11 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1892
Page
1
Terms of subscription set at $1.00 per year in advance and $1.50 when not prepaid. Advertising rates list Administrators Executors Auditors and Dissolution Notices at $3 each. All other legal adverts priced at $2.50 per inch with 25 percent for figures and tables. Estray and Cation notices each cost $2.00.
Financial ledger page showing cash on hand, tax levies for 791.22 and 791.00, assorted disbursements to court officers, coroner, engineers, jail maintenance, soldiers burial funds, and various county offices. Includes district attorney, auditing, commissioners, sheriff, and postage, with a long list of township levy allocations for 1888 to 1891 and total amounts around 2,106.00 to 3,000.00.
Indiana County's accounts show liabilities and assets with outstanding taxes from 1888 to 1891 and specific dues from individuals such as John T. Gibson and G H Ogden. The report lists balances in treasurer's hands and references treasurer sale books, reflecting a financial snapshot from January 4, 1832.
Julian Ralph reports from a Montana Club gathering with John J Healy on Alaska natives. Coast Indians are industrious traders while interior peoples move seasonally, live in skins, and rely on hunting moose and fish. Doctors wield power, hair cutting weakens witchcraft, and soap usage is high among interiors.
A domestic scene unfolds as Mrs. Jones returns late from shopping, fending off Mr. Jones's grilling about her whereabouts. She recounts visits with cousins, tea, a dressmaker, a bonnet, and a snow pudding recipe, while the couple's tension hints at hidden motives and social pressures.
The article describes the petrified forest near Billings Arizona along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Readers are invited to imagine an enchanted landscape of glass like ground splinters and prostrate trunks with amethyst and smoky topaz crystals. The piece notes rugged access and vivid natural wonders along with a brief observation on evolving social manners.
A Seattle resident humorously explains why pets adapted to local climate. He describes training fish to follow him, noting a Columbia River salmon that tracks his daily comings and goings and a neighbor with a six pound trout that accompanies him, illustrating the unusually wet state of affairs.
A collection of short notes on men and wedding rings in Germany, customs in the United States, a Water Color critique about a portrait with a large nose, Cardinal Manning anecdote with pledge talk, Howells writing method by Edward Bok, and Howells’s presence in New York City near Madison Square and Stuyvesant Square. The items reflect social habits, literary anecdotes, and contemporary personalities.
May 25, 1881 schedule outlines multiple routes from Indiana to Blairsville, Greensburg, Pittsburgh and Connelsville with departures at 6.30 9.10 and 4.8 pm eastbound and assorted southward and eastbound connections. It notes Train No. 80 at 30 a.m. stops at Two-Lick Homer Black Lick Blairsville and return times including Butler and Allegheny City connections with Parker Karns City Rams-awy Butler R.R. and Shenango lines. It also lists Train No. 20 from Indiana with 7.43 am arrival in Pittsburgh and alternate unions with Uniontown Express and Day Ex timing.
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