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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1928
Page
9
A London Daily News comparison notes the 1828 girl Misa as cloaked in restrictive dress, religious schooling, and domestic aims, contrasting with modern freedom. It paints her sixteen year old self as modest, cautious about vanity, and anxious about corpulence, while hinting at broader social progress.
The article traces Greenland’s early colonization by Danes and Scandinavians around the year 1000, its decline before 1500 due to Dakiine incursions, and the later Danish settlement beginning in 1721. It cites Smithsonian figures placing the aboriginal Eskimo stock at about 11,000, noting many mixed-blood individuals and a larger population now than in 1721 due to European intermarriage.
Svante August Arrhenius proposed life as interstellar spores spread between habitable worlds. He argued spores travel through space for ages, mostly destroyed by starlight heat, with some finding life on suitable bodies. He also suggested meteor-mediated transfer between heavenly bodies.
Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire England figures prominently in national history. In 1575 it hosted Queen Elizabeth I for 19 days with the Earl of Leicester as host. The site originally enclosed a large area though only a gatehouse now serves as a dwelling. Remains include Caesar's Tower built to Geoffrey da Clinton, with walls 16 feet thick, the Mervyn's Tower at Scott's Kenilworth, the great hall attributed to John of Gaunt with fine window design, and the Leicester buildings now ruinous.
A St Paul Purist denounces an Oregon attorney for using a misquoted line attributed to William Congreve. The critic notes no exact match exists in Congreve’s works, citing an altered form claiming "There is no rage, like love to hatred turned," and laments widespread popular modifications despite objections.
In ancient societies the noble and aristocratic classes of Egypt and Greece valued sterling silver as essential tableware for drinking and feasting. Silver cups and vessels were preserved through the ages, remaining intact from Roman era aristocracy to later times.
A brief aphorism notes that education and intelligence enable people to get along differently. It asserts that virtue, grit, and new possibilities define true leaders, contrasting education with intelligence as the foundation for social navigation.
Experiments show color intensity in flowers rises with sun and cool temperatures, but soil influences also matter. Small amounts of added chemicals are absorbed with little harm, yet colors shift: yellow roses deepen with aluminum and potassium sulfate, white carnations gain red streaks, and scarlet carnations form white streaks with ammonium sulfate aluminum sulfate iron citrate and citric acid.
In Elizabethan England no Sunday shows could occur without a royal permit. On April 26 1500 John Seconton, a poulerer with four children, received Queen Elizabeth I’s grant to stage plays and games on Sundays for relief and temptation. Permitted events included shooting with the standard and broad arrow, shooting at the Turk, leaping, wrestling, sledge throwing, and bar pitching, with authorities warned to muster four or five sturdy men to maintain order.
A curious sight in Japan is a small bamboo cage housing singing crickets. The male emits metallic sounds likened to an electric bell. To sing he rises on his front feet, grips a platform, expands his wing-shells and rubs them rapidly, creating varying rhythm and pitch.
A foreign man who speaks little English struggles to find suitable housing. After patient effort, a landlady deciphers his request. He insists on three rooms and a bath, challenging the landlady to understand the extra demand as part of the rental, reflecting urban living pressures.
The piece lists quirky terms for talking subjects and social personas. It notes self talk is concerted or shop talk for business and warns against overtalking or talking about sensitive topics. It references culturally specific labels like Babbitt and highbrow.
In a quiet evening scene at the Lee House a man laid aside his golf clubs, wandered the rooms in silence, and sat at the dinner table without speaking. He finally muttered to his wife, Where's no place be done, as the mother notes the odd behavior and asks if something went wrong on the golf course.
The readable fragments discuss the Knights of Malta and related orders with varied names such as Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem and Knights of Rhodes. References trace origins to the Crusades and mention hospices established in the early medieval period, though the text is incomplete and garbled.
Mrs TH R Finley plans to move to Punxsutawney for the winter where Mr Tinley is employed. Mr and Mrs W L Johnston and family visited with Mr and Mrs D A McKee in Cush Cushion. Children resume school. some will attend high school at Indiana. Communion held at M B Church last Sunday. Presbytery met at the Presbyterian Church early week. Mrs Blanche Lingenfelter is sick. Dwight Byers and family visited William Thyers. Knowlton Fairman plans a move to New York this fall. Fairman sick. Mrs Samuel Fairman attended Frank Lowman’s funeral. Town folks plan to attend the 7 fat. Wilmer Uneupher in Indiana Hospital. George Hlystone moved to town to start a blacksmith shop. Mrs Laura Kunkle, formerly of Lown, injured in Ebensburg fair auto crash. Hoy Studell unloading a car of fertilizer.
The Ricsura Washington reunion in A G Hickard's grove drew a large crowd. Edna Murau, employed in Tadiana, visited her parents Mr and Mrs I D Murnau. Ure Valley youths attended a Donald Leasure party at Clair Knupp's home in Flemming's Summit. Evangelist G B M Boon and Tey Smith began two weeks of meetings Sunday night. Visitors included Dri Kminn Leasure and son Kenneth from Buck Run. Mr. and Mrs. and Jeffries and Iva May from Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Blair Buchanan and Mrs. Smith of Barnexboro. and S L Buterbaugh and family of Deckers Port. Elaine Buterbaugh, training as a nurse at Candida Hospital, spent the weekend with her parents. Ituy Laney of Commodore stopped by. Harry Burkey is visiting his mother, Mrs. Witty Burkey. Policeman calling about a robbery was noted.
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