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Newspaper

Indiana Progress

Location

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Aug 28, 1901

Page

4

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Indiana Woolen Mills Company J. M. Watt Indiana County Deposit Bank Indiana

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