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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1901
Page
4
The Indianapolis Sunday Journal outlines subscription rates for Sunday and daily editions, including weekly, monthly, and yearly plans, with reduced club rates and agent options. It lists mailing details, postage stamps, distribution locations, and agencies across major cities.
The Journal offers one of its two Hoe presses for sale as a large modern double-supplement press replaces it. The sale item is in excellent condition, ships immediately, and includes a Jenney motor. Substantial telephones and address services for subscribers are noted, with broader commentary on various topics.
A discussion notes parole should only apply to first time convicts while second sentence inmates must serve to completion. It argues this stance will influence parole decisions and cites a 7 percent parole violation rate among men with criminal records in Iowa.
The Indiana National Guard encampment shows improved discipline under General McKee and his officers. Governors Durbin, the medical staff, and a disciplined corps of uniformed men in heat reveal the expected dignity of state service, with lessons from prior camps at Chickamauga and abroad guiding safer conduct.
The Baltimore Sun defends Baltimore officials who blocked Massachusetts troops headed for Washington in 1861 arguing that secession and federal coercion challenged constitutional rights. It traces a states rights mindset, Lincoln era unity, and asserts national supremacy under a Lincolnian view, warning that former split loyalties would have hurled the nation into European influence.
The passage argues the Sun's current fear of imperialism mirrors its 181 era warnings that Lincoln overthrew the Constitution and established a dictatorship. It frames the newspaper's stance as consistent with past critiques of centralized power.
Across the central States the hot season lasts about a week and crowds suffer in July and August. Major events like Christian Endeavor in Cincinnati and a large Ohio river city gathering face intense heat. National Guard encampments and milder sessions each year are hampered by high temperatures impacting drill and instruction. The Young Baptists met in Chicago with low attendance and listless exercises under the heat.
The author argues that May, June, late September, and October offer ideal weather for travel and public meetings. They claim October could host military encampments and large crowds, with numerous parades and church gatherings, while July and August suffer heat. The piece questions why dates are set to unsuitable seasons.
A reflective essay tracing historic epithet use from Old Abe to Old Sol and Old Humidity. It notes how familiar nicknames honor figures like Lincoln Grant Sherman and others while arguing humidity shapes comfort more than dry heat, with a nod to a Baltimore Sun Manila visit and British royal pageantry.
Senator Wellington predicts Admiral Schley not vindicated by a navy biased court of inquiry. He accuses officials of political patronage friction with the President. Meanwhile the State Industrial School for Girls accepts Miss Keeley’s resignation and names Miss Rhodes of Richmond as superintendent after careful review.
The article surveys a new New York practice called business doctors who audit firms to improve efficiency and cut costs, charging fees by time. It notes a harsh summer march by National Guard troops, a case where a wife quietly rifles her husband’s pockets, and a legal stance protecting a woman’s portrait rights in advertising. It also recalls a St Paul tombstone maker hiring former bandits for publicity and ends with a quip about a morbid marketing genius.
A collage of quips and captions from various papers including Philadelphia Bulletin Chicago Record Herald and Puck. Jests about gum chewers clergymen costumes and four leaf clovers appear alongside light humor about hired help and barefoot boys breaking windows.
Dialogue captures a potluck of charity and misfortune as a kind woman offers a dime to a tramp during a blistering day. The man rejects work chatter, explaining he is fleeing the heat and danger, not seeking employment.
The Rev. Washington Gladden of Columbus Ohio is named Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale Divinity School for next year. Portrait painter Theodore Chartran is said to have earned more in his first US visit than in all prior work. The Sultan of Jehore glitters with gems worth 12000 in crown epaulets girdle and cuffs. Henry James notes Sarah Grand claims she was fourteen before learning to read or write. President Diaz of Mexico has fully recovered from winter illness. The Archbishop of York marks seventy five years yet remains active and reads Mindostanee daily. General Charles King recalls three Cumberland Army generals who later became presidents.
A Bird Center coal dealer, hoping to see Europe cheaply, travels six weeks with fake German and French phrases. He endures costly taxis, pushy waiters, and crowded museums, returns home poorer and wiser, craving rhubarb pie and small-town welcome. The tale satirizes American excess and crowds the idea that brief trips broaden.
A survey of public figures and royals with anecdotes about Geronimo touring Buffalo Exposition and Princess Maud’s varied talents. Alfred Austin’s early poetry career and pension highlighted. The German Emperor’s ear-tugging episode described through a witty telegram moment.
A boy asks if annoyance prompts a royal habit and the king confirms with a peculiar exchange about behavior and a playful line about listening to a child’s inquiry. The dialogue preserves a whimsical, archaic tone with odd spellings and inner royalty signaling.
A shuffled mix of aphorisms and reflections appears, from Barrie and Renan to Hawthorne and Sterne, touching on conscience, happiness, labor, love, and belief. Brief lines about life’s burdens, faith, and human frailty are paired with stray school and divorce musings, all in a fragmentary, quotational style.
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