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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1871
Page
2
Annie Dana longs for a famous chess table and writes a story to fund its purchase. She hides the project from Robert, posts her manuscript under a pen name, and earns unexpected magazine success. Behind suspicion, a dangerous secret causes estrangement and a near tragedy before truth and trust return.
A tale of confession between Annie and her husband, beginning with a dramatic disclosure about a manuscript and letters. The couple’s trust is rebuilt on openness as the truth about Mrs Cynthia Sullivan’s story leads to reconciliation. The old table becomes a symbol of honesty and family harmony, and Annie regains strength as February magazine features the tale.
An new signal light, self igniting on contact with water and inextinguishable once lit, can be seen from afar and photographable. Demonstrations on Primrose Hill showed visibility to seventy feet in fog, burning for forty minutes. Simple, non explosive, and inexpensive, it promises widespread marine use including shipwreck illumination and aiding life buoys.
Burleigh writes from New York about church-building as risky for ministers. He notes frequent ruptures, costly projects, and debt heavy churches. A downtown pastor faced resistance before moving, while new churches command prominent positions and star pulpit expectations.
The Jackson Miss Pilot reports five recent deaths in the southern part of the state linked to eating mulberries infested by locusts. A Woodville Republican note mentions mulberry seeds and locusts found in a colored boy’s stomach. Two Wilmington County children also died from plums similarly infested.
The amendment submitting to voters the question of whether Connecticut should have one or two capitals failed in the House by 145 to 87, marking a rejection of expanding the capital’s status.
An essay argues artillery dominates modern warfare over hand to hand combat. It compares contemporary British soldiers to ancient fighters, noting armor size, mummy cases, and the stoutness of races from Gauls to Romans. The piece claims a brigade of British Guards could outpace a Roman legion.
The Richmond caminer argues readers gripe that newspapers offer little. It defends editors and reporters, noting the effort to curate, rewrite, and pack a column into concise lines. It highlights long nights behind the scenes and the skill required to deliver fresh daily news.
Fishermen at Soquel beach hauled in a strange four to five foot fish with an alligator like head and hiss in its mouth. It had green yellow eyes with horned projections, a slim long body four legs and two tassel like appendages near the hind area. The creature was quickly killed with an oar.
A Wilmington correspondent reports South Carolina planter Junius Smith cultivating tea with growing success and teas from the Patent Office stock rivaling imports. A Jamaica case describes a brutal murder by a slave and accomplice. An elderly Michigan man vows to stay sober yet remains bedridden for decades. Wheelock Virginia built its first meeting house in 1789 with a pew tax for rum. San Francisco’s Alhambra Theatre manager collapses with assets of ten cents and no property.
The article outlines methods to train young colts to improve dexterity, speed, and staying power through patient, kind instruction. It stresses humane handling, proper pace, and gradual breaking in with bitting, soft control, and harness practice. It warns that abuse or overtasking damages future performance and emphasizes calm, consistent guidance from trainers.
A Home Journal letter discusses widowhood's social penalties from gossip to stares over a widow’s attire. Also recounted is a Cleveland brakesman who, after losing limbs, stabbed himself before dying, and a Deerfield woman’s autopsy revealing a steel hoop fragment lodged near the heart, likely fatal.
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