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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1889
Page
2
The mayor of New York supervises the expenditure of 36 million dollars under the present charter. The article notes vast English investments in southeastern Kentucky and mentions various global opinions on Mahdism, California gold discoveries, and Chinese imperial finance. It also covers rail and telegraph anxieties, salt supply deficits, and a new propeller design addressing sea motion and efficiency.
The Boston Glove reflects on neighbors punishing a pig caught in a fence and criticizes the crowding and greed that shape aid and fairness. It warns that favor comes not from merit but money, noting many fail to help the animal when convenience and profit dictate behavior.
A city woman rents a seaside cottage near The Devil's Point with Betsey Balmford. Superstitions about a ghost haunt the place until Betsey reveals a hidden orphan girl, Flora. The narrator adopts the child, dispels the haunting by giving the ghost a real presence, and contemplates formal adoption while neighbors chatter about the haunting.
Three Missouri figures tied to Confederate general Pap Price and Dr Sylvester Nidelet vanished from St. Louis streets two years ago. The trio, Colonel Celius Price, Quintius Price, and Nidelet, had pursued psychic research and vowed to spread their beliefs if a relative survived a New York surgery. They were last seen in Buffalo, described by relatives amid public intrigue.
At Ayacucho Peru a mad dog bite led to hydrophobia. The victim drank sap from peuca leaves and recovered. Washington Star notes South American Indians long held peuca juice acts as a cure for dogs with hydrophobia.
A Lexington Georgia club house built by local young men is described as a unique log hut faced with clay and a large open fireplace with a primitive chimney. The group, comprising the town’s best young men, holds weekly suppers with grand preps the night before. meals feature birds, fish, possum, and oysters cooked in glowing ashes yielding remarkable dishes.
In a comic exchange, Mr Struckstrich notes an earache while Mrs G suggests the disease be called otitis, claiming it as the stylish malady of the moment seen as an imperial tease about the Emperor of Germany.
A fragmentary note describes Mrs McCorker instructing a new servant after recalling the previous helper who would take her young man into the parlor and sit there. The text hints at moral expectations and household gossip in a domestic setting.
A bustling digest of late 19th century scientific notes and curiosities ranges from 4.18 inch averages and 30 percent power boosts in telescopes to steam heating on trains and Edison’s coal usage. It cites aluminum prospects at Duluth, insulation flaws, and the Connelly method’s card production. Also covered are a Greenland explorer, Saturn ring observations, eel venom tests, and public notices on transportation, clocks, and weather influenced milk souring. The piece closes with assorted aphorisms and a string of local anecdotes from across the globe.
Lucia Zarate, famed as the Mexican midget and the richest freak among Dime Museum curiosities, has made her father wealthy. She manages her family, employs a maid and interpreter, travels the country, and earns about 700 dollars weekly. Her earnings surpass many opera stars, yet she insists on luxurious hotels, rides only in a coupe, and dines lavishly each night.
A man named Shumway while digging a well near Livingston Nebraska found a jaw fragment of an extinct monster. It contains two teeth with one measuring ten inches long and four inches wide and weighing seven and a half pounds. The article notes the find is extraordinary and the creature remains a mystery.
In Summer the old and young and others in Ireland cut rushes for candles. They selected long plump Juncus conglomeratus, steeped them, bled outer skin, and used a single or double wick setup. Rushlights burned 30 to 40 minutes, then declined as machine candles and paraffin oil grew cheaper, leaving only remote districts making them.
A four year old boy named Waldo in Sunday school answers the bees question with a playful rhyme about barking and biting, claiming his uncle Arthur taught it, leaving the teacher amused and surprised by the misquoted verse.
A man escorts a woman from the theatre and a supper at Delmonico's. He asks why he is like the moon and she jokes about being full. He answers that he is only a last quarter moon, hinting melancholic sentiment.
A fragmented line shows Ethel hearing a sewn pot denkey test for the first time, delivering a surprised exclamation. The odd wording hints at a quirky household scene with a focus on a key domestic moment.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece by Sam Francisca reflects on comfort versus hardship noting rich men or European heirs on American ranches work rough to earn fortune. It cites a Life Guards Englishman who lived austere on a Mexican mine and was killed when miners attacked his house.
The piece recounts the Ossian controversy sparked by James Macpherson in 1760 claiming to translate ancient Highland poems. It notes mixed reception, Blair’s defense of authenticity, Home’s accusation of forgery, and Johnson’s later journey to the Hebrides, reflecting a long, public dispute in literary history.
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