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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1931
Page
6
A leading broadcasting expert in Cincinnati notes nearly all speakers make a mic fluke. He recalls a bishop who ended a radio sermon with a misheard line. The bishop’s last words, I don’t think, were heard by the congregation along with the prepared message.
A compact survey traces humanity’s bond with flowers from ancient Greece and Rome to Cleopatra and Hindu traditions. Roses are highlighted as a recurring symbol in worship, decoration, and storytelling, with admiration spanning eras before Christian poets praised the rose as a royal garden queen.
The excerpt recounts Ingersoll praising James G Blaine as a worthy leader for America's future. He lauds Blaine as audacious brilliant and brave likening him to an armed warrior charging adversaries in Congress. It frames Blaine as a defender of national honor against defamers.
The first salt from spring water in New York was crude, made by French Father Simon Le Moyne in 1653. While visiting the Onondaga Indians a fountain was shown to him from which he would obtain salt as natural as sea salt. Before that, salt in the state came only from weak ocean brines. From these beginnings the state's large salt industry grew.
Dr William Gordon notes Yankee as a Cambridge cant term from 1713 meaning excellence. Others suggest Jankin from John or Cherokee eankke meaning coward or slave. Another theory claims Indians mispronounced English to Yengees, later Anglicized to Yankee.
The encyclopedia notes six world regions developed transitional writing combining ideographs and phonetic symbols. It cites Sumerians Babylonians Egyptians Hittites Chinese and the Mayas and Aztecs in America. Modern alphabet letters trace to the Phoenicians who built on Egyptian and Babylonian ideas.
Doctor Jagger of the geological survey says that volcanic activity in Hawaii National Park, either Kilauea or Mauna Loa, is due to occur within the near future. Hawaiian volcanoes are described as continuously active and attract visitors, with eruptions considered reasonably safe for tourists.
The mayor of King's Lynn in England read a de mart proclamation via microphone to a dense crowd, continuing an 800 year tradition under Henry VIII's charter. The procession, led by the beadle with the sword of King John, gathered Showmen's Guild members and officials, celebrating a market event free from harsh municipal restrictions for wandering performers.
The anecdote recalls Lord Northcliffe instructing a junior editor to ask Mr Isaacs what he does with his best apples. The lesson: place your best apples in the shop window and likewise put your best news in the shop window, the front page.
The red jungle fowl is the ancestral source for domestic fowl closely resembling the Black Breasted Red Game Bantam. Fowl inhabit India Bur nak Philippine Islands and the Malay peninsula. Other jungle species include the gray jungle fowl of India the Ceylon jungle fowl and the green or fork tailed jungle fowl of Java. The jungle cock crow is short and broken while the hen clucks like domestic poultry. Jungle hens lay four to eleven eggs before incubating far fewer than the 300 eggs produced by humans.
The south pointing chariot, a very old mariner's compass, is traced to Chedea born near 1079 B C. and Chong Wang period. Chang Hong revived it about 130 B C, then a long gap followed until the Third century A D when Chinese interest revived. Old texts show trial and use by mariners in the Eleventh century for sea guidance.
The Company of the Hundred Associates was chartered by France to settle 4000 colonists in America within 15 years. Over 85 years it sent fewer than a thousand, and after its charter was annulled in 1663 the European population in New France remained about 2000. The company largely traded with Indians for furs, ending its attempts to populate French or British Canada.
A church incident centers on a child recalling a sermon text about letting light shine. Her mother explains the meaning as being good obedient and cheerful. In the afternoon a nursery disturbance leads a child to excuse herself with a mispronounced remark.
A series of visiting ties and family gatherings across Milton, Marion Center, Rogister, Georgeville, and nearby towns recounts guests at homes of the Troxells, Wells, Brewer, Lewis, Bender, Houk, Warden, Waller, and Johnston households. The welfare and travels include hunting trips near Benezette and a rainy mountain outing with 21 companions, plus a notice offering get well prints and address reminders for subscription mailings.
Rochester Mills and Barnesboro residents, including Dean Richardson and John Lemmon families, visited relatives in Findley and Georgeville. Nearby trips featured L R Elder and daughter Penny in Punxsutawney, and Don Wright’s family visiting Clark Wright’s parents. Also mention of novelties at The Progress Office with cloth and waterproof paper items offered for 8 for 25c and 6 for 5c plus mail add-on.
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