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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1900
Page
6
A Birmingham Age-Herald morceau recalls a black mammy serving as maid of honor and wedding cake baker for a young couple. The story portrays devotion, a late night bake, and rows of elaborately iced cakes in the kitchen as the mistress notes the ebony matron's tired but happy pride.
In a Washington public school a boy drew a map of the United States with Maine shaded entirely in black. The teacher questioned him, and the boy replied that the state was in mourning for a congressman. The anecdote ties to a Harvard anecdote about aging and a Cambridge proctor.
Cambridge undergraduates lit a bonfire for Ladysmith relief and contributed signs shutters and furniture from townsmen. Several were arrested and convicted of theft and heavily fined by the mayor. The sentences bar them from church law or any learned profession and many positions, but the mayor refuses to revoke the judgments.
The Times-Herald reports Chicago University senate bars deformed spelling in publications, halting efforts to expand vocabulary. The move, rooted in educational authority, delays any rush to alter spelling across campus publications.
New York April 7 Don Co. weekly review notes only twice in 25 years would firstquarter 1900 failures seem large. Liabilities total 56,667,055 with 21,161,000 for United States Flour Milling and 2,490,482 for 16 banks, leaving 2,894 commercial failures and 33,022,572 liabilities. Manufacturing defaults milder than any year since 1899, with trading liabilities down. Exports show mixed gains, wool prices fall, and coal and steel outlook brightens amid new contracts. weekly failures 159 in U.S., 29 in Canada.
Presbyterian Banner offers three months for 25 cents to expand its readership. The weekly features a world history chronicle, reader-contributed articles, illustrated timely pieces, and church news, with writers like Marion Harland boosting its appeal from Pittsburg. Pawned church property. Norwegian Lutheran church chairs, organ, hymnbooks stolen. thieves claimed to be deacons raising funds. $50 recovered. Grain-O beverage ad touts healthful grains, tasty balance, 15 or 25 cents.
The Bethel Y P S C E and Sunday school pass resolutions honoring Mrs Florence Barber. They praise her faith, patience, and cheerful service, express sorrow, and offer sympathy to her husband and family while requesting publication in county papers. The committee signs the minutes.
Bounded on the south by Washington street and on the west by Lewis Thomas land the forty four and five tenth feet front on Washington street and extending back two hundred and six tenths feet One half cash on confirmation balance in one year from date of confirmation with interest and secured by bond and mortgage on the premises March 28 1900
All risks are placed in reliable companies. Room No 15 Farmers Bank Building Indiana Pa reflects the notice in the period listing a location and assurance of secure insurance coverage. The item notes a formal address and containment within a banking building.
Edward Voutlartmann declares the great question of the twentieth century as whether Germany will become a world power beside England, Russia, and America or retreat into the background like Scandinavia and France.
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