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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1892
Page
6
The piece surveys Britain’s worsening business climate, London stock mood, and high social distress with figures on crime, homelessness, and workhouses. It recounts historical postage developments, World’s Fair hopes for exotic plant donations, and St. Louis Star-Saying economic contrasts with South American debts and revolutions.
A humorous look at the practical value of various scissors and blades for different tasks. The article notes long slender shears for general use buttonhole scissors kitchen scissors for none Bas grape scissors for the table and scissors for flowers. It warns not to place a cutting blade in the fire as temper will be ruined.
Poem excerpt reflecting on renewal and continuity as life returns each spring. Lines speak of waking, rest, and enduring memory, claiming nothing is lost even as yesterday fades. It cites that life’s warmth and familiar faces recur, offering comfort beyond loss.
Willis Boynton builds an ice boat on the St John River to haul furs weekly, racing rival Jim Carson from Eagle Lakes to Aroostook. A fierce night wind, wolves on the ice, and a daring rescue culminate in Willis guiding the Ice King past danger and saving the trapper from the pack.
In a brief remark after ten miles, Carson echoed awe, saying the rig’s vigor saved his life and thanking the Ice King for continuing to carry his skins. The exchange, captured in Harper's Weekly, ends with Carson's grateful quiet.
M Fatio presented examples of birds treating wounds at a Geneva Physical Society meeting. The snipe earned praise as a skilled surgeon using its beak for dressings and plasters, applying splints and ligatures to injured limbs with remarkable ingenuity.
Advice from New York Voice and New York Times on cabbage feeding for hens and storing vegetables, plus methods to protect apple trees from borers, start a small home nursery with grafting lessons, mulching guidance, and horse care notes on stables, flooring, and winter feeding. Includes practical tips on fowl exercise, tree protection, nursery setup, mulch use, and horse management.
The article explains the American perfume industry centered in New York where nearly a thousand people work. It details imports of grease extract and pomade from France and lard from Italian hogs, the cu clairage method, and key scents like violet rose and jasmine. It notes secrecy of formulas, use of musk ambergris and other components, regional sourcing, and the rise of domestic production, plus the educated nose’s role in testing and legal cases.
The round the Horn voyage from New York to San Francisco takes 100 to 110 days by sailing, with 95 days rare but notable. Steamers cut to 50 60 days via the straits. Weather harsher at the Pacific Cape voyage. Best sailing needs great luck and freight handling.
A collection of quips about virtue, reputation, and human folly. The lines joke on actors, charity, and romance while reflecting on ambition, luck, love, and the limits of personal responsibility. It reads as a miscellany of pithy moral reflections from a bygone era.
A vivid sketch of Bowery pawnshop windows exposing medals, bracelets, and tokens of vanished fortunes, followed by a note on Madagascar’s forced labor system Fanampoana. The piece contrasts relics of fame and misfortune with the stark reality of coerced labor, noting state unpaid work and the reign of fear over artisans.
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