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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1892
Page
7
The column surveys diverse topics from global quirks to ambitious ventures. It notes a memorial idea for friction match inventor John Walker, a Philadelphia professor planning a globe balloon voyage, and Pacific Coast hop farming plots. It highlights Argentina wheat and Diamante machinery, and Kansas settlement rebound amid drought legends.
A verse by George Griffith in the Housewife praises the diligent and worthy. It urges supporters to wish well, bless them, and keep faith that good outcomes will follow.
An account of the famed rogue elephant The Wicked in Mysore district Madras province. He terrorized a 50 by 30 mile area from 1808, killed over 100 people, destroyed crops, and evaded numerous hunts. After a long pursuit, a hunter lured him with a dummy ryot’s wife, fired, and killed him. The valley relaxed as the threat ended and the anniversary became a local holiday.
Last Wednesday Hough Carpenter and Wiley Curtis with six hounds chased a large animal in Asberry Fry's woods four miles southwest of La Plata. It treed, was knocked from limb by Curtis, fell after a ten minute chase, and was brought to town. Most authorities deemed it a catamount though some called it a wild cat. It measured six feet four inches from tip to tail.
The piece disputes the belief that Chinese people are uniformly literate in the United States noting that only a small educated class exists. It argues that Chinese lacks a unified written language, instead using many dialects and ideographic systems, with the written form not a true language.
J. T. Hanctck Sr owns a tree two miles west of Fort Meade that measures 24 inches in diameter at two feet high. The tree produced 7000 oranges six years ago, though its exact age is unknown. It has stood there for around forty years.
Practical kitchen and home care guidance sourced from period publications. Tips cover polishing cutlery with emery or potato, washing gold and silver jewelry with potash and a salt alum-nitre bath, removing grease from carpets with gasoline, and simple recipes for oatmeal gruel, drawn butter for boiled fish, fried shrimps, dried apple pie, apricot tapioca pudding, and scalloped tomatoes.
A Chicago Times note questions who uses the term average woman and explains that physically it implies about 117 pounds and just over 5 feet 1 inch. It cites French Academy observations of 1107 French women, 1835 American data by Dr. Sargent, and 770 measurements by Dr. Galton, concluding British women are tallest, with American women slightly ahead in weight. A joke follows about borrowing money.
An article surveys women phrenologists gaining popularity among a select set, then compares modern fashion to 120 year old styles with notes on hair, skirts, and fabrics. It covers women banking, Chinese education norms, and evolving dress trends including colors, fabrics, and accessories.
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