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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1902
Page
6
A summer tale follows the girl from New York who visits a rural farm for two weeks. Multiple hired men court her, sparks fly, and rival suitors clash until she finally departs on the evening train leaving no one certain of her heart.
A quip blending social etiquette with a small town issue as readers discuss manners and preferred beverages in a light column. A witty exchange highlights everyday concerns over hosting and choice of wine, reflecting local habits and opinions.
A study notes that in early catacomb frescoes Christ and two apostles are distinctly portrayed while the other faces resemble generic Roman types. The piece argues that authentic likenesses were preserved for Christ Peter and John, refuting the idea that later artists invented all depictions as dummies.
The intimate friend of Chauncey M Depew describes his method for avoiding repetition. A clerk catalogs and indexes stories from Depews vast network to supply ready anecdotes. Each tale is tagged with time and place to prevent retelling to the same audience.
The funeral for Prince Albert of Saxe Altenburg featured a forest burial. After a church service the coffin was placed on a hearse and carried to a beech tree site. The body lay in a white satin shroud and fir garlands before being interred four yards deep with a white cross marking the grave in the forest setting.
In a New York Times account Bishop Potter, on a casual southern trip, is mistaken for a colonel by an Afro American hotel waiter. He clarifies he is only a plain bishop, prompting playful banter about rank and dress. The anecdote highlights social assumptions of the era.
A Petersburg four and a half year old girl prays at night with her mother kneeling beside, asking the Lord to remove a mole on the mother’s face while confessing the mole seems to be staying. The story illustrates a child’s candid prayer and humor.
The text discusses Greek architecture favoring simplicity and circular forms, noting how Romans and Byzantines misused arches and domes. It argues that circular arches should bear weight visibly, while later styles turned arches into ornament, concealing structure and weakening the fundamental Greek idea.
A Pittsburg man reflects on a misjudged real estate decision after a church built on a boundary altered a sale. He explains he profited not, losing about a thousand dollars due to flawed reasoning as a buyer later paid double for the property.
A brief exchange details a buyer accusing a dealer of false claims about a horse. The dealer denies wrongdoing, insisting plans and travel times were misrepresented. The dialogue suggests a dispute over the horse’s speed and delivery timing.
A brief comic exchange shows a man offering two cigars for a quarter. Mock dispute arises over value and payment, with a quick quip about a twenty cent cigar. Entertainment snippet from the Philadelphia Record.
A physician fears a patient harbors poison in her system and questions the mystery drug. The patient contends the longer a man argues, the more a woman trusts her instincts. The New York Press cites this wit as misdirection while the Atchison Globe calls quarreis over principle bitter and petty.
Photographer C C Harlan of Eaton Ohio mounts a claim that years of severe indigestion and other stomach ailments vanished after using Electric Bitters. The ad extols benefits for stomach liver and kidney issues, promising renewed vitality and health, with a 50 cent price and local guarantees. The piece also notes a supply of porch materials and yellow pine ceiling from Daugherty Building Materials.
The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railway offers special excursion tickets to Niagara Falls and return from Ponxsatawney, limited to 15 days, priced at $7.45. Tickets go on sale Tuesdays during July August and September 30 16.
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