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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1892
Page
7
The brief notice lists terms of 81.50 for a year for Indiana Progress with a dateline Waopresnay dated November 2, 1892. It records a single publication detail and date without additional context or other entities.
The piece surveys varied notes from distant topics including literacy, law, suffrage, disease quarantine, and peculiar discoveries. It cites cholera risk, quarantine measures, and New Zealand women voting, plus bookworms in New York and London, and farming anecdotes from South Africa and kangaroos in Australia.
Miss Mariel Valentine on a Columbus pike north of Circleville, Ohio, encounters a stray horse that persistently chases her bicycle. She climbs a fence after falling and is severely injured while a farmhand intervenes to drive the horse away. The incident marks a pattern of horses targeting bicycles in the county.
A Sunday fishing tale near Saint-Avertin features a man who befriends a young couple from Tours staying at Orléans. They dine together at the Three Pigeons, then part, and years later the narrator recalls the fatal Tours execution tied to that dinner, learning the couple were the killer’s victims.
A Boston Transcript note describes Egyptian royal mummies in New York's Metropolitan Museum. The Princess Sounofirte is shown wrapped in papyrus basket, with a carved beard coffin top and life like details, revealing a blonde beauty who died over 3000 years ago.
A Russian newspaper critiques Franco Russian ties amid famine relief. It argues France showed real friendship only after a formal request, contributing 35 million to relief funds, and compares unfavorably with England and Germany which gave more. The piece characterizes French aid as mere words without deeds.
From Wallace's Monthly advice on hoof care stresses proper wall enamel and cool bedding to prevent moisture loss and inflation. A Boston Cultivator note argues cross drilling winter grain offers no benefit and can harm by overdeep seed placement.
In the Old World amateurs aim for superior celery by starting with healthy plants. They transplant once, then grow the plants in small pots to stocky established condition before setting in open ground. Many keep plants in boxes in windows to repot and plant in August for large, succulent stalks. Meehans Monthly notes remarkable results.
An excerpt discusses clover as a key crop to restore soil fertility, urging farmers to maintain soil health through rotation and avoidance of neglect. It also notes the corn worm, a cotton bollworm variant, as widespread in the Northern and Western states, with two broods yearly and eggs laid on young corn ears in spring.
Planning a barn with integrated upper and lower levels to ease feeding and chores. Ideas include a straw-cutter over the feed room, a windmill-driven grinder and spout for meal, a feed cart for cattle, level root cellar, and a wheelbarrowless stable cleanup using a flatboat. Emphasizes light, ventilation, and safe steam delivery to feed boxes.
A returning traveler notes paper bed quilts spreading in households, praising their warmth and lower cost. The Detroit Free Press report mentions growing adoption and hints at possible local manufacturing in New England.
A compact collection of devotional admonitions urging daily prayer and Godward living. Includes reflections on Christ's full humanity and understanding, Moody's exhortations on seeking eternal life, and notes on church music and the King's Daughters prayer practice, all in a mid-19th to early-20th century evangelical tone.
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