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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1889
Page
5
The notice states a price of one dollar and fifty cents for August terms of the Indiana Progress. It presents a straightforward subscription or service rate with no additional dates or contextual details. The entry focuses on the stated amount and the publication name.
Local social updates include visits from Mrs W L Ransom and Miss Maggie Stear, ongoing sewing and Butterick pattern sales at Standard Sewing Machine, and public notices about thefts and property sales. Community reports cover births, weddings, travel, gas lighting, and upcoming church events with several named residents and nearby towns noted.
Advertising copy notes the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam for Cough and Colds offers free sample bottles to druggists for customers to try before buying. Large bottles sell for 50 cents and 1 dollar, with a caution that trial may prevent consumption.
A natural gas lawn fete titled Something New Night Made Day hosted by the young ladies society of St Bernard’s church will occur on the church lawn at 6th Avenue and Oak Street Wednesday August 28 from 7 to 10 p m A splendid lunch will be served and torches of various kinds with indoor and outdoor lights will demonstrate gas lighting on the lawn and beyond
Comrade Noah Adler informs comrades of the U V S and G A R planning to go to Gettysburg in September that he will furnish them suits and hats at fair prices. Mail orders promptly attended to. 313¢
A joyful August 15 procession led by McGuire's Martial Band gathered in Cherryhill to honor Mr. and Mrs. Moorhead on their 50th anniversary. The event drew about 150 guests including eight children, twenty-seven grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Gifts totaled over seventy dollars. Mr. Moorhead is 73 and Mrs. Moorhead 72. they hosted a feast and heard readings and prayers before a golden bell rang in their honor.
A Wednesday evening lightning strike consumed the Burrell township barn of A. M. Coles and its contents including the year s crop, with only oats spared. The loss is estimated at 4 000 to 5 000, insurance 1 500. Coles residence narrowly escaped, and a prior horse death adds to his misfortune. Descriptions of new postal cards note three sizes, larger business card top, brighter white stock, and improved aesthetics.
Attention horsemen. Schrecongost and Weamer will arrive next Monday August 26 with a car load of young horses offered for purchase at a small price. Also a large red pocket book lost on the road between Indiana and Tannery post office. reward offered for return to this office or the loser. R. G. Spence Indiana Pa.
List of recently issued licenses shows names such as Horace G Hill, Jamon G Daft, A Fleck, Susana Spencer and David Hauk from towns Creekside Atwood Smicksburg Flora Locust Lane Pa.
A wedding reported from Creekside as Miss Jennie D Cochran and Mr W B United wed by Rev A T Bell on August fourth. Caroline Romibell listed among attendees in the brief notice.
Local correspondence details mishaps and community events including two horses killed in a fight, a barn fire from a lightning strike at Thomas D. Dias near Buena Vista, Brushvalley twp, loss $900 insured, a woman fracturing her leg after tripping on lumber, camp meetings at Ridge View, visits by townsfolk, church events, new professionals moving in, and various social incidents with a tone of small-town reporting.
The Echoe lists district appointments by school directors including Salisburg, Blairsville, Smicksburg, East Wheatfield, West Wheatfield, Clarksburg, Centre, North Mahoning, South Mahoning, White, Grant, Mechanicsburg, and Jacksonville. Term lengths vary from three to eight months with start dates in September, October, and late September.
The notice urges Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic to restore kidney activity and prevent Bright’s disease, diabetes, and bladder issues. It claims the tonic stimulates the organs without drunken stimulant effects and helps drain impurities from the blood, easing rheumatism dropsy nervousness fever and ague, constipation and dyspepsia.
An old advertisement style rhyme touts Castoria as a remedy from infancy to motherhood. It traces usage from baby illness to adult needs, then to serving children, presenting Castoria as a timeless tonic across generations.
After nine years and three months at the Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia, with music study under Prof. David D. Wood and a diploma plus tools from New York, J. J. Schaant of Indiana, Pa. offers piano, pro and instrument repair lessons from home and invites public testing of his work. Sparks Bros. & Stevens' Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. will perform in Indiana on August 22. The Scotdale Independent notes two strong shows in Scotdale, praising the company.
The article notes ongoing seasonal transitions in mercantile life with autumn seedtime following harvest. It highlights all-weather merchandise including woolens, blankets, coats, and early knitting yarns, and announces new lines of Jamestown dress goods Calicoes and Indigo Blue Calicoes. It emphasizes consumer demand and ample stock ready for fall shopping.
Marshall and Kline advertise Lace Curtains, Cloth Curtains, Window Shades, carpet, wallpaper, and a large range of table covers and Lambrequina. They promote mantels, fabrics, and decorative fabrics in woolen embroidered, chenille, and tinsel, emphasizing newest styles, best goods, and low prices to meet year round demand.
The week long report lists J N Stewart with 20 cattle 11 sheep and 16 calves bound for Collegeville Pa D B Allison 35 cattle 3 calves to Harrisburg W T Burns 17 cattle 16 calves 65 hogs to Balford Pa and more. It also notes pages of local ads and notices including medicines and a post office letters list for Indiana Pa August 21 1880.
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