16 Dec 1896
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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1896
Page
1
A dense OCR page lists subscription terms for Ee Tudiena Hemera, advertising rates, and notices. It includes postal rules, authorizing publishers to collect arrears, various advertising and legal notice charges, and a long roster of named advertising firms. The page also provides church listings with pastors and service times for multiple denominations on Church Street and nearby streets.
Indiana and nearby lodges including Indiana Lodge No 18 FL&AM meet monthly on the second Tuesday. Padadium Lodge No 346 IOOF meets Mondays. Indiana Lodge No 212 AUUW meets Fridays. Ksamer Lodge No 28 K of P meets second Tuesday. Rational Christian Temperance Union meets every Tuesday at 7 PM. Wau Pein Council Royal Arcanum No 305 meets second Thursday. Council 280 Jr U U A M meets Tuesday evenings in Landis building. Indiana Conclave No 180 IOHP meets first and third Friday evenings in Cunningham’s Mall Tsu PM.
A playful fanciful verse sketches Maude the Scholar in varied attire from ribbon and velvet to Tam O Shanter. The speaker admires her looks and wit, notes fashion cues, and imagines bowing before her mind as curls and scholarly cap evoke intellect and charm.
Miss Blenkinsop keeps a sharp voiced parrot named Major Augustus Terwilliger Blenkinsop in a high house at the village corner. Mick the errand boy guards the creature, but the bird escapes with a ribbon tether. A kind girl calms the Major, and an old woman guides Mick to the parrot’s rightful home, leaving the mystery of the witchlike helper unresolved.
The Baltic name traces to a seventeenth century coffee house on Threadneedle Street frequented by Russian and Baltic merchants. It grew from a social hub to a major meeting place for expanding trade relations, with South Sea House later serving as its HQ. The Baltic Company, Ltd. owns South Sea House and earns £5,000 yearly rent from the Baltic committee, with £100 shares trading around £700 and a 3 percent annual dividend.
A damaged OCR fragment presents garbled speech about a person named Lighthead and a horse ride. It includes vague references to loss and self harm, with unclear attribution and no verifiable events or context.
A Winston County Alabama piece describes a sparse, poverty struck region where moonshine, clay eating, and superstition shape daily life. Families live in crude cabins with minimal decor, depend on country stores, and subsist on scarce foods while tobacco usage and illiteracy prevail.
An 1877 New York Tribune report cites fires and a fire loss in St John New Brunswick, while opinions clash over indecent side shows at fairs. The Baltimore Sun notes concerns about gambling devices and crowds near fairgrounds, urging caution and propriety to protect youth.
A little known Hartford book discusses The Black Governors of Connecticut. Before the Revolution, black residents elected a governor on the Saturday after election day, sometimes yielding power without an actual election. These leaders, though lacking legal status, held real authority over morals and justice and appointed officers, with whites deferring to black magistrates in many cases.
A Big Bend agent, deemed soft, encounters a gang trying to push tickets to Black Hill. Bill Thompson tests the agent with a gun gesture, then five shots wound him as the crowd learns the fare remains one dollar. The raid ends with Bill’s injuries and the crowd carrying him away.
Colonel McGehee, a leader in Laurell Bill, advocates mule and hay farming in Louisiana. He notes high profits versus cotton or cane and asserts bred mules in Louisiana outperform imported stock. He emphasizes fast, enduring, reliable mules with a bloodline mix, capable of rivaling horse speed in harness.
A chaotic scene unfolds as Judge Holtan’s chronic objections provoke laughter and fear among observers. A wag mocks the proceedings, threatening to sabotage, while the crowd erupts with shouts and symbolic demonstrations near the bronze goddess of liberty.
In Dayton area records a wedding on August 28 1800 marked the town’s first marriage. Benjamin Van Cleve wed Mary Whitten at her father John Whitten’s home near Dayton. The article recalls frontier life and Van Cleve’s insights as a surveyor who helped attract settlers.
The passage questions the nature of the self and the inner life, noting that most thoughts feel mine while occasional insights seem alien or foreign. It considers impulses, moral acts, and a singular sense of fear or responsibility that feels authentic, amid reflections on unity with the body and personal virtue and vice.
Conan Deyla argues the literary field is nearly equal for men and women yet unfair where male writers must invent while female writers draw on imagination and memory. He says when a male author creates a charming heroine he consults imagination, but a female author can rely on herself, a point he deems unfair.
A rugged frontier squire acts as justice of the peace and jurist in his own improvised court. He arrests a hog killer, conducts the trial from the bench, prosecutes and defends, and finally fines the rustler $100 and sentences six months in jail, all without real legal authority. This tale from the Detroit Free Press illustrates how authority can stretch beyond formal lines.
A reader recalls a mud dauber nesting in a room and learning to avoid open windows after a clumsy attempt to exit. The wasp discovers a transparent barrier, finds a window hole, escapes, then repeatedly uses the casing hole to reenter. The account claims notable reasoning from a single experience.
A Con temporary Review summary explains the Mahdi will be preceded by sixty forerunners called babs or baths. Mirza Ali Mohammed, a Shiraz pupil, became a bab and amassed followers, leading to clashes with the shah leading to massacres. The piece notes political and religious entanglements, including Persis sects and global impact.
E L Godkin argues Americans lack landowners and capital for elite social circles. He notes scarce society uniting wealth and culture outside Boston and suggests gatherings would be shallow if guests only discuss fortune. He questions feasibility of Parisian style amusements for American hosts and guests in Scribner's.
Professor Patterson of the Coast survey explains magnetic north results from Earth acting as a magnet, sun influences, and a tilt between magnetic and geographic poles. The article cites dip varies from 63 degrees in San Francisco to the magnetic poles and notes no single ultimate reason for the northward needle.
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