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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
1
Reader notices announce a year de sone RAE 5 vent Office and Printing Plant located on Carpenter Avenue in Indiana. The item appears in the India Post Office mail matter as a second class notice and confirms postal classification for local publishing operations.
A stream of social notes lists Dr R F McHenry Theilwood visiting Indiana E B Camp and son Frank of Cherrytree Robert McLaughlin Alliance and others visiting here Misses Margaret Ella Cost with John Hopkins Johnstown Daniel Saxton and daughter returned from Johnetown Mrs Nancy Rink returned from Bushell with her son Dr I G C Rink accompanying Also Ernest Stewart and friends motored to Pittsburg Mrs J J Purcell Josephine visiting while husband in New York Dr James F Fisher Rossiter with brother Hon John S Fisher Mrs Frank Dixon Creekside Indiana visitors Fay Lighthauger Farmer Bank Memorial Day visits Alex Dick Normal ill father Dinsmore Dick Merrill McCunn Blairsville visiting mother Mrs S C McCunn near town Mr Matt A McGinnis two weeks in Bellefonte Miss Gertrude Miller Latrobe with cousin Magdalen Muller Memorial Day speeches by S M Jack and Supt James F Chapman in Sheloca George Beers Verona brass moulder and two sons with uncle H B Beers West Water Frank W Baker Steubenville Ohio visited Chestnut street friends Decoration Day Miss Linda Detwiler Sara Bruce return from visit HB E Fiat family Lamberton and Miss Bruce's sister Anna teaching in Jeannette
The Porch Bros Inc catalog lauds Lester pianos as most used in Indiana town and invites comparisons with any other brand. It lists fine pianos and player pianos including Everett Crown Story & Clark Vouch Chickering McPhail Hobart M Cable and more with prices from 160 to 1500 dollars and notes world renowned autopiano Melville Clark Apollo Lester options. Visit 534 East Philly Street Central Hotel Annex Indiana Pa to see and hear.
Stomach and Liver tablets claim many cures for stomach trouble. One man spent over two thousand dollars on medicines yet was cured after using a few boxes. Price is 25 cents. Samples offered free at all drug stores.
The eighty fifth birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Diven was celebrated at her daughter Mrs. John Lucas home in Homer City on May 27. Distanced guests included Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Diven of Sharon and other Diven relatives from Follansbee Cokeville Blairsville and Tromner City. A purse of money was presented to the mother, a bountiful dinner was served, and the afternoon featured music and games.
School directors seek a high school teacher two assistant principals a teacher of vocal music and seventeen grade teachers for the coming year all must have teaching experience. Applications and a list of educational periodicals to which the applicant is regularly subscribed must reach Secretary Oliver Fry by June 7 228-Gt.
You Like Pictures celebrates color reproductions of great artworks and the Masy Task soap that halves laundry work. The ad promises a free framed picture with twenty five Task soap wrappers and a two cent stamp sent to manufacturers.
Classified short notices list rental offerings including daily and hourly auto rental at Indiana Motor Co and a small house on N Sixth Street with contact E Walker Smith. Also listed are rubber-tired runabout and a years old horse from Pattison Co, a Blacksmith shop for sale with or without tools at 1088 School St, and two homes for installment purchase on Philadelphia Street within proximity to the Court House.
Mrs. Sarah Roberts, formerly of Indiana and widow of the late John Roberta, died at the G. A. R. home in Hawkins near Fottsboro on Tuesday afternoon at age 80 after three weeks of illness. Her remains were moved to Indiana by nieces Mrs. S. J. Lyda and Mrs. L. G. Fruvius and interred at Oakland cemetery after brief services led by Dr. J. L. Cary.
Miss Martha J Shoemaker a 1902 Indiana Normal graduate and noted teacher married Carl Morris at her Jeannette home on Tuesday evening June 1. The ceremony was witnessed by 50 persons. He will travel as superintendent for a concrete company and she will accompany him. They plan to reside in Jeannette.
Commissioners Niel and Marshall plan to move dependents from outside relief to the County Home. They will start by bringing in Willie Kinter of Rayne township, bedfast for years with rheumatism, and will closely scrutinize outside relief from now on with only rare exceptions.
Under Y M C A auspices a strawberry festival will be held on the lawn in front of the boys dormitory at the Normal on Saturday evening June 5. Strawberries ice cream pie and cake will be served. Y M C A members will present a puzzle picture show in the association rooms. Everyone welcome.
The comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is set for Library Hall this evening under the Normal Conservatory of Music. Tickets are selling rapidly after two successful rehearsals and a final run through at 3 p.m. today.
Vice President George Biaxetin of United Copper remains in Tombs Prison under Judge La Combe order until missing company books are produced for a grand jury probe. Augustus Molise and Sanford Trebinsert are linked to the case as similar actions are considered. Baglin testified about plans to remove books tied to the subpeona.
Few street cars ran in Philadelphia as most remained in Quaker City barns. Discharged workers were rehired if they reported to work immediately, with some prior discipline forgiven. The company operated about 500 cars until nightfall, then reduced service. Disturbances emerged in central districts as workers erected barricades on Chestnut and Philadelphia streets. New York dispatches note over 1,000 applicants sought jobs at Philadelphia divvy works, with local agencies instructed to hire from the pool.
In Zanesville Ohio Mrs Tinthoff suffered clothing loss when her skirt was torn from machine while inspecting a tidy. She borrowed garments to appear in public after the incident. In New York Chinatown reformists issued eviction notices to white residents, affecting about 150 women, mostly wives of merchants, as tensions rise. Also, two men were wounded at a “diane” spot and an embezzler from Indianapolis was arrested in Florida.
B L Junker and H M Hees proprietors opened their wholesale market on Water street opposite the TR BR freight depot. This week they received two carloads of Western cattle and slaughtered them for the Indiana trade.
An unusually heavy rain on Tuesday June 1 caused crop damage in the area and knocked out several telephone lines to nearby points according to local reports. The storm's impact interrupted communication as farmers assess financial losses and repairs begin.
A thunderstorm on a Tuesday afternoon, June 1, struck and killed a horse owned by William Smith of the Klingenberg farm east of town. The event is recorded as a local weather incident with property loss.
The Ladies Aid Society will hold a strawberry festival on Tuesday evening, June 22. A light, community charity event likely drawing neighbors to the church function. Fishermen's supplies advertised by Indiana Electric Co at 230-tf.
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