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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1933
Page
7
Multiple obituary notices for Mrs. Dora McAfoose Edwards and others from Marion Center, Plumville, Homer City, and nearby towns. Details include birth dates, family ties, church affiliations, and funeral arrangements conducted at local churches and cemeteries. Names include Horace J. Hidd wards, Rebecca Ann Marshall, William A. Lockard, Anderson Williams, Charles Bolton, Jean Henchey, plus spouses and children.
Miss Geneva Sloan aged 66 died at her New York City home on Wednesday. Daughter of the late Hon Hannibal K Sloan and Loretta Sloan she was raised in Indiana and lived in Pittsburgh and New York. She leaves sisters Kate Glenn and Hope Sloan of New York and brother James Sloan of Washington D C. Interment followed at Blairsville Catholic church cemetery.
Lewis Wettling of Bristol aged1 years died suddenly at home leaving widow and a son Lewis Wettling Jr and two daughters Mrs James L Jack and Mrs Gardner Cobb plus sister Mrs S M Jack. he was born in Emlenton Pa and lived in Indiana earlier. Mary Jane Sadler of Punxsutawney an elder resident died after two months illness. wife of Thompson McKee Sadler (d July 1928) and mother of three daughters Nora Casper Florence Teagarden Valeska Grant and three sons Clark Frank Homer Sadler. she was descended from Moyle and Jordan families.
Mrs Nancy E Aultz aged 75 a Saltsburg resident dies at her Edmon Pa home with Friday funeral and Saltsburg cemetery interment. Survived by three daughters including Mrs J W King and Mrs May Garris and sister Mrs Emma Ernest along with several brothers and sisters. Also noting infant son Robert Carlisle dies of pneumonia in North Fourth street extension. funeral at home and Oakland cemetery. A L Gorsuch dies at 61 in Josephine from multiple diseases with services in Blacklick M H church and M B church Roaring Springs then interment in church cemetery.
Harry B Faust 77 died in Washington DC former Indiana resident funeral Thursday at Bigler Clearfield county widow and four children Roland Dayton Eleanor Newark Mrs Walter Brunhouse Washington DC Winifred at home Wig dines Engleka 66 mother of Mark Engleka died pneumonia Rockwood Somerset funeral today Mt Lebanon interment Annie Ray Armstrong San Francisco widow of Rev Robert A Armstrong born Slatelick four children Mia Louis Atterman Ray Robert Eunice Armstrong all at home About 50 species of Mammals occur in Pennsylvania
A promotional notice advertises a Burtonstown offer of 85.50 per year for R.F.C. residents of Indiana County and others not served by Post-Gazette carriers. It states the Post-Gazette is the only daily paper mailed to homes the same day and mentions additional club bargains on Page 2.
Jackson discovers a damning conspirator paper in Claude Lagrange's office safe. Clara Terguson, a federal secret agent, confronts him while Mammy destroys the evidence, exposing a foolish youth-led scheme and ending with Sam comforting Clara as Mammy proclaims its foolishness.
The Exeter Book, the oldest English poem collection, dates back about 1800 years and was kept at Exeter Cathedral. A second edition, not printed but photo-reproduced from 262 handwritten pages, was prepared in London with 250 copies.
In a diary Thomas Campbell describes Dr. Samuel Johnson as lacking sense and wearing an awkward garb with a powdered wig while David Garrick recalls Mrs Johnson as very fat with florid cheeks, painted and cordial driven dress. The remarks capture contemporaries' sharply satirical views of Johnson and his family.
Benjamin Franklin first printed a cartoon in the Pennsylvania Gazette amid war rumors with the French. On May 9, 1754, he published advice for Major Washington after news the Monongahela fort had fallen. His snake cartoon showed a thirteen-part division with New England as the head and the other colonies as segments, a design copied by many papers.
The article notes that Spanish estates of the Duke of Wellington, descendant of the Iron Duke, were not to be confiscated despite a list of 361 grantees slated for agrarian reform. Spain had granted the original duke 4,000 acres after his Salamanca victory in 1812. The present duke offered to sell back, but the republic declined, saying tenants were satisfied with his administration.
The term pork barrel traces to an 1828 harbor improvements bill passed by Congress. Opponents charged it was politically motivated and critics likened the rush to slaves on plantations. The phrase later applied to legislation claimed to be for political patronage.
Witnesses recount an eight foot tall Maori giantess named Yella Mataroa of New Zealand. At twenty nine she suffered appendicitis and died after attempting to move her by road. Ambulance access failed as weight destroyed the buggy and a horse cart was used but she did not survive to reach hospital.
Instructions describe making a barrel stain solution using 4% hyposulphite of soda in a quart of water and 1% acetate of lead in a quart of water. Solution is boiled, applied to a cleaned hot barrel with a sponge on a stick, then washed, dried, and finished with boiled linseed oil.
A flood of social notes records visitors and gatherings in the Vandergrift area. Families such as Lechte, Shutt, Coleman, Klingensmith, Mosbaugher, Rupert, Jamison, Subrece ngent, Cravener and others are noted visiting relatives in Plumville Apollo Andana and nearby towns. Church services are announced for Mt son M. church with a special master service on April 16 and Sunday school at 10 am.
Church services at Crooked Creek next Sunday at 11 o clock with Sunday school at 10. Evening services also at 7 30. Friends and relatives of Mrs Lina Thiusal gathered for her birthday. Sanford Over and children Gene and Dorothy of Barr visit her parents. Carl Miller and son Raymond of Vandergrift visited Mr and Mrs Harry Miller. Frank Kirk and children visited Mr and Mrs Henry Kirk in Luthersburg. Dr J Clay Mahon and family from PMG Ware visited. Harry Wells and Jay McQuilkin visited Indiana. A Brady and son Harry were in Indiana. Fur bearers season closed February 28.
Paul Graig Parkwood is home from Indiana hospital following an appendectomy. He is son of Craig and a junior at Elders Ridge vocational school. Local schools near term finish with some closing next week.
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