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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
6
A poem tribute to a mother who shaped a life with selfless love and labor. The speaker recalls her guiding care, prayers, and strength, noting time has pressed upon her brow while the child reads the history in her lines. The verse likens her years to pearls falling from generous hands.
In a bustling office with a frosted glass partition, Abers, owner of the Universal Trading Company, schemes to raise $15,000 more to fund a hoped for windfall. Middleton, the melancholy clerk, quietly stumbles into a sharp counterplot as Abers accuses his aide of missing funds, only for Middleton to reveal a twist that could profit them both.
Middleton explains a bond scheme to Abers involving a $20,000 surety and a cooked set of books. The plan collapses as Middleton deposits $3,500, burns old records, and prepares a forged new ledger. Middleton taunts Abers with threats and details of a $15,000 forged check, while promising exposure to the surety company.
A Norwegian peat processing plant near Stangfiorden dries and briquettes fuel from wet peat using electric power and water drive. It yields briquettes and byproducts while showing the efficiency of peat as a fuel. In a separate note, Mgr H Fielding Hall describes Burmese life as egalitarian and frugal, valuing daily needs over wealth and treating money as a means to buy essentials and small pleasures.
A Parson signed letter recounts a tailor in a small parish near Reading who stopped a runaway two-horse pos van risking himself. The driverless team sped along a busy road for miles. The man aided the authorities, receiving sixpence. report appears in the Loudon Times.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes that the old long whips used by teamsters and drivers are disappearing as technology rises. Experts describe the whip’s construction with long handles, rawhide thongs, and seagrass crackers, and recall feats by Esquimans and Arkansas ox-cart drivers cracking at twenty feet.
A collection of quotes on life virtue and prudence from Addison Hugh Miller Sir Walter Scott La Fontaine and J B Blackie. The lines urge self denial patience discretion and prudent conduct to temper desire and influence fate.
A Manila funeral scene shows wealth and ritual with bands playing operatic selections, a black cloth hearse drawn by black ponies, and carriers in ornate dress. Many burials are simpler, with a lone father escorting a small white coffin, others interred in ground graves or wall alcoves. biographical plaques note the deceased.
The week saw pensions granted to Lebens B. Hursh of Homestead eight dollars and others including John T. Parker of Altoona twelve, Peter Beige of Venango fourteen, Henry A. Frega of Northeast seventeen, and Thomas Hudson of Rochester Mills ten. In Shamokin the Ninth district United Mine Workers reports 14 000 idle workers among 61 000 former miners. no relief since November 4. A masked woman trial at Erie for a violin shop robbery ended with the thief fleeing, leaving a gun and shoe heel as clues. Additional items include Lehigh Valley Railroad October earnings at Philadelphia of 2 001 943 with a net drop. a Bellefonte murder verdict of second degree. local arrests for bigamy and mis demeanor. Western Union boys ousted from Altoona trains. a hotel safe robbery in Inleyville. Florence Wright with smallpox. Jeannette council short of 4 000 for a 20 000 bonus. robberies in Rochester and Connellsville real estate moves. and a New Lygh robbery of stamps.
A historical note reports that applying ammonia under light anesthesia to a cat’s nose causes cardio-inhibition and a rise in blood pressure, and that rabbits exhibit a similar reaction.
In effect November 85 the listed standard card cine dates and names are incomplete. J B Wood is noted with Gea Pass Ash in fragmentary form. The OCR yields unclear details about the involved persons and venues.
A partial timetable lists train and sailing times between Blairsville, Saltsburg, Paulton, Kiskiminetas Junction, Freeport, Springdale, Allegheny City, Butler, and Pittsburg. Includes week day and Sunday departures with specific times, plus agent contact for Western District at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street, Pittsburg.
The timetable lists services of the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh line effective January 6 1902. It details train numbers routes and schedules across regional stops with emphasis on departure times and connections for travelers in the era.
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