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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1902
Page
4
The item lists subscription rates by carrier and mail for daily and Sunday papers, mentions club rates, foreign postage notes, and distribution points in major cities. It also includes editorial column snippets on politics from Indiana and national affairs, referencing Cuba sugar duties, Beett sugar, Funston, Lawton, and congressional actions.
The text notes a House bill repealing war revenues and possible Senate passage. It suggests Tawney’s liberal stance to protect sugar revenue. It also mentions St Louis Globe-Democrat's half-hearted stance on Cyprian reciprocity, possibly linked to a leading House opponent.
Editorial argues grafters distort party elections under old and new primary laws. It urges candidates to shun payments to grafters, adopt newspaper endorsements and public pledges to avoid such influence, and to expose offenders to unite the decent majority.
The article defends American policy in the Philippines against Rudyard Kipling’s harsh critique. It argues Kipling overestimates his own insight, notes Taft’s denial of civil military conflict, and suggests the critic would not suit governance by a “high toned despot.” It concludes Kipling is better as a writer than as a public critic.
After McKinley’s assassination the press discusses suppressing anarchism and punishing its advocates. Bills in Congress seek to define and penalize anarchy while debates rise over limits to free speech and the danger of inflammatory political rhetoric. Judge Colt in New Hampshire warns on protecting Presidents and cites a thirty seven year span with three events.
The article argues presidential assassinations are driven by morbid individuals rather than organized anarchist groups. It notes historic parallel failures, criticizes lack of safeguards, and urges law to bar rhetoric that incites presidential killings. It warns Czolgocz as a degenerate example and calls for punishing revolutionary anarchists’ influence.
Washington whispers name Senator Clark of Montana as Democratic congressional committee chair though critics question his fitness. Voters and editors debate use of his wealth to fund campaigns while noting his alleged past bribery ties and uncertainty over party principles. Central America highway plans shift as Nicaragua and Costa Rica end pending protocols.
Opponents of reciprocity claim farmers want spring guidance on any Cuban sugar concessions that could injure the sugar beet industry. They say a duty cut affecting beet prices could deter planting, noting the Oxnard lobby in Washington is circulating such sluff to sway farmers nationwide.
The piece argues for beet seed planting only if duty reductions occur and notes Indiana's minimal interest in beet culture. It surveys sugar taxation, migration from Indiana, Republican gains, and a New York Chamber of Commerce stance on silver parity. It also reviews British views on the U.S. Civil War, neutrality, and press bias, ending with a note on fading popularity of popular novels.
A library lists a long shelf of widely circulated books now out of demand priced at five and three cents each. Winston Churchill's The Crisis appears surprisingly early in the sale, celebrated more for local interest than literary merit as patrons snap up the dwindling stock.
The New York Sun sketches witty exchanges among a group of humorists. A dialogue tag involves Madge praising a girl, Marjorie teasing, and a courtroom scene where a lawyer questions a witness about her maid and boudoir remarks. The piece captures light social banter and satirical remarks.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Rivers muttering that he will crave this weather next July while walking briskly through the city. He rubs his nose and ears to stave off the cold as he notes the season’s chilling bite and laments his fool soul in the frosty street scene.
In the Philadelphia Press a humorous remark ponders a scientist or inventor with a plan to exterminate mosquitoes not by petroleum but by crossing them with lightning bugs to produce visible, glowing pests. The quip plays on bright ideas and science.
A Chicago Post quip notes men follow widows because the average man lacks confidence in his own judgment and prefers backing another man’s choice, while a Philadelphia Record anecdote reveals a playful bias about ad placement beside pure reading matter.
Washington Letter in New York Post reviews the rural free delivery box rule requiring government approved mail boxes. Critics argue for personal choice, but officials cite safety, accountability, and the role of boxes as mail collection points. The Post Office studied 14 samples priced from 1 to 8 dollars and may consider a hybrid system. secret inquiries and route supervisors weigh future options.
The prince and his gentlemen enjoyed the naval cadets boxing exhibition. The piece asserts jackies are handy with their fists, never vanquished in spontaneous skirmishes at foreign ports, and salutes fists over guns amid a playful toast.
A Toledo set Civil War era family chronicle centers on Bishop Ambrose a domineering intellectual religious man who tyrannizes his seven sons a daughter and a daughter in law. The narrative tracks ambition ruin and grief amid faith and a failed divinity school venture with a wary yet sympathetic portrayal. Mr Herbert M Hopkins Toledo resident presents his first book The Bowen Merril Company publishes it.
A catalog segment lists publishers and works including Laird & Lee Chicago entries, Eleanor G. Phelps poetry volume As a Falling Star from A C McClurg, Peterson's Poems by J J Peterson, a mineral atlas by Felix J Troughton, The Abbey Press, and Laura G Collins Mr Littl Marquise on the Wall with verses and prose.
A. Maynard Barbour novel set in Colorado Rockies near mines owned by a distant East firm. A bookkeeper uncovers fraud and tapping of the mine while two love stories unfold smoothly, with the plot praised as pleasant reading and well managed. Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago.
A series of sketches framed as a story and dialogue by Zoe Anderson Norris. It profiles a young man of no principles who uses socialist rhetoric to rise socially. The author argues the critique is unfounded while urging a kinder view of humanity, noting the work published by Funk & Wagnalls Company in New York.
A textbook promoting an eight grade system of physical exercises for use in a normal room without apparatus. It aims to engage youth and combine physical with mental culture, useful for teachers and home practice.
A brief note on sleight of hand contrasts modern with ancient magic and reviews the volume Magic by Ellis Stranyon. It highlights chapters on coin, handkerchief, and ball tricks and suggests amateurs can perform after dinner tricks with practice. Henry R. Evans contributes extra chapters and an introduction.
The piece recalls a young Lincoln running a Salem store and studying law, his romance with Ann Rutledge, and engagement lost to her death. Carrie Douglas Wright presents a gentle, realistic portrait of Lincoln's primitive life and character, rooted in tradition and other stories.
A concise nursing book by S Virginia Lewis offers practical care guidance for common and serious illnesses. The author, a trained nurse, covers multiple branches of nursing with clear directions. Published by The Penn Publishing Co.
C. E. Callahan has turned his play Fogs's Ferry into a story of the same name. The work has drawn a wide audience, and the story presents a full rendering of the play’s events and themes for readers.
The Sketch Book and many periodicals are highlighted with reviews and essays on Benjamin Harrison Roosevelt and Jane Austen topics, Biographies and portraits, Civil War deeds, and new features in Current History and Modern Culture. The Era and Book Lover publicity and prominent pieces on Ibsen, Conrad, and Nabokov style texts are discussed.
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