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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1872
Page
3
A reader describes extreme urban expenses in New York, detailing rent for a three room apartment, daily food costs for a family, and clothing, medical, and utilities. The account compares two wage earners and breaks down monthly budgets to show expenditures surpassing income, highlighting the strain on workers and families.
A New York crowd pursues bird shooting with pigeons cooped then released for sport at Jerome Park, where 21 to 27 yard shots were common as shooters hit from 9 to 13 birds per round, reflecting rising local interest and practice.
The report tracks New York City's growing debt from 1800 through 1872, noting a rise from 36.25 million to over 100 million, and with bonds authorised, at least 105 million. The per capita legal debt reaches about 140 pounds per resident, roughly double the U.S. national debt.
Former Collector Murphy was defendant in a suit by Sheehan who claimed a $30 political assessment in 1870. Testimony showed others paid $80 for political ends and were removed. Murphy denied ordering or receiving any funds, and said he dismissed Sheehan from the Custom House for personal reasons. The complaint was dismissed.
A fragment of a household guide offering practical kitchen tips and remedies. It lists soap making tips, ink removal, kettle cleaning, starch substitutes, and several old fashioned recipes such as a lemon flavored cake and a carrot pudding with raisins and suet.
A New York town minister hosted a donation party where a local man inflated a $4 castor to $12 and claimed it as a donation, gaining praise for liberality. The next day the minister returned to his store with the $12 item, exchanging it for its marked value in other needed goods, and walked away with about 24 dollars worth of groceries.
A Bangor Seminary boarding house chambermaid lost balance while shaking a rag from a second story window and performed a complete somersault to the ground. An observer feared she was killed, but she recovered quickly and returned to work. Lewiston Auburn Maine report $10,000,000 manufacturing capital with about $3.3 million private capital.
The piece muses on sleep as a core mystery, arguing time life and sleep defy simple explanation. It notes that wakefulness and sleep blur with dreams intellect and actions crossing between states, showing how physiology psychology struggle to define a boundary or difference.
The Story oil farm case after over two weeks in the United States Circuit Court at Erie Pennsylvania was decided. Rickey and Co bought the Story farm on Oil Creek in 1871 and later faced a dispute over land value and payments. The jury awarded Story $31,095 but Judge McKennan set aside the verdict and granted a new trial. An attempt to impeach attorney C E Taylor failed.
In a January 1872 letter from San Francisco Medill is informed a self confessing arsonist fired Mrs O Leary barn. He describes paying ten dollars to start a hay fire and hints at a planned witness to clear Mrs Leary of careless lamp setting. The note reflects sensational alibis amid early Chicago fire discourse.
A series of letters by a young writer exploring California interests, noting vast landscapes and remarkable trees. The author shares observations on inland groves, coastal scenery, and the region’s grand flora while reflecting on travel and discovery.
A San Francisco arrival describes compiling a California scenery photograph book on bristol board with twenty sheets, later adding some one hundred sea moss specimens for his sister. He names Corbett as a fellow apprentice, prices the work at one hundred dollars offered but refused, and praises California’s forests, Yosemite, Tulare, Calaveras groves, and Sierra Nevada landmarks plus views of Frisco, Mount Diablo, Lake Tahoe, Mendocino lumber regions, and the Central Pacific Railroad scenes. The narrative blends travel images, natural wonders, and engineering feats, with notes on the book’s future.
Fragment of a romantic poem bidding a beloved good night. The speaker longs for distant lips to whisper farewell and asks the wind to kiss her hands while he rests, hoping none may hear his lonely heart.
A collage of curiosities and brief notes on agriculture industry and human quirks. It mentions Texas plains, Kansas cattle, log stump speeches, odd warnings on a gate post, and a parade of miscellaneous anecdotes from London to Newburyport. It notes cheese factories, total US factories, tea and coffee consumption, California wheat, a city almost destroyed, an island formed by sand at Mobile harbor, a spelling test anecdote, a fatal fall in Newburyport, a dubious financial note in Lafayette, an lard boil remedy, an Engrossing Clerk resignation turned reelection, Lake Superior ore value and output, a humorous woman in Danbury, and Lifeboat Institution rescues totaling 888 lives last year.
A Vermont farm memory frames Col James Fisk recalling his first life lesson about hard work. As a boy he cleans a barn stable to win a bright silver dollar from his father, who promises more mornings of labor if the task is done well.
A writer surveys Dutch villages noting impeccably clean cattle stables in Holland. Cows are kept neat with gutters and ceiling hooks used to tie tails to keep coats clean, preventing dirt on butter and Edam cheese. Dairies show butter and cheese at different prep stages. makers avoid barehand contact to maintain cleanliness.
The report outlines age related crime rates in France and England. It cites that France shows rising proportions of offences from under sixteen to around thirty-five, then declines after forty. England shows higher youth crime with 10 15-100 under seventeen and varying rates up to forty, then falling after sixty.
A Boston man proposed to marry a widow and gave her a deed to half his Bangor Maine real estate valued at about seventy five thousand dollars. He already had a wife, yet he kept the spurious betrothed’s rights and appointed an agent to sell the property for her benefit.
A Western paper portrays house cleaning season as when the woman has her own way, the old man takes a solemn repast from the flour barrel, and in sleep enjoys freedom between bedroom and front fence. It is a season of meditation whitewash and calm, unbridled profanity.
A poor Arab offers a sweet water gift to a caliph who drinks, yet the king bars others from tasting to spare the giver’s feeling. By decree of the Czar, Poland’s primary schools must use the Russian language, stirring decree and education policy.
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