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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1891
Page
7
Indiana Progress notes Galt's grape crop per acre is worth three times that of California. It also reports vast British investment in Paraguay, a $1,000 reward for athletic prowess, a spike in papyrus discovery, and various miscellany from weather, fires, and local lore.
A collage of verse about children and night, a tall tale of a fox escape with a hunter from Little Rock, a warm farm scene of Fannie nursing stray piglets, a theater anecdote about McCullough and a bold cowboy tribute, and notes on the growing use of electric cranes.
The Dead Letter Office in the Capital Postoffice employs over 100 clerks to process about 20 000 letters daily from approximately 65 000 domestic and foreign post offices. About half the unclaimed letters are returned. the rest are sold as waste paper. Valuable contents include money drafts stamps and photographs. The office keeps records of valuables and last year found over 40 000 dollars in money mostly refunded. The space houses a museum with rattlesnakes preserved in alcohol heathen gods Indian relics coins firearms and stuffed creatures.
An American iron paper specimen at the 1851 Great Exhibition prompted British makers to push the limits of cold iron rolling. Gillett produced sheets averaging eighteen hundredths of an inch thick, meaning 1800 sheets stack to one inch. Meanwhile 1200 sheets of the thinnest tissue paper just exceed one inch. The sheets were smooth, writable, yet porous when lighted. A Peabody High School cat visits daily, seeking shelter for stray creatures, joining classes and recess with students, except Sundays.
Dialogue fragment shows Professor Bulin and Misa Sharpe discussing study of young women. Misa Sharpe hints at future confrontation as the professor promises to discover more when he calls again. Source text from Harper's Bazar excerpt.
A series of aphoristic reflections on life manners and motive. It contrasts forgiving forgetfulness with noble forgiveness, notes human self estimation, and warns about despondency contaminating hope. It argues purposeful work, love over service, and the monkish persistence of a determined soul.
Francis Child, hailed as the father of banking, shifted from goldsmithing to banking in Fleet Street. The Child firm traces to Wheeler and Blanchard origins, expanded from pawn-broking before 1690, and produced early printed bank notes. Members served as lord mayor, M.P., and headlined by Robert Child, linking to Earl of Westmorland through marriage.
The piece explains cicadas misnamed as locusts, with 13 and 17 year broods in the United States. It notes Virginia outbreaks planned for 1893 and 1898, describes egg-laying in young twigs, twig damage, grub life underground for 17 years, and that trees are rarely killed by this process.
A New Orleans Picayune report quotes a physician warning that overworked men use alcohol to stave off hunger. He urges substituting nutritious food with hot milk and Vichy water to restore appetite and cure the stomach damage, claiming many patients regain health by avoiding stimulants.
The London Christian urges true sociability in churches without petty beggary, describing early gatherings where rich and poor shared meals to win souls, not amusements. It contrasts sincere fellowship with mercenary feasting and urges outreach to the lonely and afflicted, spreading the gospel. A second column recalls a convert’s voyage from freethought to faith, ending anchored on Calvary and declaring belief unshaken.
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