Indiana Progress and World News Snapshots
Indiana Progress notes the paper’s local stature as the county’s largest while surveying global trends. Reports on marriage patterns in Michigan Massachusetts and England population growth in Argentina and a series of cultural curiosities from France Brazil Japan and the United States. A Maryland 17-year-old stands 6 feet 4 inches tall at 185 pounds lifting 350 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Massachusetts
England
Maryland
Parrots Transported by Steamer from Mexico and Cuba
Parrots shipped by Ward line steamers from Tampico and Havana arrive in New York in large numbers. Many die during the voyage due to crowded crates, lack of food and water, and harsh handling. Survivors emerge gaudily feathered but battered, with the trade described as speculative and cruel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Cuba
Ward Line
New York Recorder
Tampico
Havana
New York
Hood
Price
Noda
Entomological Society of
Washington, D. C
Howard
Scientific scraps reveal oddities and island legends
A miscellany of scientific anecdotes covers steamers, cork buoyancy, electric motors, and telephone induction. It notes Pacific storms, 1849 as a square-year quirk, daily consumables, soapstone uses, an earthquake effect near Japan, a large American steel spring, and entomology observations. It also recalls Lord Tennyson’s The Revenge and the Azores discovery, plus oyster lore and restaurant chatter on oyster fattening and best serving, with caution on cramps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
New York
A Bible Story and Lessons From Daily Life
A devotional sketch blends a minister visiting a deaf boy with a Bible memory, a rainy afternoon tale where Paul and Myrtle seek stories from Aunt Ray, and a moral on reading the Holy Bible. The pieces highlight faith, conscience, and everyday spiritual conversations in a late 19th or early 20th century Rural American setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Pittman
Ray
Paul
Myrtle
Aunt Ray
Pauly
Tay
H. C
Joshua
Gems of Thought and Ram's Horn Wisdom on Faith and Duty
A pasted fragment quotes Farmer John, Ram's Horn wisdom, and moral maxims on Christian integrity and civic duty. It urges ripening of young believers, warns against lax church practice, and extols peace, self denial, and duty as paths to happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pertickler
John
Wives Appeal for Temperance Against Saloons in Rhineland
The Rhineland petition to the Mettmann burgomaster pleads visits by police to curb husbands and sons from late nights at inns. It argues prohibition touches moral sense, not economics, and could mobilize a vast moral uprising feared to topple entrenched authority. The piece surveys temperance sentiment, citing global figures, church creeds, and education advances amid calls for abstinence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhineland
Austria
Mettman
American
Republic
Smell Fest Kare Describes Ancient Glove And Shoe Styles
At a Paris historical exhibition gloves from the Greek era show that tiny bands common today did not exist among ancient and medieval women. The Hohenzollern Museum reveals that small feet were rare in earlier times, as reflected by slippers of Prussian queens. Queen Louise alone had delicate feet, her satin shoe noted beside larger imperial slippers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Hohenzollern
Grenadier Guards
Louise
Augusta
Empresa Fredericks
Sleep, Appetite, and Fat: A Doctor's Plain Talk
A physician explains how leisurely living leads to fat after age thirty. He endorses three rules for fat reduction: eat less, work more, and sleep less. He stresses that sleep is the major fattener, accelerating flesh gain more than any other factor.
Swans and Dr Pierce Pills Advert Claim
A fragment discusses swan terminology for young and mature birds and pivots to an advertisement for Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. It touts the pellets as hepatobiliary regulators, claiming they prevent illness and cure headaches and digestive issues. The copy promises satisfaction or money back and emphasizes low cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Washington wealth and estate values in early America
The text notes George Washington valued his property at 530000 in a 1799 will schedule while acknowledging the estate could be worth more. It references Ohio lands rising in value and mentions various commercial notes, medicines, telegraph lines in Siam, and price ranges for apples in Henry VII’s era, with promotional drug and health claims interspersed.
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Washington
George Washington
America
Ohio
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Indiana Progress
Tas Largest Paper
Samuel Woodworth
San Francisco
Cal
Sydney Dillon
Union Pacific
Duke of Leinster
Brooklyn
White House
France
Samanel G. Howe
Hes Corps of
Perkins Institute
Brazil
United States
Equator
Tas Poties
Japanese Bureau of Agriculture
Woral’s Fair
Koyoshiana
Rinkin
Tosio Florists
Yokohane Florists
Te Tobacconists
Morinari
Tokio
Amasemzat
New York Post
Maine
New England
New Hampshire
Boston Jewell
Ae Sheridan
Tounson
Customs Houses
Boston
Bertone
Johnson
Ely
Colin
ELY Bros
Warren St. X
Home Journal
Ellwood
City
Recs Ant & CO
RON ST. Vail
Adelphia
Anis
Offcty & Lalklis
Terra Alta
W. Va
GA. Johnson
Winburne
York
Qmail
Hoover
Gratks
Thio
Se, Herrill, Marshall, Moh
Nebraska City
Nebraska
Lve
Grant's Pass
Oregon
Leonards Med. Journal
Detroit
Mich
Dexter
Chicago
Til
Watch
Atlantic
Lord Tennyson
North Atlantic
Portugal
Western Isles
Fleming
Lisbon
Cabral
St. Mary's
Azores
Europe
Timothy Straws
Sha
NCE A Ministe
London
Heaven
Jesus Christ
Christ
Amana
Temperance
Hartford
Conn
B. Bowser
Sierra Leone
Germany
Temperance News
Syria
WC. T. U
Sandwich Islands
China
India
Army Temperance Associaton
Belase
Sor
Smollin
W. CG
T. U
Linneus
Roger Dutt
Church of Christ of the Christian Denomination
Elgin
Tei Sono
Mma
Angelini
Italy
Baragba
Upper
Egypt
Mansel
Campbell
South Africa
Green
Hawaiian Islands
Globe
Australia
Burma
Lorenzo F. Sleeper
Appleton
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury,Mass
Vincisia Orry
Nevana
la Grippe
Bask
Wurre
Truax
Toledo
Warprio
Kinsas & Muanryis
Siam
Henry VII
da ‘Kume
Dr. Kline
Arch St
Syprini
ST. Jacobs
Claeaod
Aegan
Jacoba
Jacob
Cata
RY Hall
Alwawre
E. P Hall
Se- Erie
Tee
Guam
Ane
Ivers & Pond Piano Co
W. Baker
Baker &Co
Dorchester
Mass
D&e
JONES
Binghamton NY
W. Horuen & CO
Penna
N.J
Philadelphia
Seventh
Sansom Streets
Tleritler
Moni
P.O
U.S
du Fitler
North 3Rd Street
G.T. A
Alkast
Express
Kryaor'a College
Main
Buffalo
N.Y
J. Sch
Tre Arch
Broadway
Chanute
Kaman Kansas
W. Mctorsie Sons, WasnmerTon
D.C
Cixcisnatt
DR. J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ghia
Chappel
James B. Lyon
Albany
Mick
Leppis
Dell Fe
Pontogie Assisionesio
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