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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1901
Page
5
In a Chicago Post joke, St Peter pins a record on a woman for frying cabbage in a flat building. The recording angel notes one flaw despite charity and virtue, a lighthearted dig at small domestic failings.
The item surveys writers and publishers, noting Jeannette Gilder and Themis Bailey Aldrich, Hardy tour plans, laurel prize effects, piracy of The English Woman's Love Letters, and anecdotes about publishers and editors. It ends with reflections on anonymous works and a New York miniature magazine about typewriting manuscripts.
A compiled, fragmentary collection of quotations on love, deceit, religion, gender, and nature. The passages range from wry social observations to moral tales, featuring voices like Mr. Dooley, Robert Orange, and The Observations of Henry, hinting at themes of desire, folly, faith, and freedom.
The article notes the ongoing weekly publication of Spurgeon's sermons despite his death over nine years ago. It discusses Aguinaldo’s mythic reach, Halstead’s planned book about the youth, and a poised shift in membership trends within the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs Aguinalde engages in progress-minded thought during her husband’s absence, while a Manila Women’s Club link and Americanization influence appear. A New York bootmaker shop window advertises the word bootmaker in British style, and a UK fashion note contrasts shoe terminology with England’s usage.
A miscellany retells a tasting note for a drink called lambs wool from roasted apple juice, recalls la mas ubhal, and notes a French divorce by process. It adds a quail fattening trick using electric light in a cellar, a quip about Sarah Bernhardt injuring her knee in America, and ends with light verse from Philadelphia Press and James Whitcomb Riley.
Benjamin F. Jackson of Indianapolis questions a New York Mail and Express article on memory cells and phantom pain after amputation. He argues physical nerves explain ongoing sensations rather than memory or astral body theories, citing cases from Harnsiak, Williams, and Arcade to support a physical connection between severed limbs and pain. He asserts science must rest on physical facts and invites further explanation.
Pouders Art Studio advertises picture framing with skilled workers and reasonable prices at 229 Massachusetts Avenue.
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