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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1895
Page
6
Instructions to craft a foot high pasteboard doll with painted face hair arms legs and silk clothing. Create separate pasteboard limbs, attach to a silk corsage and skirt, add crape sleeves and silk shoes, and construct a moving mechanism using a thread and spool to simulate dancing. Final placement stored in a box or drawer.
A New York Times essay imagines Japan conquering China and then India Turkestan Persia and Europe under a vast empire. The author envisions Japan shaping world order with a 40 million strong army and fleet, ending European wars and creating a peaceful, Japanned world governed by a humane yet dominant regime.
A New York collector owns a Louis XIV watch once said to have belonged to Empress Josephine. It was given to Abbe Blanchard by Josephine at Malmaison and later passed to his niece Marie Fectig of Strasbourg. The piece, bought at the Fectig sale in Strasbourg in 1879, sits within a black enamel gold cross, featuring kneeling angel and saint heads.
A girl named May returns from school eager to join a band at Miss Travilla's urging. Her mother delays, unseen tears mark the scene as May learns she cannot belong, leaving her broken hearted and disappointed. The vignette from Youth's Companion captures a moment of parental constraint and a child's crushed hope.
A brief note on Luis Felipe, the future crown prince of Portugal, son of the king and Helene d Orleans, a love match in royal circles. His father is the king of Portugal and Luis Felipe bears the title duke of Braganca, destined for the throne when age allows. Also an advertisement touts a six hour relief claim for kidney and bladder diseases with Tax Great American Kidney Cure sold by Hetrick Bros. in Indiana, Pa.
A Paris restaurateur Biquon built wealth and left the business to his wife after death. A poor journalist is seen at the restaurant enjoying a small plate of strawberries during an expensive season, remarking that the sight of a multimillionaire at the counter makes the berries worth their cost. Also notes a Kansas City Star method for crystallizing grasses using alum and boiling water.
Popular patent medicine known as Dr Miles Nerve Plasters is advertised for wide sale through druggists, signaling broad distribution and consumer use for nerve relief. The listing notes availability and price.
The article traces carpet making from Louis XIV era France and Colbert to Napoleon I reviving royal manufactories in Gobelins Beauvais and Savonnerie. It notes Huguenot refugees spreading weaving to England and cites Axminster Wilton and later gains in Kidderminster Durham Kilmarnock and Glasgow with Jacquard loom innovations.
Schedule notices listing train times 9 40 a m 11 11 a m 3 18 p m varying by route to Altoona Indiana Blairsville and Lund with weekday trains. Addresses for details given Thomas E Watt Pittsburg PA and signatures of M Prevost and J B R Wood indicating general managers and passenger agents.
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