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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1889
Page
7
A colossal seven hundred pound chunk of lead ore was mined recently at the Da Graff mine in Zincite Missouri. The item notes a wealth of oddities from Rome’s planned electric lighting to a 560 pound white hog and a man in Pennsylvania building a granite tomb. Additional notes cover a wide range of eclectic anecdotes and historic curiosities.
A flood of notes covers electric firing in firearms, horseflesh trade profits in Kentucky, a changing Russian Cossack look, possible Texas underwater dimensions, Lord Whitehead becoming Baron, a Chinese ruler’s marriage drama, Philadelphia pauper rat contests, Transvaal famine, a moon photography project, southern industrial boom, a Berlin Bismarck museum plan, a gold-like metal, African missions fortifying against slavers, slave raids on Lake Nyassa, and US shipbuilding prosperity with rising iron vessel output on the Delaware and coasts.
A reflective verse by Helen M Winslow compares Christmases past present and future. It laments losses and broken faith while urging resilience and hope that faith love and brighter days will return with the coming year.
Eva Maynard finishes a painted silk fan and plans to sell it to Fouquerein while Mrs Belton plots gift exchanges. Neil Gordon pursues Eva, but false trails and social pressure complicate romance as Eva's sister Eulalie contends with a pending match to the Major's money and status. In the end Eva and Neil reunite and marry the Maynard daughter, while the fan's duplicate remains unpainted.
The piece traces Christmas customs from the Yule-log to mistletoe. It describes Nordic origins, English practices of lighting the preserved log, and quaint beliefs about bees and bells. It notes Druids as bearers of evergreen decorations and mistletoe's historic medicinal associations and grim legends, ending with a festive, cheering note.
A mother consoles her child while lamenting poverty and unpaid bills for medicine and clothing. Bennie promises to work hard to provide future comfort, hoping for better times and a grand Christmas.
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