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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1894
Page
3
A humorous miscommunication unfolds in a downtown department when Miss Jones tries to congratulate Chief Smith on a newborn son. Smith, absorbed in work, misreads the kinder gesture as general praise and replies clumsily, prompting laughter and a blush from Miss Jones.
A Philadelphia Times editorial argues that under lax divorce laws wives who bear the burden of running a household and business face inequity. It contends common law blocks her half of jointly earned property and child custody remains biased against mothers despite their sacrifices.
The New York Tribune reports Benjamin F. Field of Los Angeles has patented a gas burner attachment to auto shut off gas when lights are extinguished. A light spiral spring presses the valve shut after the thumbpiece is disengaged, preventing accidental asphyxiation without altering flame control.
A Somerville Journal snippet records a brisk exchange where a busy public figure asks for an autograph and then requests a check for 10 payable to his order. The public man promises to deposit it and notes it will clear through the bank in due time.
Miscellaneous notes and quotes on liberty of conscience cattle slaughter and soup yeast powder value, a Denmark spinsters insurance, a bank official on didymium, bill collectors, a diamond with Christ likeness, Islam and the Koran, London fruit consumption, La Grasse perfumery, a burglar confession, rushlight history, St Paul’s cathedral Wren statues, Colonel Fred D Grant on diplomatic virtue, Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and Mystic Cure testimonials, South American Nervine, Orange Blossom, and Wanamaker & Brown sales opportunities in Indiana and Philadelphia.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New South American Kidney Cure. The remedy promises prompt relief of pain in the bladder kidneys back and urinary passages for both men and women. Sold by Hetrick Bros Indiana Pa with wholesale and retail oil prices noted. checkered front mentions a car load of oil.
Drawn for March term commencing Monday March 5 1894 with jurors listed by district including Armstrong Blairsville Blairsville Blairsville Blacklick Center Cherryhill Green Jacksonville East Mahoning West Mahoning North Mahoning Young Armstrong Blairsville Blacklick Brushvalley and Brushvalley entries naming jurors such as W N Devlin J W Means D W Krytzer C W Smitten J W Clark G W Irwin and many others along with multiple district groupings.
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