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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1872
Page
7
The excerpt covers fruit tree disease control for corky pathogens in berry fields, soil rotation and fertilizer practices, poultry egg production estimates across hen ages, salt usage and pricing in Africa, and a farmer’s reflections on farming discipline and dairy timing. It cites multiple names and topics, including rotation with phosphates, and a diary of dairy yields.
Report on a specimen of native steel said to be found in Japan and used for swords and cutlery, with notes on Japanese progress, China’s lightening pace, and an arsenal flood in Tiensin. Also discusses chloroform usefulness, rubber tapping along Madeira rapids, Amazon Valley rubber growth, and James Richmond’s water power system in Lockport New York distributing power via telegraph wires.
A disorderly person in Rochester claimed exemption from arrest claiming to be the driver of the small-pox express. The officer promptly allowed the claim, marking a novel use of epidemic context in law enforcement.
A compact column offers household health tips and social reflections. It includes hands care methods for dry skin with glycerine oil and gloves, notes on home life and femininity, urges breadth for wives and mothers, and light advice on laughter, temper, and catarrh care.
A collage of comic vignettes and short sketches from Washington featuring Billy the notorious goat, a drunken house misadventure, a temperance prank, a string of church social quips, a tale of spectacles and worry, a tense presidential interaction with a dog, a choir prank verdict, a Canaon Conn suicide note, doorbell tricks, fortune telling by looking glass, and a Bay City misdelivered box joke.
Miscellany notes Rev H D Morris the printer who sparked a strike by refusing union membership and printing ball tickets despite vows of religious duty. The Glen's Malls Republican calls him a curious figure, recounting an 1856 prank and a revival era stance on dancing, then urges him to join the union for missionary reform. Also mentions a West Virginia husband who celebrates his wife’s elopement with an enemy.
Prolonged delay in purchasing clothing is warned to raise prices while Brugert & Co promotes a fortune scheme from Omaha Nebraska. The ad claims Lyon's Karnamoy can reanimate scalp hair, prevent baldness, remove dandruff, nourish fibers, and produce a stronger glossier new crop of hair.
A public notice from Edward A. Wilson at 34 South Third Street Williamsburgh New York offers readers a free copy of a remedy prescription claimed to cure Consumption Asthma Bronchitis and similar diseases. Readers may request the prescription by mail.
Dr Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial advertised as a remedy for coughs colds and consumption. The ad claims it clears mucous membranes assists lung action and purifies blood. cites certificates of cures from Philadelphia residents and offers free distant advice with orders via L Q O Wishart No 282 North Second Street Philadelphia.
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