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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1871
Page
2
A Beng Bengali song reflects widespread mental unrest and discontent across India, translating alarm and fear in lower provinces. The piece cites tax burdens, poverty, and looming war, noting villagers’ anxieties, historical oppression, and a fear of future dark times under colonial rule.
A dinner party at the Lesters uncovers a deadly trap inside the famed armoire cabinet. Mary Lester dies trapped when a spring and hidden inner door seal her fate while her family and guests scramble to break in and uncover the truth. Jack Marsh and Sir John Marsh figure in the tension as the key to unlocking the cabinet becomes the race against time.
A sequence reveals a hidden door opened by hammer, a deafening thunderclap, and blurred figures peering into a dim room. Kate guides discovery while Davis and Barker react, and a voice notes the time seven fifteen as the narrator wakes from a dream at the Lester's dinner.
Official German loss figures for the 1871 campaign are released in 1872 reports. Total dead 18,000, wounded 87,000, missing 6,000, grand total 111,000. The figures spark surprise but are deemed correct. Thiers estimates killed and wounded on both sides in the Leipzig three days at 100,000.
The passage explains that ice is purer than its source water, with melted ice yielding distilled water. It notes freezing expels impurities while within very cold conditions foreign substances can remain trapped in ice, suggesting frozen sea water becomes fresh water ice and indigo water yields clear ice.
In Webster Massachusetts eight women operate their own businesses with stock for sale, manage their shops and hire clerks and staff as they see fit, running independent enterprises in the town.
An English traveler recounts a day climbing Vesuvius from Naples with wife Louisa. They hire guides and bearers, endure chair temptation, slip on ash, reach the summit at dusk, view the large crater and lava vent, then descend amid rain and swarming insects, preferring cooler climates to Norhern latitudes due to pests.
The narrator ponders whether life has a defined use for all living beings, forgiving harmless pests while condemning flies as mankind’s tormentors. He recalls Nero’s fame for killing vermin and muses that rising Versagius offers little reward, likening the ascent to glimpsing only smoke and ash behind a theatre’s scenes.
A Port Garry man recounts a Fenian raid on Hudson Bay Post. About seven in the morning a 30 man armed force led by Gen O Neill and several colonels seized the post and took breakfast before US troops approached. A sprinting retreat followed. O Donnohue escaped and was later captured along with others at Pembina.
The court martial tried and sentenced child soldiers aged six to eleven from Is Pupiles during the Commune. Seven judges sat in uniform with gendarmes guarding fifteen boys as young as six, some already wounded, many orphans or abandoned, blamed on hunger. Parents pleaded for government action.
A Sydney Empire writer describes Australia’s Paroo salt lakes as wells rising ten to fifteen feet, forming oases in the wilderness. The water, clear and lightly mineralized with magnesia soda and alum, is pleasant to drink though it does not flow after contact, and the fort-like basins sink as the water evaporates.
An ex-Commune police magistrate in Paris, reportedly drunk, tried to preside once more at his former office. Colleagues allowed the scene before the drunken usurper was arrested and sent to Versailles. The note on hydrophobia quip follows, mentioning a dated 1848 letter by a Cary friend and Miss Phosbe’s refusal to write epitaph doggerel.
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