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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1891
Page
3
A mosaic of 1891 clippings notes Gladstone praising labor groups avoiding unrest in England. An electrician doubts ultra fast electric road speeds due to braking limits. Marys fear cremation. Atlanta Constitution questions mass disposal of 30,000,049 bodies. Indiana enacts road limits on marshy and broad tires with penalties.
A children's tale recounts Patty turning six with a birthday cake baked from eggs milk and citron. The hen cow and horse join in, gathering raisins nuts and candy to decorate the cake, which bears Patty's name in pink and blue. The village trip and kitchen work create a festive scene.
A Paoli Georgia boy's cat pines after his death, guarding the grave and crying at night. The tale shifts to a playful war game among children against a farmer Thurston's pig as the "enemy," ending in a childlike victory and a vivid memory.
The text describes kite construction from a wood frame with a top-protruding semicircular cane piece, stretched fabric, and a steering tail. It notes kites come in many shapes and that origins are ancient, especially in China and Japan where dragons bats and other creatures are painted on silk or paper. gazes at kite-lying times show rich and poor alike watching the sky filled with flying creature shapes.
The San Gabriel valley initializes the first orange picking around mid December with a month or more of steady work. Pickers include Mexicans Chinese Americans and others under overseers, using ladders and bags to harvest fruit. Shippers set terms and the process features washers executors and occasional machines, while the scene mixes labor with vivid views of winter mountains and the valley’s bustling groves.
A morning contemporary notes Mrs. Hopkins Searles offers her Hopkins mansion on California Street for sale. The item hints at long-standing sale rumors and questions who could afford it, while mentioning Nob Hill’s grandiose panorama and silent market activity.
The article describes grass barriers stretching from 100 feet to a mile and a quarter across the White Nile that slow Dr. Junker’s progress. Grass mats filter high water but form dense, welded barriers, sometimes needing steamships and many men to break through.
A New York Sun item notes the wear on gold coins from shipping, engines, and copper alloy hardening. It compares American and English coinage alloys and cites a test with spinning cylinders wearing English coins more. The column then blends gossip about Bill Biuff and Miss Giddy with a jab at a scheme for removing a mother-in-law.
A local store was robbed last night with most of the premises disturbed. The only undisturbed item reported is the watchman, as authorities begin a routine investigation and seek witnesses.
A long list of curiosities covers subjects from a streetcar funeral to maple sugar made from artificially grown sap, a Icelandic milk skim ivory factory, a Rome beggar leaving 70000 to another, and a Kansas City fraud case. It notes Meagher pronunciation, Dresden crisis rate, a South Carolina whale, and a San Francisco blind asylum mix. Also includes a Tarkio cattle lord, Maine hunter counts game, mule hoof surgery, and European infant go up beliefs. A hornet hoists a locust, Alaska river Pitmegea found with glacier growth and wild arctic flora along a sunlit shore.
Queen Victoria crochets wristlets and a hood, cited by an English journal from a Gleagow exhibition. Honiton lace faces decline, wedding gown price cited. Doings include a Providence sisters kindergarten aid, skirt trends toward less cling, Tennyson wife composer note, hair care guidelines, and Paris fashion hints with unique bonnet trends.
First Assistant Postmaster General Whitfield states Roswell Beardster is the nation’s oldest serving postmaster by length of service. The claim notes Beardster’s long tenure and wartime appointment details cited by Whitfield.
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