death. Mata the Magician by Isabella Ingenese blends romance with occultism and vibratory law.
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Abbey Press
Dr. Josephine
Willis Barnes
Sue Edwards
Harry Marschner
Mata the Magician
Isabella Ingalese
New Pocket Edition of Cushing Parliamentary Practice
A new edition of Luther 8. Cushing's Parliamentary Practice has been issued by Henry T. Coates & Co. of Philadelphia. The handy pocket size volume includes Cushing's rules plus notes by Albert S. Bolles, the U S Constitution and amendments, the Declaration of Independence, and a detailed index. The 239 page book is well printed on good paper and offers substantial improvements for deliberative assemblies.
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Luther
Cushing
Henry T. Coates & Co
Philadelphia
Albert S. Bolles
the United States
A Short History of the Mississippi Valley review
James K. Hosmer presents a centennial frame for the Louisiana Purchase celebration at St. Louis. The volume traces Spaniards French and English arrivals, conflicts and shifts of power, and highlights Coronado La Salle Boone Clark Jackson Lincoln and Grant in a brisk readable record with many illustrations. Published by Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston.
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Mississippi Valley
James K. Hosmer
Louisiana Purchase
St. Louis Exposition
Mr. Hosmer
Coronado
la Salle
Boone
George Rogers Clark
Jackson
Lincoln
Grant
Houghton, Miffiin & Co
Boston
Bitter Fruit by Mrs Lovett Cameron reviewed
The novel Bitter Fruit by Mrs Lovett Cameron is praised as entertaining and well told with a moral lesson shown through happenings that expose sins against conventional morality. Anne bears punishment. hunting scenes should be removed from English fiction. Gretano's, New York.
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Gretano
New York
Books by Edwin Jennings On Property And Trusts
Two Abbey Press books by Edwin Jennings survey major economic questions. People and Property discusses wealth acquisition usage and profit sharing and favors public ownership. Democracy and Trusts critiques trusts with strong points and a forceful style meant to provoke thought.
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Edwin
Jennings
The
Abbey Press
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Heroic Cheerfulness
The small volume by Alice Caldwell Hegan follows Mrs Wipes as the philosopher of the cabbage patch, embodying grit and kindness. She grins through mishaps like a dancing mishap with a false front, preserving her cheerful optimism to the end.
Century Company Motto Echoes Patience in Trade
A terse motto from The Century Company of New York proclaims that everything in the world comes right if one waits long enough, reflecting a patient outlook in business or public life.
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The
Century Company
New York
Study of twentieth century problems by Lyman Abbott
Abbott presents a comprehensive study on forms of government social institutions labor education religion and human relations addressing foreign and domestic problems facing the American people. The work is presented as a Lowell Institute lecture in Boston and is noted for its high value.
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Lyman Abbott
D. D
Lowell Institute
Boston
Houghton, Miffilin & Co
Clementina Princess of a Small Principality Strikes Adventure
A. E. W. Mason writes Clementina a tale of modern princess adventures with postchasses, beauties, and plots. The work is described as highly engaging by the contemporary reader, published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in New York.
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Clementina
A. E. W. Mason
Frederick A. Stokes Company
New York
Unconscious Comedians collection by Caroline Dyer reviewed
A review of Caroline Dyer 's Unconscious Comedians notes the twelve short stories depict American society figures with wit and realism. Several pieces first appeared in magazines including An Unaccountable Countess, and others are new to this collection from Dodd Mead & Co.
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Caroline Dyer
Dodd, Mead & Cow
New York
Century and magazine notes on authors and almanacs
The February Century will feature a J W Piercy Oklahoma life story from Indianapolis and Joseph B Gilder leaves Critic for a London post with Dodd Mead. The January American Illustrated Methodist Magazine discusses Charlotte M Yonge, while the New York Tribune Almanac for 192 presents broad statistics and dating. The January New England Magazine offers diverse articles and biographies. The American Beauties calendar showcases six American girl types. Current History January highlights Li Hung Chang and world affairs. The New York World Almanac 192 is praised for wide statistical coverage. Atlantic January reflects on the Powers of the National Committee and party control.
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Indianapolis
Joseph B. Gilder
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Dodd, Mead & Co
London
American Illustrated Methodist Magazine
Charlotte M. Yonge
Daisy Chain
Redclyffe
Southern Pacific
Norfolk Island
New York Tribune
New England Magazine
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Alfred S. Roe
Walter 4. Dyer
Fred W. Shibley
Emma Willard
Ellen Strong Bartlett
Faulkner Farm
Brooke Fisher
Mons
Beaudet
Chicago
W. T. Smedley
A. B. Wenzell
Albert Sterner
Howard Chandler Christy
Henry Hutt
A. L. Keller
Christy
Li Hung Chang
Richard Gleason Greene
East
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Miss Stone
Panama
Canada
New York World
Atlantic
Rollo Ogden
Eollar
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