Indiana Pa newspaper notices and church listings in 1900s page
A misc. local newspaper page lists subscription terms and advertising rates, professional notices, and a long church directory. It includes Administrators' Executors' Auditors' notices, legal ads, and price schedules, followed by multiple church services and pastors for Presbyterian, United Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Lutheran, and German Baptist Brethren congregations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estray
Canon
Presbyterian
Church Street
David Hall
Tig FM
United Presyterlian
D. Day Brownlee
Methodist Episcopal
M. M. Sweeney
Jathrolic
Oak Street
Father Kirner
Evangelical Lutheran
Sixth Street
Lewis Hay
ST. John's German Baptist Brethren Church
Water Street
Baptist Church
Henshey
Christ Church
Vance
Local Masonic and fraternal lodge meeting schedule
Indiana Lodge No. 313 F and AM meets on the second Tuesday monthly Palladium Lodge No. 3486 meets Mondays Indiana Lodge No. 21 meets Fridays Clymer Lodge No. 28 K of H meets every second Tuesday Rational Christian Temperance Union meets Tuesday at 7 PM Wm Penn Council Royal Arcanum No. 305 meets second Thursday Council 260 Jr O U T A M meets Tuesday evenings in Cunningham Hall Indiana Conclave No. 180 Improved Order Heptasopis meets first and third Friday 7:30 PM Indiana County WCTU president Mrs Rev McMasters Blairville and others listed as officers and organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Lodge
Palladium Lodge
A.W
Clymer Lodge
K. of H
Rational Christian Temperance Union
Penn Council
Royal Arcanum
Council 260
Cunningham Hall
Indiana
Cunninghan
Ndiana
W.C.T.U
Rev. McMasters
Blairie
S. T
Elder
Elder's Ridge
Rachael Cunningham
Minksville
Geo. Iil
Blairsville
Ivan Thompson
County Officers and Regional Officials List
Congress Daniel B Heiner Senator James G Mitchell Assembly Noah Seanor John McGaughey President Judge Harry White Sheriff D C Mack Prothonotary Rider Peeler Register and Recorder James McGregor Treasurer Samuel Nesbit Commissioners Robert McLihase Clarence Hart Adam Black Auditors W BR Tamb J C Davis J B Walker Jury Commissioners John Elder John MeGaire Coroner Dr W T Milier
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Daniel B. Heiner
James G. Mitchell
Noah Seanor
John McGaughey
Harry White
D. C. Mack
D. Rider Peeler
James McGregor
Samuel Nesbit
Robert McLihase
Clarence Hart
Adam Black
W. BR
Tamb
J. C. Davis
J. B Walker
John Elder
John
L Stewart Attorney at Law Office on Philadelphia street
L Stewart, attorney at law, operates in a building once occupied by Stewart & Clark. Offers all kinds of legal services with careful and prompt attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Langham
Muir Cullingham’s Block
Indiana
A. ©. Ruffner
Attorney AT Law
Philadelphia Street
Indiana, Pa
T. Stuchel
Ofice
A. W. Taylor
E.ech
Elhnin
Altlaw
Porter's
Iudiana
Cunningham & Fisher
Pierce
Court House
Ohn
S. Taylor
H. Hell
Wm. M. Stewart
J Felford
Jack
Walker Smith
Julia T. Bell
Judge White
E.c. Watson
Frank Krenek
Atson & Refner
Gen
Barry
Ite
Philadelphia
Ndjiara
T. Cline
Saltsburg
point _Collections
D. H. Tome
Farmers Bank
Yous N. Banks
Wa. Banks, Esq
T L, Stewart
Attorrey
Stewart & Clark
Summer flowers fade as the sylvan year ends
A poetic reflection lists summer blossoms such as Zinnias, Marigolds, Lilies, Daisies, Dahlias, Asters, Hollyhocks, Violets, and Roses. The verse notes their bright hues and waning beauty as the dying season approaches, signed by Br. James Garette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michael
James Garette
A Mound of Rocks Marks Cavalry Grave at Fort Laramie
A veteran officer recalls a 1853 massacre near Fort Laramie Wyoming where a young Western State officer led a raid through an Indian village in pursuit of a missing cow. A wall of rocks marks the common grave of the slain cavalrymen and the few survivors reached the fort after nine miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Laramie
Wyoming
West Point
Colorado
Utah
Turkey Feather
Deaud
Wn Tvish
United McGrath
Denver
New York
Sun
St. Nicholas memory by Stevenson on morning civility
Robert Louis Stevenson recalls visiting Apia and greeting 100 black boys. Most did not answer. a few grunted. One boy finally said good morning in good English, making the tedious ritual worthwhile and highlighting the dullness of those who missed civility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goa
Apia
Robert Louis Stevenson
St. Nicholas
Rome’s Modernization Seen Through Unseen Costs
Marion Crawford argues in Century that Rome’s push for a modern capital has damaged the city and its people. He contends large centers cultivate vice and degeneracy, noting Italy’s prisons and hospitals reflect civilization amid extravagance elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Marion Crawford
Century
Emersons early marriage plan remembered by Ellen Emerson
Ellen Emerson recalls the day her father, the Concord philosopher, arranged marriage for her stepmother. She notes the liveryman supplied a garish horse and buggy with bright yellow reins, leaving her father visibly unsettled as he drove off with the conspicuous reins flapping behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Emerson
Concord
Not AW Lawyers Good Witnesses
A Boston Traveller note mocks lawyers who fail to give direct testimony while they demand it from others. In a recent trial one celebrated attorney was repeatedly cautioned for evasive replies and statements, illustrating the gap between advocacy and witness stand candor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Why Some Ginases Are Called Tumblers
A philologist explains the origin of the word tumbler from tiny silver bowls used at All Souls College Oxford. The bowls balanced upright or rolled, returning to place. the term shifted to glass and the name persisted for the common drinking glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Muller
All Souls’ College
Oxford
Alice
Grand Duke of
Hesse-Darmstadt
Queen Victoria
Unique Maina merchant’s bizarre downfall and vast stock
B B Douglas of Dow doinham, four miles from a village, faced a $30,000 failure. His farm store offered everything from farms to liniment, pins to mowing machines, groceries to harness, with tiny profits that built a large, far reaching trade. A curiosity shop scene showed barrels of flour and molasses, whips and sleighs, horses and vehicles, illustrating his expansive but impractical stock. The Lewiston Journal notes the venture’s oddities and unprofitable method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maina
B. B. Douglas
Dowdoinham
Douglas
Lewiston Journal
Old Shepherdess and Political Office Inheritance
A Washington Post excerpt recalls a conversation with Rex sentative John Allen and an elder auntie who praises him as a steadfast public servant. The auntie insists the father held offices all his life, though specific positions are not clearly named. The piece highlights family memory and local political identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex
John Allen
Mars Johu
Mars John
Yaou
Mary John
Washington Post
Persistency in advertising and courtly wit remarks
The fragment discusses persistent advertising valued over erratic spending, citing the Macon Telegraph idea that small, steady investments beat sporadic prices. It also recalls Pace the jester and a quip about royal favor, then notes the U.S. Army garrisoning 912 forts and outposts and the concentration of woolen factories in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
New Urectnet
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jorsey
Damas Leginning and the Elaboration Struggle
The text notes Damas Leginning as a beginning writer who faced extreme difficulty in literature. It describes his unclear plot, need to add sentences laboriously, and gnashing of teeth at slow idea development while rewriting the work multiple times. It also mentions New York as a major commercial center and manufacturing state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damas Leginning
Las Alexandry
Damias
Yund
Arctic Sunburn Tales From Polar Explorers
Reports from King William's Land and Marbis Island describe extreme sunburns suffered by Lt Gilder and Lt Schwatka's parties. Faces, scalps, and even eyes swelled, turning explorers into laughing stocks as they struggled in the frigid zone. Also included is a humorous Philadelphia barber anecdote about hypnosis-like effects and reluctance to shave upper lips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctis
Arctic
Gilder
King William’s Land
Schwatka
Marbis Island
Camp Daly
Cassell
Ninth Street
Philadelphia
Tailor Bill Sparks Engagement Tale Of Love And Debt
A young man with limited means tries to hide a tailor bill from his fiancée who has a comfortable bank account. His clever mishap ends when he pays the bill and the tailor sends an apology, leading to an order for two suits. A locomotive head of a firm recalls riding an engine as two men discuss its unique power and a mysterious hitch in performance.
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Washington Post
Hang
New York
New York Times
Turning the Tables on a Theft at Pulpit
A Newenstla Chronicle item recalls a professor who stole a student’s text and sermon heads during an appointment. He climbed into the old pulpit with a ladder, then faced disaster when a late night turnabout exposed the theft and danger of his treachery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newenstla Chronicle
Maryland Inventor Pioneered Horseless Carriage
A Baltimore American note recalls Marylanders furnishing early inventions and credits a Marylander with America's first horseless carriage invention nearly a century ago, highlighting the state's role in innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
America
Baltimore
Weight Possibilities of Carp in Angling History
Long article on carp growth discusses how well fed and cared for carp can reach large sizes. Cites Saxony pond records with carp weighing 91 pounds, five fish at 103 pounds, and Spiegel carp at 113 pounds. Notes ages uncertain, claims carp can become tame in garden ponds and follow feeders, with dramatic growth in favorable conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saxony
Tench
Jack
Lord Moat
Pennell
Rotterdam
Boston tradition critiques presidents and humor in early memory
A Boston Herald piece recalls the tradition of reverence for George Washington and comments on later presidents. It quotes critics who question Johnson and Garfield in humorous terms, reflecting a 19th century Atlantic view of leaders. The New York Sun is cited in noting a Boston contemporary’s inability to relate to a North Carolina tailor who became president.
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Boston
George Washington
Wangton
Boston Herald
Johnson
North Carolina
Tennessee
United States
Gurfield
Sal Po
James A. Gar- Sell
New York Sun
Fragmentary Reflections on Life and Longing in 19th Century Letters
The fragment traces nameless voices and a mood of discontent across travel dreams and home longing. It cites Du Camp and Chovadier, reflecting on aging, mortality, and irony in a narrator who imagined travel and freedom but clung to memory and the past as time and fortune shift.
Mamma and Freddy Debate Aunt Jane in New York Recorder
A brief quarrel between a mother and son over whether to give Aunt Jane to two fatherless boys, as Freddy agrees readily while the mother expresses sympathy for the children in the New York Recorder excerpt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Janea
Freddy
Jane
New York Recorder
Victorian Ghost Tales and Potatoes Across Europe
A collage of antiquated anecdotes and notes traces folklore about ghosts in the countryside, the spread of potatoes in France under Parmentier and Louis XVI, and a London hansom cab critique. It also cites Russian cavalry ferocity and Cossack riders, with reflections from Chambers' Journal and Century.
The Wail of the Arab Woman and Governor Bob Stewart
A fragment from Saturday Review contrasts Arab widow wailings with a moral tale about Missouri Governor Bob Stewart. It recounts a convict’s pardon after a dramatic prison visit and a later anecdote about Stewart’s fall from political grace in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Stewart
Missouri
United States
Jefferson City
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Chicago Times-Herald
Surprise to a Philadelphian and hymn at sermon
A Philadelphia call notes a trolley accident yesterday and a quip about securing a seat. The item ends with a closing hymn “Awake and Sing” during a long sermon by a local pastor, as reported by the Minneapolis Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Cal
Minneapolis Journal
For His Countrys Sake W M Smith of Latrobe
Veteran W M Smith, resident at 2 Harrison avenue Latrobe, served in the 63d Pennsylvania Regiment and was wounded at Fair Oaks Yorktown and Williamsburg. He attributes kidney relief to Deans Kidney Pills, purchased at Showalter's drug store. reports back pain easing and urine returning to normal. Sold by all dealers 50 cents and mailed by Foster Murture Co Buffalo NY, Cole agents for the OS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Smith
Latrobe Citizes
Latrobe
W.M. Smith
Harrison Avenue
Smith
63D
Pennsylvania Regt
Battle of
Fair Oaks
Yorktown
Williamsburg
Tie
G. A. R. Post
Derry
Mr. Smith
Hetella Bere
Hesaya
Dean
Showalter’s
Duan
Foster Muture Co
Buffalo N.Y. Cole
O. S
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Church St
R.R
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G. P. Kewell & Co
Dauchy & Co
Park Place
J. A. Batas
Park Row
W. Ayer & Son
Chestnut Brant & Co
Arch Streets
Pittsburgh
Remington, Antenco
Lord & Thomas
McCormick
Garis
Ouster Wiggins
Blairsville, Pa
Summers M. Jack
David Blaie Taylor
ACK & Tawvia
Indiaana
Wieler
Water ST
Indianapolis Journal
Manacles
Falmouth
Lizard Point
London Standard
Samoa
Emerson
Pacer
Dexter
Pace
Elizabeth
Gome
United States Army
Reading Sunport
Barber
Austare
Ernest Chovadier
China
Fortnighily Review
Coalton
Tre Paodtes & Gangre Co., Creer
Porsee
J. R. Gilmore
Louisville Courier-Journal
Garfield
Grantlands
Miss Murfree
Sheridan
Lowell
Rosecrans
Wolfa
Gray
Quebec
Stone River
Dorksi
Gabriel
Bnt
Cust
Irbydale
Woalds
Arthur
Tintagel
Gmen
Ighty
John Oxenham
Chambers’ Journal
France
Parmentier
Academy of Besancon
Cerails
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Paris
Royal Horticultural Society
Napoleon
Volga
Doy
T Heir
Ea. My
W. M. Hoang
England
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