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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1902
Page
6
Advertises subscription rates, agents, and mailing details for the Indianapolis Journal. Includes postal rates, foreign postage, and instructions for manuscript submissions. Also contains brief political notes about General Fitzhugh Lee, Congress candidacy, Hay’s invitation, and commentary on Ohio’s Garfield law repeal and Indianapolis monument dedication.
A discussion notes that while laws against killing birds and cruelty to animals aim to protect wildlife, enforcement is uneven. Some provisions have never been enforced, and others would be difficult to apply in practice.
The piece contrasts early ridicule of wireless telegraphy with its present success and forecasts, likening it to the railway and electric telegraph. It reviews historic skepticism toward new tech, cites Marconi and Bell, and muses on future discoveries while cautioning against sensationalism in popular belief. It also surveys curiosities like auk bones and wishbones, then shifts to a meditation on religious teaching, Sunday schools, and Easter meaning for youth.
The piece notes a movement to revive public interest in bones not musical bones from minstrels but real bones. It references Cuvier and the idea of reconstructing animal frames from a single bone, highlighting scientific and commercial value in bones.
The piece argues childhood mental impressions shape lifelong beliefs, citing Solomon and Froebel. It discusses how early religious instruction affects later faith, noting many drift when modern thought loosens stern traditionalism. It warns that while parents doubt, children lack mother’s teaching and religion at home.
A historical note recalls the Ohio Michigan boundary dispute known as the Toledo war, tracing the 1802 and 1817 boundary actions and the 1836 Michigan settlement. It also mentions Indiana’s line and Cleveland debates over using granite for a federal building, highlighting local economic concerns and writer gossip.
The piece argues writers rarely hide tricks behind their craft and cites an English storyteller who claims no methods. It then praises Henry C. Evans as a competent Pension Bureau head, noting the difficulty of pleasing all and criticizing pension demands as often excessive by outside Congress critics.
A collage of light newspaper jokes and satirical quips from The Chicago Post and other papers. Remarks about aging, taste, scandal, and social scenes weave through brief gags featuring grandfathers, philosophers, and church social mishaps. The items showcase early 20th century humor and social observation with punchlines.
A collage of quips and musings from fiction figures and narrators. It wittily contrasts cowardice, luck, marriage, appetite, self knowledge, and society with sharp, era specific phrasing. The pieces include remarks by Marietta Shacklett and Patricia of the Hills, among others.
A quirky claim from a historical note attributes kept nerves in check in China to wearing soft soling shoes. The item moves through various society snippets including music by Nelson Kneass, Mrs. Patrick Campbell remarks on fame, and aging subscribers to Youth's Companion.
A column mentions a corkscrew of topics from the Wago function and a heated electric robe worn as warmth akin to a Turkish bath. It notes Cairo’s Al Azhar Mosque as a key Mohammedan school and discusses King Leopold’s heir Prince Albert of Flanders born in 1875. Miss Helen Gould may leave her Fifth Avenue home for the Gospel Settlement. England weighs reviving the Duke of Gloucester title linked to royal Familiars.
I was born in Burnley Lancashire during the American Civil War. The cotton famine hit the region hard as mills closed, families faced poverty, and starvation meetings rose. The tale recalls half-loaves, emigration, and the Lincoln mark seen on a relief speaker.
A speech recalls Lancashire workers aiding free cotton to Manchester during famine, led by Tom Hughes and others. It notes a bale of free cotton shipped from West Virginia to Liverpool in 18%, displayed in Manchester, and tells how the community celebrated with parades and a Bishop's sermon on civil liberty. The speaker compares Riis’s Making of an American to Americanism thrust upon people.
Leslie's Weekly profiles Prof Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge as a money green emperor of science and copper, controlling Calumet and Hecla, amassing wealth yet valuing research. He leads the National Academy of Sciences, helps fund the Carnegie Institute, and funds Harvard Museum projects while profiting greatly from mining ventures. His ventures span deep shafts, ocean dredging, and biodiversity explorations. He remains unconcerned with copper price wars, choosing knowledge and institution building instead.
An excerpt from a posthumous Century paper by General John Gibbon recounts a meeting between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee near the surrender site. The narrative details Lee’s somber demeanor, the cordial handshake with General Seth Williams, and a plan to issue parole documents to prisoners.
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