Indiana Progress and Oddities From a Turbulent Era
A collage of notes mixes state industry with curious tales and moral reflections. It references shoe manufacturing in Indiana, a Washington state boy trapping fifty four pigeons, a Michigan barber breaking a shaving speed record, and satirical poems. It also covers religious names, influenza culture, a Fresno county lion hunter, European geography comparisons, and stray observations on weather, rail, and daily life. Historical glimpses blend humor, ethics, and scattered news items into a columnar fragment.
Temperance themes weave through scattered notes and stories
A collage of temperance excerpts and observations from varied sources discusses moral habit formation, urban slum drinking scenes in New York, railroad company anti drink drives, Des Moines prosperity under prohibition, World's Fair exhibits, medical opinions on alcohol, and miscellaneous temperance news from multiple regions. The items mix editorial reflections, agency actions, and anecdotal snapshots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance
Bompe
South Africa
Woman's Tamperance Temple Fund
Cambridge
Mass
C. L. Dana
Ballevue Hospital
Des Moines
Iowa
Waiea
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
Washinton
DB. C
Onshalf
Mary Clement Leavitt
America
Vincennes
Tnd
Topske
Kansas
Prohibition
Supreme Court
Rohrer
Wilson
Welch
Parchment paper for butter and gapes cure noted
The London D airyman urges parchment paper to wrap butter to reduce moisture loss and Atmosphere impurities. A cheap gapes remedy uses a lime dust chamber in a barrel for mass treatment of chicks. Nitrate of soda boosts tomato yields at New Jersey station with best effects in proper soil and application. Ornamental grasses and farm garden notes discuss lilies, onions, pruning, manure, and care for poultry and geese. A kingbird discovery reveals beetle prey and ties to bee keeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Dairyman
England
Farmers’ Lome Journal
New Jersey
Ohio Eation
Lut
Man dodges seat in rude Third Avenue ride ends in crowd scorn
In a crowded Third Avenue car a fur collared man refuses to yield his seat to three shop girls. A working man blocks his exit at Thirty-fourth Street, delivering a chastising twist of the collar amid cheers. A separate New York Times item notes a manager bartering tycoon advice for ten cents. The Atchison Globe offers a blunt morality line on staying young through restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jinks
Third Avenue
Grand Street
Twenty-third Street
Dude
Thirty-fourth Street
New York
Herat
Trama
New York Times
Traveler cites Osiris in Egypt lecture tease
A traveler who lectured on Egypt told his audience it was needless to explain who Osiris was and challenged them with familiar subjects, prompting no grumbles from the crowd at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
Treet
Seid
Lowe
Siwitig
Ur. T. Gailierd
Thomas
Dra Zomett
Sims
Wil
Wi Woo
Taz
Ate Saal
Aaron Sipaul
Stewart
Egypt
Ias
Osisis
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Blood Purity
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier. It claims to cleanse all blood and skin diseases from eruptions to scrofula with a guarantee of benefit or refund, asserting efficacy in all seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Golden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Mee Lengeet
Peper
Coony
Washington State
Ax Tonia ‘Mich
Ba Ber
New Meares
Innocent Wolf
Farmer Jones
Salvation
Gray
Jones
Ein
Hart Reves
California
Fresno County
Mexiana
Turkey
Texas
New Mexico
Great Britain
Ireland
Faryer
Boston
Art Gordon
Our Land
Welsville
Rome
Frascati
Italy
Potsdam
Berlin
Spokeane
Wash
Gutyas
Atlantic
Madeira
Mar
Santa Clara
Incarpacio
Philade Plia Sunday-School Times
Hoye
Hadson River
Spurten Dnyvel
Hit
Las
Christ
Asain
Jed
Mn Reevent
Indianapolis
McDonald
McDonald & Butler
Ripper
Iglau
Moravia
Leon
Bristol
Watts
Temperance Banner
Yor
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Arthur Lenz
Chicago
Des Muires
Hirst
Josephine E. N. Nicholls
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woman's Temperance Publication Association
Port Jervis
N. Y
Ohio
New York Herald
Josias Hooper
Eulalia
New York Tribune
Cincinnati Times-Star
A.P. Stewart
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Hood
UL Howell
Mae
FS. Tohnsor & CO
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
Kennedy
United States
Canada
Canton
China
Sedan Webster
Henry Clay
Assam Hills
St. Quincy
Inn
Ing C. Cuarre
Jon
New Zealand
Klite
Cura
Kline
Phila
Thakaga
Ogi
OMLY
Knisa
Vak Pub. House
Lesnard
Zoox Pus. Co
Lesnard Street
Hew York Co
Power Eel
Bom
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