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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1899
Page
7
A Rural New Yorker writer recalls mulching melons in several states with different materials. Straw, hay, pine leaves, and prairie sod mulch keep soil moist, suppress weeds, and boost yields. Notable stories include 1897 pumpkin harvests on a single vine and long experience across crops.
The article recalls the first horse car in the City of Mexico. Spectators cheered while riders paid fares as drivers and conductors faced new rules. Enthusiasm waned as speed issues and management concerns triggered delays and jokes about breaking the horses and the system.
An advertisement promotes Grain O as a coffee substitute with opposite effects. It claims Grain O tones the stomach, aids digestion, strengthens the nerves, and provides nourishing benefits. The copy warns coffee harms the stomach and nervous system and sells Grain O at 15 and 2a per package.
Kansas July 28 Cor corporal Leonard P F Hayes America's only traitor in the Philippines died after deserting his comrades and serving as a Filipino battery lieutenant. Sergeant George A Lat arsh of Company H Twentieth Kansas Volunteers recounts Hayes being bayoneted by a Second Dragoon soldier then shot by the troops and buried in a trench with Filipino dead. Hayes formerly served as a corporal in Company I First Colorado Volunteers.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a key remedy for kidney trouble affecting mind vigor and appearance in men and women. It claims the drug cures when organs are out of order and offers a free pamphlet by mail from Kilmer & Co of Binghamton, New York.
Redweed Rates to Grangers Picnic at Williams Grove Pa August 28 to September 2 with excursion tickets from August 26 to September 4 at one fare round trip. Rates apply from principal stations between East Liberty and Bryn Mawr on the Northern Central Railway north of Lutherville and on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Division east of Waterford. For details contact ticket agents. Garden work notes transplanting raspberries in May or June and tomatoes should not be transplanted before late May to avoid frost. Mystic Cure for rheumatism praised by ex Postmaster E T Anthony of Promise City Ta. Sold by all druggists.
A prolonged list of grand and jurors drawn for Montgomery and surrounding townships for the September term. Names include Blairsville, Marion Center, Mahoning, Pine, Warrington, and Wheatfield areas with multiple surnames such as Gibson, Elbell, Daugherty, Jefferies, and Sides. The schedule spans weeks starting September 11 1898 with further entries through September 1899, detailing jurors for each district and week.
Carroll files the second and final account of Robert B Carroll as administrator of James M Carroll late of Washington township deceased. Pim
Orphans Court in Indiana County orders an inquest to partition real and personal estate of Jacob Clingenberger deceased. Writ directs six sworn men to value and apportion lands in White township and a 60 by 160 foot lot in Indiana borough among heirs Sarah Jane Clingenberger John Clingenberger and Joseph Clingenberger with provisions for maintenance of Martha and Elizabeth Clingenberger. Court date set for first Monday of September term.
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