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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1899
Page
5
Logal correspondence from Dixonville and Marion Center details sick lists, farm plans, and community visits. Names include G. H. Warren, Lewis, Blair Johnson, J. E. Dickey, and J. A. H. Longwill, with travels to Indiana, Nebraska, and Punxsutawney. School news notes include term openings and awards at Calvert and Hutchison schools.
A four month old child of Mr and Mrs John Napp died from pneumonia and was buried in East Mahoning cemetery. Two young men Orlie McCune and Jess Ferrier have typhoid fever. Miss Emma J Raffner of Allegheny visits her parents. Ruffner school pupils gifted Miss Ollie Napp with quilts and a water set. Various local moves and visits noted, including Mssrs Burt Lydie Clyde and John Myers, and a Sabbath school organized at Smith church with Newton Armstrong elected superintendent.
Hillsdale reports visits by Bird Mahaney and Mr. Boyd Ake to Glen Campbell and Burnside. Several residents travel to Philadelphia and Indiana. Social events include quilting circles, taffy pulling, and birthday gatherings. In Clyde, New Florence liquor licenses face loss amid Christian-led effort. local schools note term completions and honors. Eldersridge and Piteton areas list exams, birthdays, travels, and sickness. Community church services and moving households are also noted.
Fragmentary OCR excerpt shows scattered numbers and phrases about totals by day time orders lifted and amounts due to a township. Key entities include Long, a township, and various monetary amounts. context and full meaning are unrecoverable from the readable text.
The article notes doctors favor cod liver oil for consumption but many patients loathe fats and plain cod liver oil. It explains the oil’s stomach upset and fishy taste reduce appetite, and promises a better remedy was developed, suggesting an improved preparation once found.
An old advertisement states Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites is the superior remedy for throat and lung ailments. It emphasizes better taste, easier digestion, and tolerability by sensitive stomachs, claiming nine of ten can digest it and that it aids early consumption and even advanced cases. Available in sec. and $1.00 at druggists.
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a desperate illness with jaundiced skin sunken eyes and back pain after three physicians gave him up. A friend urged Electric Bitters, the first bottle brought clear improvement and three weeks of use left him fully well, claiming the tonic saved his life at 50 cents a bottle offered by T. E. Hillebrand Indiana W. J. Moorfomercity Millers Dlulysville
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