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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
2
Miss Bab mourns her cat Pink and believes a sign foretells love. Gregg Benson, home from college, helps bury Pink while forming a quiet bond with Bab. The cook jokes that the cat’s death seals a romance, and Bab’s fiancé story unfolds in a lighthearted, domestic scene.
Chicago’s Health Department reports that sanitary measures and preventive medicine have nearly doubled life expectancy in one generation. The past decade shows death rates falling from 21.9 to 14.7 per thousand, saving about 12,442 lives annually. Education and public cooperation are key to continuing gains.
A survey of Japanese dentists who perform extractions with one hand. The narrator notes the skill is gained after long practice and recalls an operator who could extract about ten teeth in roughly half a minute without removing his gaze from the patient.
Rosette prepares to take the next boat after a tense morning full of warnings from Aunt Louise and Mrs. Oxley. A chance encounter with a thoughtful stranger at the gallery and a boat mishap with Captain Duggauld lead to a rescue, a rising moonlit scene, and Rosette recalling Cassila Sanford as she contemplates a potted chicken for Aunt Louise.
A historical look at the Jungfrau railway project begun in 1897 and now piercing toward Jungfraujoch at 11,848 feet. The line will rise above the Eiger with a total tunnel length near six miles and plans for a future high altitude station and a potential sleigh railway across the Aletsch glacier.
A Boston steamer Francisco arriving from Hull England could not save about a thousand cases of champagne found drifting in heavy seas. The iron strapped cases appeared to be from a recently wrecked liner. A sailor, swept by a wave, grabbed a bottle from the broken crate as waves broke over the deck.
Aviator Walsh set a new aeroplane payload record at an Augusta army camp aboard a Curtis machine built for war department specs. With a 660 pound load including fuel and ballast, he climbed to 910 feet in seven minutes in unfavorable wind, planning a 2000 foot test at College Park, Md. A separate Springfield report notes Mrs Bilis claiming her husband, a divorcee, spends two hours daily on doling up.
Flushing officials decide that mild expletives in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice may be left unread in school readings. The ruling notes phrases such as Oh, hell and Dame are not required to be graded or flagged for student evaluation.
Dr Taazo Nitobe, Japanese lecturer, spoke at Western High on The Japanese School Girl. He described etiquette as a key school feature and the etiquette laboratory where girls learn tea ceremony and guest reception. He noted compulsory schooling in Japan for ages six to thirteen and limited co-education to primary grades. The audience he praised as lovely as a flower garden.
Hammond barbers report cement and concrete workers in the Calumet region develop stone dust on their beards. Razors strike sparks or burn, dulling tools and angering customers. Experts seek a pricing scale for shaves based on blade damage.
Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts once led a company of recruits through Washington during the Civil War. While marching up Pennsylvania Avenue he misread a fence and treasury obstacle ahead. With quick thinking he cried out to his men to “Come, round like a gate,” saving the maneuver.
Charles D. Hues accuses Gun J. Karger of exchanging slander as Arch ibe Butt and the president attend church in May. Karger, described as Hebrew and a wit, is said to have joined in the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers with hands crossed on the pew in front.
A nostalgic piece contrasts garnets once prized in old jewelry with their modern fate as common abrasives for sandpaper. A granddaughter inherits a simple gem while the narrator notes the shift from precious keepsake to utilitarian grit, amid a brief comic aside about an undertaker brother.
A thoughtful man muses on wishes and irony as he imagines a world where wishes grant a peculiar reward, while the Metener counters with a humorous twist about riding and an ivory stable.
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