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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1872
Page
6
A garbled exhortation urges courage to pursue right, resist mockery, and stand against fashionable pressures. The torn phrases mention unity, integrity, and public duty as guiding ideals in a social struggle.
A cluttered OCR page mixes recipes for bread and meat dishes with household hints and odd editorials. It includes a rye flour meal loaf and a stew, notes on watering and seasoning, and strange mentions of public figures and items like chef Streup Thee and Senator Gorree Gedeos.
Boston records show robust tax commerce with strong performance in foreign trade and imports. The year reflects notable activity in ports and related revenue streams contributing to the city’s economic outlook.
The buffalo range is a north south belt about two hundred miles wide from the Platte to the Upper Caradian valley. Herds migrate in single file led by a patriarch whose strength decides leadership. Trails observed mostly run north to south, with explanations for this directional pattern.
The document outlines a platform advocating total class abolition, gender equality, land nationalization, state control of production, reduced consumer habits, obligatory education, secularism, direct taxation, and abolition of landed property. It argues for essential production under socialist aim and critiques capitalist practices.
A river tragedy ends with rescuers locating a drowned sailor after a loaf of bread placed in the water spins and drifts near the dock. Eyewitnesses report the bread acted like a buoy, drawing attention until the body was finally hauled from the river.
A correspondent notes Christmas in the Danish islands sees the colored community celebrate for days with pre dawn parades and dancing. They form large processions with drums accordions and bells, retreat to hired houses for continuous dancing amid exhaustion and occasional deaths. Each group has a queen with attendants, outfits range from white muslin to silk on New Year with banknotes and gold coins worn as ostentation. Many traditions trace back to African ancestors and endure through generations.
A study on a healthy young soldier tested diet and nitrogen intake through seven experiments. Findings show increased nitrogen elimination after strenuous work, supporting De Parke and Lichi while conflicting with Voit. A non-nitrogenous diet did not alter rectal temperature, pulse, or health, though heart action weakened. fat and starch can fuel heavy muscular work, with muscle nitrogen changes occurring post exertion.
In Fort Smith en route to the town, a young man named Shabs tied two rose vines to a raft and drifted into the river. A massive log struck the craft, breaking it apart. His companion jumped to safety, but the log carried the trapped man downstream. Rescuers found him alive next morning, badly frozen, after about eighteen hours on the log.
In Berkshire County Massachusetts dogs that prey on sheep face a 1100 value levy funded by licenses. County officials seek methods to deter theft, including halters guns or poison, while noting moral questions raised by animal welfare advocate Mr Bergh.
In New York a gas works accident plunged the area between 3rd and 79th streets into darkness during the holiday season. About thirteen thousand households lit candles or oil for festivities while nearly one hundred churches and many shops improvised candle displays in bottles, boards, potatoes, and turnips, giving the district a gloomy, makeshift glow.
The tax on trying communist prisoners in France advances rapidly with new courts planned to speed remaining cases. To date 14,378 individuals have been tried. 2,022 convicted and sentenced. 12,556 discharged.
The Italian newspaper laments that after liberal subscriptions raised money for a Garibaldi monument, agitator figures refuse to take the hint and proceed with the plan.
A mournful waif, found on a busy thoroughfare, laments lost romance and a broken heart. The piece uses Washington Irving’s graveyard irony to contrast life’s rush with buried hopes, hinting at romantic folly and a distant, uncertain future.
Heavy storms sweep the plains with widespread rain and snow. The Moermons report the severest weather in many years, bringing record precipitation and travel disruption across the region.
James L. A. Hope recounts a London Spectator account of recruiting Coolies from the New Hebrides for Queensland sugar estates. The piece lampoons colonial labor markets and the misreadings of islanders, noting the promises, tricks, and awkward encounters as planters sought cheap labor and workers’ tribesmen weighed options.
Dran Carroll Samhorn, known burglar, dies in Lawrence after a October clash with constable Donovan. He pleaded guilty in Superior Court but died before sentence. Described as peaceful, devoted to family, and loyal to wife, with a passion for midnight burglary that defined his life.
Henry Ward Beecher in a rousing address to workers argues that eight hours a day can be enough for some families if they work hard and save. He praises independence, frugality, and self culture, warning against idleness and reliance on fortune, and urges youths to educate their children through toil and thrift. He credits luck to effort and character, and ends with faith in God guiding all.
A biographer reveals Dickens endured ten years old work in a blacking factory and endured neglect and misery. The account explains how such hardship influenced his empathy and future literary power, arguing that poets and novelists learn through suffering as they teach in their works.
In Paris a scientist reports water resists freezing unless air into ice is allowed. An experiment with water in a steel tube at -13 C shows instant congelation when the end is unscrewed. Small steel spheres move inside, proving fluidity despite cold. Also notes French aristocratic weddings and Chicago council corruption probes.
A humorous sketch contrasts the growing success of Ben with the stalled prospects of the narrator. She recalls childhood rivalries and unequal paths, noting Ben's education career and independence while she remains dependent and hopeful for a breakthrough. The piece ends with a witty vow to start anew.
The public domain totals 1,387,732,299 acres with only a small portion currently available. This summary notes the immense overall acreage and the relatively limited parcels open for disposal.
An analysis by W H Dall argues Alaska yields the nation about 8 percent in annual returns from seal and fur industries, codfish, oil, whale and bone products, timber, and other sources. The piece cites taxes, fisheries, oil bonuses, seal and otter yields, cod livers, and cedar timber as key contributors to potential long term profits.
Frost and snow fail to break resolve as workers in Chicago push rebuilding. Debris cleared, new material brought in, carpenters and masons labor through freezing weather. Outdoor work pauses briefly at zero but resumes, with thousands of loads moved and many buildings already reared, completed, and occupied.
In a Washington correspondence the reporter recalls a man at an Ohio town hotel sale who bid twenty eight thousand dollars with no money to pay. He claimed the buyer was the Pennsylvania Railroad and soon resold the property for thirty five thousand, pocketing the difference. The piece portrays widespread speculation about railroad-backed hotel purchases.
An old army sketch recalls the Turst Dragoons twenty five years past famed for heavy drinking. The First Regiment served in New Mexico amid dry marches with water scarce thirty miles apart. Captain Givens leads a detachment to Los Angeles and is greeted warmly, joking of his thirst. Smallpox reports surge in Wisconsin towns.
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