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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1889
Page
2
The item mix covers rail passenger rules, social trends, and global curiosities. It notes a court ruling on standing passengers, remarks on South American conductors, and a call for new streetcar methods. It includes fashion and wealth tales, Indian demographics, Barnum’s British visit, naval orders, and casualty tallies from historic wars.
Poem recalls loved ones and faded memories as autumn leaves fall around a cottage and churchyard. The speaker laments loss, childhood days, and blighted hopes while nature’s imagery of streams, winds, and stars frames quiet grief.
Old John Prime, ruined by financial disaster, is forced to leave his daughter’s grand home. He wanders homeless until a chance reunion with his daughter Mary leads to shelter with her family. He later buys back the ancestral mansion after learning he has a surviving heir, Reginald Prime, and plans to support Mary and Clarence, ending with a resolved new fortune and will.
A store dispute over sugar and a billing quarrel erupts into a full street brawl as a carpenter and a grocer clash over deceit and a challenged boxing lesson. Onlookers intervene while the injured party vows to learn a lesson from Baker.
The article describes equine olfactory guidance in horses, noting a horse’s dislike of certain smells, its preference for familiar scents, and how scent guides mares to verify foals and directs pastured animals to gates and feeding areas. It explains how horses respond to odors in stalls, fences, and feeding routines.
A Western dairyman praises green marsh grass as an ideal three foot covering for corn ensilage, noting steam helps it compact and exclude air, with green material outperforming straw. Also discussed are petroleum treatments for farm implements, wood preservation, and roofing, plus pest notes on white grubs harming timothy sod and buckwheat as grub control. Orchard grass endurance on poorer soils defended against critics, with rye hay noted in southern states as a viable fodder.
A farmer advised in Farm Field and Stockman to buy bare trees in fall and heel them for early spring planting. Benefits include using the first favorable window and avoiding spring delays. Protect stored trees from mice and rabbits, bury them properly, and keep them ready to set upright when planted.
The article outlines careful tree planting steps with 45 degree trenching, soil filling, moisture maintenance, deep cover, and drainage to protect roots from frost. It adds farm tips on celery care, buckwheat feed, rhubarb manure, and duck disease risk, plus poultry feeding, cow calving shelter, and seedling management. It also reviews Bismarck’s character as a powerful European figure with memory, patience, and influence.
A paper presented to the Library Association outlines shorthand’s 2000 year arc with Cicero as an early rival, and Dear's travel dictation feats. The modern shorthand is said to be a product of the current century, with an estimated 15,000 volumes on the subject and 730 English systems cited.
A Boston fashion writer mocks the term blackbird for millinery, while Mrs. Harrison’s floral globe centerpieces at a White House luncheon receive praise. The piece shifts to Miss Jennette Gilder, New York Critic editor, as she balances feminine life with a masculine office persona and explores aristocratic carriage as a style ideal for American women.
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