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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1902
Page
6
A survey of the fraternity girl and the sorority girl contrasts their roles and expectations. It describes initiation rituals, pins, secret handclasps, and social duties for campus life and notes how many end by marrying into the fraternity.
The article advises inviting two to three weeks before the wedding, favors old English engraving and names on invitations, and including the couple’s name on the card. It notes newer phrases shorten invites and that a compact sheet with matching script enhances formality and personal touch. It also mentions social events and club notices, with lists of upcoming meetings and visits.
A healthful summer breakfast recommends Grape-Nuts with cream, fruit, and soft boiled eggs to nourish the body without heating it. It claims Grape-Nuts provides more nourishment per pound than meat and stresses a cooler, balanced diet for brain and nervous system during hot weather.
Invitations issued for multiple weddings on June 10 including Miss Anetta Langsdale and Charles no 5 of Washington and Katherine Bernd and Charles W. Ross at Zion's Church. Engagements announced for Miss Beatrice Williams to Percival O Power and Miss Florence De Pauw to Prof Seaman. Other nuptial plans and society names listed with dates and venues.
A parade of weddings and engagements from Terre Haute to Indianapolis outlines plans for multiple ceremonies in June. Notices include Miss Helen Elizabeth McKay with Brandt Theodore Steele, Miss Mary Wheeler with Miss Mary Mary Wheeler, and numerous at home dates and church marriages across Indiana and nearby states.
The Review Circle meets Thursday afternoon led by Mrs. R. W Mild on North Alabama Street. The Ladies Auxiliary of the A. O. H. holds a card party at St Joseph's Hall Wednesday evening. Local Counsel of Women to discuss Peace and Arbitration Tuesday. Sorosis Club convenes at J. C. Pierson’s home Thursday afternoon. Kings Daughters of Plymouth Church host a strawberry social Wednesday. Rail Postal Clerks Auxiliary meets Monday at Mrs. Somerville's. Y W C A holds annual meeting Friday evening with sewing and embroidery classes and a concert by Miss Josephine Robinson. Rev J. W. Parker to address attendees.
A Berlin report describes Stauber’s peat briquette method which removes water and binds turf into solid blocks. The product shows 45.14 percent fixed carbon, 45.4 percent hydrogen, 29.34 percent oxygen, and 9 percent ash with a three point eight six calorie thermal value, free of sulfur and suitable for domestic heating and steam.
New York letter notes that Olcott warned against trusts across professions and details a failed plan to unite hardware jobbers. It explains the impracticality of coordinating middlemen, the complexity of distribution, and the inability to secure financial backing, ending with the abandonment of the hardware jobbers’ trust.
A poetry notice from the Independent presents Ida Whipple Benham’s verse about Death as a reaper weed removing the weak and young, leaving the strong to face war’s grim harvest. The poem contrasts frailty with vigor, portraying cruel selection in a ravaged landscape.
Crowds gather at Fairview Park for the inauguration of the regular amusement season. King and Queen the high diving horses perform twice daily at 4 and 9 o clock all week. Indianapolis Military Band gives concerts on Tuesday and Friday nights. Brookside and Riverside park concerts at 3 pm feature full program listings. Fairview restaurateurs Hyde and June praised for cuisine and service.
Inland Printer explains the half tone screen as two glass plates etched at 45 degrees, cemented to form a grid. The image forms from thousands of tiny dots. a 150 line inch screen yields 22,500 black dots and equal white spaces per square inch, with weather and chemistry affecting processing and delivery.
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