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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
7
A children column mixes verses and short moral tales. It includes a dramatic lullaby about a sick dolly, a story illustrating kindness to animals, a child’s tale about a giant, and a Wind and weather vignette featuring Mrs North Wind and her children Sunny and Wind of the Rising Sun.
In the new Ziewage volume a humorous scene shows trainee hunters on elephants saluting the King. Elevating a tower view, drums beat as twelve men strike the great drum. Elephants with drivers and spears form a ring, then the hunt begins in a semi circle seeking the white elephant amid forest life.
A dialogist scene shows Sie Time for Pan inviting Charler to help with an amateur theatrical entertainment. Clarley declines due to a sick bachelor uncle, citing duty. The remark hints at business before pleasure and a broader, ominous social observation.
Feeding young beeves can yield market-ready beef by age two with careful, ongoing feeding. Composting stable manure offers quick action but reduces some plant nutrients, while raw manure suits farmers aiming for rapid field application. Cabbage fed to livestock boosts milk yield and weight gain in calves and pigs. one acre can yield 15 to 25 tons of forage. The ideal farm team described as two heavy draft horses could outperform four to five lighter horses and pull substantial loads, with value estimation well above six hundred dollars. Small Lima beans, especially the butter bean, flourish in the South and store well, climber-friendly with corn supports, and resist weevils, offering a winter dry-bean option.
A compilation of practical advice on soaking and cooking seeds and grains, wintering crops, seed storage, and orchard maintenance. It covers profitable farming strategies, soil enrichment, winter feeding for dairy cattle, and methods to protect trees from cold and pests.
The Chico Herald notes lasting shifts in feminine dress over 15 years. Colored stockings become universal, gloves move from four-button glace kid to long undressed kid, and empire dresses with directrices reappear. Mme Sarah Bernhardt influences trends, pairing long gloves with sheer undressed kid and popularizing vivid dress accents. The era echoes Empress Eugenie in fashion authority.
The article recounts Bogota as Colombia’s high capital in the Andes, about 7000 feet above sea level and third highest in the Western Hemisphere. It describes the 1542 founding when three Spaniards chose the site for New Granada’s capital, calling it Santa Fe de Bogota before the name Bogota prevailed, with an estimated population around 60,000.
A man paid to clear rats from the Interior Department basement used ferrets and traps but rats reappeared within a month. They emerge after four o clock, patrol passages and rooms in search of lunches. Watchmen call them impudent yet effective scavengers. Washington Critic
A child asks why the earth does not fly away as Grandmamma teaches her that the sun’s gravity continually pulls but the earth maintains its distance. The little girl wonders if the sun might give up.
A poem about a ship crossing the harbor bar under an evening star. The speakers speak of prayer from watchers, and a voyage driven by springing wind. It reassures faith in God and endurance through storm toward a hopeful haven.
In an interview, Inspector Barnes argues conscience guides police work more than genius. He describes how self-deception collapses under inner punishment, noting a suspect verges toward confession after hours of isolation and imagined punishment.
A preacher urges awakening from spiritual slumber in a Guthrie sermon, calling listeners responsible agents and stressing salvation through Christ. He warns of eternal judgment, urges attention to the Bible, and appealingly declares the Holy Spirit moving toward conversion.
A Victorian parable explains how patient, quiet methods succeed where brute force fails. The piece compares iron wedges to wooden wedges that swell when wet, splitting granite without hammer blows, urging patience, tears, and prayer as enduring tools in education and life.
A cost of beer and whiskey for a laborer sums to seventy three dollars yearly, money that could buy groceries for a large family. A Norfork County bootmaker quit drinking after calculating his yearly savings, later lifting his family into better education and social life. The piece argues total abstinence as a powerful, transformative idea for workers and families.
A compilation of temperance figures cites California liquor costs rising to 31 000 and Ohio traffic at 70 002 000 annually. It notes homelessness in London, Irish intoxicants costing 11 041 528, and a California claim that alcohol drives insanity. A Comanche clergyman comments on social impact, while calls grow for moral governance and better child welfare.
An 19th century critique rails against medical impostors claiming Atlantis as a cure source. It contrasts ancient legends with modern science and warns against untested remedies, citing Warner’s Safe Core and editorials by Dr. J. Holland on proprietary medicines and medical practice.
A Temperance Record critique rails at the publican's till as a corrupting force harming families and communities. It laments wages spent on drink, wasted youth, broken homes, and the spread of misery linked to tavern profit. The piece urges reform and personal temperance to end dependency on alcohol.
The New York Observer argues a bill making it a crime to treat others with liquor could curb intemperance but doubts enforcement will end the custom. It says social respectability keeps saloons legal and the taboo on treating would fade only if alcohol shops lose legal status and gambling dens decline.
A fragmented account discusses jewelry trends among clubmen, noting heavy gold glove rings with diamonds and sapphires, the shift toward signet rings as older fashion, and the influence of leaders on cheaper wear. The piece mentions soapstone preservation for wood and advertises Scott's Emulsion for coughs, along with medical notices and cure appeals from various doctors.
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