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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1903
Page
15
A fragmented tale traces a Rhinestone Sport, Cousin Jim, and Herbert as they chase status in gambling circles. Their pursuit exposes bravado, slang, and the peril of quick fame, ending with a stark shift to a postapocalyptic vision where humanity contemplates renewal after a sun’s collapse.
A fragment reflects on excess drinking Rainwater tin youth and late bedtimes. The speaker admits pride suffered and jokes about keeping pace with the bell cows. The moral suggests many are called but few deliver the goods.
A McClure's excerpt recounts a fictional sunburst apocalypse observed from a subterranean lab. Survivors, led by a physics professor and colleagues, endure a rapid celestial threat that envelops the sun and ruptures Earth’s surface. The story follows fiery heat, planetary upheaval, and a global cataclysm that overwhelms the continent.
The New York Juvenile Asylum plans a 277 acre Echo hills estate overlooking the Hudson to replace crowded Washington Heights housing. The village will use small group cottages with single rooms, local schools and parks, overseen by Charles D. Hilles with funding by Henry Talmadge. The project aims to segregate by needs, provide home atmospheres, and blend North American and European child welfare ideas.
A New York Times report follows an unnamed woman posing as a fashion-minded artist. On a crowded Sixth Avenue elevated car she contemplates a publisher meeting, while a rival artist inside keeps appraising her. She hatches a playful, if sly, counter tactic with a pencil and a plan. The scene ends with a punchline about domestic life.
A Toys man reacts with surprise and unease as a girl sketches an outline in caricature on her paper. He pockets his pad and, upon the guard’s call for change, rises and withdraws quickly, while the girl resumes her interrupted thoughts about publishers.
A New York Evening Post Washington Letter recounts the Ezekiel flying machine patent attempt by a gospel minister who cited scripture as a flight manual. Experts say true flight remains elusive and patent success rests on testable proof and credible witnesses.
A Washington physician with extensive alcoholism treatment experience explains that hungry periodical drinkers or dipsomaniacs rarely crave a first drink with food in the stomach. He urges hungry drinkers to eat quickly before deciding, noting milk and crackers can blunt the urge and prevent full blazes, while long-time drinkers may still drink on a full stomach. Government workers are cited as prone to sprees after light meals and long days, with milk and a quick sandwich helping avert a binge. He emphasizes food as the enemy of drink for dipsomaniacs and urges publication of this fact.
Kansas City faced a supreme flood moment as 400 000 residents endured a day of scarcity and disruption. Rivers overflowed the banks while water mains failed and pumping stations flooded, halting power plants, factories, and municipal services.
The flood crippled power, water, telephones, and fire protection across the city. Elevators, lights, and telegraph services failed, leaving residents without water from wells or barters from river shipments. Thousands were displaced as tracks and depots flooded, and crowded districts faced oil lighting and danger, with police and militia patrolling dark streets.
Western Kansas hosts dramatic sinkholes as the US Geological Survey notes the Meade salt weir appeared in 1889. The Meade depression measures 260 feet across the top and nine feet deep, with saline water and high temperatures near boiling, while surrounding areas show many similar depressions suitable for irrigation storage. Geologists cite rapid cave‑ins and soil compaction by percolating water as causes, differing from typical limestone cave processes.
A Minnesota journalist recounts an Iowa hotel where rooms were labeled by states and occupied according to the guests we met. Utah stories include Maine being quiet, Montana’s noisy poker, New York’s grand room, and Florida called at six in the morning, with other states noted for quirks and complaints.
A garbled OCR style exchange cites a policeman quipping about the United States being the best state and inviting someone to go home amid heated talk. The fragment hints at a heated state pride remark with implied tension and pushback.
Miranda the tortoiseshell cat of Albert Hall vanished after leaping from a six story roof to the sidewalk on Morningside avenue near 123rd street. The plunge stunned bystanders and injured a nearby child on a baby carriage, while police issued a general alert as residents search for the beloved neighborhood pet.
A Virginia traveler nicknamed Bix feasts through multiple courses in a dining car, ordering port, apollinaris, crab chowder, fried crabs, asparagus, cheese, and coffee. He pays two dollars and reflects on affluence in a free country while a narrator contrasts poverty and future prospects. The piece ends with scattered lines about a new "Hired-Girl System" and social notions.
The Boston Transcript warns that prosperity is threatened by prosperity strikes as workers renounce wages, questioning how long demand for commodities can hold if 4,090,900 wages are renounced in four weeks. Only full participation by workers can sustain spending.
The New Albany Ledger hails the Indianapolis Journal as a clean, newsy, high quality paper with elevated tone since the 1860s. It urges Sunday readers to add the daily issue, noting small extra cost for a fuller paper and advocating the Journal as the leading Republican paper in the West.
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