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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1901
Page
10
A stray board job ends in a caper where two bill posters face off against a captain and his janitors accusingly. Bill, realizing the post office placement was ordered by a higher official, flees as the Navy recruitment message looms, leaving investigators hopeful but the culprits uncaught.
The piece humorously contrasts doctors and editors, claiming editors work lifelong to learn and print truth while doctors chase revenue. It jokes about pay, education, and ethics, noting editors struggle to survive while doctors profit and bury errors. It ends with a boast of living for fun and defying doctors.
Contemporary Review argues that daily newspapers saturate modern life yet remain essential. It warns against total withdrawal but urges moderation to avoid insensibility while preserving awareness of world movement and personal balance.
While the presidential party rested in New Orleans an exchange between Mrs John G Woods and Mrs Hay sparked a quaint tale. Mrs Woods recalls a message for the President from a loyal family mammy who warns to remind him of her pension, promising that he knows about it.
An exploration of methods to prevent frost including burning herbs and resinous wood to create smoke screens. Reports claim cannon-like shots fired over fields warm the ground, though air remains cold, while noting surprising uses in Madagascar and Algeria against grasshoppers. The piece ends with a prompt about handling a cyclone.
Red Cross Pile and Fistula Cure offered by Bros. & Co. Dept. 2 Minneapolis. Free sample treatment and book on piles sent to any eligible address. The notice emphasizes cure potential and solicitations for patients seeking relief from piles and fistula.
A 1863 West Point inquiry examined hazing and plebe fights. seniors and Juniors clashed in rules based bouts, with referees and seconds. The piece recalls notable battles, harsh penalties, and the strong code that shunned liars, thieves, and cowards, while highlighting camaraderie and lasting honors among cadets.
Ainslee's Magazine profile details the brutal, regimented life of boy apprentices at a jockey school. It contrasts harsh discipline with rare talent, notes early deaths from master cruelty, and explains the progression from trainee to exercising a horse under saddle, or failing to reach it and becoming a tout or vagabond.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece riffs on the idea that ugly women never face events, arguing the premise is flawed and humorously suggesting all women are beautiful, thus challenging the notion that anything happens to the ugly woman.
The Kansas City Journal quotes a Vermont preacher claiming personal knowledge of President McKinley drinking one glass of champagne aboard a battleship. He notes a pusillanimous soul would not stop at one glass, suggesting further motive or payment behind the assertion.
New York Evening Sun describes the Amana community in Iowa, a long-standing, strictly equal, communistic society founded by German settlers. It covers governance, work, housing, dress, marriage, religion, education, and daily life, with strict rules and gender separation, while noting its traditions and self-sufficient economy.
The account centers on Mungul Pandy as mutiny erupts among Sepoys at Barrackpore. A hesitant colonial officer fails to stop the mutiny while General Hearsey orders action. Pandy shoots himself after being pressed by soldiers, later hanged. The episode shapes British view of mutineers as Pandys.
A Kentucky machinist Samuel J Welldon, 25, from Nicholasville offers a raffle to win his marriage. Tickets cost 50 cents to a dollar, limited to white women aged 20 to 30 not crippled or ill, with the aim of raising money to start his own business. He says the contest runs for about three months and expects 2 000 to 3 000 tickets sold.
Tenacious Mexican estates remain intact under old families, while most industry and banks are foreign controlled. Despite American capital in tropical plantations, vast haciendas endure due to light land taxes. Heirs hold titles traced to Spain, with centuries of aristocratic landholders resisting division. Occasionally syndicates buy portions for development, yet the old order persists for years to come.
A paged Q and A of humorous wordplay trading quips about public figures and objects. The exchange teases Bathhouse John, Mayor Harrison, Bryan, Tanner, Grover Cleveland, and others with puns on roles, names, and common phrases. The column showcases playful exchanges and misheard phrases with political and social names.
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