City French Colony in Indianapolis Shows United Citizenship
Our city hosts a long standing French society blending French natives and naturalized Americans. Leaders include A Dryer and Edouard Du Bois. The group values steady work, Catholic roots, and social integration, while noting Germans and Italians show more insular clubs. Du Bois defends French character and cautions American readers on Dreyfus amid Paris artistic life.
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Indianapolis
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Ieee Not Society
Union Cee Ye
Charles
Camille Many
Francois Perrin
Father Bessonics
A. Dryer
Edouard du Bois
Joseph Kernel
A. Chablot
Adolph Asch
C. Froidereaux
Charles Many
Germany
Himselif
Mr. du Bois
United States
Paris
America
Gaston Deschamps
le Temps
Edmond Rostand
New York
Fitch
Rapho
Nethersole
Alliance Francaise of
Chicago
le Causeries du Lundi
John Ll. Griffiths
Emily Fletcher
Ogle
Mary Colgan
Dreyfus
London
Simeon Coy
Coy
John M. Higgins
Wandering Into Nature’s Quiet for the Day
A verse by W. W. Ptrimmer rises from a desk to escape the town’s din and rush. The speaker wanders through woodland paths past hawthorn bloom Judas tree perfume and mandrakes to a forest stream and the hermit thrush’s song, finding peace in nature’s embrace.
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Judas Tree
W. W. Ptrimmer
The Emotional Radiator and the Flat Home Myths
An essay recalls old steam heating in flats and the imagined nostalgia of children raised with noisy, social radiators. It contrasts loud city heat with envisioned quiet electric warmth and sketches a fable of future reminiscence by a boy who fears a house fire during a visit to a country home.
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New York Mail and Express
Popular Idea of Twins and Early Medical Curiosity
A physician debunks the belief that one twin dies and the other must follow, attributing deaths to nourishment and care rather than a spiritual bond. The discussion shifts to microbes, noting pneumonia is microbe driven yet influenced by exposure and vitality. Additional doctors comment on gland therapies, cocaine anesthesia, and blood microscopical diagnosis, with anecdotes from Dr. Marsee and hysterias’ heredity, plus a nurse emphasis.
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Henry Jameson
Jame
West
Murphy
Chicago
New York
Indianapolis
Dr. Janeway
Janeway
America
Germany
Joseph W. Marsee
St. Vincent's Hospital
Medical College of Indiana
Marsee
J. F. Robertson
Robertson
Joseph Marsee
the Inquirer
John A. of
Fragments From a Lurid Book Trade in Boston
An awkward, garbled extract shows a bookseller and a reader arguing over a controversial title. The dialogue mentions buyers returning in anger and an author declaring his identity, with scattered references to Boston Transcript and academic readers. The text is incomplete but implies a clash over a sensational work and its reception.
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Indiana State Medical Sociey
South Bend
John A. Wyeth
Camp Morton
W. B. Fletcher
Libby
Napoleon
London Spectator
Canon Fleming
Eaton Square
Eden
Napoleon the Great
West Indies
St. Helena
Longwood
Journal
Brussels
Ingrain Art
Velvet Brussels
Beattie
SGC
Beattie Wilton
W.H. Messenger
S. Delaware St
E. Washington St
Atlanta Constitution
Boston Transcript
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