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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1891
Page
2
A collage of economic notes highlights coal reserves and global wealth. It cites China and Asia’s coal supply, debates a French yacht challenge for the American Cup, and lists American billionaires. It also reports wages in Pennsylvania textile mills, and notes Washington State coal lands near tidewater.
A fragment from George Morton in Chicago Werald notes a widow's sorrow after loss. The speaker observes mournful ritual, roses near a grave, and questions if Widow Blacke is growing reconciled as onlookers guess. The poem muses on grief, pride, and the easing of sorrow.
In a remote valley under the Black Dome a widow Sereny and her wary household shelter a peddler. Milus Padgett, long believed dead, reveals himself as the son in disguise. Milus forgives the father, and Sereny returns as Milus’s wife after an eight mile walk to a meeting house.
A collection of home cooking notes and tips including a keepable layer cake recipe with butter milk flour and baking powder, cheese straws with grated cheese and mustard, a beef stew from roast beef, a raisin pickle method, and assorted household hints on stain removal brass cleaning silk care copper wire framing and insect electricity experiments from Trenton American and Prairie Farmer.
Professor Sandwich argues hypnotism is real but self inflicted by the subject not a occult power of the hypnotist. He explains how a capable operator selects suitable subjects, induces belief, and guides them into surrender, asserting that one can hypnotize only those willing to yield and that control fades once the subject is undeceived.
A long miscellany covers hearth tax history from Domes Day to the 1662 Charles II statute, noting unpopularity and abolition after 1689. It shifts to a brief on China strikes, a note on free coinage in the U S with mint details, praise of Dutch dykes and straw revetment, then bird lore about the woodcock carrying young and a quip on best tree branches for a son.
In a Ram's Hora column from Indianapolis Indiana the saying contrasts small successes with grand aims. It notes that warmth and contentment beat wealth, and true service earns lasting honor without monuments while suggesting common sense and faithful conduct matter more than grand sermons.
M Janssen at Mont Blanc summit argues there is no life as we know it and that oxygen would react with hydrogen to cut heat input. The piece notes a pulp processing method to produce tough paper from chloride mixing, with toughness rising as zinc solution concentration increases. Uses include gas pipes, combs, roofing, and boat making.
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