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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1902
Page
9
Us V L headquarters at Indianapolis reports a funeral will be held Sunday at 3 o clock at Second Presbyterian Church for Comrade Sawyer. Officials Leach Bow Sullivan attend. May 24 vital statistics notice summarizes arrangements and camp assembly details.
A collage of financial loan offers and service ads appears from Indianapolis firms. Lenders promise mortgages, bonds, abstracts, and salary loans. firms include Bayles, Brown, Williams, Evans, and others. Also listed are notices for funerals, building materials, and cemetery meeting details with a Crown Hill notice dated June 3, 1902.
The Journal aims to use an appropriate illustration or cartoon to accompany its want column advertisements to attract reader attention. The plan seeks strong visuals from artists to enhance the notice and draw more responses.
A prize of 2.00 will be awarded each week for the best drawing illustrating business benefits of advertising. Drawings must be 10 by 8 inches on Bristol board with India ink. Name and address on back. postage for return if rejected. Submit to the Counting Room, Indianapolis Journal.
Various classified items list storage firms with addresses and phone numbers, a massage service and lost item notice. Also a legal notice announcing the Cincinnati Hamilton Indianapolis Railroad stockholders meeting on June 12 at 1 p.m. in Tiudmanans, Ind., with director elections and other business. GEORGE R. BALCH is secretary.
Establishment listings note a financial office located in the Lombard Building in Washington. The text references the year 1587 and the address, signaling an old proprietary listing and potential historical business presence in that area.
Rev W C Clapp describes Manila on arrival, noting Filipino children and families on cascos and in modest homes. He observes playful youths, potential progress, and the tension between secular schooling and evolving religious thought as US missions set up schools across the islands.
Washington history note: M Jules Boeufve of the French embassy secured five bills and a total of 42,500 for the Rochambeau statue in Lafayette Park. The piece faced delays and duty questions, with further appropriations to cover ceremonies and reception costs. A diary excerpt from Abbe Robin reflects early American views of French troops and officers.
The social page notes victories won by Mrs. William O Everett Mrs Wil lam McChesney Mrs Byron Canfield and Mrs Henry Davis. Mrs Charles Durham of 8 South Meridian Street hosts the St John’s Social Club for cards May 2. Hoosier Magazine Club meets with Mr and Mrs Edgar Hunter 14% Ashland Avenue Mrs Gance speaks on Charles Dickens and William Hereth leads discussion. Good Time Euchre Club met at Dr and Mrs O B Pettijon’s home yielding a win to Mrs Van Camp B H, Mrs O L Webb, Charles Brackett, Mrs George Herpik and W W Spencer.
At the Y W Cospel meeting this afternoon Dr and C ey will speak and Mrs R C Winn will sing. George H Thomas W R C will give a social Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs Henry Nicolai Broadway. The Grace Cathedral Guild will hold a sale and social Thursday afternoon May 29 at the home of Mrs Boggs 1328 North Pennsylvania Street. The Brothers Club of the Boys of the Weather Mathew Brigade will be entertained.
Eustace Miles outlines a personal training and diet system tested in heat and cold across New York Montreal and London. He prefers two meals daily or up to five, avoids fresh meat and eggs, emphasizes protein from milk cheese nuts and beans, and highlights breath work air baths and full body relaxation as core practices. He contrasts his plan with orthodox training and urges others to trial his methods.
Hartford Courant notes the ongoing Brooks case in New York as reporters debate moral implications. The doomed scatter of details includes Brooks’s disreputable ties and a potential link to Florence Burns. A pivotal moment featured Brooks’s mother suggesting the woman should kill herself, shocking the courtroom and readers.
The Butte Inter Mountain notes the street fair business has been exposed as a swindle. It cites last year's experience as warrant for cities to refuse such schemes. Genuine fairs may succeed under proper conditions, but traveling showmen often bring crime and ruin.
The Chicago Record-Herald recounts W E Curtis’s Baalbek letter detailing the legendary founders, Nimrod and Baal worship, and the Phoenician and Canaanite builders. It highlights vast quarry stones, the giant 70 ton keystone, and theories on how the massive blocks were transported to the Acropolis.
Tourists marvel at Baalbek's Temple of the Sun as historians note its vast scale and beauty. German excavations under Emperor William restore ruins, with Bruno Schultz and Heinrich Kohl arriving to take over. The Kaiser’s influence secures permissions, while Damascus officials react to recent changes and past misdeeds amid Turkish rule.
An American wife living in Teneriffe writes home with sharp criticism of English colonial behavior and Spanish beauty standards. She contrasts two centuries behind the times natives and Africans, praising American colleagues while condemning local elites. She laments mail delays and details the social scene, education gaps, and governance remarks.
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