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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1892
Page
3
Indiana Progress prints an 1892 miscellany noting extreme Arizona heat, German military service risks, Chesapeake Bay oyster grounds, English nursing salaries, New York City housing plans, public health advances, and Easter numbers with verse and fiction parodies.
A reflective verse advises acceptance of fate and limits in life. It urges bending to life’s currents rather than fighting them, and shaping one’s will to fit a larger divine plan. The lines emphasize humility and patience in adversity.
Abby, known as Miss Abby or Aunt Abby, works hard in Pomfret to pay off a mortgage and dream of gold-heeled shoes. She saves enough to clear the debt, then pays Jim Barker’s prison debt, changing two lives and earning the widow’s gratitude as she imagines walking in wealth.
A survey of tales from science and industry notes a 10 percent loss transmitting power to motors and a saw threading four inch steel bars in a Philadelphia mill. It describes goats in the Kalahari surviving months without water, and antelopes rarely seen at drinking sites. Earth atmosphere extending to 700 miles would block the sun, causing freezing darkness. Brown near Coblenz hosts nine carbonic acid borings. The hydraulis railway in Paris carries twenty five passengers per car, moves without wheels or steam, and seems to glide like a boat. French use telephone during maneuvers, magnetic phones only. earth grounding by bayonet into soil and horses transferring current through bridles. Aurora borealis is an electrical phenomenon resembling displays, reproducible with Crookes tubes. A German scientist claims acid processing can turn sawdust into an extremely hard, practically indestructible material, cheaper than timber or iron, usable for joists and girders.
A New York Recorder account recalls a settler’s cruel method to exterminate Aborigines near Moreton Bay by luring them with damper and beef. He fed them poisoned rations after inviting labor to build huts, causing mass sickness and death as the blacks scattered, with skeletons later found nearby.
A Washington merchant’s son under five years old recovers from a severe illness and longs for fresh air. Confined at home, he asks his mother to raise the window and wonders how much strained air could help a boy like him, in a London Times note.
A collection of maxims on truth, self-respect, and moral restraint from Rain's Horn of Indianapolis. The sayings address vanity, deception, and the impact of a good man on a community, urging restraint, integrity, and consistent action.
The article describes Moorish houses in Algeria, noting the plain exterior with barred openings and heavy doors, and the lavish interior of stone, marble, arches, and arabesque ceilings. Inside, halls, courtyards, galleries, and tiled floors display wealth, while access for outsiders remains restricted.
A New York Times note explains red water from wells may stem from carbonate of iron or algae growths in decaying vegetation. Evaporate and heat residue to tell iron from organic matter. near pines algae is likely. Tannin from roots adds astringent taste. iron may form a sulphate with sulphuric acid.
A lively plate of jokes and banter pivoting to a street scene where a young girl and her blind father sing Nearer My God to Thee to a roomful of strangers. The hymn ends with the old man dying as bystanders rush to help, and generosity surges.
Poem excerpt attributed to Anne Reeve Aldrich in Picayune, reflecting on soothing a child at night. It contrasts sleepless hours with hopeful dreams of heaven and tomorrow that arrives after sleep. The verses convey tender parental comfort and religious consolation.
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