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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1889
Page
3
A wild mix of regional curiosities and short items: African chief’s wives as ministers, a Wyoming to Missouri trek for a pound, a hanging card found in Missouri, a crazy quilt in Georgia, and vast sums hidden in trees. Reports include tax, weather, forecasts, and oddball incidents across the United States.
In a broad survey of public affairs and social trends, the piece notes Damascus preparing modern transit and lighting, while Americans debate census expansion and social reforms. It highlights figures like Florence Kelley and Bishop Lyman, comments on ethnic politics, and recalls Count Peter Chuvas and a Lincoln Memorial controversy.
The article discusses probable rheumatism in a horse, advising epsom salts, hyposulphite or sedai, warm bran mash, ammonia and sweet oil, and notes the disease can move location. It shifts to onion growing conditions, stressing rich weed-free land, early planting after frost, full or fall plowing, and proper seed bed preparation.
A Canadian horticulturist describes early morning methods to destroy caterpillars in cherry trees, including locating them in webbing and removing with tools. The piece discusses cherry varieties profitability, pest history, and notes lime’s role in soil fertility, nitrification, and nutrient availability for crops.
Prairie Farmer discusses fowl digestion, stomachs, and winter feeding. It advises against excessive ground food, stresses soft food for chicks, and promotes greens like cabbage and clover ensilage in winter. Emphasizes morning and evening feedings, access to water, and using legumes or beets as substitutes when greens are scarce.
Farm advice covers breeding, harness quality, and investing in small capital. Notes emphasize consistent gains for young animals, quince bearing by year four, fertilizer effects on potatoes with phosphoric acid boosting yield while nitrogen or potash alone may reduce it. Ends with practical tips for stormy days and marital affection.
London jeweler Mr Streeter describes ruby perfection found in Upper Bumah near Mandlay in a remote 4500 foot valley called the Valley of Rubie. The area is swampy and malaria prone, requiring a circuit of about 200 miles to reach. Streeter and partners hold a seven year concession with the Indian Government. Mines have a four century history and machine adaptation may worry workers.
A girl around eight at Fortress Monroe Virginia contracted scarlet fever with no local exposure found. Dr Brooke traced contagion to a house servant who nursed a scarlet fever case in another city a year earlier. She packed clothes, sent the trunk away, and returned to retrieve items a year later, after which the child fell ill.
Instructions describe trimming a pad, cutting corner pieces from cardboard, covering with plush and silk, and stitching invisibly. It contrasts stiff black furniture with bright airy parlors and offers practical layout tips for comfortable rooms. It then lists recipes for Sweet Potatoes Puppino Sauce French Fries Potatoes Conn Stancu Pie and French Pancakes with step by step cooking details.
A researcher details the cobra skull anatomy noting a one and a quarter inch length from snout to skull rear, and over an inch and three quarters to jaw hinge. The ivory brain case is solid while jaw bones flex, side jaw pieces hinge on rear supporting structures. Teeth along upper and lower jaws point backward to grip prey, not chew.
The pecan is becoming a paying crop in Southern gardens, thriving best in rich alluvial soils along rivers. Planting by grafting or budding on chosen stock yields reliable trees in ten to twelve years, with yields rising after that. A twenty acre grove costs about $800 for twelve years and could return $2,000, with eventual fortunes as trees mature into vast groves. The article also notes eucalyptus trees reducing mosquitoes in the San Joaquin valley, citing large groves and a strong defense of the species.
Jet is mined on Yorkshire shores and crafted entirely by hand. Artisans saw, scratch, whittle, grind, and polish to create dress trimmings. Final pieces receive rouge polish and are worn as pins bracelets and other ornaments.
Horatio J. Sprague, born in Massachusetts and appointed from that state, has held his Gibraltar post since 1843. He keeps the country’s dignity at the Balustrade of the Mediterranean, earns a salary of 1500 dollars, and hosts officals who visit, shaping a welcoming, civic-minded image for Americans abroad.
A New York optician advertises glass eyes for animals and live creatures. He notes ease of fitting to dogs, cats, and horses, with colors blue green chocolate and sulphur. Prices run about five dollars, lasting a lifetime, and animals accept them well like new collars or silver trappings.
A Pacific coast paper reports a harbor blast at Nanaimo that drew a remarkable scene as thousands of herring leaped into the air and the water took on a silver sheen from the fish surfacing after the explosion.
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