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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1896
Page
7
The St Louis Republic notes how organs or senses atrophy with disuse, citing parasitic insects living without eyes or guts yet thriving, and how cave and burrow dwellers often lose sight. It mentions slave ants losing wings and becoming dependent on their bondsmen, to the point of starvation without slave intervention.
Amateur photographers report curious results from forest snaps. Oneida County photographer Will Conway found three partridges watching him from eight to ten feet away, and a fox trotting across a swampy opening amid woods, as shown by developed film. A bear scene also appeared in a Russian friend’s nearby forest shot. The items illustrate surprising luck in field photography.
The piece cites Cavendish on two simple lead rules for American card games and notes the John Brown Medal gift to Mrs. Brown, with Hugo’s letter and the transfer to Kansas State Historical Society. It also discusses feminine vanity in ancient and modern contexts from Philadelphia Ledger and recalls Constantinople’s 1916 fire destroying many wooden structures and 12,000 dwellings.
In a Banner of Gold essay Dr. Leslie E. Keeley discusses American inebriety as a cyclical social phenomenon tied to political and economic tides. He contrasts American haste to drink with foreigners’ slower habits, linking rapid debauchery to higher rates of secondary diseases and fatal acute alcohol poisoning.
Strong drink ravages Paris as medical men sound alarms against all spirits. Dr Magnan of St Ann's asylum describes the evils of intemperance and a Young Men's Temperance association emerges on English lines. French workers resist abstinence though temperance advocates press for radical eradication of intoxication.
The speaker challenges the notion that alcoholic liquors enhance bodily vitality or mental capacity, stating there is no greater superstition, and notes supporting testimony from leading medical experts. The remark reflects a cautious stance on alcohol's supposed energizing effects, aligning with contemporary medical opinion.
Mr Gilman Brown of 34 Mill Street South Gardner Massachusetts was told by doctors his son would not live a month after lung trouble from Typhoid Malaria. Three hundred seventy five dollars spent with doctors finally failed. Dr Kings New Discovery saved him and he returned to work. Free trial bottles at local agents T E Hildebrand Indiana Wm Moores Homer City MG Millers Blairsville.
A Washington Star excerpt presents a conversation on a woman’s chilly experiment to test a suitor’s love by turning off heat in a parlor. She endures the cold to decide whether Herbert truly loves her, hoping the incident will silence doubts about the future.
A German remedy Otto's Cure is claimed to cure consumption and lung diseases if taken early. It is marketed as almost certain for asthma bronchitis croup and colds with sample bottles distributed by agents Daugherty Bree Jana Mateer Rankin Elderton B Deringer Beringer in various sizes priced 25 and 50 cenfa.
Edward Haswell, a 77 year old Oneonta resident and Civil War sergeant, details a decade of paralysis and rheumatism that left him bedridden and unable to walk. After trying many doctors and patent medicines, he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength, reducing pain, and regaining mobility and weight from 225 to 170 pounds.
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