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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1892
Page
6
The article reviews trade and industry with notes on American products abroad and potential growth. It cites the iron trade, farming, mining, and fisheries values, discusses Old Hambletonian, boundary issues, magnetic variations, and gives speculative population projections. It also covers naval logistics, food diplomacy, and contrasts American canned goods abroad with European tastes, ending with a quip from Puck.
In Querterac amid plague and fear, customs sergeant Valgenod battles panic as smugglers Meritas and kin mourn the dead. Three coffin processions reveal hidden cargo, and despite the pestilence, the smugglers profit while the valley cheers their escape.
A Chicago Times report notes a new hotel in Hamburg built entirely from paper boards. The material is claimed to rival wood in hardness while offering fire resistance through chemical impregnation.
A new wire nickel plated orange and lemon peeler claims to peel 1000 oranges without soiling hands or juice. Shaped like a button hook, it hides a tiny blade that slides between peel and pulp, drawing through and splitting the rind quickly. Chicago Herald reports the device avoids pulp damage and juice loss.
In early land clearing farmers faced harsh growing conditions and lacked modern tillage tools. The essay notes soil nutrition as a key barrier to orchard productivity and advocates turning new land into pasture until stumps rot. It also highlights benefits of mixed crops like peas and oats yielding high grain for livestock and European practice of wheat and rye mixtures for bread and nourishing food.
A periodical collage discusses churn sizing for dairy herds advising churns be kept at or below half full to maximize cream quality. It then shares farmer letters on deep plowing harms, hardy Guinea fowls, and the dangers of cold iron bits for horses. Farm notes urge lice checks, eggs for hatchery timing, and feeding schedules for poultry to maintain egg and meat production.
A Japanese warship, the Higei Kan, sails the Pacific on an exploration mission with practical cadet training and potential aims to establish a Japanese colony among Pacific Islands. The voyage includes Melbourne, Sydney, and a survey of northern New Guinea before returning via the Philippine Islands. Special correspondent Miyako Yojiro joins as observer.
A humorous sketch portrays Mrs Suburb discovering her watch dog has vanished after a tramp visits. Mr Suburb recalls buying the same tramp who caused the dog to flee, sparking a comic mix up about the dog and the rogue.
Americans wary of Lorne meat in Paris beef purchases with long fibres and pink blood. The piece notes vivid descriptions of first meals including horse flesh and cultural sights like the Eiffel Tower and Grand Opera.
A Civil Service Commissioner recounts a fatal grizzly encounter near a Missouri ranch. The account describes still-hunting, baited carcass strategies, and hunting ethics, noting trapping as undesirable sport. The piece also contrasts Chinese Army structure and armament, highlighting Li Hung Chang’s 60,000 troops as the most modern force amid general obsolescence.
A historical digest contrasts Japanese dwarfing of plants with Chinese duck discipline at a Nankow farm. It cites Canton boxes of tiny trees, a silver thimble pine, and a bamboo cane enforcing order as examples of meticulous yet harsh methods used to shape nature and behavior. Children could hardly have learned:
A collage of old kitchen lore and a tale from Lima Ohio, detailing broiled honeycomb tripe with butter and lemon, lye-treated corn prep, fruit gingerbread, the snowbird delicacy, and household tips. A quick bear trap murder joke closes with a country lad defending his action against a biting dog.
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