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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1891
Page
3
A fragment of Indiana progress notes amid a broad digest. Discusses Germany’s budget balance, Chinese labor to Mexico, Quebec marriage license fees, and border crossers. Includes remarks on Mexican education reforms, a four year teacher training plan, and US dairy industry growth. Ends with Richmond Gazette on oratory decline and Virginian public speaking culture.
In a Washington talk Senator Evarts of New York recalls choosing journalism over theology medicine and farming as a life. He owns two large farms Vermont and Maryland but says a journalist’s future held greater promise than other professions. He notes fifty years in law and a wish to have pursued journalism earlier.
A children’s page mixes a North American ant tale with garden lore about the four o’clock flower and a touching charity origin. Madame Carnot visits a Paris nursery founded in memory of a lost daughter, aiding homeless babies with gifts from grieving mothers.
A scatter of antiquarian curios and anecdotes spans ships, documents, and birthdays. Notable notes include copper bottoms in 1783, Burns being the son of a guowman, a poison claim, a vast animal protection society, and a vivid Patrick Henry death tale. Cumulative oddities reflect a 19th century newspaper miscellany with names, places, ages, and implausible statistics.
The author notes Japan’s climate as charming yet rainy in most seasons, with autumn offering some relief. Winters bring Arctic-influenced cold, sometimes dipping to below zero in Kyushu, while summer days glow with golden light. Tea plants and bamboo endure the snow as flora and people wait for clear skies. Camellias bloom amid ice and early plum flowers dusted with snow.
The author argues that a nation requires not only people and land but self-evolved laws, literature, language, and a distinct national life. It is the Greeks who form Greece and Americans who form America, not merely large populations on vast territories.
Lieutenant Vaughan reports in Eastern Persia that oxen-like snakes learned to imitate withered branches by hitching their tails to a bough and remaining motionless for hours. My servant noted they wait for a bird to perch, then strike. If true, it questions reptile consciousness and may interest psychologists.
Two men joke about a woman named Maud casting sly glances at Harry during a social night. Jack suggests Maud’s glances were aimed at Tom, not Harry, and tries to cheer him with a playful note about the mix up.
All are entitled to the best that their money will buy so every family should have at once a bottle of the best family remedy Syrup of Figs to cleanse the system when costive or bilious for sale in Mc and 1 bottles by all leading druggists An American won the international skating championship race in England and broke the world's record There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is the only constitutional cure on the market It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces They offer 100 for any case it fails to cure Send for circulars testimonials Address J Corwny & Co Toledo O Sold by Druggists 75c At a Police Court hearing in Parkersburg W Va a prisoner gave the Mayor a wind thumping while he was waiting.
An unsigned letter extols a novelty plating device for silver and gold, claiming rapid profits from home use. It describes a boy's five day trade spree, plated teaspoons and watches, and boasts broad consumer accessibility. Ads market the $3 machine via Union Novelty Co. Columbus, Obie.
An old advertisement touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy claiming many buyers needed to reach $500 in sales cost and that a single failed cure would erase profits from thousands of bottles. It also extols Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a mild, effective remedy, selling for a quarter per vial.
A study reviewing pneumonia treatments shows whisky is not beneficial. In New York hospitals sixty five percent of pneumonia patients die under alcoholic treatment, while at the Object Lesson Temperance hospital in London only five percent died.
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