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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1903
Page
3
The Daily Journal lists subscription and mailing terms for 1903 including carrier, mail prepaid, and weekly editions. Details cover daily and Sunday rates, club discounts, and agent sales, with offices for editorial rooms and business office in Indianapolis.
Instructions for sending journals through the mails require scent stamps on eight or twelve page papers and higher rates for larger papers. Foreign postage is higher, and manuscripts must include name and address. rejected items will not be returned. Mailings should note Indianapolis as second class matter.
The Indianapolis Journal recaps a strong Indiana speech in Cleveland by Governor Durbin praising loyal Hoosiers. It cites other dispatches about flood losses at Swift’s packing and Cudahy’s, plus bank misappropriation in New Hampshire.
The plan envisions minimum price and reduced marketing with broad countrywide cooperation for automatic price control. It seems simple in theory and could benefit farmers, but the vast field and diverse personal interests may impede the required cooperation.
The Muncie Federation of Clubs invites Jane Addams of Hull House to address next Saturday on the social waste of child labor. The piece weighs both sides of the debate and cites historical wage-earner data for Indiana and the nation, arguing for school-enforced truancy laws and a balanced stance on youth work versus schooling.
The forthcoming Republican leadership in the House centers on Representative Cannon. He plans a summer conference with GOP leaders to align committee choices before an anticipated early November extra session. Possible shifts include Ways and Means, Banking and Currency, and Appropriations with Bingham or Hemenway as replacements.
The article sketches congressional committee prospects with Cannon reshaping leadership among Republicans including Overstreet and Parker. It recalls historic flood years in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, notes Kansas freshes with potential loss of life, and mentions a Knoxville undertaker indicted for a burial scam. Indiana, cyclone risks, and baseball enthusiasm are also touched.
A humorous exchange contrasts Scotch whisky’s naming with a bartender’s quip about a Democratic harmony dinner, linking high credit in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a Chicago Tribune joke. The dialogue playfully notes the liquor’s name and a noisy floor above.
A collage of brief comic lines and dialogue bits from multiple newspapers. Jests touch on heat in preaching, a presidential kiss, stray cats, broken resolutions, fortunes and cucumber theft in a school raid, and a restaurant beer exchange among students.
The International Association of Railway Surgeons will hold its annual meeting at the German House June 17 to 18. The association has more than 2,000 surgeons, many with international reputations, and many authors and contributors to medical journals. A large attendance is anticipated and Dr. J. H. Ford chairs the arrangements committee to entertain visitors in the city.
W. C. Cunningham, who aided at the Claypool in starting the little book system, has returned to Cincinnati where he has interests in the Hotel Rand.
Anderson mayor John L Forkner is openly praised by party leaders as a potential Democratic governor candidate though he denies interest. James W Fortune of Jeffersonville is also seen as a possible contender, while other Democrats like A M Adair weigh their own political futures.
The article notes Indiana Woodmen nominees for the head camp including Otto Carmichael and George M. Snyder with campaign details. It also mentions federal judges in Illinois, Senator Fairbanks plans, and Prohibition organizer E Newlin touring sixty five counties to rebuild party strength.
The South Side market on Shelby street began August 23 1899 after a pact with the street car company to remodel the north side. Early sales and receipts were solid but a political feud linked to George Dudley’s careers in city offices hurt patronage, though recent years under Eliot T. Oburn show improvement and rising sales with Saturdays selling out.
The Epworth League convention ended with a crowded 2:30 PM mass meeting at Irvington M E Church. Three talks on Christianity's essentials covered Jesus life and service, tithing, and holy fire as Rev Tippy Ballard and Stansfield spoke. The devotional session followed, with Barnett leading Keep the Vision of Christ Clear. No business was transacted. treasurer Barnett reported $117.80 in receipts and district dues.
Josiah Flynt's new book traces Roderick from nameless street youth to reforming crook, showing a stark criminal viewpoint and questions about reform. The critique compares Flynt to Ferri and Lombroso and notes the New York publisher Dodd, Mead & Co. and a second, separate item about a historical novel illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
A literary critique discusses Alfred Henry Lewis's frontier tales in The Winning of Lucy Paoli with Frederic Remington illustrations. The hostelry setting at the Black Lion Inn frames vivid stories about frontier life, flavoring them with imagination and contrast. The collection includes sixteen Remington illustrations and chapters such as How Forked Tongue was Burned and The Luck of Cold-Saber Simms, highlighting entertainment through romance and realism.
The review highlights Vance Thompson as an American writer with a French influence. Spinners of Life, set in New York with cosmopolitan flavor, offers a riddle like Rousseau quoted passage and emphasizes originality, dramatic force, and imaginative insight. Published by J. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia.
The critique notes excessive description in The Speils of Empire by Francis Newton Thorpe. It praises the colorful Mexico setting but says romance overmatches plot with a sentimental thread from Dorothea and Estoval.
A book review criticizes Cornet Strong of Seaton's Horse for overemphasis on style and indiscreet descriptions. The reviewer notes that ornate prose interrupts the plot and slows the narrative with lengthy, lyrical sentences and vague imagery.
The passage mocks a chapter one headline and a northern New York setting. It cites a publisher praising the work as superior fiction while deriding Max Nordau. The New Amsterdam Book Company of New York is named in the note.
New book of nature sketches by Eve Bignell presents quiet outdoor life with woodland animals as central characters. The author depicts creatures including a porch adopting squirrel and various birds, in a tranquil, nature rich style from New York publisher Baker & Taylor Company.
Harriet Keller offers a new guide to shrubs of the Northern States with scientific analysis and popular description. It covers wild and domesticated varieties across nearly 500 genera, illustrated extensively to aid identification and understanding of shrub habits. New York: cher sheer ns.
A timely book edited by Lucille B. Hill of Wellesley College with a strong introduction. The volume treats writers and subjects as athletics, presenting vibrant text about women’s increasing interest in physical exercise and outdoor amusements.
A brief note on Edwin Pugh's novel The Stumbling Flock praising its machine made situations and suggesting students compare it to Mrs. H Ward's Lady Rose's Daughter. Published by A B Barnes & Co New York.
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