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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1871
Page
6
A lullaby urging gentle slumber for a baby. Soft images of rosy brow dreams, fairy bowers, and a peaceful voyage across clouds. The verse invites the child to rests in quiet, under a guiding moon, with bells, flowers, and a safe return to the caregiver.
A newspaper summary notes a Prolite weighing 12 pounds falling in Seirsport Maine on a Sunday. The report also lists a string of world events, political expulsions, trials and accidents across multiple places, including Neliwa, Hayti, Paris, Reading, Monmouth Junction, and New York, with varied human and financial details.
General Oliver’s annual Labor report argues farming declines as capital and labor shift to larger enterprises. It warns cheap labor and machinery will replace small farms, cites foreign labor encroachment on sterile soils, and suggests rail access and shorter hours could bridge urban and rural work needs. It also notes westward migration and market expansion as factors. The piece also records discussions on smut causes in wheat and seed treatment.
A Providence Press correspondent reports a father and two sons who started small in ball and bat making and built a vast business. They now own an enormous building and notable residences, accumulating hundreds of thousands in fortune and supplying more balls and bats than any other manufacturer in the nation. Also noted: Washburne assures Americans and property in Paris are safe, and a renowned London physician endorses certain nervous-disorder treatments.
A preacher quotes Rev Dr Talmage urging aid for women workers facing starvation and brutal pay in New York and Brooklyn. He cites 35 000 sewing girls, their perilous hours, six cents per shirt, and demands for charity and church backing against employer cruelty.
A Bermondsey parish Cobden Workingmen's Club has grown to over 1,200 members in eight months. Rules mirror West End clubs, forbidding gambling and drunkenness, with a four shilling yearly fee. The committee governs, with weekly lectures and social events, allowing wives to attend, and three expulsions for drunkenness or swearing.
A reader asks for simple remedies for poison ivy oak and bee or spider stings. The advice says to dissolve quicklime in water, apply after soaking, with three or four applications curing severe cases. For bee or hornet stings mix table salt and baking soda and apply to the bite to arrest the poison.
A detector notes 316 London newspapers with 21 dailies and 483 periodicals of which 299 focus on religious matters. In Boston the Moran case on Officer Packford's killing rests with a jury discharged after failing to reach a verdict.
The tea plant grows from seed sown in winter and yields leaf buds first. Pekoe and Sonchong appear as the crop matures, while congou and bohea represent larger, coarser leaves. Twankay is green tea’s bohea. gunpowder and hyson varieties are finer, with adulteration risks. Buyers test via actual drawing to avoid glossy fakes, and the trade chain often adds multiple middlemen before reaching consumers.
A Bombay account recounts caste penalties after Hindoo men who visited England faced excommunication. Kur sandas Mudhavdas led to two hundred Buania adherents undergoing shaving, bathing, and purification after a vowing ceremony at Walkeshway on the seventh of last month. They regained caste privileges but may face further penance elsewhere.
A Jersey island resident left his elegant home in England under servants care and returned to find a nightly riot below stairs. Two of Her Majesty's soldiers joined young revelers as dancing drinking and theft emptied the house. Authorities recovered the domain after arresting the intruders. The tale warns that island luxury carries kitchen level risks.
The South Norwalk Sentinel recounts a hat trimmer’s plain job turning into romance. After she signed a hat lining, a New Yorker bought the hat and found her name. He wrote, they corresponded, and they wed last week in a seaside partnership of affection and surprise.
A quixotic portrait of a nurse who whispers to patients, never makes a scene, moves with no creak or rustle, and keeps perfect poised steadiness. The lines praise her punctuality and reliability, labeling her invaluable in care.
A Chicago Paper warns of widespread drought risk across the West and Midwest. It cites scorched Pacific slopes, scarce forage for cattle, and a likely lean grain yield despite hopeful signs for maturation. The piece notes record heat, unusual snow retreat, and uncertain moisture patterns driving speculative climate vicissitudes.
A column parodies shifting crime trends from air gun shooting to arson and street robbery and notes a deadly sport of air guns in New York. It recounts a cancer cure tale from an Ecuadorian plant sparked by a poison plan and an attempted murder by poison, then reports on German immigration shaping Wisconsin farming and a quirky suit over an ewe lamb contract bound to a gold watch key.
A historical account describes Circassian slavery and emigration, detailing illicit sale by Circassian families to Constantinople and beyond. It notes the failed promises of a royal life, the brutality faced by many women, and the lucrative trade run largely by Circassian women. It cites Abdul Medjid era events and a pattern of profits from selling girls at ages twelve to sixteen.
A Newark woman dies of lip cancer possibly linked to a playful dog bite two years earlier. The piece warns women to limit lapdog affection, noting rabies can occur in cold weather and that dog bites may transmit cancer or hydrophobia. It urges responsible handling to prevent harm to children.
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