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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1898
Page
3
In a New York Stock Exchange scene, traders discuss superstition around short lucky pencils. A long pencil is avoided, leading to halved stubs used as talismans. One man recalls profits tied to a fractional pencil, while others guard inch‑long keepsakes and blame misfortune on loss of the lucky tool.
Dr. Joseph Zanger conducted extensive tests with twenty five thousand nine hundred bees to analyze honeybee venom. He identifies a fresh, waterlike liquid with an aromatic odor, notes a gummy residue on drying, and details the soluble poisonous base that irritates mucous membranes. Animal tests show eye irritation and systemic effects including melancholy and thirst.
A Chicago Times Herald item recalls a Louisville switchboard run by a battery showing a fall in calls at 10 a.m. due to a citywide drinking spree. An electrician traced the drop, while managers and directors waited for results, only to discover Louisville was out taking a drink.
A Yorkshire socialist explains equal sharing to a friend. He says possessions should be shared, asking if the friend would take one of two horses and two cows. When the friend asks about two pigs the socialist balks, revealing he cannot spare his own two pigs.
The complainant testified that when told he would be arrested the prisoner answered mechanically. The judge asked for clarification and the complainant stated that the prisoner hit him on the head with a hammer.
The Pittsburg Exposition Society plans a grand season opening on September 7 headlined by John Philip Sousa and his band with two daily concerts. Follow up acts include Greater Pittsburgh Band and Orchestra, Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra, Victor Herbert and the Gilmore Band. Other attractions cover ponies, deep sea diving exhibitions, a gravity railroad, cinematograph views of war, new exhibits in Mechanical Hall and the main building, and models of ships and warships. Excursions at low prices will run along rail lines to Pittsburgh.
The 50th annual convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Indiana County will convene in Blairsville on Thursday and Friday of next week. The program lists sessions with prayers, greetings, reports, elections, and addresses by notable speakers, concluding with an adjournment. Also noted is the ninth reunion of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves at Ellsworth Park, Scottdale, Sept 2, with speakers including Judge Harry White and Col. B. M. Jackson referenced.
A columnist extols pluck and stamina, linking them to health. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is praised as the health maker that purges impurities and cures disorders from dyspepsia to nervous prostration by building rich blood. A testimonial from F. G. Bledsoe credits the remedy with curing torpid liver and nerves after years of struggle.
Miss Jennie Wertheimer of Cincinnati devised a way to prevent alteration on commercial paper by making it appear normal from the top but progressively thinning toward the bottom, revealing changes under light. She arranged to sell the entire patent to a New York firm for $25 000 after legal help confirmed the offer.
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