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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1900
Page
7
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, shopping in Paris, hears shop staff mutter “Two ten.” A porter explains the phrase means keeping “two eyes on her ten fingers,” revealing a shoplifting scheme by Trois Quartiers shopmen targeting a wealthy visitor. This Tit-Bits item notes the curious misuse of coded speech in a department store.
The Transvaal yields thriving tuberoses and roses with minimal care. Pretoria streets boast rose hedges and prolific blooms while Swaziland orchids thrill collectors. A clergyman recalls thrift with a plant stand donated toward a monthly church collection.
A performance noted as a cautious trial where a superior performer is given repeat chances. The comic vaudeville style shows a hansom cab gag and esplanade mishaps, with the manager’s continued doubts about training him. The piece underscores skepticism toward training in show business.
The author notes the abundance of babies in Italy and describes seeing bambinos hung on pegs outside homes. She recalls unhooking one briefly, finding it stiff from feet to shoulders yet not distressed, except for a howl during handling, and comments that bambino life seems happy except when foreigners invade.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It asserts the remedy works through the blood and mucus surfaces, offering one hundred dollars to prove any failure, and urges sending for testimonials. Also promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a constipation cure.
An old testimonial from Mrs Ira W Holmes of Cedar Rapids Iowa extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a vital tonic for tired women and female weakness. It also notes Pleasant Pellets as safe house remedies offering mild laxative and cathartic effects without reacting with the system.
Public sale at the undersigned residence in Center township Indiana county Pa one mile north of McCombs schoolhouse on Thursday February 15 1900 at 1 pm. Ready sale of mules cows Jersey cattle horses wagons plows harness grain and many items. terms nine months credit over 5 cash under 5 with approved security. Auctioneers Wissinger.
The passage discusses a grandson of Bible worshipers who rejects religious life and philosophy, prioritizing work as life and dismissing abstract ideas. It notes the modern American rush and the writer’s critique of culture, followed by an ad endorsing Grain-O as a healthy coffee substitute for children. Israels the Painter profiles Josef Israels, a 74-year-old Dutch artist born in Groningen, trained in Amsterdam and Paris, long based in The Hague, with celebrated depictions of Dutch fisher life shown in various cities.
An anecdote shows a Wellington clerk testing debtor honesty with two retailers. One offers seventy five cents on the dollar, the other five cents, exposing cash flow fears and urging prudent lending. The piece ends with a proverb about honesty and a brief joke from the Washington Star about a lottery tale.
A vivid account compares savage crabs in Japan to champions of combat. Two males clash with clattering claws, neither yielding until one is exhausted and torn of a limb as a trophy. The scene ends with the victorious crab triumphantly bearing away the limb. A London bishop story follows about Shakespeare loan return humor.
A column of quotations and snippets riffs on reading habits politics and remedies. It features Mrs Stevenson on avoiding certain novels and a joke about Mr Stevenson dedicating Black Arrow to her. Also includes a wheeler dealer quip about Mike and a cold cure advert with Laxative Bromo Quinine.
Local Institute to be held at Ambraee on February 16 and 17 1900 features addresses and recitations by Miss Laura Brand Miss Effie Matthews and Miss Nellie Matthews. Topics include Which Is the More Important Wealth or Education and To What Extent Is the Teacher Responsible for the Moral Development of a Child. Debates on England Rights in the Transvaal. Included are various recitations and a dessert advertisement ending with a two minute no bake lemon orange raspberry strawberry dessert at two cents.
Obituary notes J Edward Weamer of Orizaba Mexico died July 15 1899. He was known in Clearfield and Cambria counties for years as a back line operator between this place and Cherry Tree. He left the county in 1885 for Como Colorado then became a locomotive fireman and later engineer for the Union Pacific. He died in Mexico City while employed on the Mexican National Railroad. He was a son of the late Andrew Weamer of Newville Creekside and is survived by two brothers W of Monterey Mex and A C and Mrs Ida Me Anulty of Minneapolis. An ex postmaster of Promise City IA recalls tonic claims.
Health ad offering a quit tobacco program with guaranteed cure and life improvement. Mentions a booklet and sample free from Sterling Remy Co with addresses in Chicago or New York. Includes price 50c or 1. Aims to help weakened men regain vigor and nerve through cessation.
Fifty acre homestead property lists reserved timber mainly white oak and sugar maple for sugar making plus other hardwoods. The sale focuses on the timbered portion alongside the farm acreage.
California itinerary from New York and Philadelphia leaves February 27 aboard special Pullman cars with a Mexico and California connection at El Paso and returns by March 29. Round trip tickets with all expenses priced at 375 dollars. agents listed in New York Brooklyn Newark Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for details.
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