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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1902
Page
6
In a dramatic account, doctors discuss grafting flesh from a tuberculous cow onto Garault's arm to study infection. The physician notes visible tubercular lesions and bacilli spreading around the scar while Garault weighs removal by surgery. The patient relies on medical faculty, science, and surgeon Tassier to decide fate.
The Indianapolis Journal reports in Berlin that Professor Koch rejects Garnaults claim of inoculating with beef tubercle to prove tuberculosis transfer. Koch says such cases are unscientific and that tubercle growths are harmless under the skin, not spreading to vital organs. He questions Garnaults medical status and suggests prior illness may exist.
The conversation centers on infection risks from milk from diseased cows. Koch argues that milk transmission to consumers is unlikely, urging funds for sanitariums instead. He recalls Dr Garnault’s experiments and notes the danger of sensational claims, comparing injections to drinking milk.
A detailed account explains how strict security governs civil service examinations. Seals remain intact from questions to answers, with paper and envelopes counted, sealed, and tracked from Washington to the exam rooms. Names are concealed by numbers until final averages determine eligibility for the register.
A hotel table features a self styled Bostonian woman who reads a letter aloud to a ten year old boy. Her pretensions draw a stern gaze from the boy who mocks her in witty retort. The scene contrasts social satire with family dynamics at a resort breakfast.
Theodore Roosevelt's former New York governor era secretary continues in the White House arranging many details for the president's travels. He previously served the strenuous man and now handles coordination of tours and schedules.
Frank Norris argues that fiction language, institutions, and religion are undergoing a radical shift in the twentieth century. The novelist must become the voice of the people, abandoning aristocratic seclusion, to interpret society. The piece contrasts past literary cults with growing demand for vulgarized, widely read prose and discusses the paradox of the struggling artist versus market pressures in journalism and magazines.
A New York Times Literary Review essay extols prose workmanlike craft, notes Dickens as a living rival to modern novelists, and critiques translation errors when languages clash. It observes the fickle memory of most novels despite enduring technical quality and reflects on translation missteps and cultural transfer.
A collage of reflections on autographs and literary culture. anecdotes about a horse tied to a locust, Tennyson vs a friend, Mrs Sigourney’s praise, and the quirks of copyright in Britain and America. Mentions of Grace Lathrop Collins, John Luther Long, and James Whitcomb Riley among others.
A compiled look at literary figures and events: Swinburne’s early fiction under a female pseudonym, Charlemagne Tower gifting 2500 Russian books to Philadelphia Library, Winston Churchill drafting his father’s memoirs, and Paris bookshops showing shifts in reader tastes with Kipling, Doyle, Kipling, and Zola cited among popular works and serials like Sherlock Holmes and Oliver Twist.
Londoners rarely glimpse the old catalpa Raleigh brought from Virginia planted in Gray's Inn gardens where Elizabethan and Shakespearean figures once gathered. The tree, oldest in England by some accounts, remains behind a high iron fence near the former Elizabethan Hall. A water barrel stands beside the catalpa, once next to a bench Francis Bacon used, a seat rumored to have vanished after his death.
A fragment from Youth's Companion poem by Frank Walcott Hutt describes a narrator and a child on a Story Land journey. The little boy guides the way to many stations, but as a train slows and the conductor sleeps, the request for another story lingers.
Mrs Pearl Craigie also known as John Oliver Hobbes sails to India as guest of Lord and Lady Curgon for coronation ceremonies. She travels amid press attention and literary acclaim from England to India for the royal event.
News of New Goods announces arrival of fall season merchandise with rich colors. Fall items replace summer tints including heavy dress cloths, new suits, new shoes, and home furnishings stocked in unusual quantities for early season shoppers.
Summary of stylish slipper designs and dress shoes offered for young women going away to school. The catalog lists puff bow slippers, patent leather Vassar and Duchess models, a 5-strap slipper, Lessing ties, patent leather pumps, sailor ties, and other fashionable designs. Also highlights walking boots, storm boots, gym shoes, bath and party slippers, new overshoes, and Queen Quality Shoes in various new styles.
Advertises a wide range of undergarments including cotton and wool Union Suits in fall and winter weights from $1.00 to $2.50, blended and silk options up to $10.00. Children’s Union Suits from 50c to $1.50, black wool tights 50c to $1.50, miscellaneous fleeced vests and pants 25c to 75c, natural wool and silk blends, Merode women’s underwear 50c, and knitted corset covers 50c each.
The handsomest fabrics in dress lengths, nearly one hundred exclusive patterns ready. Prices range from 12.75 to 39.00 for fine foreign looms including tibeline plaids snow flecked cheviots camel's hair homespuns and more. Some side band patterns at 22.50 and crepe dechines offered at lower prices.
A New York Commercial article notes private schools have risen in status, attracting not only the rich but also families with means. These institutions now provide a liberal, career-focused education aimed at producing future captains of industry rather than traditional professions.
A line from the Atchison Globe describes a boy who typically knocks over five things as he passes a room, and if especially careful and restrained, he might knock over ten. The remark uses humor to illustrate the boy's clumsy propensity.
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