Old and New Telephone Calls and Inland Rates
A condensed review from The Indianapolis Journal of items on telephone services tariffs and office listings. The piece moves through subscription costs, distribution details, and scanning local and national market notes. It references taxation debates in Ohio, immigration policy shifts in Roumania, and opinions on universal languages amid scientific societies. The column mixes advertisements, postal notes, and miscellaneous news briefs with observed local and national tensions.
Historic encampments set near Capitol to White House route
Encampments planned for early September and a march of about a mile and a quarter between the Capitol and White House. The plan appears agreeable and not wearisome, recalling the soldiers' previous famed last review and their privilege to traverse that ground again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capitol
Whitehouse
Industrial and technical education in the United States
The article traces the rise of industrial education from its early opposition to public schools toward a national system of manual training and technical institutes. It argues such education boosts mental development, national prosperity, and local growth, weighing the benefits of a proposed city technical institute against an army post, and cites population, birth rates, and life expectancy to argue on the broader welfare of nations.
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United States
Germany
Agricultural and Mechanical
Purdue University
Rose Polytechnic
Indianapolis
Army Post
Technical Institute
Falling Birth Rate Sparks Malthus Debate in Britain
The article notes a rising Malthusian concern over population growth outpacing subsistence, but British vital statistics show a twenty year decline in births per 1000 and a small narrowing gap with deaths. It suggests the trend may extend to the United States rural areas, tempering fears of widespread famine.
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British Association of Science
Sir Frederick Bramwell
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
Frederick
Europe
Indiana
New England
Russia
China
Italy
Malthus
Log rolling and nation building in early American policy
A discussion traces log rolling from rural labor to political bargaining in locating the national capital and funding debts. It explains Hamilton and Jefferson's role in the capital site compromise. The piece then shifts to Roosevelt's census order for the Philippines, outlining the plan for a Philippine Assembly and self government, and notes interruptions to the President's Western trip and Milwaukee banquet delays with Senate and Secretary interactions.
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Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Hamilton
Treasury
Washington
United States
States
South
South Carolina
Delaware
Potomac
Europe
Jefferson
Congress
Roosevelt
Philippines
Philippine Commission
Islands
Hamilton and Jefferson on the Continental Debt
The debate over the 19 million-dollar federal and state debts sparked outcry. Hamilton defended the plan with calm resolve while Jefferson blamed deception, a claim that underscored Hamilton’s superior political acumen and helped establish America’s strong financial standing.
Indiana’s varied world offers arts, horses, and politics
The article surveys diverse topics from U S Chase’s national banking ideas to Abdicating authors, Hardy’s literary past, and a grand Indianapolis horse show. It notes social agents in mills, contrasts British society notices with American practice, and comments on South American marriage chatter, Supreme Court justice kerosene fires, Philadelphia editors, Chicago lawyers, and Indiana’s coming clash of college football and campaigns.
Oddities of People and Places Across Nations
A collage of brief notes cites Thomas Lewis a twenty five year old Liberian studying medicine in Detroit as well as Gen Fitzhugh Lee planning Norfolk as future home after Jamestown Exposition post. It recalls Jules Janin autographs to Metternich Scotland’s Balfour quip and Sen Bard’s typhoid illness along with landholding ties in Southern California.
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Thomas Lewis
Africa
Detroit
Mich
Fitzhugh Lee
Norfolk
Paris
Prince Metternich
Jules Janin
Janin
Johannisberg
Mr. Balfour
Balfour
United States
Thomas R. Bard
Los Angeles
Calinthe
Snails, Cats, Ghosts, and Wu Tingfang in Brief Notes
Civil War reminiscences follow tales of edible snails from southern Europe and Africa, then care tips for white cats, and a French artist’s anecdote about James Tissot. Quotes on ghosts and immortality appear, while Wu Tingfang plans an America impressions book to be published in England and China.
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A. Scott
Paris
Europe
Africa
Edward
Poitou
Burgundy
Champagne
Provence
James Tissot
Aloes
Mediterranean
Mexico
Spain
Wu Tingfang
The Humorists. Quick Witted Vignettes in Brooklyn Life
A collage of witty lines from humor columns and cartoon captions. Exchanges range from domestic sparring to social foibles, with quips about illness, giving, palmistry, opportunity, and public life. Small, humorous sketches reflect early 20th century newspaper style and tone.
Courtroom Exchange Reflects Truthful Habit Question
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt a judge asks a witness if the plaintiff habitually tells the truth. The witness replies that a direct answer is difficult since he has not spoken with the plaintiff for over a week, noting some habits form quickly.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Subway Wall Move Lifts London Ingenious Under Columbus Monument
An engineering paper describes moving a long concrete brick wall for the New York subway renovation near the Columbus monument. Builders widened a tunnel entrance by eleven feet, lifting the two hundred foot wall intact with jacks and support rails rather than demolishing it, saving thousands of dollars.
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Frank W. Skinner
Engineering Record
Columbus Monument
Reconstruction of Wall Using Jack Screws and Steel Plates
Workers used cross-sills steel track plates and bearing plates under the wall to brace it. Oak wedges and five ton jack screws shifted the wall back five and a half feet in hours, with cement filling gaps after cutting plate ends. Twenty men completed each wall in ten days without distortion beyond a sixteenth of an inch.
Climate Change Notions Meet Weather Reality
John Gilmer Speed argues in Brandur Magazine that hot summers in American cities were blamed on a changing climate due to electricity, a notion he dismisses as blind theory. He suggests climate always changes in an uneven pendulum and expresses hope science will soon clarify and possibly control future weather.
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John Gilmer Speed
Brandur
Wiseacre
Cost of Groceries Flour and Potatoes
Retail price history shows wartime spikes and postwar declines. Flour barrels ranged from seven to twenty dollars in past eras, sugar and butter fluctuated, oil and beans moved with yields, and potatoes reached up to two fifty per bushel. Since 1872 panic effects linger with no near improvement expected.
American Shoe Stores in Germany Opens in Berlin
New York Evening Sun reports American made shoes find rapid success abroad. A Berlin store opened April 1901 draws crowds with exclusively American merchandise and uniform pricing. Management plans Frankfort and Hamburg outlets as sales climb from $400 to $1,000 daily.
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New York Evening Sun
Germany
Berlin
Frankfort
Hamburg
Jober
Barthmann
United States
Aring
Grievances Over King Edward At Surrey House Party
The Onlooker notes a London gossip theme that King Edward is adored by some yet resented by others for favoring Jews and a Gentile balance. An American at a Surrey party intensifies the idea that Edward is idolized by English subjects, despite lingering unpopularity since illness and coronation.
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Edward
England
Surrey
Society of
London
St. Petersburg
Khimeel
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