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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1892
Page
4
An old advertisement style Q and A extols Alabastine as a cement based wall coating that hardens with age, unlike drift Kalsomines which use whiting chalks or inert powders held by animal glue. It states Alabastine can be recoated without washing or scraping and urges readers to buy from their local paint dealer or seek it elsewhere if unavailable.
Fragmented OCR note cites a single bee producing little honey and touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic to aid digestion and enrich the blood. It also references a claim that the Argentine Republic suspended telegraphic communication.
The elephant carries eight hundred pounds, rivaling eight ponies or three and a third camels. It travels fast with heavy loads in jungles and roadless regions, essential in Burma and frontier supply. With tusk and trunk acting as tools it clears paths, moves gun carriages, and helps load timber, plowing and teak work. Beast and Man in India.
A photo shows a common mission store at Buoza Maoteke, a major American Baptist Missionary Union station on the Congo. Traders use merchandise as money as natives distrust coins with holes. Goods from Liverpool include cloth, blankets, clothing, and cheap wares. Caravans from Matadi bring supplies daily. Mr. OG By Ingham stands in the doorway as the store opens.
Exchanging goods for yams, fowls and other articles of food, missionaries use these goods to pay native labor for building houses and for other purposes. New York World notes the practice reflects early colonial economic interactions and missionary funding methods.
A judge notes a curious scene as Johnnie’s mouth is opened wide for medicine and honey. A contract between Prussia and Bremen to enlarge Bremerhaven Kaiser Harbor will begin immediately with energy, costing $3,750,000.
In a Bombay fortress a high English official died around fifty years ago. As news reached the Sepoy guard at the main gate a black cat fled. The guard gave arms to salute the cat, a coincidence that lingered in the locality and affected Hindu sentries at that gate for years.
The New York World outlines Russia under Alexander III, noting famine, Hebrew expulsions, and fears the peasantry may be made serfs again. It recounts Alexander II’s 1861 emancipation, the death of heir Nicolai in 1865, and portrays Alexander III as a strong, honest ruler facing unrest and potential autocratic crackdowns.
A New York World report describes 32 foot diameter drive wheels, six feet one inch wide with twenty two grooves for 24 inch ropes, weighing seventy five tons each. Four wheels are built for Cleveland Ohio, while a dual power plant will ensure continued service if awheel breaks down, with wheels to be transported and installed in New York.
A piano for the Imperial Court of Russia is to be built by Booker at a cost of 88 000 lire. The instrument will be colossal, supported on six legs connected by sculptured garlands, gilded, from Benois designs, with tone three times that of a normal piano. Nestchjeff Maltzen, a famed millionaire, secured the order through the Court Chamberlain.
A Chicago legal bureau offers free guidance to the poor and Deaf. An elderly, nearly deaf and blind woman urged sharing methods to talk to the deaf, noting that slow, distinct speech is vital. She warned that louder voice does not aid hearing and urged general awareness to ease deaf people’s burdens.
Historical column describes trained messenger dogs and sentry animals used by Austro-Hungarian and other forces. Alpine collies relay messages with leather mail bags, scent and sight aiding patrols, while Hungarian breeds and Kaffir baboons serve as unusual sentries. Horses also alert to danger, and exotic examples from Orange River illustrate broader use of animal guardians in warfare.
Italy experiments with liquid fuel for torpedo boats while Johns Hopkins lists a thermomagter valued at 10000 dollars. The Hollerith counting device saved 600000 dollars in census costs. Frost effects vary by product. eggs burst, apples shrink, potatoes blacken. Sandstone foundations saturate with oil, making them brittle. A roommakers dye green broomcorn, causing housekeepers to fear poisoning. A sun earth distance thought experiment places the nearest fixed star eleven miles away. Guns reach 2287 feet per second. Blood flow rates from heart approximate twelve inches per second in arteries and 3-100 inch per second in capillaries. A steam-powered floating fire-engine trials in Marmora. speed twelve to thirteen miles per hour. A new English chair pattern uses alternating lead and steel strips for durability. The ctctophone tests death by heart sounds. a Russian case shows restoration after apparent death. An electrical arc shutoff device uses four needles and a thread to trip current when overload occurs.
A description of Barbary apes living in Gibraltar cliffs, their isolation from humans, and notes on their origin linking to North Africa. The piece contrasts the colony with true apes and mentions the broader trade of diamonds valued at 25 million dollars annually.
The article notes Boltuva in southern Russia famed for Peter the Great's victory near the city in 170 percent and describes how a once deep navigable river Vonska now lies dry. It explains how the bed appeared to have vanished into sandy soil, depriving the region of fertility once granted by the river and leaving the Dnieper’s former currents a mystery.
A garbled line from a historical page claims Kentucky produces the majority of hemp rayt in the nation. The fragment suggests regional agricultural output but lacks verifiable details or context.
A garbled OCR page mixes religious statistics for Russia with dubious medical ads and weathered notices. It includes counts of archbishops, priests, deacons, psalat singers, and adherents, plus stray promotional lines for medicines, butter consumption, and wholesale drughouse notices. The fragmentary text also advertises a reward and a printer’s display ad.
Advertises Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a small, easy to take remedy for headaches bilious attacks constipation indigestion and liver stomach and bowel derangements. Claims prompt relief and permanent cure with a satisfaction guarantee and money back. Warns against buying substitutes that are "just as good" from dealers.
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