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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1901
Page
7
A physician recounts a rapid late evening cancer surgery in London prompted by public praise after a charitable operation. A valetlike messenger delivers unexpected orders, guiding the surgeon to a brick detached house for a second floor room, with implied suddenness and secrecy surrounding the case.
A young practitioner confronts Dr Gray who offers a thousand pound fee for a cancerous tongue operation on a sleeping woman. No cancer is found upon examination, exposing a shady setup and an unsettling misrepresentation before the patient’s consent can be sought.
A man confronts a supposed sister who is his wife with a brutal vow to silence her. He orders her tongue cut out, then chloroforms the narrator to prevent escape. The narrator awakens in a hospital, unsure of the woman's fate or the husband’s actions, and police find no breakthrough.
In Queen Victoria's early era a Distin family quintet earned fame across Britain and Europe for sax horn singing. A member later tried a Cranbourn street shop in Leicester Square, whitewashing walls when a customer arrived. He fetched a cornet, 25 shillings, and impressed the buyer, who paid 10 guineas, fueling a rapid business success later sold for a large sum.
A Palestine native said plant grows in England and is called Calvary clover. It thrives when sown on Good Friday. Leaves show red spots, then fade. Three leaflets form a cross by day while the head bows at sunset. Yellow flowers turn to thorny pods resembling a crown of thorns. The plant’s shape and sowing day give it its name.
The passage recounts Franklin describing a long saltwater nap during a bath at Matus bathhouse in Southampton on Monday July 25. He says he floated on his back, slept for over an hour without sinking or turning, a feat he never did before. An unknown witness doubts credibility while the philosopher enjoys public confidence.
A scientist keeps ant tribes in self made nests and feeds them through a tube. An ant learns to take honey from a needle tip, grows tame, and now leaves the bulb to eat on the keeper's finger before returning to its nest.
In Horace A. Vachell’s Life and Sport on the Pacific Coast a hunter recalls a night camp scare. A cousin, waking to a moonlit “rattlesnake,” discovers instead the author’s blanket moving, nearly alarming a shot that would have ended badly for the narrator.
A collection of rural beliefs cites pepper growing by anger, peppers thriving when planted by a redhead or hot temper, jaybirds avoided on Fridays, and three trusted signs: ground hog above ground on February 24, a hoe carried through a house brings death, and crops planted in moonlight, especially potatoes and root vegetables.
The notice touts Dr. Sadler as a skilled cataract surgeon, claims a high success rate, and offers pamphlets and references. It also advertises Indian Herb Rheumatism Cure from Millwood, and plans for planing mill materials by W S Daugherty. Exposition travel deals and a cough remedy close the item.
A French physician argues that crying and groaning lessen physical pain and should not be suppressed in children. He claims these expressions are nature's method to subdue suffering and warns against repressing them. Lycurgus answered punishment for ingratitude is left to the gods.
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