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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
4
An OCR fragment references a Wednesday issue dated December 23, 1908, noting a local weekly publication with a prepaid year and a listed phone contact. The readable bits suggest the format and timing of a small town newspaper.
The piece summarizes how candidates report election costs after new laws. It notes Robertson spent over thirty three thousand in Connecticut, Lilley twenty three thousand with fifteen thousand to the state committee, Hughes under four hundred in New York, Draper eight thousand for Massachusetts, mostly donated to parties. It questions law effectiveness and the influence of large sums in campaigns.
The article discusses renewed momentum for tariff reform nearly twelve years after the Dingley act, noting support and resistance among protectionists and stand patters. It mentions Taft era hearings by the Ways and Means Committee as interest rises among business leaders and those affected by duty changes.
The court ruled Kentucky acted within constitutional rights when it passed a law prohibiting mixed race schooling, a decision tied to Berea College’s suit over teaching Blacks and whites together. Berea seeks funds for a separate Black college as students are dismissed from the older school. No national law bans flag or shield advertising, but the patent office now refuses to register marks using U S arms or city state insignia.
An infant girl, Alice Vandalla, daughter of Mr and Mrs James O Orr of Creekside, died on Thursday at age 17 days. Burial details and further notice not available in readable text.
Obituaries record the death of Mrs James McLaughlin at 60 East Water Street from cancer and illness. Survivors include children Mrs Geo W Swan, Mrs Harry A Boggs, Robert McLaughlin, and Mrs Daniel Gourley. Margaret Milen Stewart dies at her nephew A Stewart’s home in Centre township after a long life as a teacher and longtime Progress reader. Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery. Miss Jane St Clair dies in Chicago sanitarium. former Indiana Normal graduate and Chicago school supervisor leaves surviving siblings.
Mr J B Younkins opened Indiana's Star Theatre in the J T Bell storeroom at Philadelphia and Seventh streets. The modern venue offers vaudeville and standard moving pictures with a raised floor and four scenery seats, three dressing rooms, and three exits for patron comfort and safety.
Horace W. Riddell of Weat Wheatfield township died December 15 at Ladkport aged 77. He ferried canal boats and led the first locomotive transport to Pittsburg and rode the first train out of the city. John Jamison aged 86 died December 10 at his granddaughter Myre’s home. RW Leegh of Sre6n township near Parehaee stone, interred at Ogklana cemetery near Deckerg Point on December 12.
A reflective piece discusses money as essential to start any venture and to meet basic needs, education, home life, and security in old age. It notes the role of interest and urges readers to consider money's impact on happiness, commerce, and holidays shopping.
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