Engineering Feats of Steam Steel and Canals Rise in Glass Era
Correspondence from the Indianapolis Journal describes modern bridge and canal projects. It details replacing Florence Tennessee river spans with new steel, Chicago drainage work, large earthmoving for canals, deep foundations, and the novel freezing of quicksand to allow tunnel shafts to be sunk safely.
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Indianapolis Journal
New York
Niagara Gorge
Florence
Tennessee River
Alabama
Ieisure
India
Guy Bea
Onceaerss
Chicago Drainage Canal
Chicago River
Desplaines River
Gulf of Mexico
Illinois Ravine
Iron Mountain
Mich
The Lump or the Leaven in Indiana Thought
Daniel P. Baldwin argues that Indiana, like England, has a small intellectual leaven among a large lump of population. He cites wealth distribution, professional representation, and political figures to urge humility and emphasize rising public intelligence, wealth, and future cultural development in Indiana.
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England
Indiana
Triggs
Rockefeller
Shakspeare
Byron K Elliott
Charles Denby
John W Foster
Morton
Harrison
United States Senate
Hendricks
McDonald
Voorhees
Walter Q. Gresham
Schuyler Colfax
W. H. H. Miller
William Dudley Foulke
Indianapolis
Macauley
Iowa
Washington
Virginia
Ohio
New England
Emerson
Bryant
Longfellow
Whittier
Lowell
Howells
New York
Daniel P. Baldwin
Logansport
Ind
Senses Reading as a Measure of Character in New Psychology
John Elpreth Watkins reports on a new psychology claim that character can be read from the five senses. Tools like the olfactometer and tasteometer test acuteness of smell and taste, while touch, temperature, sight, and hearing are measured to distinguish normals from criminals and degenerates.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
John Elfpreth Watkins, Jr
East Tennessee and its mountain charm described
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal the author extols East Tennessee from the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Mountains. He recalls Holston Heights, Fall Creek, and Bay’s Mountain legends, notes camp meetings and early frontier figures, and highlights growing railroads, mines, and manufacturing transforming the region.
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Indianapolis Journal
Blue Ridge Mountains
North Carolina
Cumberland Mountains
East Tennessee
Stone
Unaka
Appalachian Park
Uncle Sam
Holston Heights
Hill and Dale
Jordan
Holston
Virginia
Bay
Ernest Seton-Thompson
Las
Dan Ellis
Knoxville
East
Tennessee
Francis Asbury
Old North
Watauga River
John Sevier
Watauga
King’s Mountain
Sevier
Nolichucky River
Jonesboro
Andrew Jackson
Nashville
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Washington County
D. Boone
Greenville
Andrew Johnson
John Morgan
Indiana
Ohio
London Social Evil Movement Probes for Reform Stalls
London on January 8 sees little progress in the social evil suppression campaign. Authorities blame the public and the public blames officials. Home Secretary Ritchie warns against drastic police solutions and notes the difficulty of solving vice across this vast city. The Westminster deputation led by the Duke of Norfolk presses for action before coronation crowds, while Ritchie stresses localities and legal limits.
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Indianapolis Journal
London
Littte
Ritchie
Home Department
Westminster City Council
Duke of Norfolk
Earl Marshal
England
City of Westminster
Westminster City
Westminster
Piccadilly
Haymarket
Leicester Square
Regent Street
Charing Cross
Birmingham
Jaxene
Empire
Home Secretary
Liverpool
Mr. Ritchie
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Frank W. Skinner
C. E
F. W. Skinner
Maurice Francis Egan
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