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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1871
Page
3
Practical farm and garden notes on weed control and plant care, with recipes for preserving vegetables and making vinegar. Includes guidance on farming advice, building placement, butter packing in wooden firkins, and humorous rural anecdotes about alcohol and a sheep hordes delight drink. Contains named places and people in the column style.
A historical note from American Grocer advises butter packing in firkins after careful preparation. Soak butter in clear spring or well water four to six days, changing water daily, to remove wood flavor. Before use, fill firkin with scalding brine, rub tub with Liverpool gal t, then pack. Such packages fetch high prices amid variable markets.
A Long Branch correspondent portrays a fashionable watering place scene in which a mother and daughter critique attire and church behavior. The exchange covers a costly lace shawl, a fashionable bonnet, and a flirtatious meeting after church, ending with the remark that such talk defines watering-place society.
The account describes venom effects from bites causing exhaustion paralysis and loss of consciousness with local paralysis nausea and hemorrhage. It notes post mortem findings limited to fang marks and wounds, differences in blood coagulation between snakes, species variation in lethality to warm blooded animals, self bite resistance in cobras, and that venom remains life threatening while antidotes are mostly ineffective without timely ligature or surgical measures.
A Louisville comic piece details the supposed Ku Klux initiation signs and greetings. It describes arm positions, hat gestures, and coded responses used to identify a member, including requests for words or letters and signaling with a slap or oath-like actions.
A correspondent visits the Roy Arsenal at Woolwich, England, describing vast piles of shot and shell. He watches furnaces blaze and workers shape glowing metal, then transfer shells to finishing rooms before dispatch to laboratories, fortresses, or foreign markets.
The Holley Stead reports a sun stroke case in Strauzan Sun Sixoxy. Daniel S. Waite, mowing between the village and the Ridge, had a load of furniture pass with a man holding a large mirror. Sunlight reflected off the mirror struck Waite, knocking him senseless from the machine. He was helped to the road, lapsing twice into unconsciousness, and was later taken home. His life was despaired of at first, but he is now slowly recovering.
A 19th century report notes English feat of producing a sheet of iron so thin it takes four thousand eight hundred sheets to form an inch. The single sheet measures ten inches by five and a half, weighs twenty grains, and surpasses earlier thin sheets shown at the 1851 Exhibition in London.
An English writer recalls a lone road encounter with a dog that seemed sane at first but turned dangerous. A passerby met two men with guns later, who said the same dog had bitten several animals and people that morning, and had to be shot to end its rampage.
Harp Lucx narrates a morning visit to a drug store for morphine for a sick friend. The night clerk refuses without a prescription, questioning the editor’s apparent risk. The clerk finally says, If I looked like you I would be tempted to kill myself, prompting reflection on despair.
The Viaduct Railway aims to run through rear yards behind houses and stores to avoid the high cost of acquiring and demolishing properties. The line will rise on brick arches, carried by heavy iron columns of elegant design, set on inverted arches of solid masonry anchored in the ground.
The article outlines methods to imitate silver in metalwork by inlaying tin and quicksilver paste, polishing to resemble silver, and producing lacquer finishes using resin spirits with gamboge and annatto. It also describes restoration of burnt or overheated cast steel by multiple quenching cycles and cold hammering to improve hardness and refine the grain for cutting tools.
A dated admonition advises a young woman to question a suitor beyond charm and beauty. It asks if his daily life, ambitions, and moral character align with lifelong happiness and the welfare of future children, warning that years of regret may follow a rushed decision.
A nervous Cincinnati dentist, troubled by daily burglar visits, tells a visitor to sit on another doorstep. The visitor explains his aching tooth keeps stopping whenever he sees the dentist’s house, fearing extraction. The dentist agrees to stay, humorously inviting the man to endure the shared routine.
In Nuremberg Bavaria, Peter Hele crafted early iron horologes in the early 1500s. Johan nes Coceianes noted in 1511 that Hele produced intricate pocket watches with many wheels, showing and striking forty hours without weights. A plain version cost about $1,500 and took a year to complete.
A Nottingham man fled to Birmingham after £5 in income tax remained unpaid. He ignored notices, publicly defied them, and argued for years with Her Majesty's Commissioners. After five years a warrant led to the sheriff seizing his body, a legal move only after distraint failed. The man sued for false imprisonment but ultimately had the tax and costs paid, with a small surplus used to host a dinner.
A farmer and his son Thomas walk home with a broken horseshoe found on the road. The father pockets it and sells it for three farthings to buy cherries, then uses the repeated cherry drops to teach the lesson that one small effort can spare many later pains.
In St Louis Circuit Court the case of Mellier against Bradstreet Agency manager Shepherd proceeds on a motion to dissolve the injunction barring July Bradstreet's Commercial Reports circulation. Witnesses claim solvency and integrity for Mellier while alleging reports were manufactured and manipulated at the agency.
In 1870 US corset trade shows five percent annual growth with imports at ten million dozen and domestic output of one million five hundred thousand pairs. About two hundred dozen corsets were imported for males. The note suggests expanding male corset imports for female use may continue as fashion evolves with the saying Waist not want not.
The forthcoming monthly report from the Agricultural Bureau notes tobacco and wool declines, with tobacco down ten percent and wool five percent below average. Apple crops fall twenty five percent, peaches rise ten percent, potatoes up fifteen percent, and hay and clover down twenty five to thirty percent.
A poetical scene wanders through a meadow below the orchard and apple tree. Dairy life and gentle imagery merge with flowers, evening light, and a quiet rural mood as animals, names, and a tranquil pastoral rhythm drift across the verses.
A long fragment of humorous scraps and brief notices from a 19th century newspaper. Items include farm and city life quips, remarks on horse diseases in Louisville, mules in St Louis, prairie chickens, fashion costs in California, and a Missouri panther mistaken for a dog. Also included are anecdotes about teachers in Massachusetts, a large family in Arkansas, a widow with property, a bookshop joke, and remarks on women’s rights.
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