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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1889
Page
7
A kaleidoscope of items from London to North Dakota covers industry, science, and society. Topics include France’s dam project, Edison’s wireless future, a San Francisco doctor’s substantial earnings, Nova Scotia centenarians, and notable personal profiles such as Miss Mane Garrett shaping Garrett enterprises.
A wide scanning column notes Australia as a great country and mentions two newspaper men serving as chief justices. It covers Gladstone’s health through Sabbath rest, Edison’s gift to Paris charities, and education progress in the South. Other items discuss naval fashion, census plans, Chicago education clothes aid, mustaches in pulpits, Pietsch praising American art, a Christian tribe in Africa, German athletes in New York, timothy grass from the Rockies, Edison honored, wheat quantities, and European firearms laws.
A Times correspondent details a Utah excursion to Great Salt Lake noting vast pale turquoise waters, sand beaches, and a pavilion over the lake. Bathers wear heavy knit wool suits, waves arrive gently, and the saltwater ferrying gulls flock along a shore where no fish are found.
Report describes a group of young girls waiting at a lunch pavilion after the last afternoon train to the lake depairingly watching departures. They rely on charity from excursionists for food as their brood dwindles and skimmed waters reflect scarce supplies.
A vintage portrait of Spanish women praises eyes hair and teeth while noting rare but persistent mustaches. It claims flawless teeth may arise from childhood habits and contrasts Spanish norms with Portuguese tolerance for facial hair, suggesting native aesthetics find the mustache agreeable though outsiders often object.
A creative girl uses a small detective camera to capture candid city scenes from 10 to 3 daily. Her photographs preserve life with instant satisfaction, drawing interest from artists who buy them for studio ideas and commissions.
A reflective essay argues that life longevity hinges on healthful living and mental stance. It contrasts frail fixation on age with maintaining youthfulness through social engagement, vitality, and an active interest in the world, noting that many live well into old age when buoyancy remains.
A short reflection on epitaphs notes that they often bend truth toward kindness rather than brutal accuracy. It cites a tombstone inscription for a lazy man by someone who knew him, highlighting a softened, perhaps charitable memorial.
A fragmentary meditation on life and fate noting that duties recur, prudence is tested by error, and life ends in the grave. It argues poverty relief, insistence on others opinions, and contrasts men of character with those who are merely characters, while claiming women’s prejudices are deeply rooted.
A study of human hair trade details a global annual harvest exceeding one million pounds, with New York imports and Swiss and German origins. It notes price pressures, aging hair growth limits, and a Morlan market, plus a Paris auction anecdote, and then shifts to plant chemical defenses where snail reactions reveal varied plant armor and selective feeding by herbivores.
A physician told a reporter that cramps respond to a strong cord treatment. He advised patients to wrap a long garter around the cramped leg and pull sharply from both ends until the cramp eases. He claimed the remedy is effective and would save medical fees if used by sufferers.
A collage of brief scientific notes reports peat fibre making brown paper, cures for hyprophobia, a daylightless Mediterranean depth, a portable railway telephone, straight Buenos Aires to the Andes, electric cooking coils on tanga fittles, and hygienic laws vs illness. It also covers Bunsen photometer light measurement errors, sea wave heights, phonograph recording limits, linen paper origins, and a Gilead magnetic cone beneath the earth, plus north pole theories.
From the Minneapolis Journal: Frank Carpenter details Turkish wages of about 333 dollars monthly for some and 12 to 209 dollars for assessors, with conscription and broad military Training. He notes a potential 800,000trained army and strong cavalry, plus a tax exempt system for non Muslims. He mentions Armenian and Hebrew families facing higher costs and bizarre taxation, then shifts to a Methodist gathering where Bishop Fowler cites a northern Japan temple built with hair ropes.
A miscellany of oddities and brief notes on deaths tied to Christian science frauds, esoteric German terms, Sanskrit Euclid finds in India, and lists of journals by Paris provinces. Anecdotes on Cuban women foot size, a four century land dispute ending in arbitration, and language shifts in New England and Delaware with regional terminology changes.
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