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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
7
Fragmented lines lament farewell to friends and family with glimpses of affection and misread words. The text hints at gratitude and blessing while musing on distance and danger, though many words are garbled. It reads like a damaged historical fragment with emotional tone but unclear specifics.
A collage of light verse and banter includes wry lines about marriages, loves, and social quirks. Jokes touch on judges, nurses, telegraphers, and everyday oddities, with puns about spices of life and a mock courtroom exchange.
Two views of Shenstone's innkeepers lines noted by Joel Benton in the New York World persist as a famed early tavern tribute. Critics fault them for seeming to disparage hospitality, yet the verses evoke shared experience with pathos, as travelers’ sighs at inns reflect human nature. A hotel guest reportedly added a satirical stanza mocking hospitality and money.
Descriptive note from Feuths Companion on Quito housing customs. No fires for heating, cooking charcoal on forge shelves, multiple cooks per pot with bel lows to steady pots. Laundry sent to streams, washing in cold water, clothes dried on stones in sun.
A narrator notes crows are revered in Colombo Ceylon and exist in large numbers, nearly as many as sparrows in parks. A crow congregation near a fire outside the window woke the writer at dawn with crow calls and some perched on the windowsill, provoking a wary urge to shoo them away but restraint due to fear of sacrilege.
Reading from the Philadelphia Record and Chicago Kald, the column notes a new memory hoop ornament for remembrance and a Denmark Celibacy Assurance Society offering lifetime annuities to women who remain single. It also quotes Brooklyn merchants preferring plain, reliable salesgirls over very pretty ones and describes weddings supervision careers and fashion notes from Paris and New York.
In a children’s column a windy night leaves four babies in white down outside, dressed by the wind as if they stood stiff like wooden poles. The narrator pities the small figures, wondering if they were exhausted or merely poles under the cold dark sky.
A retold anecdote explains how Captain Cook learned of the kangaroo in Australia. Sailors bought a strange animal, asked its name, and natives replied I don’t know. The sailors implied the creature’s name was Kan en roo, later linked to the animal’s label.
Baron de Jouarre left thirty thousand dollars to his Danish mastiff Tiger. A home in the suburbs is to be bought, with a male attendant and a charwoman paid 400 dollars yearly plus lodgings. Tiger gets annual rugs, new collars, a gravestone upon death, and finally the capital and house go to the Society for the Protection of Animals. A Paris monkey aids a boy trapped by a window blind cord, guiding his grandmother to rescue him, earning a chocolate cream tablet for the simian hero.
Dr William A Uahaend in Pittsburg Disquited warns the disease general paralysis spreads daily with rare recovery. He links it to jobs demanding high mental effort or immense anxiety, notes it affects financiers and inventors, and cites delire de grandeur where patients imagine superior power or wealth. He also contrasts its occurrence since emancipation among former slaves.
A long temperance essay contrasts saloon dangers with moral guidance for youths, urging avoidance of drink and detailing how cheap leisure can mask poverty and death. It cites a New York Voice verse and warps into ancient history showing temperance as a backbone of public virtue.
Lady Henry Somer criticizes London gin-palaces and Whitechapel archways where young girls work as barmaids. She contrasts English practices with America, noting Americans avoid such positions for women. The Temperance Advocate records ongoing efforts in New York to introduce barmaid systems and public opposition.
A Pioneer article argues liquor consumption is sinful from the first drink, weakening moral power and leading to greater sin. It contends even small amounts of alcohol erode self-control, turning drinking into a dangerous habit that traps the will.
Discussion of 18th and 19th century epidemics linked to alcohol and excess drinking. References include the London fever of 1739 and 1858 cholera in New Orleans and the UK, Montreal temperance figures, and warnings by Dr. Guinness about rum’s spread through Congo railroads. Notes on temperance societies, lunch fundraisers, and the economic distortions of the whisky trade.
A fragmented verse excerpt presents Elia Wheeler Wilcox pondering art and expression. It contrasts wild roses and lilies and questions why one heart cannot freely write its own music. The lyric tone explores passion, imitation, and originality in poetic voice.
A discussion on women’s roles in church work cites Deborah and Anna, Mary, Dereas, Priscilla, and other biblical figures. It notes women at the cross and tomb, their early nursing of Paul, and their deaconess roles in Romans 16. The piece reflects on how both Testaments honor divine commissions to women and their essential support in early church labor.
A Zion's Herald column urges sincere, simple prayer over speechmaking. It exhorts readers to seek lowly, continual conversation with God rather than ceremonial aloud prayers. It invites believers to tell God everything, trusting His care and intimate concern.
The article recounts Dr. Henry Martyn Scudder’s Indian mission where a stray Bible leaflet leads Brahmin followers to form a self-created Christian fellowship. They embrace divine precepts, seek baptism in Jesus Christ, and recognize Scudder as a teacher sent from above.
The Religious Herald urges parents to distinguish the Sabbath in a child’s mind as the day of days. Use changes in routine, music, or treats to mark the day and link joy with Sabbath observance from infancy. A child should associate Sabbath with brighter sights and special toys long before understanding why.
A reflective excerpt urges evening reading choices that lift the mind and uplift character. It praises books that teach virtue, nobility, and humane conduct, noting many English works offer noble heroes and aspirational deeds.
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