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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1891
Page
3
A disorderly jumble covers topics from forest losses and iron industry trials to a health reform project in News, a Berlin marriage bureau, a drowned tragedy of a Miss Alice Woodward, and a Washington romance involving James Hayes the former Indiana schoolteacher turned Post Office clerk. The piece blends industrial notes, social curiosities, and a sensational tale of mistaken identity.
A New York Post story recounts the Hayes affair in which a clerk who adopted the alias Mr Trelawney is exposed by neighbors and resigns after a harsh rebuke from the Postmaster-General. Hayes later resumes service under his own name, passing a civil service exam and gaining support from allies as a trusted, efficient clerk in the department. Meanwhile, speculation about his past remains among some colleagues. In Australia, mules are praised as dependable draft animals with potential for large-scale export to Melbourne buyers seeking long-distance riding and heavy pulling power. The speaker notes Tennessee-bred stock and plans to buy hundreds for shipment.
The article credits Helmuth von Moltke with success through meticulous preparation and precision. It notes he minimized uncertainty, ensured every officer knew duty, and aimed mobilization at actual assembly. It frames war as a mathematical calculation driven by thorough groundwork.
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes Chinese druggists in Mongolian districts as full museums of preserved insects and dried animal parts kept for medical use. It details powders from snakes, horned hornets, lizards, and other creatures said to cure rheumatic pains, indigestion, liver congestion, throat troubles, and blood diseases, with a note on household deities guiding ill health.
A portrait of Yuma Arizona by a 19th century author describes a place where heat, color, and cultures collide. The piece evokes the desert town at the meeting point of Arizona California and Mexico with vivid images of climate, trades, and daily life.
The article describes Potter of Carnegie Brothers inventing a cold oil saw for cutting iron and steel, claiming smoother, cheaper performance than the hot saw. It explains a slow spinning tooth, fixed work on a table, worm-driven movement, and a soap oil solution used in cooling. It also notes the saw’s use in armor plate production for the Government.
In a basement office war of nerves a carpet cleaner informs Mrs. Blank that her parlor carpet is mixed with a Fifth Avenue fabric. The wagon departs for the missent piece as tension rises. Nearby banter over a kangaroo in Central Park closes the anecdote.
A digest of disparate items: tobacco bans in Egypt, pension counts in Ohio, Russia's printing reach, Alsatian guides, Krupp iron output, a subterranean tunnel, emigrant rules in Sweden, triplet calves in Iowa, bracelet fashion, land sales in Kentucky, large potatoes in Missouri, a blind barber in Camden, long-serving North Lansing postmaster, Pisa's leaning tower details, Santa Fe church history, summer novels, shipbuilding industries, burial plans of S M Bell, Roman Catacombs description, baked apples from Australia, and a light wartime exchange.
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