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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1889
Page
2
A roundup of diverse items notes California and New Jersey suffrage status, wealth claims in Monmouth, cavalry horse needs, cotton bagging stance in Georgia, and secret sessions criticized. It reports Metropolitan Telephone profits, Japan's Christian growth, Chili's Congress invitation, tenement crime anecdotes, Arbor Day history, and a xenophobic China critique amid famine.
A veteran recalls three unexplainable sea incidents from 1880s voyages. A bark struck and disappeared after a mysterious collision, a ship collided with a legendary whale and sank, and a brig incident near Rio involved mutineers and a doomed crew, with insurance disputes and unanswered questions lingering.
Harper's Magazine describes how Moroccan officials, from sultans to pashas, extract wealth through exactions and theft, with merchants and slaves tormented to reveal riches. European intervention reduced abuses, but treasury profit still hinges on coercion, betrayal, and endless cycles of oppression and punishment.
A Philadelphia physician recalls a young lady who suffered throat irritation after biting nails. A fleshy object the size of a wheat kernel was found attached behind the left tonsil and removed. The mass proved to be a fingernail fragment embedded in a cheesy deposit, with another fragment under the mucous membrane.
A Judge reflects on a boy named Tommy who asks about death after his mother explains it simply. The child wonders if death means an ongoing life for others, provoking thoughtful humor about mortality.
Home remedy notes advise dissolving soap in hot water to clean carpets with a mix of alcohol pl ycler ine and sulphuric ether, then scrubbing and rinsing to restore colors. Also includes instructions for making beef shank bouillon by slow simmering second cut in cold water, skimming, clarifying, and seasoning for table use.
A New York World reader offers home care advice including staining and varnishing floors with cherry stain and spar varnish, plus yearly revarnishing. Also describes converting kerosene tins into two-compartment dry- goods chests, using wood cases, hinges, and mouse-proof lids.
A new religious group has emerged in the Northwest with meetings in Minneapolis. Led by C C Whitney, they claim the fifty fourth chapter of Isaiah refers to a new Christ and designate a Mrs. Beckman in Kansas twenty years ago as the trus Christ. The group shows no signs of lunacy and its members appear ordinary citizens.
A Swiss writer links baldness to a microscopic fungus while Alma Michigan reports hot saline water drilling to 2876 feet. Niagara Gorge post-glacial claims, Gloucester dynamite testing for fish warnings, Harvard ex-president Hill studies reptiles, Pollet France espalier pear age, and bee stings for rheumatics. Berlin hosts a bacteria milk study lab and infant mortality tied to unsafe milk. Deep sea fish species rise to 370 across depths. Electric fire engine touted for efficiency and safety. Natural light from beetles may solve heatless lighting issues.
Curious Tasmania dev il resembles a bear in size and thick skin, while the ornithorhynchus paradoxus is a sixteen to twenty inch aquatic bird mammal with a duck like bill. It lives in mud feeds with its bill and has five toed webbed feet with burrowing claws. The male bears spur like a cock, once wrongly thought venomous. It is shy, dives when approached and haunts twilight hours, vocalizing like a small poppy and curling into a ball when sleeping.
The piece extols the Great Wall of Peking as a major city sight, noting its brick construction, sand filling, and dimensions about 50 feet high and 40 to 60 feet wide. It describes Peking’s rooftops and foliage from the wall, with towers and high temples visible, praising clean air and absence of city discomfort.
Fashion tips discuss basteing wadding and muslin under empire frocks to plump the plaits and soften the look, with notes on bustle avoidance. The piece also profiles Lady Horby, a famed eccentric in London society, famed for courage and startling stories. It moves to Post Office Department uniforms and black attire for clerks in Philadelphia, then to a guide on what constitutes a pretty girl with facial proportions and skin quality.
Tyrolean peasant women keep a tear handkerchief as a wedding ritual. A bride uses it to dry her ears at the altar and, after generations, the heirloom remains unwashed among keepsakes. Fashion notes highlight empire styles, French bonnets, green tones, narrow ribbed hats, spring dresses, and new accessories like tortoiseshell combs and a single-velvet pansy fan.
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