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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
3
The Indiana Progress notes discuss sunflower stalks and seed as fuel comparing burn quality to maple wood and hard coal. It cites an acre value and a casual remark on household economies, while also noting a string of diverse items from Swiss telephony to Georgia farming anecdotes and literary notes about Captain Jane Smith and Irish emigration.
The article surveys a string of oddities and opinions from different regions and eras, noting a divided cabinet by east and west, a proposed lynching law for horse thieves, and remarks on temperance among Indians on reservations. It also reports on a range of topics from weather science to Panama Canal progress and Alabama education funding.
A poem recounts a violent incident where Jim, defending women, shoots an intruding tramp inside a house. He fires twice, the tramp falls, then Jim steels himself to guard the doorway. A coroner’s verdict is referenced amid rugged dialect and regional speech.
A fragmented narrative blends tender家庭 scenes with a cautionary tale. A young man recalls playful moments with a child, a glass barrier, a doctor, and a fallible plan, interwoven with vivid cultural descriptions of a Fijian house, its structure, decor, and daily life as observed in Popular Science Monthly.
A man recalls a terrifying night when his child hung from a second story window as a grocer’s boy stumbled inside. He heroically saves the baby after a fall, waking in the hospital with his wife weeping and his nerves strained. The tale ends with the man questioning providence amid lingering guilt.
A plumber suggests a poisonous coating to protect lead pipes from rats, claiming many burst or leaking pipes result from vermin rather than material flaws. He notes rats driven by water noise will gnaw through soft lead quickly, and a fast-acting poison could deter them.
A fragmentary survey of Maori life describing greetings, housing, dress, art, tattoo, and social traits. It notes huts with grass roofs, mat sleeping, mixed native and European clothing, and vivid war gear. Women wear ear ornaments, youths and elders contrasted by courage and hospitality tempered by indolence and occasional mischief.
Miss Jenette Larke of Buffalo New York 22 died recently remembered as a heroine of Niagara gorge. She excelled in swimming equestrianism tennis and walking and swam across the Niagara River at Youngstown on August 16 1836. She saved a officer’s child from drowning at Fort Niagara years earlier and was a teacher at the Buffalo Female Academy. Her father was Lt Alured Larke of the Tenth United States Infantry.
The article explains banana and plantain roles in tropical diets, noting raw and cooked consumption, medicinal uses, and the fruit's limited nutrition. It describes fiber usage for sewing nets, commercial potential in Bradford, England, and the prized thumb banana from Paani, with travel insights on Isthmus crossings and local markets at Chicago and New York.
A Virginia City Enterprise report describes the rise of ski running in the northern Atlantic states and notes the legendary Norwegian John A. Thompson, born 1827 in Prestfjeld, as the era’s pioneer. It documents his 180 foot leap down a Sierra hillside near Genoa, backed by W. P. Merrill and Genoa residents, with burial in deep snow.
A local paper recalls a winter icicle in a western canyon described as one thousand feet long. Water pours over a high precipice forming a tube of ice, and when sun strikes it the column gleams like crystal. The roaring torrent fumes and booms like thunder.
The passage recalls Charles Egbert Craddock's early invalidism that kept her indoors and away from peer sports. She describes how her mother comforted her with a unique remedy, saying she could spell long words like Popocatapetl that others could not.
A compilation of varied statements including regional sizes, household prizes, shipping distances, agricultural yields, theatre history, oranges, cabinet allocations, hymn sales, ancient trees, hypodermic needles, large family cases, named children, a railway accident anecdote, a Connecticut writer, and a detective cane rifle.
A Chamber's Journal writer describes the Austrian emperor's court where perquisites drive lunch and wine handling. Servants divide rewards for uncorking bottles, refilling glasses, joint and pastry duties, while candles are blown out as guests depart. The system speeds meals to under an hour and fuels a bustling underground market in palace leavings and fine wines.
Cocopah Indians grow a remarkably sweet and early corn in Colorado river bottom lands. It matures in five weeks after planting, produces heavy crops with little care, and sells at higher prices in the market. grain is small but well formed and cooks quickly, preserving a milk-like sweetness.
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