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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1889
Page
3
A disparate OCR fragment story from The Indiana Progress covers social notes, legal notices, personal lawsuits, and moral reflections. It mentions court cases, a divorce refund anecdote, almanac style observations, and debates on poverty, morality, and public education. Multiple named persons and places emerge sporadically without a single cohesive event.
A patchwork of 19th century economic and geopolitical items outlines mining rents in Cuba, Canadian emigration, Upton's mill industry, and trusts in Indiana politics. It cites Berlin, Mexico, Japan, and Atlantic fruit shipments, plus weather, dairy coops, Chautauqua land value, and diamond smuggling laws.
An American aeronaut describes risky hot air balloon performances abroad spreading money via contracts for twenty one ascensions in May through July. He recalls landing mishaps in Holland, including a celery field in a farm and a lumber yard in Amsterdam, with locals bemused by the spectacle.
A damaged excerpt describes a person pulled over a edge and whipped against a heap, resulting in bruises but full recovery within two or three days. No dates, places, or names are readable. The fragment preserves a neutral account of the injury without sensational detail.
Descriptions of the Shah of Persia and his entourage show strict hotel rules. Four Persian servants manage meals for the Shah who eats alone, with a simple morning bread and butter routine and European dishes at dinner. Meals feature butter-fried fish and peppery gravies, prepared by a private cook. The Persian retinue uses swords as spits, and their appearance reflects minimal washing beyond linens, jewelry, and clean attire.
The article notes a surge of demolition and construction around City Hall as old buildings fall, new handsomely built structures rise, and a local industry forms to tear down and salvage materials. It mentions many firms reusing brick and timber for suburban builders, with profits from dismantling and resale. It also surveys tobacco trade in Egypt, detailing taxation, imports, and smoking habits among Egyptians, Turks, and residents, noting American tobacco export prospects via Egypt.
Lafayette Cornett and wife near Brownstown Ind describe their baby as the smallest ever recorded. At 16 days old the infant weighed one pound and measures tiny, with a finger’s width fitting across the head to shoulder and a pint cup covering the body. Both parents are healthy and have other grown children. The baby is female and appears lively and healthy.
A. J. Rusen of Telfair County reports in McRae that while plowing he unearthed twin snakes six to eight inches long with a greenish color. Their bodies were fused about an inch, but they had separate heads and tails. When touched they hissed and fought, and Rusen killed them.
A Cincinnati judge declares ice cream a necessity. A New York map offers 200 for a mosquito essay. Jails house mostly under twenty eight year olds. Nelson credited for timing. The richest Chinaman in Seattle bears a grim nickname Bad Luckee. German regiments employ chiropodists, and a soldier’s foot ranks with finger tips. US postal cards per person exceed seven yearly. British and colonial traders claim nearly 40,000 shipboard lives in eleven years. The Austrian mortuary practices nail removal to trap the dead. A lazy convict in Salem, Oregon cuts off his hand to dodge work. John Hart, related to the Declaration signer, drives a baker’s wagon. Irish fox superstition hinders sea ventures. Persian shah’s emerald famed as oversized. Melbourne clock chimes with sacred music on Sundays. Paris leads in bookbinding since Francis I era. Ten million British sovereigns lauded in India for St George symbolism. Jordan Binir of Monroe, Penn., famed for courage. amputation saved his life, now recovering on a crutch.
New York philanthropist Robert H. Lamborn proposes artificial dragon flies to gobble mosquitoes. He cites laboratory production of insects and a prize of $200 to Morris A. Jesup for essays on scalable dragon fly production to eradicate mosquitoes globally.
A Victoria Institute report in London asserts libraries and schools existed before the exodus. Professor Sayer, via ancient tablets, shows active literary exchange in the fifteenth century BCE across western Asia from Babylon to Egypt and Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and eastern Cappadocia, carried by the Babylonian language and script.
A poem by S. W. Foss in Yankee Blade argues that a person’s abilities are bound by the shape of the skull. It warns against striving for impossible feats when the head’s form dictates limits, urging acceptance of one’s natural gifts and fitting one’s life to innate capacities.
A collage of light verse and dialogue snippets, stitching puns and domestic quips. It playfully juxtaposes misread lines, misheard phrases, and social gags, from a man chasing a tightrope joke to a mother joking about a flying machine and a parrot that won t talk.
A weary tramp slept under a flat car at Tenth and Broadway with a rail for a pillow and feet on another rail. A passerby alerted a police officer, who signaled the engineer to halt. The wheel briefly pressed the sleeper’s neck before he woke, shuffled away, and disappeared into the darkness.
Mr. Gesso greets Hiilo at a window as Mr and Mrs Goby arrive. Mrs Gesso questions the timing and notes the idea of calling now seems strange while Jakowld wonders if Mrs Goby might be friendly enough to call as Ali passes by the deer Pack
The article mentions Kine Kalakaua planning to attend a summer exposition after discovering he owes 120000 dollars. It notes the Prince of Wales pension increase by 245000 and its alleged impact. It reports New York City pensions for 513 blind residents at 337 each, with benefits aiding rent and small goods. Also covered are Da Nansix securing 100000 for a north pole expedition, Mrs Chamberlain’s popularity in Britain, and a Russian giantess Elizabeth Liska, age 1, standing six feet six, with rapid growth and measurements.
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