30 Sep 1929
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1929
Page
1
Allen governor cites Psalm 23 passage and notes Biblical compilations. The piece then surveys 1929 economic outlook with Butler at Columbia University, commenting on construction, trade, and business expectations.
Guaranty Trust Company of New York reports no startling results from the Federal Reserve rediscount rate increase. Industrial activity remains high and employment rising, with brokers loans and bankers' bills bought up, signaling ongoing demand. Auto manufacture leads consumer markets while steel and copper demand stays strong. however, year end production may ease as plants reduce operations.
A historical note outlines how cold treatment shifted from dosing to external use since VapoRub’s origin. It tracks slogan changes from 17 to 21 to over 26 million jars yearly, highlighting mothers preferring non swallowing remedies and the ointment’s skin absorption and medicated vapors. It notes Vicks’ global spread to more than 60 countries as a family standby.
Runzo recounts two dark suited men with soft hats, about 5 6 and 5 8, ages 20 to 25, fleeing after a struggle. A .32 caliber revolver cartridge was found on Mrs. Williams’ porch. Police Chief O Connell and officers Allen and Anderson investigate with few solid clues as neighbors mistook the disturbance for boys playing. Banks now promote night depositories for safety after the incident.
Stock quotations at 1 30 furnished by Hemphill and Noyes Company Indiana Theatre Building phone 1100.
Nine year old Charlotte Norris lay unconscious for weeks at Cincinnati General Hospital after being struck by a car on August 27. Surgeons relieved brain pressure and she has shown rare signs of awareness as doctors warn recovery hinges on nature healing brain membranes and not on immediate brain function.
Tablet passengers and freight were hauled over the Alleghenys by horse car and canal with steam winches lifting cars up slopes at four miles per hour. The system began in Philadelphia to Columbia links, then Johnstown to Pittsburgh, using inclined planes and canal basins before steam locomotives made transfers obsolete by 1885. The old Portage road was auctioned in 1857 to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Harris Emery narrowly avoided a collision with a mill chimney as hundreds of Bradford motorists gathered to view the wreckage. Emery field airport officials had urged delaying takeoff due to fog, but he pressed on to return passengers to Bradford. The craft vanished near Johnsonburg amid low flying, with public interest high and guards preventing souvenir hunting.
The article notes a dinner and reception at the British embassy hosted by Ambassador Howard without inviting Mrs. Gann or the Vice President, a move explained as a British custom to avoid ranking combined with the guest of honor Secretary of State Stimson. If Mrs. Stimson attends she would be the ranking lady, and Mrs. Gann may not attend the embassy dinner or White House event, leaving the decision to the President and Mrs. Gann.
Washington watchers note the ongoing social and political tussle as Hoover, aged 89, observes the next move in the capital’s public disagreements.
Hurricane warnings extend from Pensacola to the Mississippi as a powerful storm nears Apalachicola and Mobile. Nassau reports 20 dead with widespread damage in the Bahamas. Key West and Homestead suffer severe winds and flooding. ships report S O S as vessels are damaged or wrecked along the coast.
Former Normal resident of Hillside Westmoreland county who had been blind died. He was a railroad company agent at Hillside and an elder in Derry Presbyterian Church. Survived by a son Ralph in New York and three daughters Nan Ella and Olive. Funeral at his Hillside home with burial at Beatty Upper Darby.
The pledge rewards signers with a button and urges strict safety conduct around railroads and crossings. It emphasizes avoiding tracks, waiting for trains, and using streets for travel while supporting a fire prevention campaign led by Kiwanis Club in Clarksburg schools. Honor lists note high achieving students in eighth, seventh, and sixth grades.
Grain finished easier and eat off Yee corn. D P Spicher family visited Raymond Spicher at Dealport. Harold Fitzgerald vacationing at Gipsy. Hope Tyger of Indiana College home for weekend. Walter Conrads and Lemuel Spichers visited Horace Spichers. Mr and Mrs Fred Fox visited friends. Mrs Paul Duck and children visiting her parents. S S Spicher well driller of Indiana in vicinity. Clair Gaston visited from Indiana. A former treasury official says new currency dangerous. Two Topeka reports liquor in homes. Diamonds from anger claimed by professor and jokes about butter and egg men. Copyright 1920 NMA Service.
In this anecdotal piece American News Features recounts Will Rogers retelling a joke about Pop Rosenbaum, longtime manager of a famed air show. It notes Rosenbaum’s belief in his national status, his strict show practices, and amusing clashes with performers and owners as the tour travels.
Clark McGregor of Harrisburg district manager of Bankers Reserve Life Insurance spent the weekend with U. S. Marshal and Mrs J McGregor. John Quint of Cleveland formerly a Josephine resident called on Indiana friends. May Jean Eisenhart of Erie spent the weekend with her father E R Lumsden. Dr Clark Dickie and F M Smathers sail to West Virginia for a fishing trip on Capon River. Louise Cassidy, jury member last week, returned to Blairsville after a week with her brother in law and sister. C D Oakes of Clymer motored to Indiana yesterday. Burgess W A Kunkle Alex Walden and Harry Spence visited Indiana business folks. Attorney and Mrs William Duncan and Miss Mildred Wollman of Pittsburgh visited Agnes Stadmiller. H D McGinnis of Monongahela, DuPont Company representative, was a weekend guest at the Indiana hotel. Mr and Mrs W L Rembler of Bridgeport Ohio were Sunday visitors. Chief of Police Earl Myers of Graceston attended court. A W Reed of West Lebanon Sharp Guist of Salisbury and W D Amond, Young township road supervisors, visited the county commissioner’s office. Former County Commissioner C L Campbell of Heshbon paid a visit. Sergt Vincent Bunch and J C Haxton of the state police detail at the Moore Hotel have been transferred. Bunch to Somerset and Haxton to Greensburg.
An old advertisement promotes drinking three glasses of water one hour before breakfast to relieve constipation. It also suggests adding a teaspoon of glycerin saline compound called Adletika to each glass to improve bowel movement, reduce gas and sour stomach within ten minutes and two hours for relief. Daugherty's Drug Store.
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