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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1871
Page
6
Fragmentary verse lines evoke a love triangle and yearning. The speaker laments unrequited affection, thoughts of past intimacy, and a longing to be seen, while contrasting weariness with remembered passion amid uneasy imagery and misread glances.
A circa 19th century agricultural column offers household and farm guidance. Topics include pruning and planting after leaf fall, making feed and remedies, crop rotation, manuring for fruit trees, vineyard care, and preserving eggs in lime water. Practical tips cover barns, stock care, breeding, and fowl scraps for poultry productivity.
A San Suse resident and Miss Hattie Barnett in Santa Clara face a tangled romance. Charles W. Sikes claims marriage, while Hattie Barnett denies it, with a proxy and a public stir. Parents, neighbors, and Justices weigh the truth as rumors spread. The article also notes Mormon exodus musings and a dry goods market update reflecting brisk trade and low prices.
Farmers foresee low hog prices and high corn costs as winter approaches. With dry feed, pigs need seven to eight bushels of corn per hundredweight of pork, and fat hogs command only a marginal premium. European demand and rising wages may support pork prices despite the season’s challenges.
The Chicago conflagration is blamed on heavy Mansard roofs that fed the blaze and spread materials. The piece argues Mansards, long favored in architecture, provoke uncontrolled growth of large, sprawling structures and create tedious urban massing.
During the late conflagration in Chicago two fire engines were sent from Bloomington Illinois. In two hours and forty minutes from the time they started, in a special train, over the Chicago Alton and St. Louis Railroad, they were throwing water on the fire. The train made the 126 mile run in two hours and ten minutes, and the Bloomington to Joliet leg of eighty nine miles was completed in eighty minutes.
A mature woman voices concern that a young lawyer should not drape an arm around a girl at a circus or comb her hair with his fingers, arguing such behavior does not reflect well on his prudence or public conduct.
Lewistown Maine reports two young girls, Ada Brew and Anna Wood, leaped together from the West Pitch rock into the falls after leaving garments on the shore. Miss Cobb witnessed the act and identified clothing matching the two girls from Buckfield and Wartford. No bodies found. inquest awaited.
The piece argues newspaper advertising as the cheapest, most effective way to reach vast reader circles, contrasted with posters, hand-bills, and walking signs. It stresses repeat advertising to sustain interest, plus examples of bold but risky promotional stunts and the urgent appeal by the American Home Missionary Society for $40,000 to support frontier laborers.
A reporter describes the painstaking process at the Treasury in Washington counting and sorting damaged currency from the Chicago fire. Women handle notes, bonds, and stamps with magnifiers and steel tools, ensuring proper redemption and safekeeping amid the extensive, delicate work.
James Lyons of Christian Street Philadelphia faced a night intrusion when a burglar burst into his room and threatened to shoot. Lyons grappled for the pistol, rolled down stairs into the street, and the weapon fired injuring Lyons in the foot. The burglar was captured by police, Lyons severely bruised and two toes broken.
The Moses Taylor reports a disaster in the Arctic whaling fleet with 33 vessels crushed or abandoned. From May to September ice forced abandonment near Cape Nuverin and Point Belcher. 1,200 sailors saved, many Kanakas left in Honolulu. Loss tops $1.5 million with 13,065 barrels of whale oil, 965 sperm, and 100,000 pounds of bone.
A sudden spasmodic attack on Minnie Barton in Miss Jennie Howe’s third story triggered a mass panic. Students cried water and fire, fled stairways, and about 300 pupils cascaded down the stairs into the street as teachers struggled to calm them.
A posted instruction from a native landlord at a Lahore hotel states guests must report meals or be charged, and that unreported meals equal charges. It warns that only the manager can be contacted for meals, and candlelight or wall lamps must be paid for. Monthly rates are fixed and absences in a month will not deduct from the amount owed.
The Treasury reports a steady drop in U S whale fishing vessels from 328 in 1868 to 249 in 1871. Most vessels are owned at eight ports led by New Bedford with 187 followed by New London Barnstable Edgartown Salem Nantucket San Francisco and Harbor. In Louisville a panic at an African Baptist Meeting House caused 11 deaths when a door column collapsed during service.
The India Pioneer reports the capture of Montyie Liakat Ali, Allahabad mutineer of 1857, after a long wanderings. He led Allahabad’s revolt from Khoosroo Bagh with two nine pounder guns, facing a decisive siege by Col. Neill and allied troops before fleeing on the night of June 16.
European physicians link moral disorder kleptomania to physical disease. Prichard cites a fortune wife who steals during shop visits amid partial paralysis and brain softening. The patient believes reclaiming stolen goods is returning what is his, sometimes under a divine command. This view treats stealing as a disease symptom.
The Frexen Government proposes a plebiscite to decide if France remains a republic, becomes a kingdom under Bourbon, or an empire under Napoleon. The movement gains supporters as agents work in provinces to win Assembly adoption of a governing measure.
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