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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1870
Page
2
The Progress newspapers announces that starting November 1 the annual subscription will be 1 50 in advance. Editor R M Bregman notes the reduction follows a war era price cut goal to boost circulation and asks subscribers to spread the word locally.
The president urges public thanksgiving across the United States on the 24th of November next, calling citizens to worship in their local places and pray for continued prosperity and protection from pestilence war and civil strife. Signed in Washington October 24 1870 by President Grant and Secretary Hamilton Fish.
The Herald proclaims a broad popular approval of General Grant’s administration from results across Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Nebraska. It argues Republicans will hold a decisive majority in the next Congress and notes limited Democratic gains with danger to New York in November.
An extract from Gen Butler’s Salem nomination speech rails at Great Britain for aiding the Alabama and seizing vessels, urges self defense and war options, cites Massachusetts actions, and demands treaty reconsideration. It also reports Western Pennsylvania census figures and notes Chinese actions after Tianjin riots, plus South Carolina election gains and school expansion.
Multiple cities from Cleveland to Boston report visible earthquake shocks around Oct 20. Buildings trembled and residents rushed outdoors but early notes claim no structural damage, with reports of panic in some areas and varying durations up to a minute.
London reports the steamer Enterprise rescuing a boat near Anniscawen Head with a drowning sailor from a wrecked vessel named Cambria. Anchor Line confirms loss of the Cambrian near Glasgow with no news of missing crew. The Mariposa voyage from New York and the Florida wrecks are noted along with political and miscellaneous items.
Fragmented OCR from a late 19th or early 20th newspaper piece mentions Preesdene Harrisons in Ohio and Jersey City with a park plan of 97 acres funded at $1,000,000. It records a Mississippi measurement oddity, $39,319.71 and $12.30 per 1,000 for lath and pickets to cover four acres totaling $42,089.71, plus a Nevada City anecdote about a traveler noting many children and a wagon with heads peeking out.
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