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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1891
Page
3
The Indiana Progress compiles items on pension law limits in Britain, high tobacco costs, a push to employ women as teachers in Scotland, and electricity progress with U S telephony leading Europe. Mexico plans a World Fair exhibit, farm price trends and debt living, New York public school language debates, and naval gun testing showing powerful battleship fire impact.
The Scientific American reports steam boiler quirks where gauge readings jump without cause, sometimes forty to fifty degrees, challenging engineers. In a Philadelphia light motion, bolts failed to keep bends and headers intact, though no precision failings or safeguards could be pinpointed. The piece notes grain spread in Sioux City court yard, and strays predict sparrows will eat and die.
A collection of brief curiosities and eccentric notes from various times and places. Topics include ancient Greeks and Romans, Queen Victoria, the first Sunday school in New England, and strange anecdotes about language learning, fines, and architectural projects.
The wander ing albatross and South American condor appear majestic on the wing yet their bodies are small. An albatross with ten foot wingspan weighs about fifteen pounds. a condor spans eight feet but is only three and a half feet long.
A French savant is shown a priceless jewel by a great duke. The scientist thanks the duke for allowing him to share the treasure by sharing in looking at it. The duke can only look, and so can the savant, illustrating a subtle form of possession and access.
A fragment notes that Harold spoke with a ring in his voice when asking Alice to marry him. Gwendolin recalls not noticing until a recent moment. Jewelers' Circular is cited as the source of the observation.
Somerset Pa April. The Nicely brothers Joseph and David were hanged at 1 40 pm in Somerset county jail after brief preliminaries. Ministers Granger and Beal attended in cells as hymns and prayers filled the wait. Dave kissed the Sheriff and Joe spoke of meeting God before the drop. Both confessed no illness of mind and faced the execution with calmness.
An explosion at the Apedale coal mine in Staffordshire on April 4 killed ten men and left several others seriously injured, prompting investigations and emergency response by local authorities and miners.
A humorous Florida dawn chase follows a deputy, a sheriff, and a pair of dogs tracking a nighttime intruder from a section house. The nocturnal hunt traverses swamp, palmetto and Turnbull Kamak as they corner a coon and reflect on justice. A Seattle street scene notes a drunken man found with $14,000.
A Christian hymn excerpt contrasts faith and strength with God’s promise to fulfill “Nevertheless.” It is followed by a Hammond Street Church Chronicle commentary urging personal evangelism. The piece stresses individual discipleing, daily prayer for souls, and teachers guiding scholars toward conversion, within a community of mutual care.
A devotional passage urges Christians to maintain a steadfast, upstream course despite rampant worldliness. It notes many follow the stream yet a vast unseen multitudes support the faithful, with encouragements to help others and persevere in virtue. It contrasts godless change with enduring spiritual aims.
LASCE NEWS reports a Chicago demand for two dollars due to gas loss in Chicago. The Yellow Pine Lumber Association meets in Montgomery, Alabama and hikes lumber prices by one to two dollars per thousand feet. A dispute between Chicago boss carpenters and journeymen is said to be settled. Celluloid in solution touted as a fine lacquer for metal and a good varnish for wood. A Snow Hill Maryland man reportedly ate half a gallon of peanuts in one sitting recently.
Broad claims about Peruna cures for catarrh and related ailments with testimonials from multiple U S readers. Note strong emphasis on Dr Hartman and Peruna Medicine Co with urging free medical treatise. promotional tone and product endorsements dominate the passage.
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