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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1889
Page
7
A long, scattered column of items from the Delmar area touching schooling across states, gunpowder bans, omens of laws, odd legal notes, British royalty, pensions, Iceland temperance, leather tanning claims, Chinese dispatches, and a tale of miners frightened by ghosts. The jumble mentions Delmar in Delaware Maryland, Vick Grace, Queen Victoria, Seattle Tacoma, and Pike County Missouri.
A collection of two folktale style pieces. The first narrates a cunning rabbit escaping a fox via a well and buckets, ending with the fox trapped and the rabbit’s wink at life’s ups and downs. The second follows Prudie Morse and Joe Barton through love, fortune, and engagement tests, leading to a late redemption and their marriage.
A survey of advances touches on electric gas production, MIT adds sanitary engineering, Sheffield develops steel pig, tetanus flesh safety, London chimneys and Thames smoke, a dustless car ventilator test, six inch gun revival issues, and Alaska salmon fisheries findings at Karluk Lake with miller's thumbs eggs enemy impact noted.
Washington women who have long participated in elections vow a lift of the vote when statehood is achieved. A Supreme Court decision disfranchises them, prompting plans for separate polling places and a future Supreme Court appeal as they fight the change.
A long standing Chinese physician in San Francisco, Li Po Tai, draws largely white patients, charges ten dollars weekly, and treats with unorthodox methods including hot water regimens and mysterious tonics. He maintains a lavish office, largely overlooks anatomy, and claims an income exceeding six thousand dollars monthly through controversial cures and dietary restrictions.
A writer in the New York Graphic recalls the Palgrave from Calcutta, 165 days at sea, and contrasts it with the Sea Serpent’s last sail from a dock without a tug. The Sea Serpent, loading oil for Japan, warped out head first and raced away as a swift, old time seamanship scene.
A fragmented, era-tinged piece recounts a courtroom scene involving a drunken man and a distressed mother. It contrasts the child’s innocence with the defendant’s alleged sin and cites temperance activists warning of beer’s dangers. The item blends literary excerpts with social commentary from temperance sources.
A fragment cites Newton arguing prophecy would spur new travel means and speeds up to fifty miles per hour by around 1860. Skeptics are quipped, praising Newton’s foresight while remarking on Voltaire as a dotard. The piece lauds the Bible as a light and guide, aligning science and faith. It then shifts to a devotional excerpt praising sincere heart offering to Christ and discusses liberty in American discourse with a stark image of degradation. It concludes with a local note on stamp collector Edward Cushman and his prized foreign stamps collection.
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