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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1889
Page
3
A scatter of items from 1804 duel deaths to modern-day oddities. Reports mention the Hamilton Barr duel of 1804, a Florida police shooting incident, a Syracuse newsboy damages dispute, theological musings, Atlantic clam discoveries, and various local curiosities. The column also notes an Austrian sponge experiment, King Alfred legends, a Conkling biographer, Lisbon earthquake losses, and humorous quips on milk poisons and Oklahoma claims.
A sweeping array of short items covers rents in Scotland, U S doctor density, Pennsylvania bird laws, Mormon migration, China armament, British wage cuts, Alsace Lorraine conscription evasion, U S religious and educational stats, Maine farm mortgages, war correspondent debates, land auctions, lumber markets, and notable figures like Victoria Howe Whitman Wanamaker Garfield. Also notes on the Detroit Free Press on cold storage, Pisa tower lottery, Makah tribe wealth, bacteria in water, and Arctic journeys with Caribou Moose McKenzie River Esquimaus lore.
In a rugged hillside setting above Peakamoose, bark peelers fell and stripped large hemlo ck trees. The teams of four to five men divided into choppers fixers and spudders, each performing precise tasks from felling to bark removal. The process yields bark sold by the cord, requiring May and June stripping and winter hauling by ox teams, leaving a ruined forest but a jovial crew at work and at meals.
A Reykjavik letter in the Danish Nationallidende recounts the first steamship Laura’s arrival in Iceland last spring. Islanders had hoped for a postal steamer in March, but only in early April did the Laura appear, triggering wild excitement as crowds gathered for news from abroad. The piece contrasts domestic family banter with the dramatic arrival.
The article notes many exotic leathers used in goods and their market status. It covers alligator, kangaroo, porpoise, seal, rattle snake, monkey skins, and bear hides, plus horse hide, American kid, and pig skins. It warns that imitations spread quickly, with embossed leather matching genuine textures, and remaining novelties in small quantities.
A Leeds Mercury analysis imagines the global yearly birth surge as a grand parade of infants. If all babies born in one year stood in cradle rows seven deep, they could circle the globe, transforming into a vast future population and a large military system a century hence.
Port Orchard Oregonian notes origin of the letters O K from 19th century sources. James Parton related that court records bearing Order recorded could be misread as O R and then O K. The piece defends Andrew Jackson’s literacy and notes his extensive correspondence and frequent capitalizations, despite popular mockery.
A compiled list traces major flood events from the Johnstown disaster era through Europe and Asia. It notes 1530 Holland dike failure with 400,000 drowned, 1617 Catalonia deaths, 1802 Dublin Liffey flood, 1811 Danube near Pesth, 1813 Austrian and Polish inundations, 1816 Ireland Strabane floods, 1819 England inundation, 1833 Canton drowning, 1840 Rhone floods, and a sequence of European, American, and Asian deluges through 1877 with thousands of lives lost and extensive property damage.
A collage of curiosities and oddities from around the world and beyond. Items include a Peru origin for nasturtiums, Mohammedans burying without coffins, a square-hole boring machine maker from Iowa, a Philadelphia post office veteran, a Lima Ohio reader of Robinson Crusoe, a skunk trader in Indiana, a London magistrate’s view on ducal assault, the Irish giant O Brien, a Bristol Pennsylvania wild goose shot, doctors profiting from slimming in New York, a London Times cure for nerves, stamp-age moon-distance calc, swell beggars on Long Island, Bellmore wagons, human pin cushions at museums, the Solano ferry-boat, El Paso coyotes and wolves bounties, shoe forms in Asia, Tibetan monk dancing, a Ladakh monk party at Srinagar, and four cows pulling a prairie schooner in Bellevue Idaho.
Superintendent Powell of the geological survey extols aluminum as ubiquitous and future affordable. He cites its lightness, strength, and potential to replace wood, stone, iron, and brick in buildings and ships, noting the metal’s price decline and anticipated widespread use once cost reaches 25 cents per pound.
Edward Finch, a mule spinner from Providence, R. I., faced court martial and flogging after a British officer’s vindictive action. John Bright intervened with the war department to secure Finch’s release and later aided his discharge. Finch and his wife then migrated to this country.
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