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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
7
The Blairsville Enterprise notes the 1880 borough population of 1162 with 606 males and 656 females. It lists widows and unmarried women by age, reports a county jail holding five murder suspects, and cites butter at 10 cents per pound and eggs at 10 cents per dozen as prices.
Johnstown receiving orders from Adams Express Company headquarters ban C. O. D shipments of liquor to many towns in Indiana Westmoreland Huntingdon and Allegheny counties plus Washington. Agent George J Keener reports the directive applies to Blacklick Coral Josephine Dixonville Seward New Florence New Alexandria Mt Union Emsworth Edgewood and Washington counties.
Clifton Preuty, a farmer from Nanos County Nevada, sought shelter from a Nebraska blizzard inside a dead horse. He sprained his ankle, found refuge in the sun-dried hide, and survived until dusk the next day aided by brandy. He was found by a neighbor from Mechanicsburg. The piece also notes Mechanicsburg Summer School hires Prof R J Shields and Prof R C Walbeck for a 12 week term opening April 14.
A neighborhood celebration at Elders Ridge marked Mrs. R A Reeves turning 73 with 73 carnations given for each year of life. The event, organized by residents, featured a lengthy service and a lavish luncheon, with MIs W B Eldey presenting the floral tokens while Miss Marie Slephone suffered a fall on South Tenth Street injuring her spine.
A reminiscence recalls Sunday school picnics with rows of cloths and heaps of fried chicken. The narrator recalls the superintendent urging everyone to help themselves, noting city visitors devoured the food leaving bones for local boys, and likening life to a picnic dinner.
Paris hospitals report surgeons store vast relics of swallowed items. In Clermont Ferrand a young woman in an asylum, driven by religious mania, swallowed a brass crucifix to gain sanctity. She remained silent until illness forced doctors to perform an X ray and remove the object under anesthesia.
Joseph Ifry bold, residing at 340 Broadway Long Island City, suffers a compound fracture of the right foot after a fall on stairs in Bellevue hospital New York while visiting a friend at 41 First Avenue. A black cat darted between his legs causing the loss of balance. the cat escaped uninjured.
A 23 year old woman from Orange, Mia Boehme, knelt center track as a Lackawanna train neared Roseville station. Despite a frantic brake, the locomotive struck her. she died en route to a hospital. Dr George Herbert Taylor, a passenger, identified her. Her death comes after earlier distress and recent birth.
The Norwegian wooden bark Germanic, thirty years old, sank after bursting hull and heavy seas near Weymouth. Captain J Johannesen was killed by a mizzen boom as seven survivors were rescued by the Hotham Newton tanker. Eight others vanished, supplies ran low, and the crew faced hunger thirst and exposure before the disaster.
The Hotham Newton rescued captains and crew after their vessel leaked and sank. The crew endured days at sea with minimal water and food, pumping frantically as weighty waves overwhelmed decks. They drifted 800 miles before rescue, watching a passing steamship ignore them in despair.
In Berlin Professor Eulenburg, noted authority on nervous disorders, described a Prussian former supernumerary official aged about forty to fifty who has slept for forty three months. The patient shows no awakening, eats and digests automatically, and has a dull yellow face. He is mostly bedbound, occasionally propped in a chair by a window. His skin has become unusually insensate to friction.
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