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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1872
Page
6
A New York Mercantile Journal critique notes life insurance schemes like Tontine Cooperative Deposit and Guarantee confuse the public and threaten trust. It urges insurers to focus on honest management, prudent funds, and protecting policyholders rather than chasing new plans to attract business.
The King of Sweden is praised as an excellent locksmith and devotee of that craft. The King of Portugal excels as a wood and ivory turner. Hohenzollern royals are trained in useful arts. The Crown Prince is a skilled bookbinder and his wife a miniature painter. Queen Victoria and Louis Napoleon have written books. The Prince of Wales’s wife is a renowned pianist. The Russian Czarina paints miniatures. The Queen of Belgium trains horses and rides fearlessly, while the Queen of Denmark is a superb housekeeper and cook. Junior English royals are said to be practical composers, and the Prince Imperial of France is a first class typographer.
Spain fields 30,000 to 50,000 regulars with volunteers in Cuba while losing thousands. 84,700 US-supplied arms cost 1.45 million dollars. The war budget soars toward two million, with new duties proposed. Cuban patriots endure, fight in three corps and guerilla bands, led by Diaz Garcia and Casanova, as they resist Madrid’s force.
Forty four by forty miles would form a national park around the Yellowstone headwaters in Wyoming Territory. Senator Pom eroy of Kansas introduced the plan in the Senate which passed without debate. The valley is rich in mountains rivers lakes canyons geysers hot springs and forests, soon to be connected by rail. Meanwhile Grasshopper Falls Kansas villagers rename to Low Tail, and seek a return to Grasshopper.
The article defends the Army and Peace Institution against the view that only the army and frontiersmen foment Indian wars. It describes the harsh, often solitary life of frontier service, the social exile, and the severe toll on officers and soldiers during campaigns. It contrasts public praise with hostile criticism and notes the fragile, complex bond with peaceful Indians near frontier posts.
In a formal Omaha dispatch dated January 30, 1872, Lt Col A G Brackett denounces the indiscriminate slaughter of buffaloes as needless cruelty. He compares buffalo hunts to killing tame cattle and urges protection measures, asking Henry Benen to seek congressional action.
The Ledger recounts how British India shifted from permissive timber licenses to a structured conservancy system. It details reserved forests, licensed cuttings, village planting incentives, and training of conservators. Revenue rose from 1.5 to 2.87 million dollars (1863–1871) while policing, road building, and reforestation costs consumed much of it. yet forest products expanded, benefiting fuel supply and agriculture.
A Connecticut court faced a survivorship puzzle after a man and his only daughter drowned together. If the man died first, the daughter would inherit and her heir would be her mother, now divorced. If the daughter died first, the father’s half-sister would inherit. The rule favors males surviving longer. adults over minors. A Petersburg, Virginia woman becomes deranged from failed lottery investments.
A four foot three inch rattlesnake captured near the Alabama line at Prospect in Giles county produced seven young snakes in a Nashville drug store case after four months in confinement. The newborns, nine to fifteen inches long, retain a full tail button. The mother, fed by no food for months, showed maternal instincts as the brood dispersed around her.
The French Army reforms include a non-showy infantry officer overcoat inspired by German practice. Officers wear uniforms nearly identical to privates, with only small silver shoulder straps indicating rank. The change echoes German and U.S. wartime methods to reduce targetability and keep leadership less conspicuous under fire.
A fashion writer recalls toilettes from a Cheyenne gathering. Miss W. led with a pale cafe au lait linsey nolsey gown edged with Chicago relics, train length. Miss H. wore a blue jeans polo naise with back fullness, vis-a-vis cut, and sangui gore, minus jewels but with consistency.
A collage of humorous vignettes from a 19th century newspaper style page, featuring a curry of wordplay about Shrimp and Shrew in a borough, a courtroom farce with a jur y of peers, antebellum race portraits, and an insurance con man’s misadventure.
In a scene aboard a carriage Swann silences a smoker by tossing his cigar out the window while Commercian Traveler laments a bad weed spoiling his pipe. The dialogue centers on etiquette and comfort, culminating with a quip about the hare and the greyhound as the best stimulant.
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