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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1895
Page
7
The text evokes a sailing voyage with dreamlike seas and roses on a crewed voyage. References include sails, ocean kisses, ripples, islands, and the sun overhead. The fragmented verse paints a vivid, nostalgic maritime landscape.
The article outlines an electrical typewriter like printing telegraph that transmits printed characters to multiple receiving stations. It states impulses move the mechanism, prints letters via a revolving type wheel, and can operate at 200 revolutions per minute. It claims secrecy and rapid nationwide transmission for newspapers.
An old journalist argues that typewriters kill originality and style in journalism. He cites ink and typewriter use at major papers as producing colourless, mechanical writing lacking vitality, with printers and pagers surrendering to machine speed. He laments loss of human touch and individuality in newsrooms.
A curious explainer on geodes describes hollow rocks filled with crystals and varied fillings like clear water, yellow or brown paint, or tar. It notes geodes are scarce, with terms tracing to earthform, and mentions a New York Bolivar town anecdote and a Ram's Horn quip about rotten apples in a basket.
A discussion on mineral waters and earthy substances in foods notes goiter risks from limestone and mineral waters, questions mineral springs' healing claims, and warns about kidney damage from bicarbonate use, with a testimonial for Chamberlain's remedy and local sales notes.
A San doval regiment bugler is revealed as Miguel Urbaneia Torres a young woman who enlisted in Spain to accompany her fiancé in Cuba. After a machete wound at Dos Rios she confesses the secret to a fellow soldier noting the lover died weeks earlier in Hatillo.
An 19th century style advertisement claims instant relief and a permanent cure with Otto's Cure for lung and throat ailments. It lists multiple locations and names like Indiana, Hillsdale, Marion Center, Cherry Tree, and J. C. Cuddy, plus testimonials including Mrs. Balstock and reference to Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil. The text promotes sample sales and contends affordability with 25c trials.
A long roster lists jurors for each district for the week starting August 26, followed by September term draws for multiple counties and weeks. Names include Nayne M Wynkoop Indiana A J Smith Blairsville J C Davis and East Mahoning with a Second Week commencing September 9 and Third Week starting September 16 with numerous entries across Pine Banks Green Center and Conemaugh. An advertisement promotes Dr Sadler Pittsburg offering hay fever and deafness treatment using electricity and cautions against radical bone removal procedures.
Campbell and Smith announce an enlarged surplus stock to be cleared in August before new fall imported goods arrive September 1. The sale covers domestics linen wash silks dress goods ladies waists wraps millinery undergarments carpets curtains upholstery furniture house furnishing china ware and related items with extraordinary values. details to follow in Pittsburgh daily papers.
A historic ad style rhapsody recalls a mother’s care for child health with Castoria across stages of life from infancy to motherhood, emphasizing trust in the remedy as a lifelong staple in the household.
A historical ad claims Groff's Rheumatic Cure as a universal remedy for chronic and acute inflammatory rheumatism, gout, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, and dysmenorrhea, with blood purification benefits for eczema and liver and kidney diseases. It asserts relief in 1–3 days and cure in 5–15 days, listing Daugherty Bros Indiana and W. L Moore Homer City as sellers.
Fragmentary notice from Brushvalley township overseers of poor listing parties and general maintenance obligations. Text is garbled with missing words but references Portier, neo v J, and a directive about contracts and care for the poor.
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