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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1903
Page
6
A Sunday Journal survey notes an enlightened school system should curb race prejudice. It cites Indianapolis teachers and a forthcoming school list, critiques post office penalties, and comments on floods, feuds, and public morals amid city life. It also discusses Serbia's monarchy debate and Governor Odell praising college-educated leaders.
The speaker argues that crimes from abroad threaten shores unless met with intelligent respect for government authority. He says modern problems require the best brains and that political quacks and demagogues have passed.
Speculation on Servia's fate dominates European minds while rulers avoid war. The piece notes powers balk at intervention, cites Russia Germany Austria and others, and predicts possible Balkan shifts. It also urges polite but firm street car conduct to prevent crowding and end seat monopolizing behavior.
The article discusses street car ethics outlining conductor duties and limits. It covers contracts with passengers, company liability for failed through service, and when ejecting fareless or disorderly riders is lawful, noting that the law supersedes company rules and that excessive force exposes the company to damages.
The rise of interurban transport and rural mail delivery erases the crossroads hamlet and its country store post office. The weathered one story building with its shelves and scales fades as carriers and mail routes replace local trade, leaving a bleak reminder of a cherished rural way of life.
Analyzes Roosevelt’s sermons on work as the key to happiness and civic progress. Argues that success breeds a stubborn reluctance to retire, driven by the thrill of achievement, planning, and victory in sustained effort.
A Springfield newspaper critiques moralizing lynching coverage after a killing of a black man in Indianapolis. It argues the incident was not a planned lynching but a violent mob response to an insult, with one shooter causing a fatal consequence in public.
The piece argues lynch mobs in the South are organized and deliberate, with victims tortured at leisure and no one punished. It notes arrests were made in the Indianapolis case and the shooter is jailed, calling for due process. It urges a fair Massachusetts paper to adopt similar honesty.
During a coal shortage last summer and winter supporters urged city action to buy coal in bulk and sell at cost. Mayor Maybury formed a Municipal Coal Commission to undersell dealers, but the scheme ran a deficit of 1072.78 dollars after selling 3481 tons of coal from 3881 purchased. Four hundred tons vanished in distribution, blamed as lost in the shuffle, ending hopes of a permanent city coal business.
Albany dispatch notes McCartee, once a Treasury Department employee, died in Salem. It clarifies a famous telegram claiming Dix authored the line about shooting anyone who hauls down the flag, stating Dix himself wrote it and a facsimile confirms his authorship.
The piece argues commerce is incidental in American life and critiques the novel The Main Chance as a faithful portrait of a city’s social life. It warns that college ideals shape high school discipline and that colleges must reform before criticizing schools. It notes New York labor graft revelations and comments on various social issues and personalities, including Grover Cleveland, Windsor clerics, and Richard Harding Davis.
The column rails at ladies hats with fowl adornments and mocks millinery trends while noting a Boston preacher urging prayer for crops during a long drought. It observes rain returns in the Boston area and laments baseball rowdyism, hotel guest attitudes, Servia’s throne factions, and a stalled telephone linemen strike amid rare June sunshine.
A collage of quips from The New York Evening Sun Philadelphia Inquirer Atlanta Constitution Chicago News and others. Jokes range from stubborn relatives and stubborn weather to political dinners and aging vanity. Many fortunes rely on wit, mischief, and the era’s social foibles.
Ex Governor Garcelon of Lewiston Maine remains active in medicine at ninety. Monks say St Bernard dogs save about twenty lives yearly. West Point honors include Grant and MacArthur as top cadets. Greece plans a St Louis World’s Fair pavilion with ancient statuary reproductions. World’s Fair roads total thirty five miles, much asphalt, shaded by landscape design. Huntington builds a $25000 private sleeper car for the fair. Nicaragua consumes about 300000 pounds cacao yearly. chocolate is a daily staple in well-to-do homes. Major Luther B. Hare faces retirement board in San Antonio for reassignment. Florence Nightingale, eighty three, spends her retirement in Hampshire. Ecuador remains highly Catholic with six Roman churches per thousand people.
In conjunction with our exhibition, a special collection of 0 works from the International Society of London will tour major cities starting in Philadelphia. Also recounted are tales of Lord Salisbury's absent mindedness and a light quip by King Edward about a photo of himself. Princess Mathilde, Napoleon’s nephew, reaches eighty three amid Bonaparte lineage notes. A Western store ad laments a white goods sale with a risqué fire safety punchline.
A New York Independent analysis argues that visible opposition by Eastern capitalists to Roosevelt is limited and not aimed at defeating his renomination. It contends his major acts on the coal strike and the Northern Securities case boosted his popularity, while discreet resistance would backfire with voters and Congress.
Nebraska State Journal outlines Taft Philippines law allowing adult Chinamen to buy opium while prohibiting sale to Filipinos. Tariff revenue funds native teacher education in the archipelago. The piece calls the legislation unique yet possibly best possible amid broader anti-Chinese efforts.
Merchants planning Chicago trips to buy goods urged to bring provisions bed linen and towels for their visit. Hotel managers will supervise the supply and ensure accommodations, reflecting cautious planning for visiting traders and travelers.
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