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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1872
Page
6
A stylized, archaic meditation compares dress, status, and virtue. The piece envisions moral worth as inner worth over outward rank, lamenting wealth and power while praising justice and love, with repeated religious and classical imagery. It weaves turmoil about social hierarchies into a poetic jeremiad on equality and humanity.
The Marquis de Vaise forgives Count de Meric after a Burgundy fueled quarrel over a backgammon loss. The Marquis vows to uphold honor by resisting vengeance yet stands ready to defend friendship, declaring his sword against any who doubt his resolve.
A memorandum signed by 265 prominent English physicians and surgeons urges alcohol be prescribed and directed with care to avoid excess. They argue Britain faces serious harm from widespread drinking and support wise legislation to restrict use to prudent limits and encourage temperance. The list includes army surgeons, hospital inspectors general, and medical college professors. The Indianapolis Journal notes Miss Nilsson, a singer praised for near Kellogg-like voice, performing and kicking a piano stool on stage.
Dr Hiryes in Greenland recalls a dramatic ice breakup as a glacier shuddered, spires toppled, a colossal wave struck the ship, and an iceberg the size of a quarter mile drifted free. The crew escaped by providence and skill, while artists filmed the awe inspiring event and saved only a camera.
The Boston Journal correspondent notes a shift from crowded messes and vice to a network of 151 wives and relatives in Washington. Many congressmen now keep house, influence social life, and escort daughters to balls, improving manners and parity with home life.
A compilation of peculiar aversions and fainting fits tied to senses, foods, and sounds. Boyle faints at water splashes, Scalinger fears watercress, Erasmus grows feverish at fish, a clergyman collapses on a Jeremiah verse, a lady shrinks from silk and peach skin, and others fear drums, mutton, or cheese. The essay cites Dr Starke of Edinburgh who died from nearly exclusive cheese consumption and notes several idiosyncratic cases including strawberries, hare, and fish-triggered seizures.
The query asks if a vessel with a full complement of men can be described as crewed. It explores terminology for ships describing crew presence and readiness in mariner usage.
This Act establishes a national celebration and an international exhibition of arts and products in Philadelphia in 1876 to mark the nation’s centennial. It creates a commission from each state and territory with duties to plan, site, and regulate the event and directs government communications for open participation and ceremonies.
The article recounts how the Scottish song Annie Laurie, revived by the Cummings sisters in Scottish concerts, gained fame after a Crimea War incident. On September 19, 1853, Highlanders near Alma heard a Highlander sing, triggering mass chorus and emotional pride before the next day's brutal assault that claimed many lives. A note adds a terse line about a cold snap breaking a leg on the ice.
A Brooklyn Daily Times essay examines the Fisk era and a class of legal practitioners who profit from vice and misfortune. It contrasts esteemed figures like Mansfield and Story with a corrupt bar, detailing two types of shysters and predicting their decline as justice seeks reform.
A Hillsboro paper recounts Richard Hargis who planned his coffin years ago from a sassafras tree. He had it fashioned in Roxborough and uses it as a novelty to show neighbors a “good fit.” The anecdote recalls a Murfreesboro man with an iron coffin, kept in a corn crib, used for shelling corn and noting nobody dared approach it at night.
The tale recalls Isac O Barnes at a friend's funeral where two ministers speak long prayers. Barnes endures the delay and finally jokes in a squeaky voice about Kid, praising him and claiming he would have run the funeral better, had he controlled the service.
Tom Goodwin recalls Hackett’s rise from Falstaff to Hamlet at Parks Theatre on St Patrick’s Day. The full house enjoyed a cue from Christian the clarinetist and Nichols the horn player with St Patrick’s Day in the Morning, provoking laughter from the upper gallery and anger from Hackett.
In a French country chateau a beggar complains of delayed mistress rising and quips to a footman about providing another beggar. A New Orleans veteran insists he is young at forty, confusing a pension agent about his 1812 war status.
A Missouri woman in Bowling Green refused Thomas Scott's marriage proposal and warned him off with a poker after he threatened to kill her. Separately a Lexington man found his ten pound turkey actually weighed eight due to a missing gizzard, sparking a dealer explanation.
A small boy puzzled by the term leaves of tables discovers the joke is that you can leave them up or leave them down. The anecdote highlights a playful misreading of common furniture terminology and the charm of child logic.
An intoxicated man observed two cars passing him with red and blue lights in front and rear. He muttered to himself that the scene resembled running drug stores on wheels, misinterpreting emergency colors as something else.
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