Indiana Progress and Oddities From 1691 News
A late 17th century miscellany covers money from U S gold, food myths by Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, and a Vienna women’s rights meeting demanding equal education and suffrage. It notes Prussia’s interest in electric execution methods, a German debate on punishment, and rising use of air brakes in freight trains with detailed car and mileage figures. Also includes travel anecdote about Del Monte garden mazes and a Washington state senator’s wife trapped in a maze car, plus quotes from Herbert Spencer on belief and reason.
When the summer fades and love remains
A lyric reflection by Louise Chandler Moulton on life’s swift years and enduring love. The speaker urges cherishing affection as life’s speed accelerates, noting summer’s warmth ends and autumn winds arrive. The poem contrasts fleeting youth with lasting devotion.
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T Louise Chandler Moulton
Tom Dick and Harry Love and Loss in Oak Hill Home
Orphan brothers Tom and Dick narrate their years with Uncle Cyrus Dresdale and Harry, the cousin they love. After Cyrus dies and Harry falls on hard times, the twins reveal plans to support her, choosing one another and Harry’s future, while all remain devoted to memory of Uncle Cyrus.
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Tom
Richard Hope
Jane
California
New York
Cyrus Dresdale
Cyrus
Oakhill
Harry
Harriet Dresdale
Uncle
Mrs. Dresdale
G— Bank
Ci v
Osk Hill
Leyburn’s
Uncle Cyrus
Marty
Oaklill
Boya
Dick’n
Chinese Truck Farms in Montana A Chinese farming note
Reverend F D Kelsey of Montana writes on Chinese truck farms around Helena. About fifty farms range from a fraction of an acre to 20 30 acres. They irrigate meticulously using ditches and water rights, with two Chinese workers tending larger plots. Rents are high, from three to ten years, at about 25 dollars per acre. Also notes a tiny New York horse railway on Central Park West, a half mile line with two cars and two horses, five cent fare.
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F. D. Kelsey
Montana
Helena
New York
85Th Street
Fifth Avenue
86Th Street
Central Park West
Battery
Harlem
New York Recorder
Fred Macart
Mr. Macart
Macart
Bismarck
Ray
Rag
Spider
New York Sun
Keep Busy from the British Printer Motto
The passage urges persistent effort as the path to success in life. It stresses being persevering patient and untiring whether at work or recreation. It notes that busy people may err but prefer action over idle life, linking motion to life and happiness and quoting an old philosopher about illumination only when on the wing.
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Honduras
United States
Baby's Vacation Ends in Heaven says New York World
A brief New York World piece presents a reported Bible quote exchange about a baby’s death. The dialogue features a mother and child named Willie, with the phrase God sent baby here and baby’s gone back to heaven, framed as a moral reflection on life and afterlife.
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Willie
Baby
New York World
Scientific Scraps on Health, Weather, and Inventions
A collection of brief scientific notes: average human and infant pulse rates, hat influence on baldness, liquid oxygen color, limestone coating, a spoke-less cycle wheel patent idea, Walter Merle’s weather records, a Bodleian satin manuscript copy, a giant banyan tree near Lord Howe Island, beet sugar content factors, Irvine pneumatic gun life-saving device, a Paris equatorial telescope, Europe and global flora counts, and the gliding railway system tested in Paris and London.
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M. Olszewski
Newcastle
England
Walter Merle
Bodleian Library
Lord Howe Island
Port Macquarie
Australia
India
The Making of Steel Pens From Swedish Bloom
The article outlines steel pen manufacture from Swedish bloom to final inspection. It details rolling, cutting, slitting, central slit formation, tempering, glazing, and stamping before pens are boxed for sale. It notes labor mainly by women or girls and emphasizes quality control and tool use.
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United States
Son chooses Edison over Shakespeare in playful exchange
A playful father asks his son whether he would rather be Shakespeare or Edison. The young boy responds that he would rather be Elison, prompting a humorous reply about sinking a dredge.
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Shakespeare
Edison
Elison
To Preserve Peaches
A fragment from Harper's Bazar describes preserving peaches with humor. It recalls Aunt Clar ia asking how to preserve peaches and a rustic scene where boys and dogs affect the peach trees, suggesting a light, rural anecdote from the periodical.
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Harper's Bazar
Preparing Skins and Hondurian Life Observations
A dry goods note explains sealskin preparation from hair removal to dyeing and pricing factors. It contrasts seal preparation with the rough, laborious craft. The Honduras portrait depicts subsistence living, bare feet, and tortillas, noting economic reliance on English-speaking traders and traditional farming methods.
Into the Lion's Mouth and Odd Household Tips
Paris wit Romieu uses a stranger’s umbrella to stage a coup and slip inside the Cafe de Paris, then plays off a mistaken identity amid laughter. The page also offers practical home tips on shoe bags, coral hanging baskets, and kitchen and dessert ideas from New York papers.
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Romieu
Cafe de Paris
Romien
Clemetine
Gowip
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lord Salisbury
Chemical Society of London
Vienna
Heiderath
Schelling
Beindel
Germany
del Monte Gardene Im Menteres
Cal
Herbert Spencer
Dr. James
The
Brooklyn Ethical Society
Tom, Dick and
Charlie
Charlie Foster
Doctor Merton
Harriet Foster
Ledger
Kansas
Jim Lane
Chet Thomas
Jim
Cad
Lane
Junction City
George W. Martin
John Speer
Dell Adama
Uncle Chet
Sameone
Chet
Mr. Thomas
Chester Thomas
John Richie
John 5000
Paris
Europe
North America
Cage of Good Hope
Natal
Crystal Palace
London
Turkey
Levant Herald
Bassorah
Yahya
St. John
Bairam
Dry Goods Chronicle
Tropics
Manduras
Cortez
Frank Leslie
Kisshen
Rex
New York Times
Sig
Gregneias Eh Vuelto
Guatemala
Goldie
Cuca
Revuelto
Chicago
Grand Pacific Hotel
Eaglaml
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