Indiana Progress summary of international and national statistics
A late 19th century column itemizes global and domestic data on railways, wool, insurance premiums, flax imports, fish destruction, university rules, and elections. It notes Canada doubling its railway garbage, London fires rising by 50 percent since 1852, and U S farmers destroying 1,070,000 tons of fish draw. It quotes Harvard athletic rules, English Parliament electricity report, and a Birmingham vote incident. It includes transportation costs by rail, Panama route, and clipper ship, plus metric invoicing plans and a Venezuelan soldier anecdote.
Farming Tips From A Century Ago On Pigs Bees And Lilies
Practical notes cover lime and potash needs for livestock, beekeeping tips to avoid inbreeding, and guidance on fertilizer blends using wood ashes bone meal and nitrogen sources. Also discussed are beekeeping cautions, iris lilies planting timing, piggery sanitation lessons from a cholera case, and general farming encouragement for sheep and corn silage yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austonia
Pearls of Thought Prose Reflections on Life and Love
A collection of aphoristic maxims on virtue, happiness, pride, friendship, work, and marriage. It contrasts ambition with failure, honor with sin, and social duties with personal happiness, urging action, counsel, and mindful conduct in daily life.
Cat Heiress Of Paris Leaves Richest Life Plan
Mme Dubrai widow of Paris leaves her cat Bis as heir with $1800 for Caisse des Ecoles and strict guardianship of the cat. The will requires the municipality to maintain tomb and the cat to receive daily milk meals, liver or fish, and grooming. Prefect and mayor consider the feasibility, as the cat’s twelve year life could strain the fund. Also notes rural telegraph clubs in New Jersey with multiple stations and a shared code for signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Dubrai
Paris
Bis
Caisse Des Ecoles
Seine
New York Sun
Cranford
N.J
New Orleans
Picaynne
Progress of Railways in the Holy Land
The Palestine Railway is planned with routes from Acre to Haifa and onward to the Jordan, crossing near Bethlehem and running along the Lake of Galilee to Damascus. Proponents argue modern iron roads ease travel for tourists and residents despite religious sensitivities, signaling advancing civilization.
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Holy Land
Palestine Railway
Acre
Haifa
Esdraelon
Jezrell
Jordan
Bethlehem
Lake of Galilee
Damascus
Palestine
Bos Lou
Green turtle fishing blooms on Texas coast
Catching green turtles has become a highly profitable industry along Texas coastlines. Turtles weigh 150 to 490 pounds and are often found in Aransas Bay and Matagorda Bay near Pass Caballo. The animals are gentle and rarely resist. Since the Aransas Pass Railroad, the trade has grown, with most catches marketed in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Aransas Bay
Matagorda Bay
Pass Caballo
Aransas Pass
New York
Work for the Insane in Britain and Ireland
A Yankee Blade note reports a theory in Great Britain and Ireland that county asylums should provide suitable and congenial employment for the insane. Work would be prescribed by a physician, tailored to each patient, with close observation of effects. Recreation and amusement would be integrated to stimulate interest and enthusiasm.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Yankee Blade
Home Training Values Shape a Boy’s Conscience
A Presbyterian minister recounts a Western New York family story from Michigan where Guy, hired to sell papers, refuses to work Sundays. He chooses integrity over a paycheck, prompting the editor to stop Sunday editions. The tale highlights parental teaching and a child’s moral impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghampton
New York
Michigan
Guy
Suneday
Wesleyan Methodist
The Ministry of Sorrow and Its Blessings
The ministry of sorrow is God given and tends to spiritual growth. Suffering refines the heart like a sculptor’s blows on marble revealing beauty. Endure with patience to gain comfort for others and become a ministering angel to those in distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Sorrow
A. M. Ness
Religion in the Home and Forgiveness Teachings
A religious meditation on the home as a sanctuary of grace, urging personal repentance and forgiveness in Christ. It cites scripture, praises the Christian Union and Mary Clement Leavitt, and notes a chapels gathering where Psalm 37 guided comfort for the sick and distressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Robert Burna
Water Pure Cold Water Temperance Hymn and Glasgow Notes
A temperance ode extols water as life and drink, followed by Druskenless in Glasgow recounting John Burns and Cunninghames Graham’s nocturnal tour of Glasgow’s drinking dens. Reports describe hundreds seen drunk or intoxicated, including thirty under thirteen, illustrating calls for direct veto and harsher measures against publicans. A Reverend Fulton in Chicago condemns liquor’s power and advocates total abstinence.
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London
Glasgow
Burg
Fvill
J.D. Fulton
Immanuel Baptist Church
Third Street
Michigan Boulevard
Daniel Webster
Chicago
Bloodstained Bequest Sparks Temperance Debate In London Star
The London Star reports a bequest of 250000 dollars to foreign missions under the Bibles and Beer section, praising a West Sussex English brewer who owns ninety pubs as a strong Churchman with a sportsman’s leanings. The piece contrasts wealth tied to saloons with church aims, noting the burden to home missions. It also covers temperance notes, per capita liquor use, and reform leaders at World’s Fair events.
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James Crichton Browne
British Dental Association
Leeds
Sir James
England
Phorcys
London Globe
London Star
Foreign Missions
West Sussex
Douglas Ity
The
Star
Raimastora
Wes
Bible Society
Missions In
Foreign Lands
Temperance News Aid
United States
Bombay
Bowery
New York
Ireland
Archbishop Ireland
Frances E. Willard
Liliuokalani
Sandwich Islands
Women’s Temperance Union
Robson Rose
New Review
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Indiana Progress
Wepres Bay
Canada
Farmers’ Review
New York World
Louisville
University Settlement Society of New York
Harvard University
Botland
North Berwick
Doughty
Chicago Herald
Birmingham
Galveston News
San Francisco
Panama
Pars
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of State
Paria
Lyons
France
Custom House
Venezuela
Falatalf
Eam
Catile
New York Times
Farmera
Farm, Field and Stockman
A. J.cook
Boston
Ascension Lily
Bassett
Bacsett
Kentucky
Cupid
God
Goa
Mary Clement Leavitt
Temperance
California
Puck
P. Hoste
Fon
Sete-Wade
Reed
Rochester
J. C. Simpson
Town
Hall
Ace
Beecham
Isaac Thompson
Hood
Saraspakila
Wm.a.lebr
Kendallville
Ind
Jonysos
LS. Johnson &Co
Bostos
Wass
Chaplain Meade
New Yorks Tribune
Luther
Sions
Earth
Telfer
C. H. Dear
Washington House
Washington, Va
Cho
Colvin
Express Om
Regulator CO
Sham
Fifth Avenue
Ptteburg
Lamp Company
fAurion
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