INDIANA PROGRESS SUMMARY OF 19TH CENTURY GLOBAL EVENTS
A wide collage notes patent figures in Washington and England, Italian brigand Domenica Nocchia, Massachusetts Labor Bureau findings on ready wear profits, and public figures like Professor Kuehl and the Kaiser. It covers zoological imports in cities, University of Chicago plans, and British imperial expansion in Africa, with brief remarks on chloroform purity and China missionary tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Labor Bureau
New Zealand
Antarctic
England
Australia
Canada
United States
New South Wales
Harper'a Magazine
Watermelon trade and shipping in New Orleans era
Ancient melons from Georgia dominate New Orleans trade with Alabama Florida fruit also common. Macon Produce Exchange ships to New Orleans Chicago and western cities. Melons are boxed or stacked in cars, limited to 2000 per car, with minor spoilage. Depot scenes show swift handoffs to wagons and hucksters as consignors bear storage costs. River and gulf vessels collect fruit, bringing bright Lalla class ships to produce transit channels.
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Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Macon Produce Exchange
New Orleans
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Beret
Lake Pontchartrain
Gulf Coast
The Mail Dog Ownie the Boston post office dog
A four year old fox terrier named Ownie travels with mail bags on Boston and Albany and New London Northern trains. He guards sacks and rides between car, office, and post office, earning praise from a child author in Youth's Companion. One night he absence from the car led to the discovery of a missing bag as Ownie lounged on it in the gutter, wagging for recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Mail
Ownie
Boston & Albany
New London Northern
Ile
Albany
Treasury Department
Fidelity
Post Office Department
Tyouth
Anecdotes of Washingtons Biographer Weems
The Rev Manon L Weems pastor of Pochick Church and biography of George Washington, known for lively tales of the future president. A colporteur tale shows his human side when a Bible buyer demanded a receipt and Weems issued a witty note on the longest day of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Manon L. Weems
Pochick Church
George Wahington
Roe Iancer
Washington Post
George
Weems
Telegraphing With Cannons on the Erie Canal
In 1825, the Erie Canal’s first vessel completed grasnge and news traveled to New York and Buffalo by cannons along Albany. Signals passed from Albany to New York City and back in fifty eight minutes. The experiment was crude yet demonstrated the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Canal
New York
Buffalo
Albany
New York City
State livestock insurance plan for German farmers
Germany plans a state backed livestock insurance system run by a central bureau. Premium set at 1 percent of insured stock value. Payout seven tenths for losses, eight tenths if cattle die from disease. The state contributes 10,000 annually. if losses exceed funds, premium rises to 1.75 percent and the state covers any deficit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Sweets for Horses and Their Diets Across the World
The article discusses horses thriving on sugar and molasses, used since 1873 in Australia, South America, and elsewhere to improve condition for sale and during wintering. It warns against bowels stoppage from dry food in rising colts, recommending carrots or roots alongside dry fare. Sugar is dissolved in water and mixed with chaff or hay to entice horses to eat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
South America
Deep and shallow cultivation of corn report
Missouri station reports 1890 tests showing shallow cultivation increases yield. 1889 gain about 21 percent and 1890 about 50 percent. Illinois and Ohio stations report similar benefits with specialized implements. Also notes on hens nearing end of laying season and adjustments by a farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Experiment Station
Columbia
Linois
Champaign
Ohio
Chicago Times
Poultry Advice and Family Dignity From Farm Notes
Poultry tips urge growing pullets now and keeping old hens for breeding next spring. They stress airy confinement before killing, clean feed, and avoiding vermin. Also covered are horse care, feathering for ducks geese and turkeys, hereditary color blindness deafness and a humorous Chicago coachman anecdote about dignity and washing.
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Soldier
Bob Yeal
New York Tribune
Deep Sea Vision And Other Tales From A Page
A collage of brief items: notes on deep sea creatures with eye adaptations, a tale of Abdallah’s sons and the value of faithful friends, a 16th century account of cultivating medicinal plants in Podolia and Kharkov, and an experimental Berlin Zoo feeding study on snakes, all drawn from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picayune
Bona
Poland
Italy
Podolia
Russia
Kharkov
Boston Transcript
Sankea
Berlin Zoo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Tes Largest Paper
Spday
Tsut
Phildelphia
Pacific Coast
Waslington
Prussia
Domenica Nocchia
Napice
Kuehelould
Washington Star
Geneva
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Bulletin
California
New York Post
University of Chicago
Ocober
Kaiser Stas
Die Kaiser
Huestis
Bie
Africa
Cape Colony
South African Company
China
Wuhu
Newcsati
Edinburgh
Londun
Melon Matiers
Gud Ans
Boeing
Missouri
Poydras Street
Tle
Labrador
New Hampshire
New York World
Nebraska
Uaryer's Magazine
James
Brown
Albert Bryant
N.Y
A Loy
Homan Walsh
Detroit Free Press
Abdallah
Harper's
da. & C. Cavom, Lowell, Ian
J. F. Kveemcee
Conway, Ark
Fern, Fen
Paragon
Pennsylvania
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