Indiana Progress Digest of 1892 reflections and notes
A compact digest of facts from 1892 citing living Civil War soldiers in excess of one million, Arizona’s size compared to Great Britain and Ireland, a Baltimore breakfast association motto, Rumford Falls Maine mill activity, Friends Society membership in England, butter export bonuses in Victoria, urban development quirks in Chicago and New York, and broad agricultural and scientific notes including Mars and Venus observations, airline ideas, and Australian church fashion for wraps and hats.
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Society of Friends
England
Great Britain
Chicago
New York Tribune
Dream of Thee Amid Long Summer Days
A fragmentary verse note from Boston Pilot laments distance between lovers. The speaker confesses dreaming of a beloved as summer days lengthen, weaving sorrowful memories into song. Past pride and separation are acknowledged, with a renewed hope inspiring later lines.
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Boston
Piiot
A Solitary Love Story On Dover Downs
Brice Rutherford rescues a young English heiress from a river accident at a moonlit English estate. Six years later he courts Miss Clifton, returns a ring, and their love deepens when she accepts a proposal conditioned on a renewal of their bond. The tale blends romance with social manners.
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Brice Rutherford
Clifton
Ten Inch Gauge Railroad Built by Hyde Park Engineer
Detroit Free Press notes George E. Mansfield designed and built a 10 inch gauge railroad from Hyde Park to a depot, carrying 3000 people in six weeks. A later line from North Billerica to New Bedford spans eight and a half miles with eleven bridges, trains at twenty mph, cars seating thirty, engines weighing eight tons, and total cost about 4500 dollars per mile.
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George E. Mansfield
Hyde Park
Mass
North Billerica
New Bedford
Detroit Free Press
Witty wedding quip on sleep needs and morning chores
A New York gag line features a bride joking that medical advice says a man needs eight hours sleep and a woman ten, then notes the bride can wake to a ready fire and breakfast. The exchange highlights household roles with humor.
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Bride
New York
Rattlesnake Oil Cultivator Tells Odds and Oil Details
Akers, an elderly ex miner from the San Bernardino mountains, proclaims rattlesnake oil’s value and describes his method of capturing rattlers to extract oil. He claims to have earned a living this way, catching 150 to 200 snakes per summer and selling 20 ounces of oil at $3 to $2 per ounce, with oil used for rheumatic cures and skin ailments. He recounts his experiences with bites and warns of the poison’s lethality.
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Akers
San Bernadino Mountains
Los Angeles
Tim
How the Weather Is Foretold
The Weather Bureau uses observers at many sites to record temperature wind direction and cloud conditions at eight o clock Eastern. Central office in Washington compiles data into a map and streams it to major cities, enabling rapid nationwide weather maps by ten o clock in the morning.
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Weather Bureau
Boston
Washinton
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Washington
Pacific Coast
Chinese Dead Paying Visits Stir Oregon City Burials
The Oregonian notes many Chinese residents in Porte land visiting Lone Fir cemetery to leave roasted pigs rice wine and dumplings for the dead. Bones of five year buried Chinamen are dug up scraped packed in boxes shipped to China at about eighty dollars freight. The contract worker collects twelve dollars per body. about two thousand bones expected this year across Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana with around five hundred from Lone Fir.
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Porteland
Lone Fir
Saya
Oregonian
China
Flowery Kingdom
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
The Realm of a Fashion Foulists Describe Pretty Gowns
A fashion piece details stylish gown designs with cream guipure, white silk fronts, and deep flounces. It discusses tailor-made jackets, bodice tails, and military plastron options, noting color choices and fabric variations.
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Forlards
Remarkable Gunshot Wounds and Surprising Bullet Deflections
A historical account notes astonishing gunshot cases where bullets glanced off skin or deflected around bodies, with examples from Sir Astley Cooper and a surgeon’s patient who shot himself near the head. Recovery was possible with minimal treatment as delays revealed a buried bullet and later an abscess formed.
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Astley Cooper
Origin of the Seckel Pear and its deep roots
The famous Seckel pear reportedly originated on Lawrence Seckel's farm in the Neck at the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. A tree bore fruit unnoticed until someone tasted it, prompting a large orchard. The discoverer was a great-great-grandfather of Prof. Joseph Sickel, Germantown, principal of Jefferson Grammar School. The name has varied in spelling across the family and branches. Washington was said to have moved several Seckel trees to Mount Vernon. The surname also appears as Sickel and Sickles in related lines.
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Seckel
Lawrence Seckel
Neck
Delaware
Schuylkill
Joseph Sickel
Germantown
Jefferson Grammar School
Fifth
Poplar Streets
Germany
Washington
Mount Vernon
Sickel
Sickles
Philadelphia
Rare Shakespeare 1609 edition book in British Museum
A perfect copy of Shakespeare's sonnets edition of 1609 sits in the British Museum valued at 500 dollars per ounce. With only two copies in existence and the second selling for 5000 dollars, its ten ounce weight makes it richly valuable beyond its gold weight. The note mentions Thorean observation on growth and partial text.
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British Museum
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Indiana Progress
Arizona
Great Britain and
Ireland
Soap, Soap and Salvation
Baltimore Free Sunday Breakfast
Maine
Rumford Falls
Victoria
Chicago Herald
New York City
Italy
Russia
Hungary
India
Atlantic
Pacific
San Francisco Examiner
The
Peaks Indians
Frank Beaver
Seneca
Orleana Picayune
Mars
Venus
American Society of Civil Hazineers
B. W. DeCourcy
Degcourcy
Solitatre
Frank H. Staltfer
Dover
Downs
Mr. Rutherford
Misa Clifton
Aly
St. Louis Republic
Florida
Harry Bomford
Thia
Touclard
Thorean
Vanderhilt
Dallas
J. L. Martin
Toccoa
Atlanta Constitution
Chattanooga
Tenn
Commodore Vanderbilt
Mar
Nir
Martin
Gaitar
Liberty
United States
United States of America
Colton
Mesos
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