07 Nov 1872
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1872
Page
1
A brief newspaper notice for the Indiana Progress published each Thursday from Indiana, Pennsylvania. It lists Cornel Cornee Philadelphia and Clymer Streets, Indiana County, PA with references to BR MM, Bireman, Pichter and Proprietor in the placeholder metadata.
The writer recounts a cross country journey from Pittsburgh to Chicago and Omaha via C B Q R B and the long Pacific crossing to San Francisco. He describes delays from a switch at Beaver Falls, ruins of Chicago after the great fire, sights through Iowa and Nebraska, a fatal death aboard, and a close ride down a Colorado grade. He closes with a Key West dispatch about the Atlantic Mail steamer Missouri disaster and a religious conversion address.
In a heated Assembly session M Thifora denounces how pilgrims to Lourdes face contumely from French crowds. Fifty thousand people travel from distant districts to seek Mary’s aid, marking a unique national religious movement amid calls for abstinence and social duty. The piece notes Father Matthew societies and public concern over intoxication.
Professor William Hutchings once known as Barpum's Lightning Calculator lectured at Plymouth Baptist Church New York on his conversion and the wicked prospering. The crowd included many irregular attenders as Hutchings delivered a dramatic succinct prayer and brisk remarks at the blackboard.
Assistant District Attorney Sullivan of New York urged jurors on the closing day of the October term to focus on drunkenness as a major cause of crime across ages and both sexes. He advocated a social reform movement to curb drinking and protect young men, citing discussions with Mrs Foster about women’s anger over drinking.
President Grant writes that any future Indian policy change will favor humanitarian aid and civilization and Christianization, rejecting extermination. The letter, read in Philadelphia, emphasizes continued careful consideration and openness to suggestions while in office. A separate item notes a Nevada diamond hunt failing to yield rubies, yielding garnets instead, after a venture by a diamond company dissolves.
A collection of society items and curiosities from Columbus Venice and Philadelphia. Notes include Mrs Ferguson Fanny Fern’s sister death in Ohio a suicide by a distressed Ohio girl and a singer Belle Riva going abroad. Also a Toledo native to Signora Angelica da Correlhiasiumaal a peculiar hospital start in New York and Olive Logan criticizing literary labor with sharp quips.
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