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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1871
Page
3
A fragmentary passage explores the word darling as a tender, protective sound echoed by family and friends. It contrasts the intimate, lifelong sweetness of the term with its youthful, evolving resonance, noting its mellowness beyond common speech. The speaker reflects on lineage, affection, and the word’s enduring, evolving charm.
Practical notes on hog health and feed, soaking wheat screenings for chicks, onion feeding to ward off disease, a simple salt cure for fever and ague, a coffee syrup for travelers, and recipes for bread and fritters. Includes cornbread and corn cakes and methods for preparing sugar, milk mixtures, and fritters.
This note describes using dried sweet corn ground fine for winter cooking and corn oysters with eggs cream flour salt and milk. It advises boiling green corn in boiling water 10 minutes to 30 minutes depending on age and to avoid salt, serving with a napkin after removal from the fire.
Mr. George Partridge narrates a perilous descent through Pluton Canyon to the California Geysers. The narrow grade winds along cliff edges, with tight turns and possible derailment. A wagon upset injures several passengers but no fatalities occur. the road, built three years earlier, is hailed as miraculous.
A correspondent compares two hair fashions at fashionable watering places the classic braided coil style and a shorter frizzed front look. Observations note angular maidens favoring the former and self confident young women choosing the latter. The piece mentions false eyebrows bristling with suitors and banker dowries, and notes diamond studs in ears becoming fashionable while long pendants are to be avoided.
A little girl received artificial grapes that proved deadly when a playmate sucked one. An eminent physician confirmed arsenite of copper in ten grapes, with every vine-leaf capable of killing a child. A cupboard lining contained thirteen grains per six inch square, enough to kill two adults.
An old note claims people born in August are bold and ambitious but prone to cheating. It says August men will suffer illnesses and have two wives, while August women are amiable and twice married with later regret from a second husband.
The London and Dublin tale recounts George Home, a trusted till boy in a Dublin restaurant, who kept a Queen Anne's farthing as luck. After a series of events, a legal miscarriage led to his release, and he later built wealth running the Arcade Hotel in Scotland. The coin later resurfaced in his life as a famed display in his arcade.
A correspondent describes a Japan fireworks display with iron-bound mortars launching marble sized shells that release bright parachutes and continuous firecrackers. Paper balloons and umbrellas drift in the sky while fish, jinrikishas, and bonbons evoke festive scenes, with smoke serpents and spiderlike formations crowning a waterfall of liquid fire around a bamboo raceway.
A society gentleman berates a friend's plain shawl as poor taste until she reveals it is a camel hair shawl costing $3,000. The exchange exposes the clash between fashion spectacle and personal style in high society. The scene unfolds in Broadway and Fifth Avenue venues as the man learns the shawl’s true prestige.
Great preparations mark the American Institute Fair as workers renovate the Empire Rink, paint walls sky blue, and install shafting for mining stone work and textile machines. About five hundred feet of shafting in the machine building and one hundred in the main building are in place, with plans for twenty steam engines and boilers and a new 7X106 foot structure for the fine arts. An allegorical painting will depict advanced Industry, and a costly institute edifice may rise at Central Park or another site, potentially costing around two million dollars.
A Paris correspondent recounts the dramatic pursuit of Ledoux, who falsely accused Mirandais of spying for Versaillists. Mirandais was executed by mob suspicion. Ledoux hid as Paris fell to Versailles troops. Pursued by fear, Ledoux and an accomplice tried to flee, but Mirandais’s widow spotted them, leapt from a balcony into the carriage, and Ledoux was seized and imprisoned.
A morning paper reports a New York City hotel with a rotten boiler that could send its 600 guests to the hospital any moment. The piece questions safety after steamboat and railroad perils and notes local remarks on such alleged hazards as a mutual benefit to society.
Col Charles Whittlesey of Cleveland presents findings on the October 20 1870 U S earthquake. It spread roughly 1000 miles along a northwest to southeast axis over about 200 miles, with greatest force near the St Lawrence and Montreal. Observers in Boston Albany Cleveland note near simultaneous onset, suggesting deep source rather than a surface wave.
A New York forgery case involves a hijacked $50,000 in gold via a forged check. Broker Van Saun tricked Frederick H. Smith by offering a $56,375 certified check for 50,000 in gold, then fled with the gold after presenting a falsified Simpson certification. Smith paid out 20000 and 30000 in gold certificates before Van Saun disappeared.
A Tennessee farmer saw a cat and a large snake in his field. The cat challenged the snake, pressed a paw toward the snake’s head, and after several exchanges, the snake retreated. The cat then fatally bit the snake, ending the encounter. Nearby, a farmer fed cows with potatoes carrots and hay, noting milk output increased with different feed mixes.
A devotional text describes Jehovah leading Israel by cloud by day and fire by night. It portrays the sign as divine will guiding the camp and tents, with a call for God’s glory, banner, light, and guiding spirit guiding the church forward. The closing lines reflect spiritual leadership and steadfast faith.
A miscellany of quips and oddities including a Davenport JP who has married 938 couples since 1863, Utah saloon license costs, spellings of Gloucester vs lobster, a Milwaukee lamp lighter girl, and a Canada Yorkville tragedy where a kiss led to a boy’s death. Also notes on potato blight in Ireland and various witticisms.
In a late gale the Cuy of Houston sailing from New York to Galveston faced ruin as the captain proved incompetent and the ship uncontrollable. Naval officers Schelky and Stroud assumed command with sailors as passengers and saved the vessel by improvising pumps and rigging a false rudder as the boiler and fire-room flooded. The crew steadied the ship and cleared the coast amid a hurricane that battered sails, ropes, and decks.
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