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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1902
Page
10
City markets report active local trade with good volume and an excellent tone. Wholesale and dry goods show robust activity across lines while grain receipts remain light and prices generally decline slightly. Wheat and corn futures are strong on the week as buyers push into staples and building demand boosts lumber and hardware trade.
Hogs remain fairly active with steady demand while cattle show small receipts and generally stable prices. Sheep deliveries shrink this week as buyers focus on better grades. extreme prices touch 6.75 for calves and 4.50 for lambs with overall market strength persisting despite wetter conditions and light shipments.
Transfers recorded include John K. Carson to Herman E. Martens for part of Bruce Place, 4000. Susan A. Harvey to Willis V. Hargrove for Let 4 Dr Martin's addition, 2000. Alberta to Willis V. Hargrove for Jay Allen's 24 N. add near Twenty st, 20. plus other lot transfers around Park Ave, Twenty fifth St, and surrounding streets. Notable homes linked to S. McCarty, J. Fletcher's 4th add, and 1635 Massachusetts with frame dwellings, reflecting a busy market activity on multiple blocks.
La Patrie reports a gruesome fate for a scientific expedition near New Guinea. Survivors describe being ambushed by Papuans on January 1, with several leaders killed, mutilated, or eaten. Twenty five corpses found, thirty three wounded. De Vries presumed devoured after roasting. others missing or captured.
A New York businessman, likely of Philippine descent, attended his first Wagnerian opera without reading the libretto. He proposes suspending a white screen above the proscenium with a stereopticon to project explanatory lines during the performance, hoping to clarify the plot and characters for the audience. The idea imagines scenes like Brunnhilde and Don Jose, with the music suggesting dramatic thunder.
The London Mail reviews M. Levasseur’s The American Workman, noting American labor’s swift shift to machinery, high output, and disciplined factories. It highlights wage power, living standards, worker mobility, family life, and religious and social habits, while warning of future union growth and potential wage declines.
J. P. Henselman and Forbes Holland, two New Yorkers, have drawn attention in Los Angeles with claims they are international organizers of the Cheer Up Club. Holland praised Henselman as the most charitable man alive and described their mission during remarks at the Van Nuys Hotel.
A local charity effort by Henselman and Holland aids struggling individuals with immediate remedies. They accompany the needy, offer support or small gifts, and may steer a troubled man toward a drink to steady him before returning home. The pair are undertaking a four city tour of California.
A New York columnist blames local inertia and slow freight services for the city's lagging commerce. He cites duplicitous freight handling, indifferent clerks, and delayed deliveries as proof that New York must shed its "dead slow" image. He contrasts Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and Chicago as more responsive, urging a major overhaul of enterprise and trade practices.
A Baltimore Morning Herald editorial critiques a anti smoke bill as lacking time for manufacturers to adapt. It argues for graduated reductions, targeted nuisance controls, and safeguards for small producers while urging emission reductions through improved combustion and mechanized stokers.
London Telegraph reports the launch of a massive floating dock from C. 8 Swan & Hunter in Wallsend, designed for Bermuda’s dockyard to replace the centuries old facility. The new dock measures 845 feet, lifts up to 15 500 tons (up to 17 500 with shallow pound), and can accommodate battleships, cruisers, and auxiliary ships, requiring a stiff self-supporting structure and electric crane systems for interior access.
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