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Newspaper
Chicago Daily Tribune
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1881
Page
1
Washington reports confirm a harmless harvest fly is appearing this year, not the deadly locusts. Prof Hiley, head of the U S Entomology Bureau, says thirteen and seventeen year cycles explain its periodic visits, easing farmer and consumer worry.
The article explains periodical cicadas as large, winged insects with tympanal drums on the females and a spring emergence cycle. It contrasts them with the true locusts, notably the Rocky Mountain locust, detailing their habitats, life cycles, and potential agricultural impact. It calls for a permanent government warning and observation system to predict and mitigate outbreaks.
The text discusses the difficulty of translating a term acusta to the perindlt eal Cienidin and notes that popular names arising from people should remain unaltered. It argues that vernacular adoption is long established in older countries and that attempts to change familiar usage often fail. The passage also mentions the locust and climatic references in older American contexts.
A vivid account recalls a near collision on the Cincinnati Southern line when a Wealthy Miss and other passengers rode from Burnet House to Linwood. Delayed orders, a passing northbound and a rushed hospital setup triggered a near head-on crash within minutes, with crews improvising aid while trains halted twenty feet apart.
A Chicago Tribune editor recounts a factional split in the Learian Community near Corning Iowa over gendered labor and dress. The piece frames Mrs Adams as a catalyst for upheaval, describes communal living and shared property, and critiques the utopian project with ironic commentary on clothing, work, and governance.
The article recounts a divided community near Corning where strict clothing equality rules trigger a clash between elders and younger residents. Women seek self rule and election to the Directory, prompting legal action, property division, and later social experimentation with loans, propaganda, and new labor schemes that strain finances and reveal tensions between tradition and reform.
The Philadelphia correspondent notes a sustained mood in the iron trade with about 47 furnaces in blast and 241 idle in January, rising to 453 and 276 by April. Many Pennsylvania and New Jersey plants have blown out due to dismal pig iron prices, while a few have recently relit. Experts warn the downturn reflects cheaper English iron and long transport costs, not a lasting collapse, and expect a gradual market recovery as peacetime demand steadies.
A Wisconsin based dispute reports that state protective associations aim to bar wholesale buyers outside the trade. Jewelers fear monopolistic control and boycotts harming retailers and the public, while jobbers defend wholesale sales to general stores and dentists, arguing the movement will drive out small towns’ jewelers and hurt buyers.
The fragment offers poetic lines on the world’s smallness and vastness, contrasting joy and sorrow. It includes quoted verses about world-wide breadth, beauty, and longing, attributed to Harriet Pro…bridge in Lippincotts. The text is a damaged OCR excerpt with multiple distorted phrases and stray punctuation.
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