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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1889
Page
2
The report surveys western ambitions and global notes from a Chicago Herald summary. It notes Idaho and Wyoming seeking statehood, shifting US influence on the Isthmus of Panama, Chicago’s growing urban footprint, and varied international and domestic curiosities.
Poetic travel vignette praising Casco Bay in Casco Bay's summer beauty. Imagery of green fields blue skies foam capped waves and islands. Lines describe land and sea meeting as friends, islands, sails, sea spray, and the singer's soul rising with the tides.
In a rural household, Hesiod Holmes defends Amenia Varick against Miss Octavia Dryburgh’s accusations of theft over a missing pocketbook. A kitten in a well prompts a rescue, revealing Octavia’s misplaced suspicion and Amenia’s innocence as family support steadies the scene.
Amenia Varick defends a hired girl after a theft accusation and reassesses the situation. She speaks calmly while Miss Dryburgh contemplates the imbalance of power. Harrod Holmes emerges as a growing figure in Amenia’s heart, shaping a tender, uncertain future.
A collection of maxims on self discipline, wealth, love, speech, wisdom, ambition, and humility. The rules urge truth, measured anger, modesty, and steady action, noting life’s paths end in the grave and success comes from deliberate effort.
A farm note cites methods for transplanting cabbage from seeds to beds, noting improved top and root development and possible earlier maturity with a second transplant. It also discusses root handling benefits and speed of regrowth after relocating plants. From the Boston Cultivator and New York Tribune.
A discussion on feeding cattle at pasture with meal to improve growth and milk, noting cornmeal for mild cows, cottonseed meal for milk, and wheat bran for steers. It contrasts past farm chaff use with modern threshing and chaffing, warning against changing practices that value chaff and its preservation.
A farm column praises the Bronze turkey as a large bred, recommends bucky large boned hens with a young gobbler around thirty pounds, and outlines feeding regimens. It warns against dampness harming flocks and shares a powder formula of cassia bark ginger gentian anise carbonate of iron to use for young birds. A brief note on feeding calves ends the fragment.
A described setup uses stanchions and a front rack with holes for feeding buckets of whey or milk. Calves insert heads, are fastened to eat calmly, preventing greed-induced stealing. The portable rack and frame can be stored when unused, offering a humane, orderly method for feeding calves to build a future dairy herd.
A Chicago beef firm says nothing from an animal is wasted and details how bones, horns, hoofs, tails, and blood are used to produce glue, oils, fertilizers, neat's-foot oil, and other products. The article traces bone markets, East versus West production, and the role of by products in the fertilizer and glue trades, noting imports from South America and the shift of processing centers from East to West. It also briefly describes Tangore Palace in India and its ornate but cluttered interiors as a contrast to Western tastes.
A partial recipe fragment discusses mixing uniform ingredients and fruit with sugar lemons ginger and molasses. Directions hint at heating slowly until the mixture clears and thickens then pouring into jars with a perforated ladle, without covering the jars.
A detailed home kitchen guide describes preparing croquettes from beef and pork scraps with rice, egg, and crackers, then frying until brown. It also outlines a beef and pork pie style dish simmered with bay leaf thyme parsley onions mace and vegetables, finished with a rich gravy and Worcestershire sauce, served with gravy over meat.
Practical household hints cover cleaning with kerosene, edible remedies, kitchen hygiene and storage. Advice includes using cold tea to clean grains, drying dishes away from heat, elderflower applications, and preserving butter in the ice chest. Also notes on mosquito bite cures and egg yolk use for invalids.
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