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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1902
Page
7
A reader describes Minimoth White Rye, noting a patch of Mam tugil White rye last fall, cut in June with stalks reaching seven to eight feet. The observer tallies a 4 foot 11 inch planter, notes heavy rains and wind lodging the crop, and describes selecting sound straw for a bundle.
Cor Obie Farm er reports on rye use for cropping. Five acres or more sown yearly to supplement corn era for hogs and straw bedding. Rye used as cover crop for winter on ground planned for corn potatoes and oat and pea hay next season.
Articles discuss the Belgian hare as a health food, noting Mrs. Hover’s promotion and hare farming plans, while cautioning on practical success. It covers prior boom, disease losses in confinement, and the shift toward viewing the Belgian hare's value skeptically. Also mentions using turkeys as pest control and increasing demand for turkey eggs.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a cure for biliousness and back pain, promising renewed strength and sleep. A second feature describes a medieval metronome like instrument housed in St Andrew's church Willoughton near Gainsborough, a five foot long horn shaped trumpet once used to summon villagers and boost choral sound.
A Nordic hamlet marks a thirteenth century festival in which women rule while men defer to them. To honor the custom villagers fasten a wooden slipper to lamps, and a tale of Dr. Thompson at Trinity College recalls strict etiquette and clerical distance in exchanges with undergraduates.
An anecdote about Henry Clay Dean the noted orator, once called the Henry Clay Dean of Iowa, who moved to Missouri after a ban on whisky and the abolition of capital punishment, joking that the drift toward Universalism banishes both hades and sin.
A story from Curzon at Oxford recounts his poor handwriting sending two letters to wrong recipients. One note hoped for a relative apology while the other to a friend. the recipient’s amused reply suggested monetary gain. A Bank of England note accompanied the sealed missive, signaling luck.
Describes Korean washerwomen as the hardest workers, washing about a dozen dresses for their husbands. They typically wash in cold water and running streams, pounding clothes with paddles until they shine.
On Thursdays September 11 18 and 25 and October 2 9 16 1902 the Pennsylvania Railroad will sell excursion tickets from Pittsburg Monongahela Division Indiana Branch Western Pennsylvania Division to Pittsburg at a minimum 75 cents includes admission. Tickets valid for return travel until the following day.
Amendment text proposes adding to section seven of article three new language requiring a local or special law to be approved by a popular vote at a general or special election in affected localities, with court decree advertising, and only after court hearing and county-level approval. Includes procedural conditions for such elections and local applicability.
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