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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1898
Page
4
The Indiana Progress greets readers with optimism for 1898 noting improved business, better farm prices, and lively trade. The paper boasts growing paid circulation, expanding advertising, and commitment to accurate county news as it enters the new year.
The Indiana County Gazelle is accused of biased attacks on State Chairman Elkin and of misrepresenting a Philadelphia meeting. The letter refutes claims that two anti Quaty members were removed, notes Lebanon county delegates and voting, and defends the chairman’s actions as accurate. The piece also notes Langham’s appointment as assistant district attorney and comments on a manufacturing plant’s finances.
A neighbor newspaper in Indiana County Ga zette attacks the Republican party and active workers weekly. It accuses GOP groups of internal betrayal and calls for removal. Senator Hanna faces criticism but set for a decisive home stretch, while the Ohio party is faulted for its own missteps.
Iceland boasts no prisons and no police in a thousand years with only two thefts recorded. One native stole sheep to feed starving family but received medical care and support instead of harsh punishment. A German thief who took 17 sheep left the country after a harsh sentence to sell all property and repay value. Justice is handled by sheriffs courts and appeals to Reykjavik, Copenhagen finalizing cases. Panaris island shares similar traits with no prisons or lawyers and no paupers or criminals.
A well bred horse owned by M. Casey of East Brady Pa and wintered by HU Timberlake near town shows top form. Clay Pointer sired by Star Pointer holds strong local speed, with 2 year old 2.44, 3 year old 2.39, and 4 year old 2.23 at Kittanning. He won seven of eight races last summer and leads Western Pennsylvania’s four year olds. Timberlake plans a brief season next year with hopes of dipping times into the teens. Also included is an ad for Shaker Digestive Cordial touting stomach health benefits and a 10 cent trial bottle.
A lead in to using the Progress as an advertising medium for selling items. The piece urges readers to read the leading county paper for news and to place notices about sales to reach a broad audience. It emphasizes that timely advertising benefits both sellers and the paper.
Proverbial couplets on religion marriage and vanity fill a Bolivar advertisement by Bennett and Yeager. The brief oddities mix social quips with a coffee price note: coffee eight cents per pound.
Attorney W L Stewart visited Pittsburg on Friday. Numerous residents from Taylorsville, Tannery, Blairsville, and Rayne town ship dropped in on Tuesday and Sunday. Typhoid illness, New Year travel, purchases, and visits to Pittsburg, Latrobe, Apollo, and Philadelphia street populate this brisk social roundup.
World news brief notes the president signs the pelagic sealing bill while other items report a Washington warehouse collapse killing one and injuring several, political moves in Ohio, and various international incidents across Haiti Britain China and Korea.
On Friday, the last day of the old year, Pittsburg Equitable Life Assurance Society agents wrote 88 life applications totaling 717,509, the largest day in the office's history. For 1897 total new assurance reached 6,980,928, up 1,737,438 from 1896, with Indiana county agency among contributors. Manager Edward A. Woods notes new policies to be issued this month. A pipe organ has been installed at Fourth United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny.
Local Burrell township program at Smith school house on Saturday January 15 1898 features Miss Minerva Duncan Miss Mary Beatty Miss Della Hoskinson A M Barron C S Gerhard D M Campbell L R Stuchell and topics on primary work etiquette manners and education plus a calendar feature about Equitable Life Assurance Society calendars sold via Mr S W Guthrie in town also notices of Gum boots and shoes at the Checkered Front auctions at P Bennett Son Underwear half price at Pennington’s a health note on Electric Bitters and a real estate offer for a six room Indiana Pa house and lot near West Oak Street with emphasis on room for spring stock windows and sale reminders.
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