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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1891
Page
3
A digest of 1891 farming and trade items. Wheat harvest in Egypt shows high quantity and quality while locusts devastate flax and potato crops in Argentina. Butter and dairy prices in Macdonaldaland. speculation on Montana precious stones rising in value. penny freight and public works topics dominate.
A New York Recorder piece notes tea tasting relies more on the sense of smell than taste in America, with England using taste and China employing tasters. It discusses methods, health concerns, and the dominance of Cylones and Japans in U.S. consumption, plus how London and New York practices differ on tasting setups and equipment.
The passage muses on war and peace, mind and matter, youth and manners. It links happiness to hope and anxiety, notes work versus worry, and extols kindness as benediction. It surveys character, duty, trust, and the female sphere with a reflective, period voice.
The article explains the origin of the naval officer title in British colonial America. James, Duke of York, later James II, appointed naval officers in every custom house to countersign permits. The office, dating back to Charles II’s era, continues as an auditor role to approve customs permits, a duty unchanged to this day.
A collage of kitchen tips and recipes from Ladies Home Journal and New Orleans Picayune. Apple desserts stew in syrup while cabbage pickling, shortbread dough kneading, baking tips, and canning notes appear alongside cautions on oven tempers and lemon juice measurements.
Pollen can be shipped for about 2000 miles while staying viable if kept at around 45 degrees. This allows crossing geographically distant varieties and storing pollen from earlier stocks for later ripening blossoms. Crosses between remote varieties may yield fruitless mule seeds. nectarine arose from such an accidental fusion on a peach twig.
A group of travelers hears Bodking recount a vignette from youth. He bought a valuable ring before his wedding, learned his fiance wed another, and later bit into a fish bone that turned out to be the missing ring. The tale ends with shared laughter at the hotel dining table.
A New York Hocode item describes an ingenious counting method in pencil factories. Pencils are rolled along a board with parallel grooves, filling each groove as the operator moves them. The number of grooves then indicates the pencil count, preventing errors in tallying.
The Century publishes a new Lowell portrait with Prof Woodberrys critique and a Lowell letter from 1876 explaining his motives for patriotic poems The Worlds Fair 1876 and Tempora Mutantur He recalls European exposure and a shift in attitudes toward America and defends his love of country as in his blood and bones.
A Pittsburg Dispatch observation argues the baseball craze could train recruits for artillery. An artillery officer notes the similarities between aiming a cannon and tracking a ball, suggesting players may prove apt in war time and be valuable if conscription hits the army.
A German scientist reports a new gaseous compound composed of oxygen and hydrogen that dissolves metals. When combined with silver or mercury it forms powerful explosives, signaling potential military and industrial impact.
A reader describes attempting specialist care for deafness but trying Hooll's Sarsaparita. After three bottles, hearing reportedly began returning and the person continued use with surprising improvement.
A Sunday sermon urges entering God’s love without overthinking faith and notes the door is open. It reflects on seizing today’s chances to save souls, while recounting a Deacon C example who lived by faith, endured poverty, and later received a legacy after a life of trust. It ends with religious reflections from Ep Herald of Faith.
The piece notes St Xavier church in progress and St Peters Rome drawing 60 000 people with a quarter pilgrims from Europe. It highlights Universalists surpassing Methodists on women's ordination with Mrs E M Bruce installed at Walden Massachusetts. It also reports Oneida Indians converted by Father Lochman of Freedom Wisconsin and the tribe planning a new church.
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