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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1891
Page
7
Wronespar reports discuss road quality as a sign of intellect and cite the Boston Transcript on freight by sea. Observations cover British wars, Pitt’s last words, Siam’s Prince Wongsa, gypsy palmistry, the festive drummer, Scotch factory smoke oil yields, American road leagues, New Orleans’ shipping rise, and Dickens’s London railway miles.
Celia Thaxter reflects on autumn’s splendor by the sea and shore. Vivid colors from sea to sky, flowers and weeds at a ruined wall, the bay and gulls, the spray and wind, all revealing nature’s peaceful crown of the year.
An elderly narrator recounts a lifelong tale of love and risk. A young Linda hears how her great grandmother nearly eloped with Cecil, a highwayman, until a seaside rescue by masked robbers and a moral rebuke from the father altered the course of her life. The elder stresses the mystery of the heart and the folly of youth versus age.
Basis of Weights and Measures in the United States traces to a cubic inch of distilled water defined as 252 458 grains in George IV’s time. New experiments find density changes with temperature, giving 252 286 standard grains per cubic inch. Scientists urge a readjustment of the gallon and bushel to reflect the maximum density point.
The sea lion, on land and in water, differs greatly in form and motion. It grows to 12 16 feet long, 8 feet in girth, and 1000 1500 pounds. Its jaws grip fish and rivals, eyes shift with mood, and limbs blend fins and legs. Hunters risk drowning as ropes drag lions from cliffs or shore, and most captured animals die in captivity amid high demand for specimens from San Francisco and abroad.
Layman questions the scientist about remedies while the Great Scientist boasts of creating long names for diseases. The exchange highlights a humorous take on scientific progress and terminology without substantive cures or advances.
A distressed father wakes as a baby stops waking, prompting a call for medical help. The fragment from New York Weekly notes a child in urgent condition with phrases indicating a medical emergency and parental concern.
A children’s page surveys a busy clock poem from New York and a collage of curiosities. It cites a streetcar riding Newfoundland, Turner’s cat friends, and a New Jersey pig that dives for hidden apples. It ends noting Bettola Italy claiming Columbus’s birth, with a proposed monument and funds for Chicago.
A fragmented Kansas era item reports the New South Wales Union with 1406 members and the Ohio and Indiana WCTUs tallying new members and gains this year. It mentions Jospehine Michels and a national WCTU structure, plus a Cairo meeting led by Mrs Idrensis and a Jenpersnee temple event.
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