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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
3
A wide mix of topics is covered including large fire losses, railway bond markets, and land use developments. The piece mentions 141 theatres destroyed by fire over thirteen years, total deaths at 2,215, and French land reclamation yielding $1.75 per acre. It also notes a San Francisco to Honolulu cable project, and curious Parisian anecdotes about Gounod and insurance schemes with a skeptical tone toward sensational reports.
A compilation of scattered facts notes shifts in taxation in New York, planned electric execution in France, a French led glass syndicate, Canada’s Atlantic cable funding, Oklahoma’s July accident, emigration to Argentina, U S exports to Chile, forest irrigation fears, and rising English investments in Mexico. It also cites Gettysburg losses, laurel as U S flower, Haiti anarchy impacts, Maine peddler licensing, Missouri wolf bounty, the Cape Colony giant diamond, European train speeds, and global railroad mileage through 1887.
A Swiss chemist devises a fulminating mixture safe to carry but detonates if in contact with ether or alcohol. Terra cotta bricks top fire resistant materials, followed by concrete. iron work encased in terra cotta suits fireproof buildings. Wave of science notes include phonograph optics, bass wood recovery after carving, Congo arrow poison, Norway’s prehistoric population, gas air oxidation after London fires, and water production from gas combustion.
Diary account from Private John Sheridan recounts Colonel Deniphan’s 1846 Kansas march as the fourteenth cavalry confronted a colossal buffalo herd near Pawnee Rock. Hunters aimed to cull the herd to supply Ash Creek camp, creating a panicked stampede that forced men and horses to flee. Estimates of the herd vary from 50,000 to one million, with at least 100 buffalo killed in the chaotic encounter.
A discussion on the variety of eggs by form color and size noting six typical shapes and classifying eggs by ovicular oviod and spherial forms to Passerin Gallinace rapacious birds and others. It explains shell material sources from diet sand brick dust bones and earth and the need for shells when hens are barn confined.
An 19th century recount of explorers receiving kidnapped youths as gifts. It tells of Akka dwarfs in Verona and Trieste, Lumholtz in Queensland, and Arnot's Congo guardians, focusing on Kelanmi and Mwepo, rescued slaves finding solace with white benefactors after trafficking and peril.
Mr. R W Champion returns from Line Creek with a tale of frog catching and a 3 1/2 pound bullfrog. He recounts shooting the frog and a large fourteen foot coach whip snake that trailed the frog near the river. The frog skin will be stuffed and shown at his home in Atlanta.
A survey of curiosities and facts: a Lenox calf with three horns. New York City voting compared. childless marriage crisis rates. a St. Louis man with 99 years to serve. Richard E. King first Black lawyer admitted in Maryland Court of Appeals. Leif Erikson discovery in 1000 AD. a Paris circus lion performing tricks. Davatian royal family bouts of insanity. a Laibach ground pit, 300 metres deep. 99 percent of U S flower seeds abroad, mainly Germany. sternets in European waters. Bosnia plum export and seasonal figures. forty thousand tons dried plums valued over a million dollars.
The account features Simon Kent the rattlesnake king of Clinton County Kentucky, recalling a pig that hunted rattlesnakes from season start to end, eating them and producing skins and oil value. He notes the pig would have been valuable if trained to retrieve, but was killed for protection as it threatened his crop. He also shares that rattlesnakes fear bats, which can drive them into fits.
A streetcar conductor recalls a man marling coins with a knife to explore ridges, showing a quarter he just received damaged on both sides and around stars and symbols. The speaker laments the time wasted and the coin’s loss of value as it becomes unlikely someone will accept it.
A Montgomery Advertiser letter imagines Florida’s map as a pistol, naming Pensacola as the muzzle Apalachicola as the trigger Fernandina as the hammer and south Florida as the handle. It argues annexation west of the Chattahoochee would shorten the barrel and notes Florida’s large territorial extent compared with Southern states.
A Omaha Bee correspondent reports President Diaz has moved to Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City. The hilltop fortress and its terraces glow with marble, brass, and electric lighting, while gardens and a famed double staircase intrigue visitors.
Bzxs settled near Atlanta eight years ago and found a honey filled roof after a gable was removed. Axprew Jackson CovFEE, 8 Rephew of Old Hickory, is a San Francisco notary public. Mr. Coffee, a Bonisiana native, owns Jacksonian relics. Truiare Laxg in California shrinks from twenty by thirty miles to fifteen by twenty. Water borax lake teems with fish. Ene Lane has over $1,000,000 invested in idol manufacture for heathen nations, while churches seek funds to fight idolatry. Mrs. Arten G. Thurman recalls Lucy Hayes’s grace as White House mistress and mourns her death. Whale weight 90 tons, Chicago’s population rise beyond scales. Emperor Witt orders Koch to paint a scene at Charlottenburg on May 18, 1888, the only time Frederick inspected troops as Emperor. R. P. McGregor at Gallaudet statue unveiling in Washington draws attention to simultaneous speech and sign language. If murderers electrocution enters language, innocents will bear the lexicon’s burden. Young Englanders show baseball taste inviting American college stars for friendly rivalry.
The article describes a leather dust compound made from old leather scraps mixed with India rubber and pressed under extreme force. It notes the product is a poor substitute, lacking fibre, and sold at about half the price of natural leather despite an inferior quality.
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