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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1872
Page
3
A fractured verse recalls a steadfast fighter whose fameendures after a hard clash. The piece references teachers, mourners, and a nation’s memory as a warlike figure who stood firm against cruelty and loss, inspiring reverence and caution in readers.
Dr McMillan of North Middleton Ohio describes a harrowing cold exposure journey to Paris. After three miles his feet chilled and he drifted toward sleep as his hat blew away and his horse veered onto rocks. He slept on the rocks until found by a colored boy and treated with cold water. His left hand recovers. his right hand suffered severe frostbite with potential loss of fingers.
A compendium of beliefs links the moon to fortunes and misfortunes, lunar timing affecting farming, weather, tides, and even medical rites. Observations include warts cured by moonlight, powwow jargon, and a deacon who channels Old Hundred to tame his oxen after temper flare ups.
A detailed overview of coffee cultivation from the Abyssinian/Liberian seed to Brazil. It covers planting methods, shading, labor, annual yields, harvesting timing from April to September, drying terraces, and early processing innovations including manteola and modern hulking machines.
The Mercantile Journal discusses bag weights for St Domingo 130 pounds Laguayra 110 Maracaibo 120 and Ceylon 150. Jamaica 200 pounds in various forms. It covers roasting as a science, urging close vessels, light chestnut roast, minimal air exposure, and notes a 15 percent weight loss with roasting and rapid deterioration after grinding.
The article explains cochineal dye from Mexican insects and their rearing on cactus. It notes the insects’ fecundity, the processing methods to extract dye, and how boiling or heating affects color. It also mentions misuses, adulteration, and historical use by Hebrews Egyptians Arabs.
In Loanda, then part of Angola, a famed traveler known as Dr David Livingstone arrived as a shabby visitor claiming a Cape journey by land. The British consul sheltered him and his Makololo for seven months, and Livingstone later achieved the extraordinary feat of crossing the African continent from the western coast to the eastern shore.
The Baltimore Bulletin notes parents write teachers about vaccination amid smallpox fears. Varied spellings of vaccinate appear such as Vaccnate Vaxinate Vaxenated and other odd forms. Also mentioned are farewell dinners with little action.
The article recalls years past when twenty five years ago pirates roamed the Twelve Thousand Islands in large armed fleets. They terrorized villages, killed, captured women and children, and burned homes as they plundered ships. The piece credits Sir James Brooke and allies for later sweeping these buccaneers from the seas.
The piece previews Warner's Back-Log Studies in Scribner's April issue. It links wind mores to character, detailing temper, courage, hope, peevishness, longing, and unrest across the north, west, east, and south winds. It concludes with a playful note on tomato champagne.
In Kingston and surrounding areas, Jamaica’s women toil barefooted and wrapped in frocks while men ride laboring mules. Coal carriers earn pennies per headload, with night shifts and singing boosting output aboard ships. An elderly koratee dealer and village markets illustrate small trades aiding economic hope amid enduring poverty.
A Denver groom rushes to Salt Lake City on urgent business and follows snowbound railway lines. He shovels free trains, walks 200 miles in five days, and endures wolves chasing him, aided by a saved hat and a borrowed red handkerchief. His devotion remains steadfast despite hardships.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter argues that city growth boosts population and trade, raising demand for fine calf boots and ladies colored goods among civilized towns. Heavy work boots and sturdy stogas remain staple in primitive villages near undeveloped frontiers.
A large cobra about four feet long battles a small, agile mongoose in a 20 by 12 foot enclosure. The mongoose drives the fight, bites the cobra’s body and head, and finally kills it. Locals note the mongoose later recovers, suggesting cobra bites are not fatal to mongooses.
A writer extols the virtue of cheerful, awake youth and a smiling healthy girl as the foundation of a happy home. He contrasts them with surly, crabbed behavior and praises teeth, songlike mornings, and the joy such a person brings to family life as the light and mercy of the household.
A Pittsburg divorce suit claims the defendant fell in love with the complainant’s photograph and proposed, then she traveled from Ireland to marry him but grew disenchanted upon arrival, prompting legal action.
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