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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1902
Page
18
Count Leo Tolstoi depicts brutal factory life and social caste, contrasting grim labor from mines to stone breaking with opulent leisure of nobles. He condemns societal complicity in inequality spanning Russia and global cities, urging reflection on class, poverty, and the stark divide between rich and poor.
The writer starkly condemns laboring class misery in Russia and globally. He contrasts a few educated elites with hundreds of millions living in squalor, critiques wealthy consumers and landowners, and condemns a misused Christianity that justifies oppression and war.
A narrator observes children playing in cold weather while highlighting bare hands and lacking mittens. The piece critiques the Weather Man for meddling with climate and admonishes a mitten charity to help the needy, especially the cold, hungry, and poorly clothed youths observed on the streets.
An elderly reminiscence recalls a rough start in Indiana waters aboard the sidewheel steamer H. M. Summers. The narrator details a stubborn boat, a quarrelsome wife, a meager salary, and a cargo lightening crisis on the White river, followed by a tough overland salt sale and a return to modest life after the Summers sinks in shallow Ohio waters.
In February 1902 at Yalta Leo Tolstoy argues oppression thrives while reformers fail to reform Christianity. He criticizes reformers, revolutionists, and socialism and urges all good people to purify religion to align with Jesus Christ’s teachings.
Plans for a Carnegie Institution funded by a ten million dollar gift attract many applicants for special work. Incorporators report bombardment by individuals seeking scholarships and positions in elocution art and science. A standard reply is issued by Professor Walcott as incorporators prepare to meet on the 29th to organize, elect temporary officers, and form a constitution.
Scientific American reports a new alcohol exposition to be held in Paris under M Dupuy minister of agriculture. It will showcase alcohol powered motive power light and heat and carbureted alcohols with tests of motors automobiles and boats. The Automobile Club will participate and expect further improvements since last November.
In a humor piece titled Solomon on the Tramp, Chicago Record-Herald quotes a dialogue about Solomon’s compassion and fatigue. The sketch plays with dialect and the idea that Solomon’s writings stem from deep feeling, concluding that he was the first in the business, unable to write without emotion.
A fragmented poetic piece speaks of distant lovers and a sunset scene across sallow sands. The narrator asks a beloved to meet where sun and sea mingle as Cleopatra night drinks the light.
An exile returns after twenty years to the Strathmore parish near Hilltown, revisiting the station, ford, and farmstead to relive past days. He finds the same local folk, including the aging station master, the old horse Donald, and the unchanged countryside, but the farm now owned by a capitalist with new tenants, modernized harvests, and fewer workers. He walks through the house as it was, recalls the old tenants and life, and departs with mixed melancholy and gratitude, vowing to return only as a visitor.
Marietta Gazette reports Robert Dempster of Chillicothe Ohio has invented a compact gas maker that converts crude oil into gas at about 6 cents per thousand feet. A prototype will be tested at Marietta Manufacturing Company with output around 2.00 cubic feet per hour and self fueling operation. The device aims to supply fuel in oil fields and areas without gas networks, reducing costs for consumers and factories.
A Boston Herald reporter notes a moment at the woman suffrage convention to Washington where a woman donates zero dollars for a life membership for her husband, claiming he is as good as attending while he stays home to manage household tasks. The remark highlights gender roles in the era and the convention’s social dynamics.
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