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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1891
Page
7
A 1891 survey notes steel ties advancing railroads. women join Massachusetts partners and stockholders while Harvard Annex offers equal instruction and degrees to women. Japan’s emigration grows, with 100000 subjects abroad and 2000 in California. Pacific fish catches rise, prices low for fishermen, and the Comanche horse story recalls Custer’s era.
A collage of domestic instructions notes measurements for flour sugar and butter using cups pints and quarts with cautions about benzine and safe handling. It shares new york tri bune recipes rice pudding lemon sauce and baked bread cheese cakes while recounting a fable about a tramp and a farmer underscoring kindness versus harshness in a moral twist.
A survey notes Mount St Elina rises about 19000 feet in Alaska. Electric light in a lighthouse equals 12000000 candles. Electrophoto graphy may capture distant views. Fire in Alsace mill saved by steam, not water. A Connecticut worm feeds on paris green and kerosene. Seaweed species total 259 Arctic, 788 West Indies, 1152 Australia, with 12 common to all. Italy’s sanitary reforms cut zymotic death rates by 150000 yearly. Usai Mountain rack railway in Japan spans seven miles with 212 tunnels totaling 12200 feet. Augsburg forms artificial silk, two thirds as strong, a quarter cost. Central Bridge Works in Peterboro unveils steel cattle-guard panels. Sun and moon light dull edge tools, turning blades blue, edge lost until retempered. Paper flower pots loom as new industry, light and damp-resilient. Roots grow erect toward light. in darkness they blanch as shown by experiments in a 1000-foot coal mine.
An eyewitness recounts a doe braving swift water to save her fawn trapped in a canyon ditch. The mother steadies herself on rock crevices, protects the fawn, and finally carries it to safety, a dramatic display noted by residents of Banning and cited by the Banning Herald.
A San Francisco Chronicle note highlights a German experiment sending current 100 miles over three uninsulated copper wires on telegraph poles with little loss. It imagines Sierra Nevada hydropower powering San Joaquin Valley towns and Fresno with future electrical light and factory power.
In a satirical regional vignette from New York Weekly, Professor Wetthedust greets Mr. Tiller and hints at a future industry involving balloons and explosives, while Tiller questions the current price of rain. The exchange lampoons speculative ventures and agricultural commerce.
In a heated scene a man accuses a barber of slicing a piece from his left ear. The barber concedes and suggests the other man may have been cut similarly. The exchange ends without resolution as the fight decays into taunts.
A sermon urging relentless personal effort in holiness and service. It stresses that sanctity comes only through active, purposeful deeds not sleep, warns against idleness, and cites a tale of unused talent. It also recounts a church revival awakened by prayer, urging members to pray with burden for souls and seek heavenly blessing.
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