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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1891
Page
3
A late 19th century miscellany notes coal prices, African populations, currency use in Mexico, and American pork consumption. It cites European immigration remedies, Georgia drainage plans for Okefenokee, debt-free Pennsylvanian counties, irrigation gains in New Mexico, and wage–education views from New York Times and Chicago. It ends with India’s wheat production and population density comparisons.
Farm and Fireside offers guidance on chicken nesting methods to deter egg eating, precautions for calf bare patches and skin disease, apple scab control with Bordeaux mixture, correct manure handling for chicken houses, hay curing practices to avoid over drying, and the benefits of three milking daily for certain cows with ample pasture.
The article discusses milking capacity and transmission to offspring, then shifts to poultry breeding. It covers profitable fowl breeds Brahama and Plymouth Rock, rising demand for game and Minorca types, egg quality and sizing, feed tips with oil meal, louse control, incubation and brooding practices, and goals for laying hens and broilers. It cites American Agriculturist as a source.
A spectator proposes that fishes and frogs falling from the skies may originate in birds bearing eggs. Eggs swallowed or carried on wings could be deposited during flight and mature in water below. Atmospheric conditions and volcanic ash plumes are cited as supporting factors for eggs suspending and later falling to earth.
A quip contrasts Primus-Jenkins, a happy lawyer addressing a jury, with his potential as an after dinner speaker. The joke notes his success hinges on the jury, implying his dinner would not depend on his talk.
A New York Recorder snippet advises ladies on a simple mousseline de soie project. Buy a large square in a pretty tint, add a matching frill, edge it with a three inch hem, overhand the frill, and wear the result. It cites Marie Antoinette folding a kerchief as a stylish reference.
The Scientific Dress Association showcases the Gretchen with a short dark blue sarah skirt and a plain waist. A second outfit, the mitkinaid dress, uses wool, stripe skirts, and laveuse tunic ideas. Waltham factory girls form Riverview Club with twenty members, an initiation fee of twenty five cents, and rent set at ten dollars monthly. Georgia girl Sue Dismukes, daughter of State Senator Dismukes, is famed for hounds, hunting, shooting, diving, and dancing. Folklore on hats, mourning crape, sailor influences in blouses, and trims with ecru linen lace fill season fashion notes.
A 223 foot white fir log, weighing 45 tons with 23 000 feet of lumber, arrives in Chicago on three flat cars from Washington state. It will be trimmed and polished in the Chicago & Northwestern yards and used as a counter at the Columbian Exposition before being repurposed for railroad coach interiors.
A Maine gentleman notes Neal Dow and his family occupy multiple enduring houses, including the 1829 residence where Dow has lived since marriage, plus the birth homes of his father, mother, and grandmother. Several ancestors lived past 97 and 100, with ages extending to 104. The homes remain on their original sites and stay in the family.
What it is to Have a Trade defines a trade as independence and a strong crutch to lean on. It is a passport to all countries and crimes, a portable property that cannot be mortgaged or sold. It is a voluntary calling that can be accepted or declined, and neither friends nor kin can quarrel with it.
A collection of household tips from 19th century sources covers laundry with borax in hot water, repurposing old gloves into Russian leather cushions, and making jelly from fruit skins. Also includes methods to remove grease spots with naphtha and benzine, ammonia cautions, puff cakes, custard, Hickory nut candy, fried chicken with onion butter, banana flour from green bananas, and notes on the Spanish mackerel’s speed and shape.
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