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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1902
Page
5
The quotation urges active participation and positive support to advance progress. It emphasizes being a lever, not a weight, and choosing constructive involvement over carping bystander behavior. The call is for engaged, proactive souls who contribute to real-world improvement.
EB A Cantrell and E A Cantrell of the People's Church lectured at the Propylaeum on Old Things and New. They argued the universe operates by continual renewal, with science expanding philosophy and religion, predicting a higher future race life, new literature, and a richer theology arising from scientific progress.
Reverend Thomas Smith observed his third anniversary as pastor of Union Congregational Church at Fifteenth street and Ghent avenue Marion Park with morning and evening services. He noted 62 additions to 82 members after removals, 24 professions of faith, 33 baptisms, 20 funerals, 16 weddings, and 360 pastoral visits including to school No. 4, urging greater attention to children and faith.
The tenth anniversary service at St Pauls Church on Columbia avenue and Seven teenth street included a morning festival sermon by Rev A Frigge from Louisville Kentucky, the first pastor of the church. Evening speakers were Rev J C Peters and Rev T Schory with a special choir program led by Miss Isensee. A collection for church progress yielded a substantial total.
York and Scottish Rite Masons marched from the Scottish Rite Temple to St Pauls Church for Ascension day services. The large gathering heard a sermon by Rev. Lewis Brown Knight Templar praising chivalry and Masonry for building true manhood and intertwining faith with civic duty.
John Sweezie, seventy, veteran of Company A, 146 Indiana Volunteers, fell from a trestle behind Acme flour mills last night. He broke his right arm and collarbone, sustained rib and facial injuries, and was found by Patrolmen Kimmel and W Smith. Taken to City Hospital, doctors fear his age may prove fatal. A knuckles set and a pocket knife were found on him. he could not identify his service details.
Prof. Robert T. Hill describes the Caribbean chain from Saba to Grenada as ancient ash heaps forming fertile soil and towering volcanic centers like Guadeloupe Dominica Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent. He recounts the 1812 Morne Garon eruption on Saint Vincent and notes earthquakes and volcanic disturbances across Central and South America hinting at a regional geological connection.
Geologists view Terranean as an east west mountain system beneath the Caribbean. Except for the Antilles, ridges are submerged with deep valleys and submerged crests. Endings feature volcanic chains running perpendicular to the main system in Central America and the Caribbean. Both chains eject cinders and mud, suggesting a sympathetic relation.
A historical lecture-style piece surveys eruptions from Asama to Krakatoa, highlighting rapid, deadly blasts and their global reach. It recalls Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii and parallels with the St Pierre disaster, describing lava flows, ash, and towering eruptions with period-voice detail.
An extract from Commercial Relations of 1991, released by Frederic Emory, notes Japan exports mainly raw materials while the largest manufactured item is cotton yarn. It highlights Japan’s educated classes urging policy changes to favor machinery and foreign capital, predicting Japan as a growing market for U S machinery and exports.
An old advertisement extolls Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar as a универсальный remedy for teething diarrhoea wind colic throat troubles and coughs. It mentions a bottle price of four cents and urges asking for the product from a dentist or druggist. Also notes Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lieut W S Wright former editor and Indiaman aboard in Spanish American War says the United States practically owns Santo Domingo and will take possession. He notes Vasquez's rise, a debt ridden government, weak taxation, and strategic harbor at Samana bay as crucial to U S defense and interests amid looming political risk.
Aboard the Munson Olinda arriving from Cuban ports are 11 enlisted men of the Tenth United States Army, stationed at Holguin for nearly three years. Under Captain R. Fleming, they sail toward Fort Reno area, with fifteen family members of noncommissioned officers and seventy two discharged soldiers accompanying them.
In New York on May 11 about 1500 retail kosher butchers from the East Side met to protest wholesale price increases. They voted to close retail shops tomorrow and Tuesday and to halt meat purchases from wholesalers on those days, with a further meeting planned Tuesday night to decide on continuing the boycott.
From The Hague on May 1 the Castle Loo bulletins on Queen Wilhelmina’s condition have been reduced to one daily report. Officials expect the daily notices to cease entirely as her condition continues to improve. Her physicians’ constant attendance is no longer necessary.
United States Ambassador Von Meyer in Rome says the State Department has been informed by the Consulate that Clara Taylor, accused of abducting her niece Margaret Taylor, is in jail at San Remo awaiting further action.
In Somerset Pennsylvania on May 11 a tragic incident ends with eleven year old Mark Mellvain, son of a prominent local man, shooting himself after accidentally wounding fifteen year old Brinkert in the neck with a .22 rifle. The youth died later at home. authorities investigated the sequence of events surrounding the accidental shooting and subsequent suicide.
James Bonner of Carson Iowa, swimmer and athlete, drowned while trying to swim the Nishnabotna River twice with clothes on as a wager. He cramp struck midstream and sank before a boat could reach him.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce reports Morgan has reached a definite arrangement with the Manchester Ship Canal Company. The article notes the arrival of this development and suggests implications for shipping interests and regional trade.
The advertisement promotes Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for rheumatism dyspepsia neuraglia and nervous disorders. It argues hard work and prudent living require a reliable health aid to restore vitality improve sleep and steady nerves, claiming the medicine acts quickly to normalize digestion and strength.
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