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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1892
Page
8
A collage of cultural notes and social observations. The text references Populist and imperial concerns across Britain, Germany, and America, noting exhibition of wealth, charity, and a mix of wartime sentiment with evolving literature. It highlights a social crime tale about a stylish swindler, a shoplifter who deceives clerks, and the reshaping of gender roles in crime and society.
A New York Sun detective recalls encounters with deceitful women, from a kleptomaniac in a store to a Leadville case near lynch mobs. He notes why appearances mislead and recounts tracking a Scottish swindler who tried blackmail and a hard lesson about judging women by looks.
A collage of home economics notes includes broiled rice with poached eggs as a nourishing breakfast, plus turpentine uses for health and cleaning, an inventive old coffee mill repurposed as a work box, alum as a water purifier, and several era recipes for soft cookies jelly pudding and cream puffs. anecdotes on figs from Francie Gentil and Southern fig eating customs close the feature.
The 1893 sky shows two solar eclipses, a total on April 16 and an annular on October 0, with details on visibility. Also listed are winter and seasonal changes, morning planets, brightest planets, notable planetary events, church cycles, Advent, Christmas, and a note on Georgia Earthquake Well in Oconee County sighted after the 1886 quake.
In an 1891 report English railways show five deaths from unavoidable causes, six derailments, twenty-five collisions at signals, and twelve due to braking or dispatch failures. The piece blends science and a blunt moral about self control, citing Newton and Good Words. It closes with Pittsburgh Dispatch praise and a Chicago cigarette fatality.
Purity and strength claims attributed to the Royal Baking Powder. Ed. G. Love, Pa. D. asserts no alum or phosphates or injurious substances. Henry A. Mort, M. D., Pa. D. calls it purest and most reliable. Wu. McMurrat, Pu. D. praises its quality and strength.
The text contrasts Corot and Daubigny as close peers with distinct styles. Corot’s subjective poetic approach versus Daubigny’s momentary impressionism. It notes the era’s landscape art arising through collective effort in the first half of the nineteenth century. Also mentions a Sioux asylum claim and a fragment from a Pittsburgh Presse inquiry about a newborn.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes John G Adams and John Quincy Adams. It mentions Adams’s knowledge and sarcasm during a political canvass when approached by a wealthy farmer, with the farmer introducing himself in a halted, incomplete recounting.
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