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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1871
Page
6
A garbled OCR style text appears to recount cryptic phrases and disjointed lines. It mentions waters, journeys, uplift, capital Bod, and a mix of odd names and places. The passage reads as a fractured, poetic collage lacking clear narrative or factual events.
A wide mix of sensational incidents dominates the column, naming Mirko Banperak and Tira Kinde as central figures in a rumored Blige Marth case, a New York police action arresting seventeen per Linn, and a barbed tale of a man in New York drowning after assaulting his wife. Reports note counterfeiters seized in Monroe, Sweden imports, and a broad scan of treasuries, deaths, births, and marriages across New York and abroad. The period’s political and military chatter touches Paris, the Tatung How fort, and a rising health scare with yellow fever in Key West, alongside economic data, shipping, and public works.
Amador County California miners threaten lives and seize a presumed reporter Mr Herrick of Sacramento. In Monsoon era fights near Munsel Shell three white men and about 35 Yankhounia tat diana result in 12 dutfer deaths and one white man killed. Mas Laynra Sisursax arrested in New Brunswick New Jersey for poisoning three husbands and two step children. Toledo Market reports wheat and hay crops, oats light potatoes better. fruit crop below average. A Canadian guest narrowly survives a hotel safe threat after fleeing through a window from a 40 foot drop. Riots in Konigshnitie Silesia erupt with offices destroyed, Jewish residents harassed, seven miners killed, sixty arrested. martial law pending.
A Mr. Mackin of Warrington patents a steam type-setting device now used by The Graphic in London. It uses two machines to copy copy onto perforated paper then automatically places type on a revolving center-table, enabling a newspaper column the size of The Times in one hour. The system promises major efficiency gains and costs about £500.
M Becquerel reports to the Paris Academy proposing the sun as the source of atmospheric electricity. He cites Lockyer on a hydrogen envelope around the sun mixed with watery vapor, charging space and our atmosphere. He argues upper air is saturated with positive electricity, supported by experiments on evaporating electrified liquids and aurora-like noises matching electric sparks.
In a memoir excerpt drawn from Mocmillan's Magazine, a veteran describes peasants as broadly demoralized and selfish during wartime. He contrasts Ardennes support for the French Army with Normandy and Beauce where fear, self interest, and subservience to Germans prevailed, noting acts of cowardice, cruelty, and suspicion toward ambulances and soldiers. Few humane acts are acknowledged amid widespread hostility.
A Rochester woman’s sad tale contrasts the prodigal son’s welcome with a daughter’s social ostracism. Once a Sunday school teacher, she drifted to a city house of ill repute. Her pastor urged amends, but family conditions clash with forgiveness. The piece condemns harsher treatment of women and the cold shoulder many face upon reentry.
The article traces the evolution of the English income tax from its 1842 introduction by Sir Robert Peel, noting initial rates, subsequent temporary reductions, and cycles of increases during events like the Crimean War. It covers adjustments through 1869, with a concluding note on four fortune tellers convicted and sent to hard labor.
A critique of American fashion excesses in urban life calls out extreme hair braids, oversized necklaces, gypsy hats, and trailing skirts. The piece mocks Parisian influence turned gaudy, noting costs and impracticalities, especially the nuisance of long trains and the praised practicality of short suits.
The Scranton Republic argues there are at least 500000 tons of coal sent to market weekly, totaling about 26 million tons yearly. With annual demand at 16 to 18 million, production must drop or idle months will occur within a year. One fifth of mined coal exceeds current consumption.
A 13 year old boy in Paris is found fighting and saved from execution. He begs to deliver a silver watch to a friend across the street, promises to return, and stands with his face to the wall as the firing squad is readied. The captain spares him, admitting they could not shoot a child.
A Fall River photographer photographed a deceased child with an arch of roses and a hanging sprig. In the sixth picture the face of the child’s mother appeared, stirring local excitement over a possible spiritual photograph. A Schuylkill hotel keeper warned that young men and boys are forbidden to occupy seats, saying they will find their way here too soon.
Agnes Lynne and Chester Moore marry in a bright ceremony yet drift into coldness and quarrels. Friends urge leniency, but pride divides them. After months apart they reconcile at church as a hymn of peace fills the air.
The couple, once estranged, renew their vow to a life of unity. They vow to bear each other’s burdens and share joys, with gratitude for renewed peace that will endure beyond past divisions. The scene of worship and music underscores their commitment.
A Western correspondent describes the Sioux Sun dances at Cheyenne beginning around the first, lasting 24 hours with no refreshments. Promising youths endure brutal breast and back incisions, cords, and a deadly struggle to free themselves. Spectators taunt and cheer as the torn flesh yields to a frenzy of yells.
Twenty years ago the Inurvors Farm in Livingston county Illinois was entered at 1.25 per acre. It has since been subdivided into 32 farms of 1280 acres each under a single owner M. N. Sullivant. The total 15000 acres cultivated, 250 miles of hedge fences, 150 miles of drains. One hundred workers and four hundred draft animals keep the operation, with a full staff of bookkeepers and tradesmen. The farm and its improvements are valued around 2 million dollars.
Maine praises the Tse Swepiss colony in the Aroostook region now with one hundred families. Each family receives a one hundred acre farm on a conditional deed demanding five years residence, fifteen acres cultivated and a house by completion. The state supports those without means with necessities repaid by road labor. All colonists can read and write, justified by Sweden's rule that marriage and church membership require literacy.
A Boston paper outlines affordable summer itineraries from four weeks with 125 dollars to Adirondacks or Virginia springs, two months and 600 dollars to cross the continent and Yosemite, or a European voyage with a London stop and 50 days in Switzerland, returning home in 90 days.
Carrie in Texas notes major cattle barons such as John Hitson with 50,000 head and John Chisholm with 30,000, among others. The total Texas cattle herd nears 4,000,000, while New York’s population is about eight times Texas but has under 750,000 cattle.
Charles Duke of Brunswick, famed diamond buyer, in Geneva guards his stones by night and fears theft. His will leaves his diamonds, valued at 2.0 to 3.0 million dollars, to the late Prince Imperial, creating a vast but troubled inheritance.
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