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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1871
Page
7
The poem laments eyes once bright now dimmer with time and memories. It recalls vanished radiance, treasured days, and the fading gloss of youth, while memory preserves the moments when love and beauty shone.
A miscellaneous farm and household column advises on cleansing damp cellars to prevent disease, shares a veal shin recipe and a curious curkair wine method, notes fish manure discussion by Dr. Smith and Brien, plus hay harvesting, petroleum news, a tragic child devotion, a lynching mob in Illinois, and horse disease in Suffolk County.
The article argues for cutting grass while seed vessels form to capture optimal nutrition. It notes grass provides best feed before maturity, while later stages favor reproduction. Farmers should begin haying about ten days earlier to avoid overall losses from plant hardening.
A Scribner’s Magazine August excerpt extols low cost home ice making. It details simple steps to use a “five minute freezer,” cheap ingredients like lemons, oranges, berries, and fruit juices, plus a bit of ice and salt. The piece praises versatile flavors and ease, noting months of frozen treats and a playful ghost of last winter in the kitchen.
A correspondent recalls a California field encounter with 40 to 50 hogs driven by two horsemen. A single hog turned back toward him, overpowering rider and horse, forcing him to flee to an aqueduct beam for one hour. The tale lauds the hogs and criticizes the Chester White breed for lacking energy and pluck.
Last Sunday a Norwegian girl four miles from town faced a large rattlesnake as it emerged onto the road. She fought with a heavy shoe and foot, finally smashing the snake's head and killing it after about two minutes. She kept the rattles as a trophy, claiming it was the largest she had seen.
A compilation of rules for newspaper subscribers and publishers. It states that if no express notice to discontinue is given, a subscriber is presumed to wish to continue. If no order to stop is made, publishers may continue sending until arrears are paid. If papers are not taken from the office they are billed and liable until paid or discontinued. Moving without informing the publisher makes one responsible for the old address. Courts deem refusing to take papers or leaving them uncalled for as prima facie evidence of fraud. Anyone who receives and uses a newspaper is a subscriber in law.
A boy near Omaha, while supervising his younger sister, gave her a rattlesnake to play with. The snake hissed and rattled, bit the boy, and coiled on his wrist until his father calmly frightened it away. The reptile, measured full grown over two feet with six rattles.
In Lexington Kentucky a Court of Claims judge fined an irritable elderly man eleven times for contempt. The judge warned of jail and, to preserve court dignity, said if the man were younger he would whip him to make his head swim.
A sandy-haired passenger on the Providence steamer Metis conducts a dog named Sport in a mock euchre round and brainy tricks. The poodle taps cards, identifies letters spelling Providence and New York, and even judges time to frame a playful finale for a mock contest.
In Williamsburg a dog named Sport, taught by R M Dodd a Williamsburg drug clerk, performs card tricks and betting stunts for an audience aboard a cabin. Sport turns up cards, selects suited diamonds, and wins tricks while the master signals no cues. Police arrive as the show ends.
A Chinese murder victim in San Francisco was honored with a grand funeral. About fifty carriages led a long procession, with a band of Chinese musicians. The deceased wore a new suit with feathers, held a dirkknife, and was laid with Chinese provisions and wine at the grave. Some readers deride the event as familiar mob behavior in the Golden City.
The Scientific American notes that lightning conductors often have poor earth connections. If the earth end is partially insulated, a charge forms when a storm passes, causing lateral discharges and accidents. Dry sand brickwork stone impede conduction, making a good earth hard to achieve.
An old man with a water burning secret is said to have threatened to burn oceans unless paid. He allegedly fell from a Pacific Railroad car to a 1700 foot drop. A London commentator quips that killing him might not be bad, since burning all world water wouldn't be so terrible.
The Abilene Chronicle reports large cattle movements by railroads across the region. About 125000 head near the Kansas Pacific line to be driven, 100000 for Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, 50000 for Missouri River lines, 75006 for Union Pacific, and 50600 wintered in Kansas and Colorado. Total around 500000, lower than prior estimates but higher than any earlier year.
The article notes the only three cities with over 1,000,000 inhabitants as London Paris and New York (including Brooklyn) and dismisses exaggerated counts for Yedda Pekin and other heathen centers. It compares Berlin Saint Petersburg Naples and Vienna in size, with Berlin expanding fastest and likely the largest by 40 000 to 50 000.
A Victorian wedding ode uses sea voyage imagery to praise the bride. The speaker asks the ship to sail into life, praising gentleness, trust, and lifelong protection as the groom pledges safety and devotion through storms and joy, suggesting something immortal survives beyond tragedy.
A collection of quirky items from varied places noting odd juxtapositions and misprints. Topics include mineral wealth in Nevada, orange exports, fair schoolhouses in St Zrentis, a Toledo genius with horses, Boston sales, and peculiar sayings about race, manners, and transportation. The prose weaves humorous observations with brief anecdotes about law, culture, and travel.
The coming fall will shape control as twenty four senators expire next March and eight states Kentucky California Ohio Pennsylvania Iowa Maryland Wisconsin Vermont see legislatures vote for Senators. Miss Wilkerson of Salem Illinois was killed when a pistol discharged during wedding dress inspection. the pistol lay in a carpetbag. U.S. factories may yield 6.72 billion pins in a year across eight plants.
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