20 Jun 1912
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
1
Local merchants form a Chamber of Commerce aimed at boosting Indiana as a residence town. The association will begin work at noon, seek improved rail service, attract industries, and promote merchandise from the region. Meetings held on the first Tuesday evening each month with open suggestions, followed by a buffet lunch and social time.
Stafford resident F Fyock visited Indiana on Wednesday. Charles McLain on Fifth Street is away in Pittsburg for a few days. Mr and Mrs Harry McQuewn of AChurch Street are in Brookville for a event. G Al McLain of Philadelphia Street attends a church meeting at Leichtburg. Rev and Mrs W J Wilson left for Cambridge Springs to stay a few days. Floyd Getty Lynn McKee and Edward Swan, University of Michigan students, are at home for summer vacation. Nora Hamilton undergoing homeopathic hospital care in Pittsburgh, spending two weeks with her mother on Ninth Street.
The piece recalls Sir Edward Bradden’s Thirty Years of Shikar with vivid vulture hunting imagery as a tiger carcass is picked clean then shifts to a Swiss village incident. An inspector visits a village school finds an asleep elderly teacher and sleeping inspector then the concierge locks the doors as pupils depart.
A garbled late article discusses the Halifax gibbet as an ancestral guillotine and traces influence to Scotland and England. It compares devices, cites dates 1050 1661 1685, and invokes Dr Guillotine and the London Globe in a speculative history of execution methods.
scattered historical notes describe Meerschaum pits near Eski Shebr and long worked mines from Kahe to Mibaliten, employing about 5000 miners with primitive methods. exports go to Vienna and Europe, with occasional U S demand. the text tangentially drifts into unrelated maritime and royal ceremony details and disjointed oblique anecdotes.
An early newspaper account recalls an Edison tale of testing the phone graph when a steel point slid on paper, tracing alphabetic marks from voice vibrations. A finger wound occurred, blamed on the instrument’s moving point, with Edison’s fingernail described in the quirky anecdote.
The late Gorsley RA recorded studying Turner's Snowdon Range watercolors and the glow of light in the clouds around the moon. A remounting by Sir Seymour Haden revealed an orange terminal circle plastered with a palette knife to create color through the paper and pores, producing a deceptive effect while keeping a smooth surface.
A collage of old notes on walking canes and cultural anecdotes. It recalls canes as indispensable symbols in Steele’s era, their carved forms admired by nobles and jesters, plus a French colonial tale where yam ripeness supposedly governs when war may occur. Belgium and American wedding notes mix in, along with odd lines about proof of death and dressmakers.
An advertisement touts Saxon Salve as a cure for eczema and various skin ailments from face and scalp sores to itching. It claims to soothe by stopping scratching, penetrate the skin, kill germs, and promote speedy healing with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory, offered by Tom E. Hildebrand, druggist, Indiana, Pa.
Ten rooms available in a modern brick house for rent. Inquire at Farmers Bank Building, Indiana, Fa, from McConnell. 240 2t.
For sale notices list a buggy and harness in Blair Cummins Indiana Pa R F D with contact 238.1p. Also offered is a Good No 1 pair of 1000 pound scales viewable at Fiscus' grocery with contact 238-2tp.
In New York a Turking court cage required witnesses swear by the beard of the Prophet Mohammed. Rubinstein recalled a Crusader lineage while commentating on a plane joke about Richard Coeur de Lion. The debate over religious imagery cast doubt on the testimony’s accuracy.
A fragment discusses how stomach disorders can trigger pain in distant body parts. It notes foot neuralgia after Boer War injury may reflect nerve connections, and explains pains in knee hip shoulder blade teeth and head can originate far from the apparent location. Swallowing soda may ease cramps.
A terse street scene features a policeman ordering a crowd to move on while admonishing violent behavior. Mentions mineral pills, bowels, and Dr King’s New Life PIN as a purported remedy. Daugherty Bros sells the item for 25 cents.
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