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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1902
Page
3
A practical miner warns novices about the risks of mining speculation. The article details salting schemes, inflated booms, and costly crashes driven by promoters, editors, and distant investors. It explains how true value lies with regional insiders and how Eastern capital often buys worthless claims.
The American Physiological Society heard Dr. Albert F. Mathews present findings credited to European and American researchers on nerve activity. Loeb and colleagues describe nerve impulses via jellylike cells, negating simple vital principles, with anaesthetics and alcohol hindering jellying and snake venom causing nerve coagulation, while Loeb suggests death as a postponable morphological process.
A Indianapolis Journal dispatch reports Singapore and Malaya favor a passive Malay education policy. Malay schooling remains vernacular with limited English instruction and low attendance among girls. Chinese pupils push for English and commercial training while Malays prize ease and status over study, shaping a largely noncompetitive colonial education system.
W L Alden criticizes Mallock for embracing the Baconian claim that Bacon authored most English works and hid a cipher in them. The piece mocks the theory as absurd and predicts Mallock will drift toward broader fringe beliefs such as Christian Science and flat Earth ideas.
Philadelphia Times notes the valet as a social figure is diminishing in prominence on hotel registers. It recalls eighteenth century English duties of a valet including lighting the dressing room, arranging clothes, preparing the bath, and assisting the master, with shifts in modern perception and practice.
Richard Hathaway, longtime sailmaker on the New York waterfront, warns that the art of saltmaking will fade within twenty five years as old hands vanish and few apprentices take up the trade. He recalls a lively era when sail lofts thrived, pay rose to three dollars for nine hours, and crowded lofts numbered over 150, now dwindling to about fifteen.
A letter from South Africa describes white ants destroying boots and clothing left on floors in Rhodesia. The narrator wakes to find cone shaped heaps with holes sized like boot interiors, revealing an ants built pile leaving only nails and eyelets.
Miss Annie Leary of New York joins a select group of American women honored by the Pope. The article outlines how prior American countesses and other recipients received the Golden Rose and various papal orders. It explains the significance of the decorations, including the Order of Christ, St Sylvester, Ordine Piano, and St Gregory the Great, plus the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal awarded for service to the church.
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