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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1871
Page
6
A devotional monologue pleads for spiritual release and a wider purpose beyond a confined life. The speaker seeks divine open doors to a nobler work, contrasting earthly walls with heavenly fields and yearning for the sunlit paths of morning.
Pruxer Anruvr. is to be created Duke of Cosnraught in compliment to Ireland. The article lists various global events including laws in South Australia, mining in Sydney, and political shifts in France and Spain, reflecting a broad 19th century news snapshot with names and places across continents. There are also notes on cholera in England and France, census figures for New York, and local incidents in the United States.
An interview with a proprietor who trained a trick horse by kindness and patience. He recalls the horse Charley, claims it can walk on hind legs and drink from a bottle, and explains training methods to reward correct actions and avoid dangerous punishments. Also included are brief notes on child growth, weight trends, and a report of fish rains in Scotland linked to a waterspout.
An American schooner the Samuel Gilbert of Gloucester was seized by a Canadian cruiser at the mouth of the St Lawrence River for violation of the Shing Jaw law. It carried a cargo of fresh sh.
A corrosion post reminds readers that tidal waves have occurred on the Great Lakes previously, citing a notable event at Fairport, Ohio several years ago as the most prominent example ahead of the recent Duluth observation.
A young wife in New York writes to her Boston aunt about marriage to Orlando Shaye at eighteen. She describes his perfection, her fears of his dissipations, their home life and pie baking, a near late night crisis from overwork, and her sympathy for lawyers who work late. The tone is playful yet earnest as she recounts the cab arrival, Mr Smith, and her efforts to help Orlando recover.
A woman writes of making a stylish silk sacque at home for thirty three cents. Using two silk dress breadths nineteen year worn, mother’s ironing, old parasol fringe, and a fifteen year old vest satin for piping, she crafts a near-new look without costly materials.
A fragment outlines cures and remedies for cancer and poisons using decoctions, gastric and pancreatic juices, charcoal lard applications, and ether spine sprays. It also describes nostril bleeding techniques, a lard egg honey oatmeal remedy, and a glycerine ointment recipe with spermaceti white wax oil of almonds and glycerine.
A watering place correspondent critiques wives appetite for luxury and men’s struggles to live within means. Anecdotes from New York arrivals contrast Mrs F’s carriage envy with husbands urging thrift. The piece links female ambition to business failures and urges wives to wield influence wisely for family prosperity.
A visitor describes the Briggs Brothers orchard two miles south of Yuba City in Sutter County. The 466 acre estate sits on rich sandy loam near the Feather River, growing peach and apricot trees, walnuts, chestnut, apples, and cherries with plans for further expansion. The visit notes storm damage to some trees but overall strong growth and a steam powered castor oil mill with a hydraulic press.
An apothecary in an interior New York county faces a damages suit from a husband whose wife drank laudanum sold by the apothecary for six months. The Supreme Court ruled the suit maintainable, noting parallels to liquor liability and forecasting further cases where spouses claim injury to domestic happiness from narcotic use.
A petty adversary parades a false scheme in an officer’s name offering 500 dogs of any breed. The officer faces repeated visitors with cadaverous curs at his door, as the daily trick sparks danger and confusion.
Workmen laying concrete walks in Bridgeport Connecticut seized a barrel of flour delivered by a drayman and, thinking it plaster parts, broke the head and sifted the flour along both sides of the street for nearly a block.
A question about casualties from Western conflicts leads General Sherman to remark that papers exaggerate Indian killings. A separate note reports the New Hamburg disaster costing the Hudson River Railroad 150000 dollars to settle personal claims.
The Transit of Venus essay notes rising interest in Britain for the 1874 transit observations. It explains the sun Earth distance has long been debated from 2,000,000 miles to about 95,173,000 miles, with modern methods including baselines Mars and light velocity refining estimates and reducing prior results by nearly four million miles. The historical error in solar diameter is said to be tiny, comparable to a hair at 125 feet.
A correspondent extols the virtues of traveling with a large canvas satchel over a small bag or no bag. The piece argues satchel owners are independent, unencumbered, and able to choose seats, light with minimal baggage, and travel with comfortable certainty. It notes the pierce of a Patagonian ox horn sent to Baltimore, details its dimensions and capacity.
Twenty year whaler Jonathan Weeks courted widow Burritt after settling ashore. He dozed on a settee dreaming of a voyage and shouted There she blows That harpoon missed its mark and struck the widow's comb, leaving her toppled and Weeks hair pulled. He remains single, blaming women’s lack of sympathy.
The annual exhibition to be held in New York at the Rink during September and October aims to attract visitors with moving machinery displays. Premiums for floral, agricultural, and horticultural prizes total a large sum, with certificates awarded alongside cash rewards. Entries are Sept 11, 12, or 18 before noon, with four days of specimen condition. renewals allowed for fresh entries. Highest floral cash awards reach twenty dollars, and fifty dollars for best pear collection, forty for best apple collection. Minor awards planned for grapes and vegetables. A note on life insurance policies being auctioned in England and a Liverpool trader profiting from a policy sale.
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