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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
8
In a dim castle chamber the duke agrees to a conditional truce with the clever jester, who senses a larger plot involving Nanette the gypsy, a march of masked intrigue, and a planned capture of letters. The tale follows hooded schemes among soldiers and a wary fool who keeps watch over shifting loyalties.
In Chapter IX a festive scene surrounds a castle and its grounds as the jester moves unseen among merrymaking. A stalwart guard questions his permit to depart and the fool eyes a gleaming staff, exchanging a moment with the sentry before dawn-lit dusk folds over the pageant.
The June 28 dispatch lists Army and Navy assignments and duties. Maj James S Pettit is assigned to temporary duty in the office of the adjutant general, O W Woods relieved from the Philippines and ordered to Vancouver Barracks. John M Carson Jr moves to West Point, relieving John B Bellinger, Maj. Pullman ordered to Washington for duty with the open artermaster general. S Kerrick and R S Spillman granted one month leave. Navy: G Pickrell to await orders, A Anschuetz from Annapolis to Texas, M Casey to Newport News for Missouri, W Grant granted sick leave for three months, J McGrath to Boston navy yard, R E Simonson to Puget Sound, and R J Keating granted three months’ leave.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes peaches plums and cherry tomatoes from Porto Rico arriving via the Botanical Gardens. They are new to New York, selling at up to 75 cents a quart uptown, praised for appearance, served whole in salads with lettuce. yet dealers mishandled them and New Yorkers resist food experiments.
In Elkhart Indiana a local group of fathers forms a society to discourage corporal punishment in schools. Their by laws require members to whip or procure to be whipped any teacher who disciplines their child. The piece mocks the plan and urges responsible home conduct to avoid school punishment.
New York dispatch notes the German Social Democracy's rise to about ninety Reichstag seats and near one million more votes than in 1898. It discusses implications for democracy, potential shifts in coalition power, and the looming question of a socialist majority affecting ministerial responsibility and fiscal decision making.
A state senator testifies at a Board hearing about Garrett Droppers from New York Commercial Advertiser. The witness recalls a glass of claret at each plate and an “immoral act” amid party remarks. Immorality’s depth remains unclear while other courtlike allegations reference two beer bottles and a Welsh rabbit.
A New York letter describes white steam yachts that cost 1000 to 15 00 a month to operate and shuttle wealthy owners from private homes on the Hudson and Long Island Sound to downtown New York. The trips are lavish, with swift runs to private docks, solitary breakfasts in rose tinted rooms, and guests for dinners at country houses, all costing up to 5000 to 15000 a month. The piece contrasts opulent yacht life with the struggling, salaried man enduring an 8 cent ferry ride and pondering “what's the use.”
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