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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
5
Local items and advertisements cover clothing, groceries, sewing machines, and farm goods from Clark's Art Room Hall's stores and Cunningham's. Notes mention community events, church services, school staff changes, a railroad accident, and civic notices, with brief updates on residents and upcoming sales and entertainment.
Snow, marriages, and town changes mark a bustling Pine Flat report. Key names include Lizzie Reed, Kate Harcom, J K Pierce as postmaster, and N L Atwood arriving to lead church work. upcoming temperance meeting at the Baptist church and an election in June loom as a focus amid farm tasks and a shuttered mill until fall.
An old advertising quatrain recalls Castoria as a remedy across generations from infancy to motherhood. The repetitive charm ties Castoria to childhood illness and parental care, portraying the product as a trusted, enduring choice.
On March 26, 1480, at David Richey’s home in Buffington township Indiana County Pa to David Ross aged & years and 9 months. A native of Scotland he was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church in Scotland and United Presbyterian church here. Want a good blacksmith to manage a shop in Shelocta Pa contact E G Ork & Co Shelocta Pa. Indiana population about 5 000 many afflicted in throat and lungs advise consulting druggist for Kemp's Banam throat and lungs trial size 1 1 2 large bottle 50c and 1.00 sold by all druggists.
A jumble of 19th century deals from J. G. Walker & Son to Marshall & Kline. Promises of cheap shoes, ribbed vests, frames, carpets, wall papers, dresses, and groceries mingle with insurance pitches from Paul Insurance Agency and a note about two Indiana borough overseers seeking board for two boys.
A long catalog-style notice lists fabrics and textiles such as silks, woolens, ginghams, laces, table linens, towels, and rugs, alongside garments and accessories for men, women, and children. Items include India silk, Japan silk, Real English Luatres, Chambrays, Alpacas, Robes, hose, gloves, hats, suits, shoes, curtains, carpets, napkins, and branded goods from Silk Shawls to Zigler’s Fine Shoes. Domestic and imported goods are offered with prices implied by the catalog context.
The advertisement touts Geneva and Golden Queen grapes, Royal Russian Apricots, Apricot Plum, Windsor black cherry, Yellow Transparent apples, and a full line of fruit trees and ornamental stock. It cites a praise from American Agriculturist about agents and invites inquiries with address reference.
A new meat market run by McLain Davia and G W Roof opens in Cunningham's Row. It offers beef veal mutton lamb pork sausage pudding salted soaked meats country and sugar cured hams breakfast bacon and more at low prices. The owners invite public patronage and claim finest quality meats.
Auditor appointed by the Court of Common Pleas will report on the distribution of funds from the sale of FP Lye's real estate. The hearing is set at the office of J N Banks in Indiana OL Sapna with D C Mack, Sheriff, in attendance.
An ad notes Hildebrand's drug, book and stationery shop moving to a new four story building with Tom Hildebrand occupying the first floor. It invites customers to visit the old stand mid fall and mentions bargains in books albums and musical instruments. Also promotes Ho stetter's Stomach Bitters as a nerve tonic aiding digestion and nervous symptoms.
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