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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1871
Page
3
The poem narrates a bashful Rose and a smiling Son who fall in love but faces heartbreak. He courts her, the rose blushes with golden hair, then despair follows as tears mark her cheek. The tone is lyrical and archaic, emphasizing love and sorrow.
Practical farm guidance covers Merino wethers fattening, careful corn stalk curing for scarce hay, dangers of glanders from diseased horses, oxen training, manure from village waste, and sheep care including housing, feeding, and injury treatment. Emphasizes experience, safety, and efficient, orderly practices for winter preparation and broader farm management.
The piece surveys historic urban conflagrations from London 1666 to Chicago in 1871, detailing destruction, fires, and death tolls. It notes London’s four day blaze destroying thousands of homes and churches, and compares later fires in New York, Quebec, St Johns, Albany, St Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Syracuse, Portland, and Chicago itself, highlighting vast losses and displaced populations.
Readable excerpts recount the Chicago fire as a national calamity with women in childbirth, patients dying, trains crowded to capacity, horses burning in stables, and a panicked city facing roving thieves and vigilant arson. Eyewitness accounts describe hellish skies, rivers of flame, and a grim fight to save lives amid ruined blocks and mass evacuations.
Instructions advise checking every lame sheep by examining and cleaning hooves, paring unsound hooves, and applying tobacco with blue vitriol dissolved in water. Farmers are told to shear immediately any sheep beginning to shed wool, weather permitting.
Eyewitnesses recall ruin as 50 million feet of lumber burn, leaving 24 million intact. Up to 500 may have died, with bodies stacked at the morgue. A Krupp shell relic from Paris siege lies in a Tribune office, bearing evidence of the blaze’s reach.
A frontier deputy marshal known as Joe Peavy tracks the Kiowa war chief Leaping Panther into the Indian country. He lures the chief with a ruse aided by two squaws, seizes him with a pistol and binds him, then travels 200 miles to Fort Smith with the prisoner. The capture ends when Panther is delivered hand and foot for trial.
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