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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1892
Page
7
A digest from Indiana Progress mentions the growth of women’s clubs in the West, road conditions and tolls, cremation trends in Britain, nutmegs fraud in France, U S agriculture science advances, and a tragic emigration hoax from Yorkshire to Brazil with hundreds of victims and brutal treatments. The piece blends social observations with alarming immigration fraud revelations and agricultural policy notes.
A French savant M. Bouchon-Baroudely claims a method to manufacture real pearls by boring pearl oyster shells with a gimlet and inserting glass beads sealed with corks. After weeks the glass beads gain a pearl layer, thickening over months, with color and size tied to time. mollusk irritation limits the process.
Ladies fashion shifts to velvet ribbons with diagonal vodice fronts and wide widths. Russian headdresses spark Parisian interest but may not suit all. linen gifts valued for weddings. Buda Pest hair traits noted. sewing tips describe modifying bell skirts and Mansian blouse styles in cotton fabrics.
The piece outlines evening shoe matching with gowns, red morocco boudoir slippers, silver mounted tea and coffee pots, jewel boxes covered in silver net, and hair jewelry worn with bare necks. It notes table decor in creamy fabrics with Turkish embroidery, gray Spanish moss on dinner settings, and preferred trimming of ribbons and lace. Florists and coiffures highlight current fashions for evening wear.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent reports albinos among the Mogqui tribe near Holbrook Arizona on the Moqui Reservation in Apache County. Some are pure white with reddish yellow hair and blue eyes, others have pink eyes. one girl at age 12 or 13 attends a government school in Keams Canyon under Superintendent Collins. The Mogquis are described as intelligent and industrious, weaving blankets and rugs and living in stone houses, with schooling limited government support. The piece cites Piute Princess Sarah Winnemucca and notes language blends, ancient ruins, and a theory linking the Mogquis to an Egyptian lineage. It also mentions Ralph P. Collins supervising a large Indian school with 105 pupils. The narrative contrasts their daily life with colonial schooling and touches on regional ethnography.
Congressmen examining the menhaden fishery will note that Maine woman Mrs John Bartlett of Bluehill first produced porgy oil for commerce in 1850. She boiled porgies for food and found an oil slick forming on the water. She showed it to Boston dealer E B Philips who urged more. In 1851 the Bartletts shipped thirteen barrels to Boston, launching the industry.
In a fragmentary exchange Waldo questions apothecaries weight as he awaits a lengthy delay while attending a party. The scene hints at a school setting and lingering questions about measurement and timing.
A religious reading lists an Easter carol proclaiming the risen Christ and triumph over death. It then cites a Waldenses confession describing taverns as sin’s fountain and the devil’s school, with moral warnings about drunkenness and strife. The piece ends with a parable about looking to Jesus for deliverance from danger.
A review from Christian at Work details Sunday rest progress in Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Holland Hungary and Norway. Laws limit Sunday work protect workers and reduce deliveries and shop hours with many shops closed and trains limited. A parable on sour apples illustrates the outside edges of religious prohibitions and the joy of faith in Christ Jesus. The text closes with a prompt to provide secular options for ministry study.
A Boston woman recounts a life changing cure from cancer of the womb after using Warner's Safe Cure secretly. She credits renewed health to the remedy, claims doctors declared relief impossible, and invites inquiries from interested readers seeking hope amid despair.
A Scribner article warns that a pair of rabbits in Australia could, under favorable conditions, produce six litters yearly with five young each. In five years they might exceed twenty million, though progress has been slowed by fencing, poison, and vigilant squatters. A £25,000 prize seeks broad destruction methods as governments note the invasion.
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