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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1892
Page
7
A garbled OCR page from Indiana Progress and other publications presents varied items. It includes rail and industry mentions, discussions on forestry in New Hampshire, Russian goods, and social anecdotes. The legible parts cover inspectors, advertisements, and random quotes with little cohesive news value.
An excerpted survey of Mecca detailing urban layout and facilities. It covers water supply infrastructure, streets, climate, and pilgrim activity, noting wells, mosques, and outer walls. The account contrasts Mecca with Medina and mentions Burckhardt and historical penalties.
A historical note describes the global challenges of telegraph maintenance in tropical regions. It cites Brazilian spider strands causing short circuits, monkeys and forest creepers breaking lines, Cuba’s orchid causing leakage, buzzards tearing down poles, Argentine pampas cattle disrupting poles, and Persian hostility endangering lines until a shah bans losses.
An excerpt describes Greenland as a vast ice continent with an interior 2000 to 3000 feet above sea level, ice rivers pushing toward the coast, and dangerous icefields extending in every direction. The piece notes winter snow, rare life, crevasses, and icebergs drifting with the Atlantic current, framed as a New York Tribune summary from the Northwestern Agriculturist commentary on broad tires.
The new system in New Zealand uses co operative contracts for roads and railways. A small team selects a ganger to negotiate with the Government for a set section, with fortnightly progress payments and cash upon completion. The government plans small farm allotments to encourage workers to settle in rural districts.
The bark rope shows popularity on the Californian coast where barkentine rigs offer many advantages for four to seven hundred ton ships. In the eastern United States the fore and aft schooner with multiple masts predominates. Seafaring nations favor barks, while their smaller craft tend to hermaphrodite brig rigs.
The Chicago Times notes Peter the Great preferred to dine with few attendants, calling them listening lackeys. His favored menu included a cabbage soup, gruel, pig with sour cream, cold roast meat, pickled cucumbers, lemons, lamprey, salt meat, ham, and Limburg cheese.
A collection of aphoristic musings on divine punishment pride selfishness and self awareness. It warns against conceit hypocrisy and the allure of prominence while stressing self examination and the value of genuine improvement over outward displays.
A mix of household instructions and recipes. Includes pickle instructions for meat, handkerchief washing and drying methods, dyeing recipes for black green and brown fabrics, sugar cookies, and raised graham bread. Mentions New York Observer and New York World.
A mix of notes reports on a magnetic green rock found in Lingura Borzanska, a loom powered by electricity from mains in Lancashire, waterproof paper shoes, a microphone based hearing aid prize by Baron Lenval, Brazilian silica rich pottery ash, and a water spider’s air bubble mechanism enabling respiration under water.
Through the roar of late night and the calm moon, the Great Fair grounds hum with chains engines and guards. By dawn hundreds of clerks mechanics and laborers flood the gates as lines of workers hurry to their appointed places under foremen signals.
Not to be Beaten, Judge Torney tells a good story and has a keen appreciation of fun. In camp with a Georgia regiment a religious revival started. An officer asked how many Georgians were converted and was told twelve. He asked how many of their men professed Christianity and was told none. He orders baptism for eighteen of his men, noting Georgia must not get ahead of Tennessee.
A neighbor advised Babe Boston to dose a sick mule with caromel by placing it in a quill and blowing it down the throat. Days later Babe appeared thin and green, explaining that the mule blew it fast, leaving Babe doubled over and in distress.
The article notes 460 Japanese women in a Kiota private mission school. A decade ago their fathers treated them as slaves, but now they are sent to school by many, including husbands, as the push for liberal education grows and the desire to learn English becomes universal.
A Chicago Herald opinion notes that 15 million adult women may wear kid gloves and 10 million pairs are imported from France yearly, supporting a $4 million Grenoble trade. It argues gloves remain essential while contrasting fashion debates and animal welfare groups.
Bunton Herald reports that as a young man Tennyson traveled with his wife to the countryside where a doctor introduced himself and claimed to have a patient suffering physical ailments. The poet practiced mesmeric passes and observed a beneficial effect on the patient who would fall asleep quickly. Years later the doctor recalled that the poet’s actions saved the lady’s life, and she became his wife.
Milk is described as having remarkable healing qualities when applied early to wounds and burns. Compresses soaked in milk are laid on burns and renewed twice daily. A severe burn was reported reduced to one quarter in three days by this method.
A minister visits a dying woman who credits a well spent life to Jesus not self. The piece then argues dancing harms virtue, dividing it into esthetic physical and sensual parts, claiming sensuality corrupts women and men, mocks modern dances, and urges Christian restraint.
An article defines the barometric conscience as the inner sense that rises or falls with the religious atmosphere around a person. It argues that revival or fervor heightens zeal, while apathy or hypocrisy dulls moral sensitivity, urging individuals to set personal standards based on heaven rather than public opinion, citing Zion's Herald.
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