25 Jun 1875
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Newspaper
Lebanon Weekly Pioneer
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1875
Page
1
Public notice of weekly Friday publication by T. H. Harrison with annual subscription terms one fifty dollars in advance and two dollars if paid later. Rates table shows advertising charges per year and per line. Five line inserts in the column cost five dollars per year with each extra line priced at one dollar.
The warning from the Holyoke disaster prompts New York City to survey churches and require doors to swing outward for fire and panic safety. Measures include opening all ward doors and other needed alterations to prevent blockage during emergencies.
The latest authority reports global population at 2.35 billion with regional totals: America 72.8 million Europe 987 million Asia 780 million Africa 188 million and Australia and Polynesia 6.5 million. Major sects are listed: Roman Catholics 195 million Protestants 57.13 million Mohammedans 400 million Buddhists 340 million six oriental churches 6.5 million other Asiatic religions 260 million Pagans 200 million Jews 6 million.
The Lebanon Pioneer offers Hain and ornamental styles on short job printing. Our facilities for good work are unmatched in this section and we aim to always provide the best printing in notices and at the lowest living rates. People needing auction bills circulars visiting cards or business forms are urged to call.
The Sioux negotiation panel expands to eight. invitations issued beyond need. Members named include Wm. B. Allison Iowa Bishop E. I. Ames Maryland I. W. Palmer Illinois Alfred H. Terry US Army Abram Comings Missouri S J Hinman Dakota G P Beauvois Missouri John W. O Brine New York. Joe W. Dwyer named Secretary. Salaries eight dollars daily plus expenses.
The article explains daily and yearly air intake by an adult, about three hundred cubic feet per day and around seven hundred thousand gallons per year, noting the continuous lung activity as a bellows function. It compares air’s weight to fluids and emphasizes unseen air flow around the body.
The editor of the Brunswick Telegraph reports striking family sizes among Wrench Canadian workers in Brunswick mills. He notes a family of father, mother, and twenty four children, the mother being the fourth wife, plus a Montreal-based brother with five wives and twenty five children. He mentions three new families totaling thirty seven people and a French Canadian remark about fifteen children, while recounting local towns celebrating the 200th anniversary of the 1675 Indian war.
Report notes a burglary at Indiana merchant John Turrison’s Clayton store, with cash taken totaling sixty dollars and dry goods valued between six hundred and seven hundred dollars. The piece also covers camp meeting notices, a centenarian near Ladoga, and extensive notes on county fairs and harvest weather.
A humorous essay tracing Eve’s imagined virtues and foibles from Eden to modern times. It contrasts her simplicity with later trends in fashion, domestic life, and womanhood, joking about motherhood, marriage, and the evolution of female roles through history.
The passage extols maintaining an irreproachable official life as essential. It argues a united, stable future nationwide, foresees peace replacing delusion, and imagines General Grant surrendering political power to a new Democratic order, with a reference to crown ascent and divine forgiveness.
The body of John Blackford, an American actor missing for three years during a Mont Blanc ascent without guides, was recovered from a large ice block that recently fell from the mountain. The corpse is reported to be well preserved.
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