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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1872
Page
3
A lyrical passage evokes meadow scenes and April blooms. It contrasts playful children and awakening nature with memories of loved faces, offering a gentle, reflective meditation on beauty, trust, and comfort found in springtime.
A compact explainer describes glaciers as moving ice rivers in Greenland and Iceland. It follows Sermitsialik glacier’s retreat from past green pastures to a sea bound ice wall, iceberg calfs breaking free, and dangers explorers face crossing crevasses. It ends with a note on Grand Duke Alexis and a wild turkey capture during a Western tour.
In Welchville, Peter Wright and Mrs. Briggs obsess over a taciturn newcomer Mr J James. They fear mysterious digging and smells, only to learn he buried two novelty potatoes, the Prolific Abundant J James, not a victim. James gains wealth, Wright marries Briggs, and Peter grows hard of hearing.
Meadow Lake City once Summit City in California rose briefly in 1865 on gold ideas and Burns process hopes. Now the town lies deserted under snow with empty hotels and broker signs swinging, a monarch of snow bound ruins visited by a lone friend.
The articles of armistice between Spain and Bolivia Chile Ecuador and Peru have been published negotiated with U S mediation. The de facto war halt becomes an indefinite general armistice not to be broken without three years notice. Belligerents may trade with neutral nations as in peacetime and all neutral commerce restrictions cease during the armistice.
In Otisville Orange County New York laborers digging muck uncovered the skeleton of a giant mastodon. The find includes a five hundred pound upper jaw three feet seven inches across the skull and remains weighing tens of pounds. The nearly complete skeleton could stretch fourteen feet high and over twenty five feet long. A stomach contents reveal large fresh leaves and long blades of grass.
A 1456 account cites Pope Calixtus II issuing a Bull to avert feared doom from Huniley's comet and the Turks after Constantinople fell. The bull ordered prayers in western churches and anathematized both the comet and the Turkish threat.
Naturalist Joseph Sullivant reports in the Ohio State Journal the capture of Bassaris astuta or ring tailed cat from the Rio Grande region taken in Fairfield County Ohio, with a second specimen noted. The sighting could indicate escape from Mexico or California. The animal is noted as a possible domestic pet for rat control. A prior specimen was brought to the Smithsonian from a Hen coop near the city, showing collar marks.
The President of the Western Union Telegraph Company says no new rate arrangements after the current agreement. Government telegraph rates run about 40 percent lower than private messages, and while there is support to continue weather reports, the Appropriation Committee resists fourfold rate increases. A separate item notes a Newburyport depot incident where an ox and herd of swine caused chaos as the herd attacked the ox. The swine reportedly had not eaten since leaving Canada.
An English friend explains that typhoid fever near the Prince of Wales likely arose from tainted air from imperfect drainage at Windsor and Sandringham. The incident, linked to Lord Londesborough’s water closets, prompted calls for better sewers. The piece warns that neglect of drainage endangers all classes.
The Pennsylvan ia Board of Public Charities report argues strongly for compulsory education, citing proof that schooling reduces vice and crime. It points to Norway, Sweden, Prussia, and Massachusetts as strong examples, and refutes objections with Maine’s superintendent urging education as a reciprocal duty of taxpayers.
The article outlines methods to season lumber, noting air exposure and sun drying as old yet effective practices. It compares ancient turning water soaking with steam and borax boiling, emphasizing thorough seasoning to prevent sap loss, warping, and decay in buildings and furniture.
Nevada correspondent describes the Tuscany borax lagoons, noting weak boracic water, desolate scenery, and acid vapors. It explains artificial production by sal soda and barilla, impurity removal in lead-lined tanks, and crystallization to refined borax. Mentions European import, East Indies origin, and a suggestion to voyage to Europe for further study.
Through improved machinery each sewing machine part is produced by specialized machines and workers. The average machine costs about $12 in machinery and iron frame, with wood table and cabinet box adding only small amounts, making mass production remarkably inexpensive.
A vein near Richmond in Canada is estimated to yield about one hundred tons daily for fifty years, valuable for steam packing. The steamship Anglia continues work as it travels 24,000 miles, with piston speed of 340 feet per minute and steam pressure at 37 psi.
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