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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1902
Page
6
A narrator recounts a nocturnal encounter with a strang e inventor who claims a new cremation method using a galvanic heat oven. The host recruits the narrator as assistant for a live test, promising insight into device failures. The tale, ending with the narrator waking from a vivid dream, blends eerie suspense with experimental boilerplate.
A relic excerpt discusses gamblers clutching portable mascots for luck. Items range from bullets to hairpins and coins, each tied to a life event. a Wissahickon lawyer carries a murderer's coin, and a broker’s hairpin leads to a marriage. An English shooting party yields banter on magpie omens from the Kaiser and Duke.
The quoted summary lists Patti’s perceived assets for operatic success. It states she is not beautiful but pretty, tolerably graceful, an effective dresser, piquant, fond of her public, has a good voice, knows how to sing well in her own way, audiences comforted by her music, and acts fairly well in her roles.
The Indian child in tepee life has little to play with beyond simple toys and few playmates beyond kin. Mothers often leave infants at dusk to attend dances, returning only later, so the crying child learns not to cry as caregivers seldom soothe it.
The green tint in certain Italian cheeses comes from milk left in copper vessels. Milk absorbs copper, changing the polish of the vessel surface as activity evolves, providing a measure of the milk’s state.
A The Cornhill writer argues that in the early 19th century man aged about twenty was a man, thirty a middle age, and fifty old. He contends contemporary standards call a man a boy until about thirty-five, a young man until fifty, and rarely old until well past David's stated life span by six or seven years.
A public sale will be held at the Giles Stephens farm in Cherryhill township Indiana County three miles north Greenville on the road to Marion Center. On Wednesday February 26 1902 at 12 oclock noon the sale will include four head of horses seven head of cattle a Berkshire boar eight months old a broad sow 30 head of stock ewes one half interest in a Hoosier corn drill Stevens rifle farming implements 30 tons Timothy hay three tons clover hay 100 bushels corn 100 bushels oats 100 bushels buckwheat and five bushels seed corn. GILES STEPHENS Auctioneer S Grscos.
A man asks what a dollar is and answers with a compact meditation on its meaning. It is what some pay to their home paper and what the wife often lacks. It anchors labor prices, fuels vice, and exercises power to build or ruin. It is scarce yet sought by all, and no one ever holds more than they desire.
Senator Bacon of Georgia who has just returned from study in the Philippines has written for The Saturday Evening Post a valuable paper on the insular business affairs. He concludes that our account with the Philippines must for an indefinite time be on the wrong side of the ledger. The article will appear in the issue for February 22.
An advertisement-like column mocks a wealthy oil company president while touting Benson's Plaster as fast relief for various pains. It warns against imitators and invites orders with 25 cents postage prepaid, noting Seabury Johnson as manufacturers in New York.
A collage of ad rhetoric and notices highlights how classifieds inform patrons about building materials services and new products. It cites a regional philosopher quote on ads, outlines stock at Virginia Miller Healer, promotes the New York Tribune Farmer, and lists Sharretts offerings from shoes to boots and winter wear.
Notice to bidders at the gate requires at least 100 dollars if bid is at least 50 above, with balance due by the second week of March Court or receipt by the judgment creditor. Sheriff D E Thompson, Indiana Pa, Feb 12, 1902. For sale three cows including two Jerseys and one grade, Jersey and one grade. Enquire Thomas White, Indiana Pa.
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