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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1905
Page
6
A fragment describes learning knots by tying others in the same strand to create a striking feat. Diagrams accompany steps for a simple knot and a second knot to form a known figure, doable with stout cord or rope.
A detailed description of a string knot trick with diagrams. The performer guides an end marked A through loops to form a tangle. When ends are pulled, the knot vanishes revealing a straight cord. Spectators may be invited to imitate but risk error on second isop and twist.
Readable excerpts recount Dorothy's Alphabet game where words must follow A to Z, with players competing to string a connected story. Also describes Jamaica's traveler tree famed for palm like leaves, plus a pocket puzzle about what a boy carried, offering vivid period voice and quirky details.
The article argues ocean travel is safer than rail travel, citing submarine signaling and wireless tech as key safety advances. It notes signals from lightships and distant shores heard via telephones on board to determine direction, preventing collisions.
In a lecture on diamonds at Rheubersey the speaker described making diamonds by carbon and pressure, claimed meteoric origins possible, and noted diamonds from Kinderley mines totaling ten tons by 1904 valued at £60,000,000. He cited a phosphorescing diamond owned by Mrs. Kunz of New York that glows after brief light exposure.
Jessie Wagoner offers 15 to 20 dollars monthly rents for houses near a new Indiana factory. Warns not to raise prices. Mentions Radiant Home Heating and Cooking Stove from Indiana Hardware Co. Recommends Clymer Manufacturing Co for machine work castings and supplies pipe valves and fittings.
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