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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1872
Page
3
A fragmented lyric praising enduring love and home life. The speaker pledges fidelity and affection, invoking nature and future happiness. Strong imagery centers on a steadfast heart, a loyal husband, and a hopeful union with a beloved wife.
A historical note compares telegraph key manipulation to handwriting, noting operators reveal personal style. It recalls sending messages from Louisville to New Orleans and receiving a recognition hint from an Eastern operator, illustrating unique keystroke identities and linguistic quirks across lines of communication.
The Crown Jewels of France, including the Regent or Pitt diamond and the Sancy, are to be sold to aid the nation. The Regent was stolen and later recovered from a Champs Elysee tree, while the Sancy has centuries of history from Charles the Bold to the French crown collection. Pearls and sapphires are also mentioned as part of the jewels, though royal fortunes remained unsettled through France’s history.
The New York Commercial Advertiser asks who would claim $10,000 to obtain Sir John Franklin expedition records for Lady Franklin in memory of her departed husband. The piece notes her faithful dedication and futile efforts to recover his bones. At Senaca Kansas, a coal famine followed a railroad stoppage until locals began digging in yards, each man gaining two coal mines and indifference to food.
A historical extract extols coffee and tea as more than stimulants, noting coffee's nutritive value for starving travelers and tea's comforting, healthful effects. It argues moderating use, warns against excess, and traces tea’s long cultural uptake from China to Britain while contrasting with alcohol’s dangers.
A Washington newspaper notes washerwomen charge high prices and offer to take garments for a fee if customers balk. They claim six to ten days needed, yet often finish in one or two days and hire out finished garments to others. A shrewd washerwoman can earn five to six dollars weekly from this practice. References to self made men are included.
Dr Hartmann argues that current views on when to release artificially hatched salmon and trout are flawed and cause stock losses. He estimates only about 30 percent of eggs would survive without care, and up to 85 percent can be hatched with proper nourishment and nursery management using natural aquatic insects, water plants, and careful feeding strategies to protect fry through the yolk sac absorption period.
The Blooming Grove Park Association in Pike County Penn plans a large scale game and fish propagation on 16000 acres with fenced breeding parks for deer mink and other species. The system includes strict laws, deputy sheriffs as game-keepers, and potential profits funding the enterprise. Power to buy sell lease lands and tax wild lands supports an ambitious, year round recreation and research complex near New York.
An ex army officer who lost both legs in the civil war writes John Smiths funny Adventures on a Crutch revealing the quirks of his condition. He jokes about being treated as public property and recounts the barrage of intrusive questions from strangers in cars, restaurants, and lecture halls.
A correspondent in Japan recounts a west coast journey with the Governor. Aino dancers, led by a Japanese officer, perform for the travelers after a generous rice whisky feast. The scene ends with the dancers seemingly untroubled and in high spirits as the party departs.
In Allegheny county a court ruled that notaries must give personal notice to indorsers living nearby when a note is payable in the same city. If the indorser resides outside the neighborhood, mailing to the nearest post office may suffice. The case found a posted protest letter insufficient to bind the indorser who testified he did not receive it.
About 30 000 workers toil in the South African diamond fields. Diamonds were first found on the Fall River by natives, later drawing Boers and adventurers from England and America. A hunter with natives found stones, including a rough diamond sold in London for 4750 dollars, signaling the vast fortunes possible. The soil is sandy with coarse gravel, and diamonds are easily extracted, noted for their size and beauty.
A Senate bill introduces a commission to mark a boundary from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. The action aims to settle uncertain positions of Pembina and the Hudson Bay Company post north of it, with claims the forty ninth parallel monument lies about a mile south. The joint commission would resolve the disputed limits.
The passage describes ancient Roman lotteries during Saturnalia and later English draws. It notes emperors like Augustus Nero and Heliogabalus hosting lotteries with various prizes, from slaves to vases, illustrating fortune's uneven distribution. It also cites England's first lottery at St Paul’s in 1569 and a 1612 draw for Virginia plantations with a 4000 crown prize.
A children friendly poem details a flock of ducks with playful verses, then recounts the naval exploits of Sir Charles Wager. The piece blends a whimsical duck song with a historical anecdote of daring boarding actions and Wager's rise to admiral.
A report covers mercantile failures in the United States for 1871 listing 2915 failures with liabilities of 85,252,000 dollars. It compares with 1870 at 3551 failures and 88,242,000 dollars, 1869 at 2799 and 75,054,000, plus historic peaks in 1867 1861 1858 and 1857. The note suggests growth justifies the 1870 1871 figures given the country’s expansion.
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