Indiana Progress Across Ages and Oddities in 1892
An extensive column notes varied 1892 topics from Indiana progress to European plant curiosities, public school sewing reforms in Baltimore, and a push for a Lincoln Park zoological garden in Chicago. It cites deaths among American Indians, a clock with phonographic alarm, sugar factory counts, and a Monday accident peak with liquor influence. Recounts pro and con on public schooling changes and urges civic improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Armour
Chicago
New York Post
Lincoln Park
Carl Hagendeck
Hamburg
Germany
Berlin
Flemburg
Meyendeck
Armour
Lincoln
D Axweur
Lam
Zoological Garden
Europe
A Small Sweet Way to Cheer the World
A short verse notes that every rose, wind, star, cloud, and robin helps beautify life. It reflects on small acts of joy and says God gives each person a small sweet way to act to spread rejoicing. Appears in Youth's Banner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
A Love Triangle Ends in Realization and Loss
A pale girl Grace Munson and Clarence Barton Aushed cousin Clarice and Bernard Norton move through a summer of vanity and vows. Norton woos Grace, breaks it off, then returns to Clarice only to learn Clarice will marry someone else. Grace’s beauty fades under time and his folly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nebraska
United States
Alvarado Sugar Company
Alveredo
Cal
Sof
E. H. Dyer
Cisus Spreckles
Watsonville
Beary T. Oxnard
Bread Island
Neb
Mc.Gxpard
Nori Melk
Chino
Lehi
Glenn
Grace Munson
Bernard Norton
Clarice Barton
Grace
Norton
Clarice
Lucifer
Jove
Concoling
Sousin
Bernard
Ito
Eucessa
Mursah
Aiair
Jess
Miss Barton
Rome
Europe
America
Italy
Mr. Norton
Florida
St. Louis Republican
South Africa
Australia
Foreign Office
Legation
Mexico
New Orleans Picayune
Fireworks in the Ocean Manifestations of Ocean Luminescence
Harper's Young People describes bioluminescent ocean life. Phosphorescent jellyfish sea anemones starfish and sea shrimp flash red green yellow and lilac. Some creatures glow after death and even crabs flare in heat. Naturalists seek the illuminating power in light-emitting sacs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Harper’s Young People
Virtues and decline of saffron as a medical herb
A discussion of saffron from historical sources notes its past medicinal uses for lung diseases and digestion, its nickname anima politumnum for measles and smallpox, and its later relegation to a coloring and flavoring agent. It cites Lyte and old dispensatories, and mentions proposals to drop it from the British Pharmacopeia. It ends with a short aside on notes and queries and a dialog excerpt about marriage and a boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellacombe
Shakespeare
Lyte
Medical Council
Sunflower Seeds Aid Poultry During Feathers Molting
Farm notes advise sunflower seeds for poultry during moulting to ease feather replacement, keep bowels regular, and improve plumage. Also includes grape picking and storing tips, bulb care, tomato and plums cracking, butter making, late pasture, and general farm observations.
Autumn gowns and the new dress finishes
The article describes autumn fashion focusing on artistic neatness over flashiness, with tailored and carriage gowns in dark tones. It highlights bodice revers, plain corsage fronts, and lace inserts, plus Russian inspired outdoor and country club costumes with fur trims, velvet collars, and belt details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Herrick Sang
Chantilly
Ayers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
The
Couniy
Werongspar
France
Boston Transcript
Baltimore
Ander
Amine Sng
Russia
Washington Star
Husasia
New York Tribune
Msc
Flows
McGinfisy
Kidd
Peronne
Ming
Thursay
Mixa
Stokes
Ation
Iron
Clara
George
Dora
Boston
Willie
Mamma
al F
Country Club
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