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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1871
Page
3
A collection of practical kitchen tips and cooking procedures. Recipes cover forming grain loaves, enhancing soups with brown sugar and Datier, preserving prepared fish jars with wax seals, and a detailed method for a rolled beef dish with pork stuffing. Additional notes discuss profitable bean cultivation in clover fields and precise steps for spiced roast beef with lemon and brandy glaze.
The article details waterproof gray English cloth suits shaped as loose sacques with deep back capes and buttoned fronts. It highlights elegant Leghorn hats for elderly ladies, black grosgrain trims, mantilla veils, and novel velvets. Descriptions cover lace, Valenciennes, snap brims, muslin sets, bootstrapped cuffs, and a range of fabrics from silk to grenadines with prices and regional style notes.
Andrew J. Newell, a New Orleans treasure seeker tied to Lafitte, left New York with plans to find a buried pirate wealth. His body was found in Lake Pontchartrain with gunshot wounds, while family folklore traced a deadly pattern of failed expeditions and cursed directions guiding his searches.
A caricatured portrait derides a young corner loafer. The speaker mocks his hat, cigar, and presumed wealth, claiming his mother earns money washing for him while he shirks work. The piece attacks his arrogance toward workers and reliance on begging.
A New Haven tree presents a peculiar bloom pattern in six alternating years then blossoms fully in the seventh. In Worcester Mass a woman’s estate settlement allows six dollars for attending a funeral.
A quoted rule set from Jacob Abbott on child management urges cordial consent final refusal and kind punishment. The item also notes the German Parliament agreeing to additional clauses to 1867 and 1870 postal treaties between Germany and the United States.
An inquest verdict finds Oliver Whittle, a x pupil at Mottram Grammar School in Chester England, guilty of man slaughter for forcing John Goodall into a scalding bath. The boy died after enduring painful burns from boiling water and restraints as Whittle, age seventeen, supervised by master Henry Briggs, held him submerged. A Knights Templar pilgrimage to Europe is also announced with over 100 participants from Pittsburgh New York and Philadelphia.
A Boston writer signing as One of the Abused argues women should not stand in street cars. She contends men of earlier generations protected women by giving them seats, while modern sons permit standing. The piece also urges farmers to conduct practical experiments on their land, advocating small trials of subsoiling manure use and root crops to improve farming each season.
John Wren, a hog and cattle drover in New York, grows enraged at an insult from a newspaper joke and confronts Robert Simpson. Simpson denies setting the fire, they argue, and Simpson strikes Hillen with a bung starter, leaving him mortally wounded. Hillen dies, Simpson is jailed for murder. Alfred Bridges surrenders for trial on shooting Lieutenant Campbell in Ireland’s Jerney Assizes. Bridges claimed self defense. Campbell was wounded, jury acquitted Bridges.
The largest breweries in England Germany and Austria produce tens of millions of quarts annually while per capita beer consumption varies by country. Munich stands out with high lager use and beer dunking, and a local divorce of two papers is noted along with a long prayer meeting in Lincoln Hall.
An observer notes elephants’ gentleness toward human dependents and their intelligent, even mischievous behavior. A female elephant beggars bread at breakfast, buys sweetmeats with money, and can even steal from shops or drink from bottles, while a calf rests under the elephant’s watchful trunk. The piece highlights surprising capacity and cautionary limits in captive elephants.
The article discusses the germ theory of disease and argues that atmospheric dust affecting health is aided by dust-retaining carpets. It cites Professor Tyndall on dust filtration by textiles and notes carpets act as dust traps, often becoming foul and releasing emanations. It concludes that carpets are less healthy than matting and naked floors are healthier.
The tale centers on Charlotta Canda of Brooklyn and a string of tragedies. Her mother dies in Boulogne, the 18th birthday party ends with a winter accident where she is killed near the New York Hotel, and Italian craftsmen later carve a marble monument. Her father's grief and voluntary seclusion deepen the family tragedy.
From the caterpillar region in Tennessee, numbers have not diminished since reports of trains stopping on the Memphis and Tennessee Railroad. Crop damage is immense as trees along the line lose foliage and all green growth is devoured. Swarms gather on tracks, crushing to a soaplike consistency and occasionally causing wheels to slide. Trains drop from 80 cars to 7, with some services halted.
Report notes likely congressional selection of president dominated by Lerdo and Juarez factions, with both sides accused of spending public funds for influence. Prediction that any winner faces attempted forceful ouster, led by Zamasona and Porfirio Diaz allies, signaling imminent party rupture.
The Western paper dismisses prize fighting amid the riot aftermath. It argues that had the participant avoided violent conduct, he could have saved his watch and money and performed an act of international courtesy that would have been warmly received on this side.
A fragmentary poem describes a vagrant mood place in growing grass with wandering companions and the lure of joy. It recalls carefree crowds, a pattern of striving yet unpruned longing, and a resigned content in idleness amid mowing days.
A patchwork of quirky items from a bygone era covers divorce cases in Maine, potato farming warnings, odd quotes about color and weather, a Maryland fruit bloom note, fashion tips, a Boston apothecary joke, and a Berlin theatre strike.
A Park Place home for boys known as The Newsboys Lodging House has operated for seventeen years. It has sheltered 82 519 boys, restored 6 178 lost and missing to their homes, placed 6 008 in homes and work, furnished 523 488 lodgings and 373 866 meals at a cost of 109 325 dollars, with boys contributing 28 956 dollars leaving about one dollar per boy in actual expense. The six cent charge for supper lodging and breakfast fosters independence, though about one third of applicants lack funds.
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