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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1892
Page
7
A long survey of period notes covers Belgian English Navy decay, German telegram sanctity, American capital investment, Carlisle Indian School, Tokyo College science, Danish royal gift, Bosnia troops, Austrian mixed faith levies, Washington inheritance law, horse training via saltwater, social legacies of foreign ministers in Washington, and a Catholic charity gift from the Pope.
Savage grief marks the Opobo funeral as tribesmen in elaborate dress bear Ja Ja’s coffin along the river in a state ceremony. Chiefs guard the vault within the palace courtyard while cannons, music, and feasts honor the late king whose wealth and slaves were once part of the ritual.
The Tarratines or Penobscot of an island above Bangor Maine are praised as the most ingenious basket makers. Their colored baskets use ash and maple with fragrant salt-marsh sweet grass. Dyes come from alder, birch bark, cedar, sumac, and maple. One family earned about 1000 dollars last year, owning fine furnishings. Some Indians are lazy or drunk, but the goat Indians lead and are respected.
A traveler’s report from Yoruba West Africa describes roadside markets with food offered for sale and cowries used as payment, noting honest laborers and unwritten laws. It also includes a garbled Q&A on Kalso paints about Alabastine and a claim about French duels and various remedies pitched by The Great Name Restorer and Beecar’s Pins in an old newspaper style.
A reader letter from Cass Street Providence claims Hood's Sarsaparilla made the writer well after illness. It notes a daughter's wish to share how the remedy helped and expresses a brief praise of the product in a period newspaper voice.
A religious reading extols prayer to God for blessing and healing. It recounts a Yokohama youth spared by a Bible gift, urges Christians to seek heavenly things, and cites Paul's bugle call to rise above earthly life and bear fruit in faith.
In a wartime meeting the mood was bleak after a Northern defeat at Bull Run. An elderly speaker urged perseverance, saying if darkness covers the world light shines from the Throne. He compared rising above fog to drawing nearer to Christ and shining for Him as the world’s light.
A Boston Police captain scolds a boy for disobedience and dramatizes corporal-esque punishment by taking him to a cellar. The exchange highlights street discipline as an alternative to reform school while recalling earlier incidents of scaring youths to reform behavior. The piece also reports on Kansas City women's convention mocking male prerogatives with satirical riffs on Abe Lincoln and the Statue of Liberty.
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women as a tonic for weakness and female disorders. It claims to build up the body, relieve pain, improve digestion, purify the blood, and restore strength with guaranteed satisfaction or refund. It also promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets to prevent and cure headaches and liver and digestive complaints.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a universal cure for winter colds catarrh and La Grippe claiming effectiveness in all stages. It emphasizes internal remedies over local applications and promotes a free booklet from The Peruna Manufacturing Company of Columbus Ohio.
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