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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1889
Page
1
Fragmented prose mixes a confession of love to a widow with a dramatic Indian Caucus tale. A lover vows devotion to a dangerous woman while a British officer confronts treachery in Bithoor. The narrative shifts to Nana Sahib’s vengeful arc after a tiger hunt and a jealous, deadly plot unfolding at Bathoor with a staged murder and a coffin reveal.
The text tells how Nana Sahib, maharajah of Bithoor, married Irish beauty Lady Margaret O'Sullivan in San Francisco during the gold rush era. Back in India, Major Nivers taunts Edward O'Sullivan to a tiger hunt with a £100 bet. Tigers attack. Edward kills one with a table knife, saving Lady Margaret as Nana’s guard. The dramatic episode shifts the mood toward danger and loyalty.
A Harvard Annex student from the country visited an city intelligence office by sign and sat among others before realizing it offered chambermaid positions. She left after reconsidering the sign’s meaning, noting not every sign means what it reads. The note ends by mentioning six newspapers published in Delaware.
An 19th century sketch explains poison oak in California. It details growth forms from dense shrubs to vine like climbers and even trees, and outlines how contact from leaves sap or sweat triggers severe skin eruption. The piece notes varying sensitivity among people and mentions home remedies and folk beliefs without identifying a formal poison isolate.
Long ago Anna Dickinson drew crowds in Chicago for a lecture tour with an awkward moment as she repeated a question about a horn. An audience member quipped a wry response. Similar interruptions marred a Faneuil Hall event where Pat O Flaherty heckled by shouting Faneuil hall is fall to-night, illustrating the era's lively public discourse and colorful political theater.
Reports say the North Pacific Coast railroad faced public requests to reroute tracks away from Duncan's Mills by about 100 yards. Petitioners referenced a redwood trunk collapse and a tunnel-like effort to avoid cutting the tree. The tree trunk measures 16 feet in diameter.
An interview recounts cavalry and artillery horses adapting to military life. Capt. Cox notes quick bugle learning, uniform gait, and poised behavior under fire. A battery incident shows horses galloping across a field in perfect alignment, with riders urging cannoneers forward. The piece highlights loyalty, fearlessness, and a dramatic Murfreesboro charge where a retreating officer's horse charged ahead, earning awe.
The article urges simpler lighter shortcake with generous fruit and advises layering fruit between crusts for a smooth cut. It recommends using a hot knife and not sparing butter, noting orange and other soft fruits can substitute for strawberries. It ends by praising shortcake as a handy tea dish and hints at serving with suitable fruit.
An old man at Pike Buveriey court in Heriwothey asserts he will be 115 on Feb 31 if he lives to then. He shows a toothless mouth claiming a single tooth remains, and notes his children were born toothless as well. Adams Go residents also report finding gold ore in Jefferson Township hills.
Ex governor War moth recalls a 1878 Manchester New England fair where Ben Butler tried to speak on taxation amid a chaotic parade of oxen carts loaded with produce and country girls, interrupted by rival caravans, a brass band, and city fire engines, ending with Butler breaking down in anger.
Antiquarians chase a potential first New York printed book linked to the Duke’s Laws and an early pamphlet about the New York Connecticut controversy. Berthold Fernow notes a likely earlier work despite extensive searches by major libraries and private collectors. A copy would command high value if found.
A Kingston Freeman item recalls a public spirited teacher who had her class write what they remembered about Washington. A girl mis-spelled United States as You-nighted States while a helper laughed and sent her to the Miss, highlighting playful phonetic confusion.
Montana Methodists announce a proposal to construct a new university facility near Helena with an estimated price tag of 400000 dollars, signaling a major expansion for the Methodist University community.
A Philadelphia Inquirer piece reports a prominent chiropodist praising foot development as essential to beauty and strength. It describes daily toe exercises, walking on bare toes, ankle drills, and systematic toe independence training to achieve even, square foot proportions and pigeon-toed correction through mirror-guided practice.
A New York Sun interview explains that precious gems arise from ordinary minerals. Ruby, sapphire, topaz, emerald, and opal are crystalline forms of silica and alumina with trace elements. diamond is carbon. Turquoise and turquoise hues come from copper and phosphate blends. many stones depend on silica flavors like quartz and chalcedony.
A brief notice states subscription terms offering $1.50 per year strictly in advance.
A dense listing shows Indiana Lodge 313 F and AML meets second Tuesday, Palladium 346 I C O F meets Mondays, Indiana Lodge 21 AOUW meets Fridays, Clymer 23 K af F meets second Tuesday, National Christian Temperance Union meets Tuesday at 7, Penn Council 305 meets second Thursday, Council 260 Jy Q U A M meets Tuesday evenings in Cunningham Hall, plus numerous county officers and many Indiana PA attorneys with offices on Philadelphia Street. Names include S.A. Craig, A.K. Sioan, Harry White, D. Mack, J. A. Scott, J. A. Findley, D. Litkehars, A. Kennedy, J. M. Mare shall, W. H. shields, Frenk Ehrentfeld, E. IE, Alien, W. L. Need, Eo. W. Hoon, A. W. Taylor, Jacks, A C Rupfner, Tr. Stuchul, Bech, Elhinn, Samuel Cunningham, J. B. Pierce, Mouis Supton, B. Taylor, G. W. Watson, Telford, Wiggin & Hell, J. T. Bell, Sloan, Bond, Banks, Stewart, and others in Indiana, Pa.
Sched details for the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg lines dating May 1859 with westward and eastward departures from Rochester Punxsutawney DuBois Ridgeway and Bradford. Includes local freight services, connections to Seashore Ex Day Ex and Pacific Ex, and names of superintendents and agents.
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