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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
2
A vintage gardening column offers practical tips for Indiana gardeners on starting beans peas and spinach. It covers bed preparation trench planting depths spacing and succession timing noting that frost-free periods allow planting through mid July and mid September for safe harvests. It mentions varieties such as Queen of Green and Kidney Wax and stresses moisture management and soil conditioning.
An odd advertisement from Station F in New York touts a supposed Indian recipe to cure baldness and hair loss. It claims the remedy will make users free from troubles and includes a bare address and payment details for ordering the product.
Board of Trustees reports a two and a half million dollar endowment campaign revived. Gifts from Colonel Robert M. Thompson and others push totals over one hundred thousand dollars with major grants from the Presbyterian Church New Era movement and the General Education Board. Rockefeller gifts and local support fund faculty raises and six new professors, with 643 students served last year and 65 graduates last commencement. Fall classes set to open September 22 with record enrollments anticipated.
Western Canadian farmers worked past midnight in May to catch up on seeding, using lanterns and moonlight. May's ideal weather brought rapid germination, with early wheat eight inches high in some fields. Overall area similar or larger despite late start. oats barley and flax sown more this year. Optimism runs high for a bumper per acre crop if summer stays moist.
Dublin reports a London Globe story claiming Sinn Fein education aims at an absolute separatist republic within ten years. It alleges Irish schools and homes teach hatred of England, with domestic servants driving propaganda and Loyal English households fear retaliation from Sinn Fein workers.
A Sunday wind storm heavily damaged the Brown's woods area near Coal Valley with about thirty trees toppled. In the storm a buggy was struck injuring the horse. a young couple and a girl from Melntive were among those affected while several students return home from an eight week summer school in Shelocta. Local scenes include conversations about social plans and a new nickel show opening on the avenue.
A muddled passage shows a speaker praising his own mastery of Anghish biesage in Wreneltown while instructing a kit to wear clothes and follow on a quest across Europe to find someone named Hog. The fragment hints at a travel dream or admonition with peculiar spelling and naming. No clear dates or events emerge.
The excerpt cites biblical phrases such as an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, noting how similar expressions appear in the Bible and in other writings. It discusses the repetition of these retributive maxims and their presence in various languages and contexts.
In South America airplanes have proved strong in surveying remote regions. A Mexican company plans to use aircraft to haul ores from high altitude mines to the valley. Mules carry fodder and provisions while the planes speed the descent, reaching 10 060 feet with ease.
Incomplete OCR depicts a trial or incident involving Maroney awaiting a degree and Meads, a freshman, who shot Norman F. Arnold, with Arnold's deathbed statement claiming the shooting was accidental, reflecting a prior event in 1916. The fragment hints at a campus murder tied to debt and a college fight or raid.
A countywide appeal praises the Boy Scouts for fostering wisdom and stature, character, and citizenship through their principles. The speaker emphasizes the movement’s value and urges support for expanding Scouting across the county, noting the motto Be Prepared and the oath and law as guiding foundations.
A wedding report notes the marriage of Blair Goddlin of Clymer to Marearet Nichol of Home Pa after a luncheon and a West Lebanon future home for the couple. Harbison hosts and guests extend felicitations. Also Schopp Arto wed Walter Schopp and Annabel Arto of Tyrone with Rev. Chalmers G Morrow officiating at the First United Presbyterian Church on School Street. In a separate ceremony Rev. Morrow unites Willat H Jones and Lotus BE Bush of Rositer at his home on School Street.
A Pittsburgh Division Pool agreement merges road and yard workers with seniority rules. Foremen and helpers at New Castle Yard hold yard seniority. Pittsburgh Road Division workers gain yard rights after June 16 1920. Officials say the plan benefits all employees but some fear shiftying duties to New Castle during a strike.
The Indiana County General Hospital has evolved into a county institution that must fund services for all in need. A steady fundraising push is urged to start July, with a focus on prudent, directed efforts to secure money and prevent deficits.
A fragment lists committee assignments across departments with many names such as Fine A. W. Mahon and Arthur Torrence. It includes Athletics Publicity and Advertising Transportation Industrial Reception and other groups with numerous individuals like John A. Scott Wiliam Seiple and Vernon Baylor noted among the lists.
The new Sisterhood begins its life in Indiana under happy circumstances with Stuchell elected Keeper of the Archives. Rahab Conmacdery Knights of Malta marks steady growth aided by sister organization, despite unseasonal weather hampering events.
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