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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1903
Page
3
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph commentary notes that progress favors the forward looking in business politics and private life. It argues those who stay ahead of date win. those who lag fall behind. The excerpt ends with a humorous remark about bare feet and bedtime.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt tells of a young clerk who attaches Silk & Satin on a near deadline, earning praise from a great lawyer before being warned his promptness may raise pay expectations. The piece balances wit on ambition and workplace credit.
A New York Times quote portrays a modest, unassuming man who concedes he may not be able to operate a car he has never seen. The exchange highlights humility and self-doubt in a humorous context.
A tale about Holmes warning that being funny harms a poet’s credibility. A younger New England poet fears humor will shutter serious literary honors. A Mark Twain anecdote, recounted by Youth’s Companion, shows Browning’s influence and a humorist’s attempt to mimic Browning without full understanding.
The late Dr. Milburne, congress chaplain, could identify people by voice. A driver led a stranger to test this talent, recalling Milburne dining with the stranger's father years earlier. Milburne instantly named the visitor as the son of his old friend, the publisher Mr Harper, a man he hadn’t seen for thirty years.
An assortment of clipped items notes Bishops in England facing criticism and witty remarks from the public, including a Bristol bishop’s eluded congress and a Matchester prelate’s rebuke. A humorous anecdote about a Westminster encounter with a man shouting lazy punctuates the piece, followed by a dessert ad and a Bayard family mispronunciation anecdote.
T. L. Edwards the real estate agent offers seven town properties priced from 1000 to 5000 dollars, five farms including some underlaid with coal, twenty town lots, and a house with lot at Seward station.
The Boston Transcript notes a growing view that congressional salaries are insufficient to cover living costs and obligations. It cites hotel living, travel, and political subscriptions as essential expenses, predicting several useful lawmakers abandon public life unless pay rises or allowances are found.
Hypnotism is described as an artificial nerve force produced mainly in hysterical persons by some authors. The Nancy school argues it is broadly applicable with proper suggestion while risks fade under careful use. The Navy school defines it as a physiological sleep linked state responsive to suggestion. A medicinal ad promotes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup for healthier aging.
The World announces a combined one year offer with Thrice-A-Week World and Progres s for 1.65, saving 0.35 versus buying separately at 1.00 and 2.00. It touts broad circulation, fair political coverage, and features like serial fiction and market reports.
Ground up mummy yields a rare brown color from asphaltum in mummies. Ancient Egyptians coated head garments with fine asphaltum, which impregnated tissues over centuries, creating the lost paint material used by portrait painters for redrawn hair. Secretary Cartel, before McKinsey, mutters about an enormous pile of letters as Long consoles him. the navy head quips about the pyramid on his desk.
Notice is given that on February 1, 1904, at 1:30 p.m. in the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County an application will be made by Geo T Buchanan and others for the charter of The Indiana County Hospital. The proposed corporation aims to manage a hospital for acute sickness and recent injuries and to provide relief without distinction of race, color, or condition, under the act of 1874 and supplements.
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