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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1923
Page
11
Rosita Forbes recalls Arab customs on marriage and divorce. Public punishment for infidelity involves burying offenders in sand and stone throwing. Arab divorce requires only three words. Forbes, posing as a traveler bound for a wealthy shell’s harem, faced hostility until a tall Arab rescued her and took her to his harem.
Howard P. Wilbur of San Francisco, blind since childhood and in his twenties, holds a major position with a large corporation and manages daily affairs without a special attendant. He relies on stenographers, hotel staff, and taxicab drivers. Wilbur must know minute details of equipment changes and conducts extensive travels.
A Stockholm firm known as Aga, led by Nobel laureate Dr Gustaf Dulen, claims to have solved artificial daylight using a red and yellow filter on an electric bulb. The system promises more consistent color matching and steadier illumination than natural daylight, with the filter made from high quality optical glass. Doctor Dalen, head of the company and key inventor, is blind from prior experiments with the automatic light buoy.
A report shows Interborough Rapid Transit collected a billion nickels at elevated and subway turnstiles in 1922. The line’s mileage more than doubled since 1905 and passenger traffic tripled over the same period.
An expedition from the Museum of the American Indian Heye foundation is excavating limestone bluff shelters along the Wilte and Gowskin rivers in Missouri and Arkansas. They uncover aboriginal artifacts including basketry textiles wooden items and pottery dating up to 1000 years old, with possible later traces of Osage or related tribes. The work began after a 1914 visit to Dr W C Barnard and started in May 1922 in the Ozarks upper White River region.
New York inventor Chicago Herman DeWitt Tudgeoan sues in federal court claiming millions in royalties for alleged patent infringement on weighing scales. He names 200 major Midwest firms including International Harvester Sears Roebuck Lyon Healy and United Cigar as infringers and seeks injunctions and royalties on all scales bearing certain marks. Bank President War libraries comment not provided.
A ringed swallow sourced from Lingharne in Carmarthenshire has been found dead on a farm near Johannesburg, South Africa, about 600 miles away. The long distance migration marks a remarkable, possibly first documented trip of this species from Wales to that region.
Malleenen Dinan and Minnerty of Thisthigs on ffigdson were dawn by the river ache. They say a large deer toatled elasty down the Phaleon and an enbe of dee more than 100 yirds fr at shasta. Policemen not hope, went out in a rowboat and rescued the antival.
Mrs U S Having returns from Pittsburgh visit as Wallace and Kenneth Mails visit their mother in the homeopathic hospital. Mr and Mrs Win Laird of Sewickley spend weekend with Mrs J M Lavine. Frank Warner of Shelges to visit his sister Mrs LW Speedy over weekend. Allen Laits of Johnstown called on J B Gibson home Saturday. Mrs J C Tomb visits later with 8 S Marshall Saturday evening. Listey Diven an Indiana visitor Saturday. J Hwing and family called at C W Sheikds home one evening. J J Shields and sons Arthur and J A Shields of Vandergrift visited their parents QO W Shields Sunday. Mr and Mrs J A Dixon and daughter Margaret attended the operatta at Indiana Normal Saturday evening. Their daughter Miss Cleona Dixon was in the cast.
The Kent Grange plans a Wednesday evening program on May 2 featuring roll call a Grange suggestion songs recitations by Thomas Mikesell Mrs Wm Gaaham Mrs Jesse Anthony two minute talks gardening care and feeding baby chicks and sheep and lambs with best shear time. instrumental music and a debate on whether fire is more destructive than water with Reba Neal Royden Long for and Ruth Altman Alex Graham against. music by Grane.
Public sale to be held at the Phillips farm 34 miles south of Penn Run 2 miles west of Heilwood on Friday April 27 at 12 20 PM. Household goods include piano organ Davenport chairs stove refrigerator dishes and more. 6 acre farm also offered at the same location. Joseph Phillips owner. Cameron auctioneer.
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