Subscriptions and notices from the Indianapolis Journal
The September 8 1902 issue lists subscription rates for carriers and mail, locations for paper distribution, and a note on reduced club rates. It includes a long column of editorial commentary on politics, postage, trusts and city police funding in St Louis and Kansas City, plus international express rate comparisons and remarks on Democratic state politics.
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Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Indianapolia
Indianapolis mayoral ties to colored vote and progress
The piece argues Mr. Taggart relied on the colored vote to win the mayoralty, notes colored men received positions and clubs, and cites recent denouncement by Democrats like John W. Kern and Frank B. Burke. It contends colored men joined Indianapolis police with Democratic help and that more colored migrants come seeking living opportunities.
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Ecause
Taggart
Democratic Party
Indianapolis
John W. Kern
Frank B. Burke
Trusts and Workingmen in Democratic Charge
The Democratic platform claims trusts are dismantling mills and dispossessing workers. The piece notes the burden of proof lies with Democrats and cites British inquiry and Samuel Gompers. It argues current employment, wages, and wealth concentration do not clearly show trusts reduce jobs, urging proof before verdicts.
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Democratic Party
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
United States
Confidence and polls in Indiana elections shape campaign effort
A Republican commentary argues that optimism among party supporters risks voter complacency in Indiana. It notes broad GOP strengths, a solid state administration, and favorable national trends while warning Democrats remain steady voters. Local committees must sustain turnout to secure victory.
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Indiana
Journal
State Committee
Congress
Repubicans
Republican State Committee
Republican duty in campaign effort urged for victory
The article calls on thousands of individual Republicans across the state to engage in campaign activities with utmost care and zeal this year, insisting that only by such devoted effort can a Republican victory be achieved in November.
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Sands
Debated Marion county party resolution on race and white supremacy
The article covers Delegate Keach’s proposed resolution opposing Southern Black migrants and pledging white-only Democratic rule, blocked by rules, with critique of its motives and notes on political tactics. It also surveys Maine election dynamics, party infighting, and historical context, including Governor Gould’s candidacy and coalitions. It ends with obituaries for poet Philip James Bailey and remarks on his poem Festus.
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Marion County
Democratic Party
Taggart
Alabama
Philip James Bailey
Festus
Honest Competition Versus Destructive Underselling
A discussion condemns rivals who ruin smaller competitors by selling at a loss to eliminate them and then raise prices. It argues such predatory underselling is dishonorable, unethical, and contrary to the spirit of fair trade, even if not always illegal. The piece endorses strong rebuke from business ethics.
The Humorists and True Life Dialogues
A humorous dialogue about neighbors and society contrasts a young wife and her husband discussing how well people know each other. A quip on the difference between the mart set and the four hundred follows, with a joke about Julius Caesar as emperor of Germany.
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Papa
Latter Day Limericks and Humorous Quips From Almanac Snippets
A collage of light verse and jokes from 19th to early 20th century newspapers. It includes a Chattanooga maiden lamenting wishes for a Menn and quips about love and wages. The column recalls playful exchanges about sermons and ordinary social scenes with cheerful catalog of rural and small-town humor.
Cab Drivers' Affairs End With Union Reaching Accord
The Cab Drivers Union settled a wage and hire dispute with the Indianapolis and Bird Transfer companies. After a back and forth sparked by a fare increase it admitted transfer company drivers into the union, removed them from the unfair list, and ended the price dispute between the two firms and the liverymen.
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Indianapolis and
Bird Transfer
Liverymen’s Association
Crown Hill
Bird
Liverymen's Assoce
Labor Day Finances Report From General Committee
The Labor day general committee met to review finances reporting receipts of 1415.60 and estimated expenditures just over 1200. Printing netted about 800 and will turn over 0 to 300 after expenses. Air grounds admissions brought 369.20, far below last year’s over 1000. A Louisville vs Indianapolis game and poor afternoon streetcar service reduced attendance. Committee to reconvene Friday night.
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Labor Day General Committee
Oneral Committee
Louisville
Indianapolis
Butler
Indiana Scenery Draws Europe in America Observation
The Rev Allan B Philputt spoke last night after returning from a vacation near Madison Indiana He urged that if funds are tight Americans can see a European like landscape in Madison and Hanover noting grand scenery hills rocks cliffs and a view from Hanover College rivaling Constantinople scenes He also mentioned lights of Louisville seen from a nearby area and praised the Ve may area scenery.
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Europe
America
Allan B. Philputt
Philputt
Madison
Switzerland
Hanover
Hanover College
Robert College
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Louisville
Vevay
Father McGrady to Lecture on Socialism and Labor
The Rev Thomas McGrady of Belleville Kentucky will lecture at Masonic Hall Thursday night on Socialism and the Labor Problem. He has lectured in major cities, written on socialism and economy, and befriended by some church leaders despite Catholic opposition.
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Thomas McGrady
Belleville
Masonic Hall
Father McGrady
Kentucky
Bef Paveteing
A Speckled Bird by Augusta Evans Wilson reviewed
A Speckled Bird is examined as a postwar South tale by Augusta Evans Wilson. The review notes the author’s enduring storytelling, a florid style, and a plot centering on Mrs Maurice, her granddaughter, a carpetbagger judge, and a scientifically minded hero whose anthropology pursuits drive a stormy romance amid Reconstruction.
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St. Elmo
Macaria
Augusta Evans Wilson
South
Central America
Pacific Islands
British North America
G. W. Dillingham & Co
New Or
Morchester novel offers sharp social satire and flaws
A review of Morchester by Charles Datchet notes its depiction of American society, politics, and business through Theodore Marshall and Miss Ellerton. The tale exposes scheming financiers, corrupt promoters, and a rigged system, yet the critic argues it skewed toward disreputable figures and does not present a fair portrait of real American life.
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Morchester
Charles Datchet
Middle States
Theodore Marshall
Miss Ellerton
Marshall
le Mark
Mr. Churchill
Felix McLean
Mrs. Netherly
Datchet
Sparks on Locomotives and the Risk They Pose
A reader review discusses a treatise on controlling railway locomotive sparks. It praises Prof. W. F. M. Goss of Purdue University for publishing a technical volume, notes its value to experts, and highlights the widespread damage sparks cause to farms, hay stacks, forests, and cities.
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W. F. M. Goss
Goss
Purdue University
John G. Saxe
D. P. Baldwin
Typhoid fever sources beyond water supply pamphlet
A pamphlet by M A Veeder of Lyons NY argues soil and especially flies can carry typhoid germs, contaminating food and spreading the disease. It emphasizes sanitary measures to prevent transmission, noting the unpleasant truths about picnic and food handling risks and urging household readers to study the pamphlet.
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M. A. Veeder
M. D
Lyons
New Record
Iam ‘Ood & Co
New York
Book title hints at a prominent page figure
The text notes the book derives its name from a leading person within its pages who is sharp minded and educated, yet dwells in a shabby house with a dog as his only companion, to whom he confides this tale.
The Fool in the Massachusetts Fishing Village
A nineteenth century narrative by William H. Carson set in a Massachusetts fishing village. It follows Pont a morbidly sensitive man who withdraws from society, bonds with his loyal friend Dave the fisherman, and unfolds two love stories, one tragic and one harmonious. G. W. Dillingham Company of New York published the work.
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Pont
Dave
Massachusetts
William H. Carson
Hester Blair
G. W. Dillingham Company
New York
First Self-Made American Governor Of Massachusetts
A colonial Massachusetts setting amid witchcraft fears and sea adventure follows William Phipps from shipwright to wealthy English loyalist, later governor. Cotton Mather appears in the witchcraft era, the kidnaped English maid heroine faces trial, jail escape, and romance on land and sea. Adele M Shaw writes a promising debut.
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Massachusetts
Ocean
William Phipps
England
Cotton Mather
Phipps
Adele M. Shaw
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
Buell Hampton novel a reformist editor in Kansas
Willis George Emerson’s Buell Hampton portrays a central editor of the Patriot aligned with no party yet called a reformist. The tale spans southwestern Kansas with dialect heavy scenes, two love stories, and themes of cattle thieves, crop destruction, and benevolent aid to the poor, published by Forbes & Co. in Boston.
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Willis George Emerson
Buell Hampton
Kansas
The
Patriot
Forbes & Co
Boston
Author Edward Emerson argues Bible wines were pure and intoxicating
The author, a longtime winemaker, claims Biblical wines were fermented and thus intoxicating, debunking the idea of unfermented wine as meaningless. He argues that only natural fermentation stopped by foreign substances yields nonalcoholic grape juice. The book advocates moderate wine use and temperance, New York Merrill & Baker.
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Edward R. Emerson
New York
Merrill & Baker
Monica and Bourget Stories in a New York Review
A critique of Marie Van Vorst's Monica and of Paul Bourget’s six stories in a Scribner’s collection. The narrative follows an educated son of a rich but cold father who pursues reform through a factory venture, is betrayed by a duplicitous partner, fancies a factory girl, and faces a moral test. The Philips Falls story is deemed weak, while Bourget’s translation by William Marchant is praised for its musical, vivid prose.
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Philippines
Marie van Vorst
Harper & Brothers
New York
Paul Bourget
Monica
William Marchant
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York City
In Love and Business Tangle Behind New York Trust
A New York tale shows a factory bought by a trust and a stockholder bent on ruining the factory owner. The owner loves the stockholder’s daughter, who secretly votes against freezing out her lover when the issue goes to a vote. Frederick Trevor Hill praises business life as dramatic and rich material.
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New York City
Frederick Trevor Hill
Trevor
Frederick A. Stokes
H. K. Gob’s Study of Northern Gulls and Waterfowl
The author H. K. Gob has long studied gulls and waterfowl across the Northern States and lower Canada. His work covers their characteristics and life histories, based on observations at sea, in distant waters, and swamps, shedding new light on previously little known American wild birds.
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H. K. Gob
Northern
Middle States
Lower
Canada
Far Wat
Ge BF
Photographs From a Field Guide by a Bird Enthusiast
A New York feature notes a large collection of bird photographs titled by a noted observer. The piece highlights the photographer and the breadth of avian subjects captured, reflecting on the art and science of documenting bird life.
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Thich Bea Eee
New York
D ‘Doubieday
Hafiz romance and feudal adventures in old letters
Este’s Manning notes Hafiz as a tale of adventure and romance drawn from family love letters amid baronial feuds of 174. the Neale Publishing Company issues a volume by John A. Cone on familiar topics. Carpenter’s Geographical Directory describes Europe for schools by Frank G. Carpenter.
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Este’ S Manning
Neale Publishing Company
Wason
D. C
John A. Cone
New York
F. Tennyson
Carpenter
Dandelion and Out of the Shadows by Evelyn M Lovejoy
Evelyn M Lovejoy writes in Vermont Dakota and California settings with native Vermonters as leads. The narrative is simple and graceful, portraying events rationally and a humane love for humanity, published by Abbey Press in New York.
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Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy
Vermont
Dakota
California
Gee
Abbey Press
New
A Harmless Revolution by Grace Miller White
A short critique notes the book teaches punctuation through a story and object lesson. It praises the method but points to frequent punctuation errors on pages, especially misused semicolons, indicating the author has not fully mastered the lesson.
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Grace Miller White
Ogilvie Company
New York
Periodicals and new publications noted in current issue
October Ainslee's Magazine will enlarge nearly double its size. Articles and notices review Bramh Whitlock's new work, Wilshire's Magazine debate on intoxicants, Bankers' Monthly sketch of Hugh McCulloch, Houghton Mifflin catalog highlights, North American Review discussion on the fate of the novel, Scribners fall list for youth, and forthcoming works by Aldrich Bates Craddock and others.
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Bramd Whitlock
Thirteenth District
Chicago
Charles R. Lane
Fort Wayne
Bankers’ Monthly
Hugh McCulloch
Indiana
Houghton, Miffllin & Co
Boston
T. B. Aldrich
Margaret Deland
Alice Brown
Mary Hallock Foote
Washington Gladden
Bret Harte
The
North American Review
Jules Verne
James Lane Allen
William Dean Howells
Hamiin Garland
Mabie
John Ki Bangs
Smith
W. P. Pycraft
W. B. Frankland
A. Wessels Company
Scribners
James Hitcombd Riley
Union Theological Seminary
George William Knox
Arthur Cushman McGiffert
Francis Brown
Harpers
Trilby
Tess
D'Urbervilles
Ben- Hur
Atenes Ment
Miss I~kins
Jerome
Mr. Zangwill
Elijah
Mrs. Ward
New York
Ruth Hall
Maria
Cummies
Charles Egbert Craddock
Mary Tracy Earle
John Fiske
New France
New England
Lockhart
Scott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George E. Woodberry
William Yenah
Orlando
Dr Eggleston and His Novels Remembered in Obituary
The Dr Edward Eggleston obituary notes his death reported yesterday and his lifelong work in historical research and colonial American politics. It highlights his Middle West stories from about thirty years ago, praised for lively, natural narration that charmed many readers.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Edward Eggleston
Middle West
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