11 Nov 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1891
Page
1
The readable fragment shows a speaker asking about a person or group and another replying that his wife has begun learning French. The exchange hints at domestic chatter and language study without clear context or named individuals.
A cure for chronic sore eyes tetter salt rheum itching and other skin complaints. Cooling and soothing with hundreds of cures after other treatments failed. Sold in 25 and 50 cent boxes by Daugherty Brothers Druggists Indiana Pennsylvania.
A Vermont gentleman gave every recruit a gold dollar as they marched to war, hoping to lift spirits. Recipients treasured the keepsake, some wearing it on a string, others using it to buy bread or even to craft a wedding ring. The dollar became a symbol of hope, endurance, and pride for townsfolk and soldiers alike.
A humor piece recalls a dry goods clerk who boasted his indispensability, and a senior partner replies by declaring the firm will try to go a year without him to prove the business can survive. The quip reflects workplace vanity and mock fatalism.
A long fragment describes a Tarahumare runner named Candelaria with ritual adornments, mythic landscape, and primal endurance. It transitions to essays and anecdotes on babies, Athos monks, a five year old boy’s joke, and bird origins, reflecting varied late 19th century magazine tastes and curiosities.
A Omaha couple's night terror ends with the husband chasing a stranger who turns out to be a passerby, not a burglar. The wife, after walking in her sleep, sustained facial wounds while attempting to pass a glass pane. A doctor treated her. the pursuer helped summon aid before learning the truth.
A clipping traces Emily Ingham and her sister Marietta founding a girls’ school in Saybrook and Attica, evolving into Le Roy Female Seminary and later Ingham University under Presbyterian care, with endowment failures and mortgage burdens noted by the Bos ton Woman's Journal. It also touches on Antoinette de Bourbon’s frugal discipline, a sponge bath tip, a humorous horse sale quip, French poultry incomes, and local patent medicine ads, culminating in remedies offered by T. E. Hildebrand and a Chamberlain's Pain Balm endorsement for backache.
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