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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1892
Page
2
A montage of 1892 era opinions and facts notes life prospects for tradesmen and farmers, nurse training, and political figures. It references Byrnes of New York, Gladstone and Salisbury, and a British reform view. It recounts Dillingham from Vermont, the rise of English influence in Africa, population estimates for India, and an anecdote on hat etiquette in English courts.
A nostalgic verse from Robert Loveman reflects a child’s tenderness toward his mother. The speaker vows to repay any regret with care and devotion, invoking tears and gratitude across the years as a son’s tribute to maternal love.
In British India a narrator escorts Miss Redding through a jungle from Kingari to Bengaluru. A wild buffalo charges, a tiger joins the fight, and after a brutal chase the buffalo finally defeats the tiger. The narrator then shoots the buffalo through the eye, earning local rupees for the trophy and reaching Bengaluru with battered travelers.
A New York Weekly excerpt contrasts courtship behavior with marriage norms, noting Miss Beauti’s reluctance to mate with deferential behavior. The item then shifts to political biographical notes on Daniel Webster entering Congress at 30 and Henry Clay becoming a Senator at 29, highlighting early career achievements and Clay’s prior Kentucky Legislature role and later House Speakership at 34.
A collage of farming guidance discusses why cows may eat placentas, cautions against curbing instinct, and moves through advice on tree buying, egg size myths, bee hive covers, machinery use, excitable horses, chick care, celery sowing, spraying, root crops, potato cultivation, horse training, deodorizing stables, plant transplanting, fats in horse feed, mare care while suckling, and bee cellar flooring. It preserves era tone with named sources like American Dairyman Farm Journal Boston Cultivator and Southern Cultivator.
A witty Frenchman uses a gingerbread figure of a general as a weather barometer. Each morning the servant tests the doughy general’s condition to forecast the day, noting flabbiness for rain and hardness for dry spells, while the master follows the omen for dressing and plans.
The New York Sun notes that sea air contains salt from fine spray and features unusually high ozone. It warns sufferers of catarrhal ailments may benefit in mountains where ozone is plentiful, while salt in sea air can bother them at the shore.
A brief church note records a long awaited greeting between a young minister and Miss Corn during a community prayer gathering. Attendees describe hopeful spirits and renewed fellowship as part of a quiet, local event.
An engineer recounts dangers to livestock and wildlife along Western railroads. Sheep are crushed or entangled in running gear, and thousands die while wolves coyotes and wildcats watch the headlight. Beavers raccoon and antelope are noted as common sights and hazards, with stories of wolves trapped, antelope friendly with hounds, and birds killed by passing trains. The piece also notes clear atmospheric vision near the Rockies and long headlight ranges on the Burlington line.
Denver News notes engineers misread the early dawn glow on the plains and mistook the morning star for a headlight, suggesting there may be more truth than romance in the incident.
Carriege, Phipps & Co plan a 110 ton steel saw to finish and bevel nickel steel armor plates for warships at their Homestead mill. The machine, first of its kind in the US, trims plates up to 38 tons, 20 feet long and 20 inches thick, enabling rapid shaping and dimensioning for fitting on ship frames.
In Paria nothing is wasted as scraps become profit. Old provision tins yield melted lead for cakes and tins for children’s toys. Boots yield reusable pieces. cardboard comes from paper scraps. orange peels go to marmalade. even hair finds use by hairdressers and for clarifying oil. The Saturday Review notes the grim practicality amid mixed feelings.
The Orinoco Valley offers vast undeveloped resources with a cattle herd near ten million and substantial sheep and goats, yet lacks population. Government energy to open settlement is criticized, and exports of hides and wool rise while forest production rivals the Amazon basin.
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