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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1889
Page
7
An OCR laden Indiana Progress fragment surveys varied topics from a World War veteran with limbs lost to a note on legal ranks in England. It covers waterworks stocks, a Milwaukee reunion, a joke about beer, and several social observations. The tone imitates late 19th or early 20th century miscellany with diverse items and moral commentary.
The verse contrasts moving from sorrow to joy, as Lani of the dead and dying leaves a land of sighs for a land without tombs. It depicts a shift from wailing to a world of bright visions and voices, where Tuty is a world of the glad.
Miss Josephine Bellfield pins hopes on a key fitting a Japanese box in Mr Wainwright’s room. The box hides a glittering white topaz set to crown a famed tiara. After theft alarms and detective visits, Mary Bellfield exposes the truth, restores Wainwright’s honor, and the gem rests in the tiara as affection grows.
The Portuguese man of war drifts on the Gulf Stream with a blue float and air filled sail. Naturalists view it as a colony of individuals with specialized roles in feeding digesting reproducing and protecting the whole. Its defensive lasso cells deliver stings to immobilize prey and aid defense. A Michigan girl smashing window glass is noted as lacking a record of smashing leaking glass.
A reflective piece recalls Tabitha as a generous neighbor in a Joppa tale and contrasts her quiet charity with a sermon on Providence. It blends a biblical vignette from Lydda with Anni e A Preston’s Advance piece urging unwavering faith in God’s orders amid life’s trials.
A lengthy passage argues that among 5,000,000 people in 1880 over 400,000 were insane, idiots, deaf mutes, or inmates of prisons and poorhouses. It estimates costs of care, links intemperance to madness, and contemplates religious duty, charity, and personal responsibility in saving society. The text juxtaposes social reform with a personal reflection on Christian duty and public accountability.
A Century Magazine piece on India argues government promotion of intoxicants under rulers harmed society, while reform movements grow. The New York Tribune questions licensing of drink and moral character, and Akron leader Ferdinand Schumacher refuses oats sold for poison after a fire. A New Britain temperance union aids young factory workers, and a Welsh WCTU plans in New York. A Swedish pledge and a New York fountain drive reflect broad temperance efforts.
The article notes thousands travel from western Pennsylvania eastern Ohio and West Virginia to Pittsburgh for deals at Kaufmann’s Graxp Depot on Cov ER oF Fiera Ave and Smithfield Street. Patrons save enough to cover travel by buying Cromnie Croaxs Wraps boots hats and furs at low prices and many also order via Kaufmann’s 66 page mail catalog.
In a dialogue about heat and summer, Grandpa contrasts past weather with modern thermometers. The piece shifts to a religiously tinged defense of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for female ailments, claiming guaranteed satisfaction or money back and promoting associated Dr. Pierce’s Pellets for stomach and system regulation.
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