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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1936
Page
7
Toni questions Mrs. Gabber and Bob recalls her overly talkative wife. The exchange pivots to a vivid joke about sunburned tongue after a vacation abroad last year.
Death and funeral notices for Mrs. Margaret Grace Bugg Jennings, Mrs. Minnie M. Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth Roadarmel, Harry T. Mellon, Mrs. Anna Hollobaugh, and Mrs. J Wadsworth, with details on funerals, interments, survivors, and residences in Indiana County and nearby towns. Includes Myers Literary Society program and a note on a French treatment for trachoma.
In a Franco Prussian era upheaval, Deputy Leurant missed the tense June 30, 1875 vote as a stomach ache kept him from voting. The assembly, nearly split 52 to 852, faced a deadlock until the president cast a vote favoring the Republic, altering France's political fate.
Indiana Lions hosted a joint gathering with Kiwanis and Rotary at the Methodist Episcopal Church drawing 128 attendees. Lion Thomas Barber opened, with Rotary president William M. Ruddock and Kiwanis head Wilbur Hummert introduced. Westinghouse purchasing agent G. Bunnell spoke on 1935 achievements and business outlook, noting a healthier economy, potential flood-driven demand, and future power developments. The program included films “Westinghouse Achievements of 1935” and “New Frontiers.”
A scrambled tale recounts Jeff Jefe racing Dixie King with a deodorized skunk as a bookmaker ruse at Jefferson. The plan collapses when the skunk escapes. Dixie King wins by three lengths, and the bookie loses his license. Moby Dick, a stable cat, is mocked as the track’s enduring mascot.
A fragmented line from a Story Stories Magnet piece mixes odd dialogue about sports and a misquoted phrase. It lacks clear events, persons, or places to form a coherent news item or report.
American visitors to England had a laugh at English village names, while the United States hosts towns with odd monikers such as Bonapart, Wellington, and Waterloo. Other quirky names include Needie, Traystael, Apricot, Grape, and Cereal, with trades and professions echoed in names like Carpenter and Barber. Some places even bear the nations China and France as village names, while others are Bliss, Harmony, Love, Solitude, and Tranquility contrasted by Hood and Cemetery.
A writer notes seabirds like gannet chicks may not touch land for up to five years after leaving Bass Rock Kintyre or St Kilda. Tens of thousands of stormy petrels roam the mid Atlantic far from land. Glaucous gulls travel globe after hatching on Arctic isles before nesting near the Thames.
Gov John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay sent a letter to his son at the mouth of the Connecticut recounting news and letters from England. Rev Thomas Hooker led 100 plus settlers from Newtown Moss to Dartford Conn. The overland trek of roughly 100 miles took about two weeks. This shows 17th century travel and communication in New England.
Chimney Rock in North Carolina takes its name from a peculiar formation that resembles a chimney. The base connects to a rock ledge that tilts away about a quarter of the way to the top, and a walk from the mountain across a chain leads to a magnificent view. The town of Chimney Rock lies about 18 miles from Asheville along the Greenville Spartanburg highway.
The peanut, nicknamed the burrowing bean, grows stems to about 18 inches before the plant buries pods in the ground. In late summer and autumn nuts are unearthed by a digger, dried in stacks for four to six weeks, then thrashed by machines to remove the pods from vines.
A whimsical description notes peculiar street and tower names in Rothenburg ob der Tauber during Whit Monday festivities. It cites Little Drympling Street Vinegar Jug Cheese Chamber the Dog Tower and the Street of the Little Minister among examples of quaint local names.
A fragment notes churchgoers in St Petersburg Ila and Ariuvica with Meme and potlee assigned to churches on Sunday to keep doory and wiles clear of worshipeys. All denominations are represented.
In northeastern Siberia, butterflies reportedly survive ten months of cold by entering a frozen state. Temperatures average around sixty degrees below zero, yet the insects reportedly revive during a brief warm period, a claim noted in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
New York City sax collections increased nearly 50 million in 1985 to bring total collections to about 620 million. Expenditures for home relief in New York City in 1986 reached 185.5 million. Last year over 125 thousand volunteer workers provided more than 2.6 million hours of Red Cross relief work.
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