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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1889
Page
7
A collage of lighthearted snippets includes humorous lines about books, ships logs, money lending, editors, and stargazing. It features witty exchanges among characters and a brief anecdote about Hans von Bülow, illustrating playful social vignettes and literary gibes from a bygone era.
The Boston Cultivator notes fencing waste, praising reduced corner fencing as a mulch source, while Pekin ducks harm young chickens and eggs. Articles cover cattle feeding with finely ground meal, milking technique, quince trees, fattening sheep, and general farm and garden notes on soil, crops, weed control, and drainage.
The article describes a long pendulum in Atlanta's technological school, hung from a 2 foot brass wire with a steel pivot. It traces a circle on a marked disk as the sun moves, illustrating earth rotation, while noting delays due to the pendulum not aligning with the earth's axis. It also mentions peach stone fuel trials in Vacaville and fruit growers seeking new revenue from stone byproducts.
The Mind-Care essay argues mental influence can heal where drugs fail and reduce sickness duration, but warns against untrained impostors taking charge. It calls for regulation to prevent harm while recognizing the method’s potential benefits. The Empress of Japan leads a movement to improve women’s conditions, with a Tokyo college and Japanese nurses training in London hospitals to return home educated.
A playful fragment shows Poseyboy asking if you moisten a pencil before writing. Miss Southmayd replies she always puts the pencil to her lips. Poseyboy quips about wishing to be a pencil, and she remarks he is all except the lead.
Religious reading quotes a lesson on forgiveness and blessing foes. It notes how Christ, rejected and betrayed, spoke no curse and prayed for his murderers as he died, highlighting mercy over vengeance attributed to J. Edmonston.
Dr Storra recalls a comment by Dr Spring of New York on prayer. After years of Bible society meetings without official prayers due to diverse church views, a decisive moment occurred when a speaker cited a biblical promise. The voice of the Son of God convinced the assembly, ending the debate.
A young man perishes in a Colorado storm after wandering from his cottage. His wife keeps vigil through the long night as dawn arrives with the tragic death near his home. The piece laments wanderers away from faith, lost despite gospel calls and scripture.
A religious exhortation argues that salvation rests only in Jesus and neglect leads to ruin. It uses vivid metaphors of poison, drowning, and refusal of mercy, urging sinners to come to Christ with all sins and sorrows now, promising no rejection.
A German farmer Conrad and his wife Ursula shelter a poor boy on a cold night. The child turns out to be Martin Luther, later a great reformer who finds a Bible and the path to life. The tale stresses charity and moral awakening with a call to save the boys from saloons and moral danger.
A discussion on alcohol's supposed medical merits and pleasures, urging reduction or elimination. It cites travelers, Arctic explorations, and recovery outcomes. Reports from Lynn, Massachusetts show strong temperance activity. Notes on Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, Kate Field, and Mexican women forming drink-focused groups.
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