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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
3
The text presents a fragmented, era-specific collection touching on royal events, public affairs, and odd anecdotes. It weaves references to Queen Victoria, imperial concerns, and various social topics with dated opinions and partial names, forming a noisy mosaic of mid-19th century discourse.
A late 19th or early 20th century collage reports varied items from around the world. It notes rumored declines in the Turkish Navy, census counts in Chicago, U S pension figures, European monarchs, biblical translation impacts in China, and witty observations about gas towns, English peers, and an Eiffel Tower cannon ritual.
Porpoise catching supports many coastal communities from Maine to the Bay of Fundy. Indigenous Pasamaquiddy and white hunters use primitive methods to extract oil from blubber, yielding up to seven gallons per porpoise. Jaws provide a small oil supply, while meat serves as food. Porpoise hunts require skill, endurance, and weatherproof restraint, with risks from sharks and rough seas.
A New York Star summary notes Russian dining customs with frequent meals and ample vodka and tea. Guests are offered salted meats eel and pickled cucumbers at side tables, with repeated toasts of vodka. The host proclaims more courses after seeming full, illustrating social hospitality in czarist Russia.
A quoted exchange shows a patient asked the doctor for the cost of saving his life. The doctor names sixty dollars, the patient balks declaring it is not worth it. The exchange underscores tensions over medical charges in care facilities.
An observer describes multiple Alpine avalanche incidents from the Albula Pass to Engadine. Victims include a woman saved by clinging to a pine, a roatmaker hurled aloft but surviving, and a miller’s house carried through the air with inhabitants killed. Monastery tower blown down and walls smashed by wind struck roofs and doors.
A Norwich Connecticut report describes two dog partnerships: an English setter and a bulldog hunted and killed many cats before one partner died. A current duo, a black and tan terrier and a bulldog, work together daily to raid woodchuck burrows, with the terrier retrieving the quarry after the bulldog tears at the hole.
Mr. E A Brackett of the Massachusetts Commission on Fisheries and Game plans to propagate lobsters along the Massachusetts coast starting in June. A steam launch is being fitted, hatching boxes are being built, and the team expects to release 43 million young lobsters this season. Harvard’s Professor Garmen will assist, with female lobsters supplied by fishermen to provide eggs.
A St Louis police officer observed a gray old rat in an alley as five young rats hurried to a water pan. The mother defended the water by biting and scratching at her offspring. After scaring the youngsters back into their hole she cautiously sipped the water to test for poison. She then signaled play and the five young rats emerged to drink.
A collection of curious notes and oddities from various locales including a goose with a wooden leg in Hoboken, a three tailed shepherd dog in Wallingford, bracelets made from elephant tail hairs, an eight year old Wadley word spellist, a mule biting off fingers in St. Louis, red lobsters in a painting, and a 90 year old Irish immigrant in Kilkenny arriving to seek fortune in America.
At a health resort near Templeton visitors hunt tarantulas in intricately built spider towns. A circular web with a silken door hides the den, leading to a silk lined passage. Spiders rush out when disturbed, then are scooped into a can or placed on a stick for capture. A physician notes a tarantula can jump 14 feet, though such feats are rare.
A list of collective nouns for animals and birds with many odd terms such as a covey of partridges a nile of pheasants a wisp of snipe a flight of doves a muster of peacocks a flock of geese a herd of cattle a bevy of quail a pack of wolves a troop of monkeys a sleuth of bears a gang of eik.
The first National Grange formed in Washington in December 1867 led by D H Kelley of Boston who after a 1866 voyage for President Johnson to assess southern agriculture and mineral resources proposed an organization akin to the Freemasons to unite farmers against railroad discrimination. There are numerous Granges nationwide.
A New York Sun excerpt describes the terrifying soundscape of Whitworth shells during blockader battles near Cape Fear River. It details the warnful shrieks and the nerve-wracking experience for sailors and soldiers, noting the moment of annihilation and the scattered relics found after combat.
A Chicago certificate records Daniel Burke dying at 114, sparking renewed interest in extreme longevity. The piece cites Ohio families totaling 420 years across four members and recalls famed early records such as Parr at 182, a Desmond countess, Zortan at 185, and S. Mungo at 195, noting nineteenth century record accuracy.
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