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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1894
Page
6
A parade of children along Second avenue and streets around Stuyvesant Square celebrates flowers from bright geraniume to elephant’s ears. The scene shows small riders in hand pushed wagons, many with little mothers guiding, and nurses often absent among the crowd.
A fragment from a poem recalls a red cheeked five year old neighbor and his sister with markings of illness. The boy ties threads to leaves to keep his sister from leaving, dreaming of a doll department at Chicago's World Fair and its many dolls.
A compiled miscellany notes sponge baths for babies at roller rinks, a claim that roller skates were invented by Plymp ton in 1868, and that 2 754 languages exist today. It also mentions sea water containing 14 grains of gold, Dutch diamond cutting in 1489, and 760 students at Le Land Stanford Jr University.
A Boston Globe clipping tells of Clare May Kivlan of Leominster born May 20 with a seven to eight minute birth photograph. Her father John Kivlan, a gallery proprietor, and attending physician staged a memorable portrait with a cloud backdrop to capture the first yawn of her life.
A traveler recounts river racing days on a Mississippi steamer with a preacher and a blaze of nautical bravado. Also described is Head's Sarpopattus tonic ad claims and a science note on China’s tallow tree Stillingia sebifera yielding oil from berries, bark, and roots, used for lighting and fuel.
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