World News Highlights From Indiana Progress Era
A collage of 19th century notes reports on France frost insurance plans and agricultural prospects, New York fruit-tree census figures for California, a long serving Stockbridge teacher Miss Lucy D Bliss, convict costs across U S prisons, carp stocking in Kirkland New York, Great Lakes water level declines and shipper concerns, low 5 cent shaves in New York, and a Californian hops house converted into a giant incubator for poultry with 24 006 chicks hatched.
Husking Time and Thieves in Prairie Folklore
E Pauline Johnson notes husking time when tassels fade and corn bursts from its shell while a caravan of rural figures and jackals of theft appear. The scene features a prying pilot crew, raiding flocks, and small woodland thieves like a raccoon and chipmunk, all framed in a folkish cadence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plenty
E. Pauline Johnson
Independent
The Gypsies A Wandering Race Across Europe and Beyond
The Epoch outlines the gypsies as a wandering people with a history spanning 500 years in Europe and migration to North America and beyond. It details origins in India, arrival in 1417 in Germany, spread across Europe, stereotypes and crimes, persecution, cultural roles, adaptations, and the eventual split into tent and house-dweller groups amid fading national identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Canada
South America
United States
Australia
Egypt
Asia Minor
Germany
Alps
Italy
Rhine
France
Pyrenees
Spain
English Channel
England
Wales
Ireland
Recs
James V
Scotland
Highlands
America
Hungary
Wallachia
Mummies of Dogs Across Egyptian Cemeteries
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt describes dog mummies found in cemeteries like Siout and Thebes. German researcher Herr Beckman opened a small eighteen month old specimen, noting preserved bones and skin, seed-stem wrappings, a bitumen seal, and a mask with painted facial features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siout
Sheik Fad
Fesha
Sakarah
Thebes
Herr Beckman
Popular Science
Habits of the Ostrich Described for Rural Tasmania
James Andrew outlines ostrich nesting season behavior and dangerous male aggression. Kicks threaten riders and animals, with possible fatalities. defense involves lying still or catching the neck. Accidental self injury by a bird kick occurs, causing costly losses to farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Tasmania
James Andrew
Andrew
Courisr. Journal
Spices and fossils from distant shores and cures
A survey of pepper nutmeg and mustard traces the spice trade and cultivation across Asia Africa and the Americas. It notes pepper’s shade preference and two annual harvests, nutmeg’s fruit and mace, historic Dutch control and modern cultivation in India Jamaica and Brazil, and mustard varieties with adulteration and flavor extracts. A separate artifact description details a seven foot four inch fossil bird frog hybrid found in Death Valley formations, later acquired by the Smithsonian.
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Asia
Africa
America
Netherlands
India
Jamaica
Trinidad
Brazil
Banda Isles
Ifon
France
Penixville
Penn
Fossil Remains of a Gigantic Reptile Found near Jersey Mine
A Jersey California correspondent reports Abel and Sturgeon, leasing the Jersey mine, drilled into a limestone mass while shafting and uncovered fossil remains of a huge reptile. The mass was cleared after labor, aided by members of the Smitheonian expedition who were nearby en route from Death Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Cal
Battle Mountain
Messrs
Abel and
Sturgeon
Ronning
Death Valley
Mins
Preparation of Figs for Market in the United States
The New York Times discusses curing and packing figs for domestic sale. North Carolina figs compare in quality to foreign varieties but need better types such as Brunswick, large white Genoa, Smyrna, and the golden fig. Sun drying and potash treatment precede sugared packing to improve market acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
North Carolina
Brunswick
Genoa
Smyrna
New York Times
Advances in Electrical Transformer's Surgical Uses
Great improvements in electrical devices for surgery are reported with a new electrical transformer for surgical medical and dental purposes praised by the London Lancet. The transformer features three phases terminals with the first supplying current to the electrical centerp the second illumination.
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London Lancet
Quaint and Curieux a Salmagundi of Odd Facts
A collage of curiosities cites Watt’s first glass water gauge from 1780, speed, book trivia, ship voyages, and Holland tulips. It notes Adirondacks flora, a seven legged cow, old Bouillon trees, a tiny West Virginia baby, Paris farm gems, Delaware gum wood, and edible ropeable box material. It mentions a trained Marshall chicken, huge Santa Anna beet exhibits, and historic wheat seeds. Sitka hosts many dogs with rare hydrophobia absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Anna
Cal
Chicago
America
Britain
Sitka
Alaska
The Future in a Teacup Superstitions
A Chicago News brief describes tea cup divination for marriage timing. A dry spoon balanced on the cup edge, tea drops counted as years, a tea-stalk bean and spoon maneuvers predicting when a suitor will call.
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Chicago News
Horse That Knows Sunday Brings Belief To Parish Churches
A Hartford physician reports a horse that only on Sundays seeks church entrances. He notes the animal turns toward church doors on Sundays, but ignores them on other days. The man recounts an instance on Bolton Mountain when the horse resisted a church crossing, then stopped at another church he never visits on weekdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Bolton Mountain
Jobo
Reaching people with the gospel not crowds
A Detroit Baptist clergyman urges serving the sick and needy outside church walls to spread the gospel. He warns against flashy methods and emphasizes simplicity over lavish church decorations. A chaplain recalls a soldier learning to pray openly, gaining peers' respect.
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Detroit
Plymouth
Brooklyn
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Indiana Progress
Rothschilds
Frost
Michigan
New York
Lst
San Francisco
California
Boston Transcript
Lucy D. Bliss
The
Plain Primary School
Stockbridge
Mass
Miss Bliss
Bliss
Nashville
Tenn
Virginia
Albany
Lint Bing
State of
Nevada
Carson
Kirkland Fish-Stocking and Protection Society
Kirkland
N.Y
Mohawk
Usia
O. M. Poe
United States Engineers
Great Lakes
Lake Huron
Sault Canal
Grosse Pointe
Detroit Hiver
Poe
Umran
Story OF
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Death Valeley
Atlanta Constitution
Featherview’s
New York Herald
Quaint and
Curieus
James Watt
Philadelphia
Adirondacks
Holland
Salvation Army
Athens
Godfrey of
Paris
Delaware
Louis Giroux
Marshall
Mich
Nero
Rome
Lazeuel Pitcher
Castor GM
Castoria
de & C. Oscoss
Lowell, Nes
Anco
Ostend
Loch
Tum C. Ses
Pre
Richesle Ove
Rhem
Rae
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