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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1871
Page
3
Fragmentary verses recall a past beloved with fading features and timeless beauty. The speaker laments the loss of a dear love, describing pale cheeks, sparkling eyes, and golden threads in worn hair as memories fade away.
Practical home and farm tips cover sheep fly prevention and treatment, preserving meat, soil improvement, and farm management. Advice includes using vitriol and kerosene for skin issues, brine to deter corn pests, clay soil handling, and thrifty Western settlement guidance with cost estimates and labor planning.
During the 1867 printers strike in New York a group of 25 journeymen formed a cooperative printing association. They saved money, acquired stock, and opened an office in William Street then Beekman Street, becoming the virtual official printing office for New York labor. By 1870 the operation employed about fifty workers in a building expanded to meet demand, with material valued around $30,000. The piece argues co operation as an example for eight hour advocates.
The article surveys ancient and medieval mentions of oil wells in different regions. It cites Strabo’s Northern Asia reference to oil near Odina, claims of St Catherine’s oily well near Pentland Hills, and St Margaret’s near Restairig in Edinburgh. It also recounts a Bavarian Tyrol spring near Egern, sacred to Quirinus, with a filthy pool, brown oil, and gas bubbles. The well yields forty five quarts a year at five shillings per quart, a perquisite of the local Cure.
In England experimental agriculture shows surface irrigation with pure water succeeding at Stoke Park on twenty acres. Nightly artificial showers, pumped from an elevated reservoir, produced $2005 per acre in a 1870 autumn, versus $45 per acre without irrigation. Machinery cost $3000 for twenty acres. overall returns and costs yield strong profits but imply scale limits and differing economies between England and the U.S.
A literary excerpt argues God's design favors men with strength and shifts burdens to women. It contrasts male and female roles, noting women's health and happiness depend on hardship while men incur suffering mainly through folly or ignorance. The piece frames gendered fate as an irreversible natural law governing women's lives.
A Pennsylvania Farmer argues for external wooden post and rail fences over hedges and wire, noting hedges are costly and fade, while timber can be grown and yield long term fences. He recommends post and rail, with quick growing timber plantings like chestnuts and Norway spruce to replace dilapidated fences.
A Dublin and national report paints a bleak picture of Ireland crops farmers faced this winter. Wheat oats and barley yields fall short while the turnip and potato crops suffer amid widespread blight. One-fifth to two-thirds of crops may be unsound, risking distress among the rural poor.
Editorial notes a rising evil in food adulteration across flour coffee tea sugar butter and lard. It highlights cotton-seed oil as a common adulterant in lard and lard-oil due to low prices from last year’s hog crop, and hopes for the return of genuine lard-oil costs to ensure purity.
A worker able to perform twelve hours of work in twenty four should not exceed nine or ten hours. Reserved power sustains body and mind for emergencies. Those lacking surplus power tire easily and cannot add an extra hour without risk of breakdown. Such individuals are often dispeptic irritable and despondent and should shorten work hours.
The differences in ratification procedures for the customs treaty between Germany and France have been removed. This changes the ratification process and aligns commitments between the two nations.
Eyewitness accounts describe a Sunday night tornado at Pesh tigo accompanied by a terrifying roar and fireballs. The blazing wind-driven fire engulfed homes as families clung to loved ones, many perishing or being consumed by the flames amid total destruction.
An 19th century reflection extols women rising from dependence to comfort husbands in misfortune. The piece likens female resilience to a vine supporting a damaged oak, praising tenderness, steadiness, and providential order in hardship.
A hired man works a full day at a forty acre Oxford farm for Mr. M. He ploughs as requested then continues, milks cows, eats, and asks to see the master at ten o clock. Mr. M declines rest and suggests more plowing while his wife replies he has retired. The man asks for an axe to split wood for breakfast.
A Belfast correspondent reports foot and mouth disease now affecting sheep in Meath and Louth, extending to hares as carriers. He notes hares can convey the distemper between locations and that affected hares show impaired movement after short runs.
In Brussels Rue Brederode opposite the royal palace, Chevalier du Bois de Bianco, a wealthy Belgian proprietor, was found dead and nearly carbonized in his bed as flames raged. The room burned after he reportedly went to bed with a lit cigar in his mouth and may have fallen asleep before finishing it.
A fragmentary poem-like exchange asks whether to write or visit to propose marriage. Repeated lines reflect uncertainty about acceptance. The speaker envisions a sundered fate as a fly drawn toward a light, symbolizing a hopeful yet wary longing. Some lines anticipate a possible refusal, while others insist on a hopeful affirmative from the beloved.
Items describe gunpure lace as winter wear, pointed patterns favored, and heavy braided cloth cloaks weighing seven to eight pounds. It cites the Williamson’s Mills fire with fifty two dead, a German Masdeburg gift enterprise expulsion, Chicago fire losses to newspapers, church estate values, a Virginia mule escape, and a Venice death from an automaton accident.
A social column recalls a child forced to wear figs on a string for theft at a dinner, later confessing lifelong shame. The tale argues humiliation damages self respect and hinders recovery, urging restoration pathways for wrongdoers, with further anecdotes on misnamed folk and a Chatham convict who lost a hand to avoid labor.
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