Gasoline Explosions Raise Warnings and Public Notices
A 1901 Indiana Pa newspaper page notes deadly gasoline and benzine explosions in Philadelphia, urging caution with petroleum fuels. It reports massive losses, discusses corn and wheat exports, and cites national economic and political items while listing local notices on flags, election voter registration, and arnica salve endorsements.
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Philadelphia
A Premium on Shade Trees Act Encourages Planting Along Highways
A late legislature act approved by the governor offers builders tax credits for transplanting fruit shade or forest trees along rural highways. One dollar is credited to road taxes for every two trees planted on the donor's premises. Birthday Party. Last Tuesday nearly 150 relatives and friends gathered at Mr and Mrs J K Shank’s White Township home for Mrs Shank’s 55th birthday with a barn dinner and a gratitude chair gift. Card of Thanks. Mr D A Eitchey and son thank friends for help after their barn fire near Smicksburg. W C T U notices: Indiana County executive committee meet at the fair grounds check stand on Thursday August 29 at 11am. Eva G Thompson and Mrs T C Watson, presidents. Notice to Consumers of Natural Gas. Indiana Pa Aug 26 1901 price to private consumers 25 cents per thousand cubic feet, less 200 per cent for cash in ten days. no meter rent. Indiana County Gas Co Harry W Wilson president. Badge Sellers Wanted. Ten persons needed to sell reunion badges for Indiana County Soldiers’ Association. J M Marshall recruiting. Local grocer J E Younking’s delivery wagon remodeled and improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. K. Shank
White Township
Indiana
Homer City
Eva G. Thompson
T. C. Watson
Indrana
Ixpiana
C. M. Wine
Philadelphia Street
Tarentum
Rose Ritchie
Allegheny
Laura Cunningham
Jean Lytle
Tenth Street
Atlantic City
Bennetta Williams
Johnstown
Minnie Jones
Railroad Avenue
Philip Reithmiller
Squire
Thomas Dodds
Asbury Carney
Buffington Township
J. L. Peterman
Fourth Ward
Caroline Walker
Rayne Township
Mies Swayer
Altoona
Edith Fleming
William Horner
Vandergrift
John Horner
South Sixth Street
James Crossman
Gertrude
Oakland Avenue
Ponxsutawney
David Ortz
Mabel
Edna
Sarah Tinthoff
Fifth Street
Buffalo
D. B. Taylor
Muskoka Lake
Canada
Elmer Ellis
Nell
Church Street
Latrobe
Nan Sweeney
Washington Street
Derry
M. C. Gordon
Normal
Allegheny County Teachers’ Institute
Pittsburg
Grace Michaels
Blairsville
William Bell
Harry A. Fleming
Turtle Creek
Henry Livingston
Lettie McMillen
Bertha On
Martha Orr
Elien Taylor
Ligonier
Zaide Long
Philadelphia
Leon Smith
Chicago
C. J. McElhoes
LaRue
May Prothero
Home
Niagara
A. Gibgon
Mollie
Harriet Anderson
Wayne Avenue
Belle Anderson
Pine Flats
Barnesboro
Hope Lewis
East Mahoning Township
Duquesne
Durrett and
Wallace County
Kan
Mary M. Graham
Homeopathic Hospital
Malvina Riddle
Town
Meredith
Helen Elkin
Buiffalo
Loretta Derby
Martha Graff
Waterstreet
James L. Paul
North Ontario
Cal
Col. Paul
Sarah M. Jones
McGaw
Topeka
A. S. Pattison
Blacklick
G. W. Graff
East Water Street
J. T. Cass
W. 8. Collins
John Moor ‘Head
William Letter
Weat
Lebanon
A. 5. Thompson
Wilkinsburg
H. 3. Thompson
John Kinkead
Sistersville
W. Va
Walter Bell
J. W. Kinnan
Grant Township
W. Pearl Walker
Gazette Office
Ebensburg Mountaineer-Herald
Moe
W. M. Cunningham
Sim
Nebraska
Illinois
W. P. Kershaw
J. W. McBride
Wilkineburg
Matthias Coletoan
A. J. Hert
Butler
Esther Campbell
Charlotte Crossman
Mabelle Oberlin
Punxautawney
John Marshall
Philip Marshall
Alice Simpson
Kittanning
D. W. Simpson
North Sixth Street
Samuel Barnett
Barnett
E. J. Widdowson
West
C. J. T. Long
W. R. Thompson
Ebenaburg Mountaineer- Herald
James Thompson
R. Galbreath
Apollo
Clara Irons
Joseph
Water Street
Panxsutawney
Margarette
Florence Washington
Rueretta Thompson
North Ninth Street
Margaret Stephens
Pitcairn
J. C. Calhoun
West Mahoning Township
Steele
Calhoun
Crabtree
Westmoreland County
William Waugamay
Dunbar
Washington Township
Juniataville
Fayette County
H. E
Samuel Nicholson
Helen Gilbert
B. Marshall
Clarksburg
W.W. Grove
New Florence
Dick Morgan
R. J. Morgan
William Nichol
Archie Nichol
Myama
Butler County
Frank Finde
Joseph Finde
East Oak Street
J. C. Cook
Lizzie Huber
Sidney Thompson
Pauline Walker
Mary McHenry
Oliver
William J. Roberts
Kansas
Roberts
Milton Carney
Penn Run
Clara Gibson
Mr. Carney
Personal notes from Indiana County visitors and locals
Joe Guthrie visits Altoona on business while many townsfolk host or travel to nearby cities. Notables include George Selig of Franklin, S. A. Smith in Pittsburg, Elder Peelor in Johnstown, Archie Mabon in Buffalo, and Edward Sutton in Latrobe, among others visiting relatives or attending events from Saltsburg to Vandergrift. Several teachers and students prepare for Pan-American Exposition travel and winter duties.
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Joe Guthrie
Altoona
George Selig
Franklin
S. A. Smith
Pittsburg
Elder Peelor
Johnstown
Archie W. Mabon
Church Street
Buffalo
Edward H. Sutton
Latrobe
M. Lowman
Shelida
R. E. Young
Town
Merton Davia
Saltsburg
Edward Garman
F. B. McCauley
Indiana
P. C. Harbison
West Lebanon
Jennie Sweeney
Vandergrift
Minnie Jones
Railroad Avenue
Vincent Tonkins
Cherrytree
Gertrude Douglass
Boston
S. A. Douglass
Sell Frec
Kellysburg
Charles
Mildred
Mabel Thompson
Missa Maude Malcolm
White Township
Elmer
Freeport
D. BR. Pringle
Maude
West Oak Street
Blacklick
Health cure boosts Sadieville rumor in 1880s notice
In Sadieville Kentucky residents hear a claim from a husband that Dr King’s New Discovery cured his wife’s chronic bronchial trouble and a granddaughter’s whooping cough. The ad extols the medicine’s range and lists price 50c to $1.00 with free trials at local drug stores. It touts Statler’s Hotel at the Pan American Buffalo exposition and praises its accommodations and meals.
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Sadieville
P. Whittaker
T. E. Hildebrand’s
Indiana
W. I. Moore’s
Homer City
Mr. G. Miller’s
Blairsville
Preaching In England Leads Wesleyan Methodists
Public Opinion notes that lay preaching remains a strength in English Methodism with 19,956 lay preachers to 2,152 ministers in Great Britain. The Local Preachers' Mutual Aid association, founded about fifty years ago, supports poorer lay preachers, especially in old age, and now has about 10,000 members across Wesleyan Methodists, the Free churches, and the New Connection.
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Iay
England
Great Britain
Wesleyan Methodists
Methodist Free Churches
New Connection
The Thru Minute Trotter Analysis
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes that shaving 87 feet in a trotting mile is tiny, equating to under four horse strides. It explains a two minute mile requires 44 feet per second and cites Crescens at Columbus trotting 43,197 feet per second with 26 foot strides, calling the task nearly superhuman.
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Crescens
Columbus
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bonds for Sale at Indiana Woolen Mills
The Indiana Woolen Mills Company offers ten thousand dollars of first mortgage bonds at five percent interest with semi annual payments. Bonds are in five hundred dollar denominations and secured by first mortgage and insurance policies. The loan finances plant operations. This offer is withdrawn on Saturday August 31 1901. For details contact treasurer J M Watt at Indiana County Deposit Bank Indiana Pa by order of the board of directors.
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Indiana Woolen Mills Company
J. M. Watt
Indiana County Deposit Bank
Indiana
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