Indiana Veterans Honor Old Flags At Monument Day
A large crowd in Indianapolis salutes Civil War veterans as old regimental banners pass the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The procession honors Indiana’s colored troops, recalls key battles, and reaffirms G A R resolutions supporting U S policy in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eian
Philippines
United States
Philippine Islands
Copperheads
Union
Spain
Indiana
Department of the Cumberland
Indiana Quotas Fell Short as Recruits Redirected
The provost marshal reported at 1,887 recruits, though Indiana credited only about half that number toward quotas, the remainder having been recruited for other states.
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Indiana
Spirit of 61 and enduring patriotism praised
The article recalls the Fort Sumter firing and describes the Spirit of 61 as a model of patriotism. It credits the Civil War era with strengthening national loyalty, elevating citizenship, and giving the flag a sacred meaning across communities and all walks of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sumter
The Gettysburg Address and Indiana Flag Remembrance
A study of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Indiana's civil war victory memorial. It describes the dedication ceremony for regimental battle flags, the July 4 1866 presentation to the State, and Governor Morton’s remarks. It notes surviving veterans carrying flags at a solemn Fourth of July event and the aim to honor fallen soldiers while preserving the banners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Inceln
Morton
William P. Fishback
Bat
Maryland
Twenty
United States Colored Regiment
Charles Russell
Regular Army
Petersburg
Theft
J. GO. Pedigo
Abraham Lincoln
National Soldiers’ Cemetery
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Union
Union Depot
R. 8. Foster
Statehouse
Lew Wallace
Beet sugar reciprocity bill linked by Republicans and Democrats
The Portland press notes that beet sugar Republicans in the House reportedly allied with Democrats to attach the differential amendment to the bill, enabling the reciprocity measure’s passage. The piece comments on the coalition and its impact on policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
House
Beets and Cuba Policy Spark Filibuster Accusations
The text argues that Republican beet sugar senators may be conspiring with Democrats to block a Cuban reciprocity bill, labeling such moves a betrayal and a filibustering tactic aimed at denying the majority party's chance to vote. It questions the authenticity of negotiations and warns against undermining the party will.
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Cuba
The Humorists The Limit of Dullness
A collage of quips from various papers on humor and reading spouses. Jests about dullness and reading people as books, plus a brief anecdote of poems rejected by editors and a janitor’s cautionary reception. The tone mimics the comic contrast across papers.
Truth of Gen Smith campaign orders in Samar Batangas
In the Philippine conflict, Gen Smith and Gen Bell acted with Chaffee’s approval and War Department awareness. Washington officials reportedly disapproved only after insurgent surrender. The Press misstates, while Harper’s Weekly questions Roots. The War Department defends honoring officers and insists on government support and accountability.
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Army and Navy Journal
Washington
Philadelphia Press
War Department
Gen. Smith
Samar
Chaffee
Bell
Smith
Batangas
White House
Harper's Weekly
Roots
Gardener
The
United States
Nast Named United States Consul General at Guayaquil
Thomas Nast, famed cartoonist who helped topple the Tweed ring, is appointed U S consul general at Guayaquil Ecuador. Since retiring, he has focused on oil painting and is considered a master, with a Shakespearean portrait for Henry Irving among his notable works.
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Butte Inter Mountain
Thomas Nast
United States
Guayaquil
Esuador
Nast
New York
New Jersey
Overstreet Recalls College Days With Joe Burton
Representative Overstreet of Indiana recalls his early ties to Joe Burton an Indianan student at Franklin University. He notes his father lived near the campus and often defended students as their fraternity lawyer in troubles. The remarks followed Burton’s maiden Senate speech prompting interest from home delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Senator Burton
Kansas
Senate
House
Representative Overstreet
Indiana
Joe Burton
Franklin University
Overstreet
College Yard
Joe
Ms. Overstreet
Puck Reflection on Revolution's Ancestral Ties
The text notes that every Daughter or Son of the Revolution likely has an ancestor who fought for independence, and it marvels that Great Britain endured the struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Great Britain
Torn Sails and Moral Law In Welsh Village Tale
Recaps a Welsh village tale Torn Sails by Alien Raine with a portrait of Hugh Morgan and saltmaking in Cardigan Bay village life. Mentions The Moral Law by Dr Edward J Hamilton presenting five ethics discussions and argues duty across utilitarianism perfectionism motive ethics authority ethics and concrete moral guidance.
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Alien Raine
Mifanwy
Cardigan Bay
Hugh Morgan
Hugh Organ
Edward J. Hamilton
State University of Washington
New York
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Second Generation by James Weber Linn reviews
The critic argues the novel repeats familiar debates on honesty versus wealth and power. Jerome Kent battles a rich manipulator over franchises and legislatures, loses his freedom and love, and ends with bleak self awareness. The work offers little novelty but is not dull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Weber Linn
Mr. Linn
Jerome Kent
Kent
Macmillan Company
New York
The Pagans Cup by Fergus Hume in Arcadia England
A review outlines The Pagan's Cup set in a remote English village near Chester and Kings Meadows. Richard Pratt poses as an American, rents a villa, wins the vicar with a Roman golden cup, and mingles with the vicar's daughter Mrs. Gabriel and local figures including a castle heiress and an adopted son. The cup's age and role drive motives, entanglements, and the quest for rightful ownership by a lord of ancient lineage. The G W Dillingham Company publishes in New York.
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Fergus Hume
England
Chester
King's Meadows
Richard Pratt
Arcadia
Italy
The
G. W. Dillingham Company
New York
Artful Nature Book of Farm Life in Tennessee
Martha McCulloch-weil iams presents a practical yet poetic study of common farm life in Tennessee. The author admires nature, blending chapters on farm tasks with observations of animals and wild birds, praising the charm of everyday fields and countryside winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha McCulloch-weiliams
Tennessee
New York
McClure, Phillips & Co
The Westcotes by A. T. Quiller-Couch
A. T. Quiller-Couch's novel centers on two mature brothers and their young half sister at Bayfield near Axminster. The elder Westcote gains wealth by housing French prisoners and overseeing local affairs as commissary, shaping life in the town.
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A. T. Quiller-Couch
Westcotes
Bayfield
Axcester
Westcote
Doro Atere
A Love Story Set in the First Empire
A modest tale of two cousins in France during the first empire. It follows a shy heroine who rejects marriage, discovers love as an illusion, and gains courage and dignity through trials with a hopeful, pleasing ending. Not an historical novel despite the subtitle. New York publishers Crowell & Co.
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Tom Sallis
D. Appleton & Co
New York
Henry T. Coates & Co
Philadelphia
Eleanor C. Price
France
Thomas ¥. Crowell & Co
May magazine contents preview mix of art and literature
The May issue previews feature Sir Marrok and Arthurian legends in the St Nicholas tale, plus modern life short stories. It highlights Automobile Magazine's King Edward frontispiece, Farm Truck Deliveries, and Mrs. Fiske on theatrical conditions.
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Marrok
Knights of the Round Table
Automobile Magazine
Liberty Street
New York
King Edward
The
International Monthly
William Morris
Omar Khayyam
Columbus
Edwin A. Abbey
J. W. Bacon
Lucien Simon
Simon
Livi
Italy
May
Marie Antoinette
Henry Francis
J. B. Mattison
Bermuda
I. J. McGarvey
Wales
Pennsylvania
Navy
W. H. Moody
America
Europe
Asia
Africa
William W. Hudson
Mahin’s
Walter Scott Dill
Northwestern University
Monroe Street
Chicago
Goupil & Company
Les Arts
Lewis David
Louvre
Manze, Joyant & Co
Fifth Avenue
Stevenson
Dore
Essex House
London
Whistler
Mortimer Menpes
England
Christian Brinton
Menpes
Gertrude Urban
Paola and
Francesca
Stopford Brooke
Browning
Harper & Brothers announce Marion Manning by Edith Eustis
A new novel by Edith Eustis daughter of Levi P. Morton is announced for publication by Harper & Brothers under the title Marion Manning. The book follows a love and political plot with scenes in New England Virginia and Washington.
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Edith Eustis
Levi P. Morton
Messrs
Harper & Brothers
Marion Manning
Eustis
New England
Virginia
Washington
Doubleday, Page & Co
David Starr Jordan
Barton W. Evermann
American
America
Panama
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
James T. Fields
Dickens
Thackeray
Lowell
Atlantic
Charles Dudt Warner
Borace E. Scudder
Hawthorne
Oe E. Woodberry
Longfellow
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Whittier
E. Carpenter
Bret Harte Seen as a Worker and Speedy Rewriter
A Philadelphia Press notice argues Bret Harte could be both slow and exceptionally rapid when needed. It cites his December sprint to finish Thankful Blossom at Mark Twain's Hartford home, writing from midnight to 9 am, then sharing the tale with friends before an afternoon trip to Nic to see the irexperience.
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New York
Philadelphia
Bret Harte
Thackeray
Galaxy Magazine
Gabriel Conroy
Charles A. Dana
Hart
the Sun
Harte
Mark Twain
Hartford
Conn
Mark
San Francisco
Mark Vain
Dana
Mr. Dana
Thebrary
Bret
Nicp
Bret Rte
Literary America and the nation’s growing role
The Chicago Evening Post notes America’s literary scene is in a phase of scale building. It argues the current activity strengthens expression and writers, while forecasting a future concerto of national literature shaped by America’s expanding global position and diverse immigrant influences.
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Henry B. Fuller
Chicago Evening Post
Literary
America
Paul Leicester Ford Remains a Familiar Philadelphia Figure
The article recalls Paul Leicester Ford in Philadelphia while he gathered material for biographical works. He spent days at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Thirteenth and Locust streets, with a small desk on the Thirteenth Street side. Ford was diligent, poring over records and copying notes, a quiet man who few friends but many acquaintances remember in the building.
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Indiana
Morton
Knightstown
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Building
Sons of Indiana
Grant
Bloody Stone's River
Champion Hill
Hovey
McGinnis
Slack
Knefier
Missiorary Ridge
Hunter
Longstreet
Snodgrass Hill
Chickamauga
Thomas
Gettysburg
Slocum
Twenty-seventh
John Coons
Spottsylvania
Philadelphia Record
Paul Leicester Ford
Philadelphia
Franklin
Pistel Society
Maylvania
Thirteenth and Locust Streets
Thirteenth-street
Historical Society
Disinheritance in family law and European contrasts
The piece discusses whether a parent should have the right to disinherit a child, cites the Ford murder as a case in New York, and contrasts European practices. It notes France’s family unity and touches on unequal property divisions as a source of conflict in Britain and America. An Atchison Globe item notes neighbors aiding a sick man, then his wife hiding it to limit aid.
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United States
Indianapolis
Philadelphia
Ford
New York
France
Great Britain
America
Atchison Globe
Atchison
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Neesennee
Neeererseeens
Varnal Newspaper Company
Ind
Indianapolis Journal
York
Astor House
O—Palmer House
P. O. News Co
Auditorium Ames Hotel
Station News
Ati-J. R. Hawley & Co
Vine
Ille
C. T. Deering
Third and Jefferson Streets
Louisville Co
I Fourth Avenue
Louis—Union News Company
Ashington
D. C
Riges
Schbitt
Fairfax
Willard
Col—Louthan & Jackson
Wrence Streets
Xton
J. W. Wilkie
Jefferson
M Army
Fairbanks
Mr. Boardman
Phillippines
Beveridge
Monument Place
Exe Statehouse
John W. Foster
Foster Hes
Mexico
Russia
the Humorists
Miss Rose
Washington Star
Bingo
Bango
Detroit Free Press
Hunker
Atlanta Constitution
Martin Baddles
Baddles
PLAIN
Angelot
Current Periodicals
Judas Iscariot
Aaron D. Baldwin
Jamieson- Higgins Company
L. C. Page & Co
Boston
Alexander Jessup
Houghton, MiMin & Co
Macmillans
American Sportsman's Library
Sion
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