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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1930
Page
8
A stranded Christmas Eve journey aboard a day coach becomes a makeshift show as passengers improvise a performance. Grim and Bozo Boswell headline a ukulele filled program with dialect sketches and a fairy tale, delighting children and tiring adults alike.
A Christmas party aboard a railroad dining car features Miss Hall and Miss Wall guiding stories and music for boys, with Bozo the performer handing out sandwiches and gifts. Santa Claus in disguise arrives with cocoa and a festive spread as a snow plow passes, ending with a merry Christmas toast.
A 1940 Western Newspaper Union piece advises mothers to ease childhood fears by exploring darkness with children and gently coaxing out worries. It warns against using imagined threats as discipline and shares a story of a mother calming a boy scared by beliefs that bad people cause the world to burn.
Relief by the American Red Cross covered six nations in disaster during the year. Newfoundland received 5000 to aid after a tidal wave that killed 26 and wrecked homes and boats. funds also aided Mennonite refugees from Russia as they moved to new lands. Costa Rica received 50000 vaccine tubes by air to curb a smallpox threat. A separate note jokes about a young man asking a medical publication for advice on balance in a dark room and suggests a New Year’s resolution.
Alexander McDonald of near Barnesboro was captured near Heilwood after a two week manhunt. He faces six counts of forgery and passing worthless checks, using forged instruments he could not read or write and having victims endorse them for him. The scheme targeted several local merchants, including the B. R. & R. Motor Company, from which he obtained cash after endorsing checks he had signed with his mark.
In 1930, Ben Martin travels through Brayton and reaches his old hometown seeking Aunt Agatha and family reunion. He reunites with Bill, learns his cousins are settled, and hopes to spend Christmas with kin though rooms are full. He decides to head south for the holidays.
World Sunday School Association statistics show Pennsylvania schools comprise a tenth of Protestant Sunday School members in America and a twelfth of all worldwide. Overall attendance remains low, with only one in three Pennsylvanians in Sunday School. The 1931 motto Increase urges vigorous participation. Indiana County supports both International and World Associations through gifts.
In Widarton and nearby towns a series of church tied marriages are announced. Edith Ralston becomes Mrs W W Willis of Galilee Pennsylvania after a ceremony in Youngstown Ohio officiated by Rev Campball. Anna Louise Smith weds Harvey H Johnston in Kittanning with details noting Mrs H C Little as parent and Creekside prominence. Otis Thiel Webster wed Truth Mig Crousman in Cherry Tree, with Webster employed as a miner. The U P church in Ilderton plans its annual baker and thicken supper on Friday December 12 at the church basement.
Victim Joseph Mandie aged 45 of McIntyre was instantly killed when his shoulder touched a live trolley wire at the Trochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company mine. He left a wife and nine children and had worked 16 years for the company. Funeral services were held at McIntyre Catholic church with interment at St. Bernard Cemetery. Bounty claims show November payments for foxes and weasels. A miner from Boltz, Andrew Torok, died after a rock fall at Diamond Smokeless Coal Company mines Koltz.
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