Indiana Progress and World Notes From 1991 Era
A compact column notes costs of printing the Congressional Record at 259000 annually. It reports German unions with about 2090000 workers earning under 155 yearly. It mentions Ottawa boy coining the verb to smallen and debates on reduce and decresse. North Carolina debt and railway leases are sketched, plus Argonia and Oskaloosa mayors and a New York critique of King Walakeua. Mexico grants four colonies to General Sturm with land and diverse trades, plus Wade Hampton and corn soap novelty.
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Ottawa
Canada
New York Telegram
Herman Sturm
Indiana
Sturm
Mexico
Durango
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Oaxaca
Michoacan
Origin of the Farmers Alliance in Monroe County and State
E P Root, New York, recounts the birth of the Farmers Alliance in January 1875 with a Monroe County meeting at Rochester to form a local body. It spread to a statewide organization at Rochester and then a national movement with leaders like W J Fowler and A A Hopkins shaping reform aims in taxation, railroad rates, and farm insurance. The article notes debates over Chicago’s role and cites Hopkins’ involvement. A second piece describes a Brooklyn streetcar sighting of leopard-headed hats worn by a woman, a curious fashion display observed by a passenger. It ends with a separate note on a Spokane Falls onyx find by sculptor J F Beale, who locates a large potential mine near Wenatchie, Washington.
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Farmers’ Alliance
E. P. Root
New York
Western New York Farmers’ Club
Monroe County
Rochester
Syracuse
N. Y
Jlon. Ltarris Lewis
Montgomery County
Chicago
W. J. Fowler
West
South
A.A. Hopkins
Hopkins
Courier- Journal
Brooklyn
New York Sun
Mexico
Lucky Baldwin
San Francisco
Missouri
Germany
Spokane Falls
State of Washington
J. F. Beale
Douglass County
Mr. Beale
Wenatchie
Seattle (Washington
Telegraph
Food of Humming Birds From Insects Not Honey
An observer notes that humming birds derive most sustenance from insects gathered from flowers, seldom finding honey in their alimentary canal. Attempts to keep them in captivity fail due to feeding them only sugar, leading to gradual starvation. Chicago Herald.
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Sorep
Chicago Herald
Tramp and Sheriff Clash in Indiana Town
A summer encounter in an Indiana county seat pits a sheriff against a ragged tramp. The tramp seeks to surrender, but the sheriff orders him out and dismisses jail time. The man later reappears in Chicago, revealed as a Missouri robber with a $500 reward, nabbed by police days later. The tale mixes a frontier justice vignette with a lighthousekeeping note about odor control and stove tips.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Chicago
Missouri
New York
Fledgely Proposes Diamond Ring Offer To Alice
A dated exchange shows Fledgely asking Alice to be his, she responds with questions about rings. Fledgely mentions diamonds and a jeweler circular as part of their plans for engagement.
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Alice
Light Weight Coin Fraud Alarms US Officials
New York Herald report describes light weight gold coins entering circulation due to chemical removal of gold, reducing values by 23 to 50 cents per coin. Fraud involves sweat and acid methods, with Poles and Italians singled out. Secret service steps to curb theft and detect short weight coins in recent months.
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United States
Roberts
Secret Service
New York Herald
The Indian Mustang and the Wild Horses
The Indian Mustang describes wild horses from the Plains and mountain tribes, tracing origins to Spanish stock in Old Mexico. It recalls endurance, small stature, and harsh treatment by riders, including a notorious stage-line brute in Kansas. The piece notes the plains’ Cimarron herds and ends with a remark about a driver and the horse’s bones across the Smoky Hill Arkansas divide.
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Plains
Old
Mexico
Kansas
Mississippi
American
Old Mexico
Lake Winnipeg
Cimarron
Ellsworth
Sterling
Shaye
Hill
Smoky Hill
Arkansas
Kansas City Star
A Soldier's Death Cry From the Charge at Balaklava
A historical account describes Captain Nolan of Balaklava and the light brigade during the doomed charge. He is struck in the chest and remains upright as he dies, his raised sword and unearthly cry marking the moment when life ends, a vivid contrast to the advancing men. The report links the audible scream to the moment life ceases and notes the horse continues forward before the rider finally falls. The piece revisits a dramatic scene cited by Kinglake and echoed by the New York Sun.
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Nolan
Balaklava
Valley of Death
Kinglake
Lim
Twelfth Light Dragoons
Six Hundred
New York Sun
Chicago News
Tramps Debate Leaving Country Amid Hard Times
A dialogue about escaping danger dominates the scene as the First and Second Tramps discuss leaving the country amid dire conditions. a New York World mention anchors the brief, noting many men offer work.
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New York
Scientific scraps and the Sioux Witch Dance
A collection of short science notes outlines the globe's mean temperature, eclipses, the brain size of elephants, a powerful Danish lighthouse lamp, and medical links to mortality. It also covers Belgian telegraph fortifications, a Janssen prize, Black Sea gas layers, ancient telescopes, Belgian military telephony, and an incandescent lamp. The Sioux Witch Dance description follows, detailing three medicine men around a scalp, gesturing and murmuring as evening deepens by the Missouri River.
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Professor Young
Princeton
N. J
French Academy of Sciences
Black Sea
Layard
Nineveh
Sir David Brewster
Belgium
Antwerp
Missouri
New York World
The Kitten Will Vouch for This
A Maltese kitten in St Catherine flats on Fifty third Street and Madison Avenue slips from an open window ledge. After tumbling six stories onto a roof edge she bounces free, lands on her feet, shrugs off danger, then wanders back toward the house with playful bravado despite eight lives left.
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St Catherine Flats
Fifty-third Street
Madison Avenue
New York
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Indiana Progress
ISO
Wepwusvar
St. Louis
Justiceless
Saxony
Silesia
Fowle
North Carolina
Walakeua
Sandwich Islands
Brazil
Wade Hasprox
Wade Hampton
New York News
Hay Brosen Pac
Sam
Hanstholm
Jutland
Madras
India
Henri Pieper
Bess
Omea
Allens
A. H. Mason
Kalamazee St
Delle Gene
Ohio
Cleveland, O
Hanufacturers
The
Ohio Zinc Paint Co
Cleve
Kent Cores
Selle’s Road Gart
Haagen
Vals
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