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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1903
Page
5
The Sunday Journal lists subscription terms for carriers and mail, with daily and Sunday options, including rates per month, per year, and weekly prices. It includes publisher contact details, editorial room numbers, and mentions reduced rates to clubs and agents.
The Indianapolis Journal provides mailing details for different paper sizes including eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty and twenty four pages with appropriate stamp rates. It notes foreign postage is usually double these rates and warns that rejected manuscripts will not be returned unentered. readers are urged to send communications to the Indianapolis post office for publication consideration.
The piece lists newspaper exchange points across major cities, mentions bank condition summaries in Indianapolis, and notes various civic topics. It references Logsdon versus Stahl, Chamberlain’s speech, Cleveland's peace flag idea, woman suffrage advocacy, Germany gun orders, and Indiana migration trends with demographic data.
The text notes that Michigan may be the first state to pass a law enforcing decency and duty, praising the pioneer work and urging compliance with respectable standards. It highlights the aim to compel behavior and the ahead-of-its-time stance of the legislation.
An analysis argues that public and private morals have generally risen over generations. It cites Washington Jefferson Monroe and John Marshall to illustrate evolving standards, noting missing modern norms like dual roles in government would be unacceptable today while affirming overall higher ethical conduct across eras.
In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Chamberlain urged tariff duties on foreign imports to fund colonial preference and closer political and fiscal ties. Prime Minister Balfour warned against rigid adherence to protection or free trade and urged open discussion of abandoning the revenue-only tariff doctrine.
Prime Minister and cabinet leader in England advocate duties on foreign raw materials and food to protect colonies. The stance favors reciprocity with British colonies, implying higher bread and food costs to raise wages, a move that could alter imperial trade and U.S. relations with Britain.
The piece recalls Aaron Burr securing a Manhattan water works charter to shield a Bank of Manhattan Company undertaking, Hamilton’s Federalist faction opposing Burr’s move. It notes a three-story plant with a donkey engine and a deep iron reservoir, kept for sentiment rather than use, and mentions Burr and Hamilton’s later duel and Burr’s fame as a traitor fugitive.
The piece argues that novelists do not copy themselves or real people. It states that true imagination crafts original characters not portraits of acquaintances. It asserts writers add elements of themselves unknowingly, with vivid creations growing from inner insight.
A collage of brief witticisms and exchanges from New York Weekly Boston Transcript Chicago Record Herald Chicago Post and Tribune. Jests touch marriage, popular novels, eight hour day, and a humorous take on travel and education. Misc quotes show light industry humor.
The Chicago Record Herald quotes a poem about relationship strain after marriage. A wife laments that despite romance and daily roses, her husband Jack never buys her a rose and claims he is unable. The speaker notes the shift from loving lunches to lonely meals, concluding that no matter how dear a sweetheart is, a wife becomes dearer.
Mrs Withington recalls a missing cherry pie after her youngest son Johnny confesses to eating it. He explains he ate it to solve the math puzzle about how many stones are in a cherry pie, replying there are forty two.
A collage of brief items mentions Pope Leo XIII sittings for a portrait ordered by King Edward VII, Gov John Robinson building a Cincinnati church for his daughter, Siam royalty valued at about 1 million dollars, rare violins owned by Helen Ames, and a Topeka life insurance idea for Christians and total abstainers. It notes Lord Kelvin, Israel Zangwill, Herbert Spencer, Lt Gen Miles golfing, the Czars walk in Moscow, Henry White joining the Athenaeum, and German urban bird care while praising American medicine as leading in science and surgery.
A bride recounts how her husband Harry bought every spoon and fork from hotels and ice cream stands during their bridal trip. The couple jokes that borrowed silver funded dinners, with hotel staff praising him as a square man.
A languid Kentucky bookshop clerk questions a customer about Pope's works. The distressed lady corrects a mishearing, clarifying she asks for Pope's works not Pope's Rtest works, highlighting a mix up over a classic poet in a quiet shop exchange.
A remote young man asks Joe if any poetry books numbered 014 exist in the Pope's collection. The line hints at a search for specific volumes within a library or personal shelf.
Paris dispatch notes Emperor William in Metz Cathedral as he enters a Catholic church with a high ranking clerical delegation and a military guard. The Kaiser is portrayed as defender of Catholicism in Germany while Catholic France curbs churches and clergy. Locals report his reception of papal benediction and the Domine Salvum Fac chant amid regimental bands during the ceremony.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer Washington letter recounts Sam Swopes challenging Senator Ike Peters to extract a plain statement from Allison within fifteen minutes. Peters provokes with a sheep anecdote, betting Swopes ten dollars that Allison would not give a decisive answer. After careful reflection, Allison concedes sheep looked sheared, Swopes pays, and the bet ends.
The Detroit Tribune mocks sympathy for a man who bought ten thousand dollars in counterfeit money only to find dust in the package. It jokes about Southern reactions to a Hoosier chambermaid who supposedly slept in a bed used by Booker T. Washington and notes hotel staff claims about Washington’s knowledge being greater than most whites.
The Minneapolis Tribune reflects on the phrase making bricks without straw, challenging readers to consider its true meaning beyond Sunday school interpretations. The piece notes common misconceptions about labor and constraint, urging deeper insight into the historical context and its broader implications.
A local speaker explains an odd burglary method using horse hoof parings and rabbit hind foot tricks to intoxicate dogs. The method supposedly distracts dogs while burglars slip in through yards or windows. A policeman doubts the tale but suggests test runs near blacksmith shops to verify.
The United States will pay the last obligations from the Hawaii annexation era. Treasury agent W Fr MacLennan arrives with gold to settle the remaining $4,000,000 debt and the final London loan payment. Claims and bonds linger for a few groups, while Dole signs the county bill and an extra legislative session looms to approve appropriations.
New York Tribune reports on King Edward's France visit amid diverse theories. French papers predict varied outcomes, from war rumors to potential arbitration with The Hague. Observers note no ministerial entourage, aim to ease Franco British tensions and boost mutual prosperity between nations.
A London correspondent observes Chicago as a vast railway hub drawing country folk for amusement. He recalls a simple farmer baffled by the city’s scale and a boy's tale of an engineer turning the city at noon with a hidden machine, illustrating misunderstandings of urban life.
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