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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1899
Page
6
Fragments describe a nocturnal scene with wind, awakening knowledge and living hand. The text references dumb recorders, a world tremor, dew pearls, and faces banished, appearing as literary fragments from Burris in Harper's Magazine.
The narrator recalls his grandfather a 20 year old sailor aboard the Polly Ann from New York to Manila in 1842. In Pasig the grandfather quits the ship, joins a local trading firm, and makes a meteoric rise aided by Juan Aguado a fearless Filipino clerk. A hunting accident solidifies their bond but a later desertion by Aguado amid rebellion leads to larger conflicts. The Spanish regime offers a 40000 Mexican dollar bounty for insurgent Luiz Berceo, drawing near to dramatic fate of both men.
Grandfather aids Luiz Berceo the rebel leader who infiltrates the captain general's palace to obtain a $40,000 payoff in banknotes. Berceo kills a guard, escapes, and flees to sea with the help of Captain Higgins. Aguado later reveals his survival and returns to Hongkong.
Suffering readers urged to visit the store for a free sample of Otto's Cure. The ad asserts it cures coughs colds bronchitis consumption and other throat and lung diseases, promising quick relief in croup and whooping cough. Available in 50c and 95c sizes from Daugherty Bros Indiana and W J Moore Homer City.
Dr. A Sigmann, 804 Penn Ave Pittsburg, formerly of Vienna Austria, advertises expert care for inflamed and granulated eyelids focusing on Eye Ear Nose and Throat. He highlights years of study at Vienna's world renowned hospital and claims a growing list of local patients. He invites inquiries on his skill and success.
A Ladies' Home Journal piece by Edward Eck extols country living as youth preserving and healthful. It argues suburban outdoors fosters exercise and nature as the best teacher, keeping children near the soil, improving physical health and mental strength, and easing mothers’ worries.
The manual simplifies tariff provisions but the digesting of food remains hard. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is advertised as preventing and curing malaria, kidney and rheumatic troubles, nervousness, insomnia, constipation and biliousness. It claims to restore appetite and comfort, aiding convalescence for the elderly and infirm.
Grant Pa January 5 1899 The Editors of The Progress receive a plea urging Pennsylvania lawmakers to enact and carry out Governor Beaver's road law recommendations without delay We are asked to awaken the public to the importance of improving the road system and to avoid another two years of delay The letter is signed by Br B Camp and calls for action before the February elections.
A Boston Transcript style note touts a kidney and bladder cure promising swift relief in six hours for pain and urinary retention. It claims broad efficacy for men and women and notes Druggist Herrick Bros of Indiana PA sell it for 120c99. The piece also recounts a neighborly tale of Brown, Gray, and Green over a dog dispute with a small monetary exchange.
An old advertisement touts Grain-O as a non stimulating beverage that nourishes and cheers without spoiling sleep. It claims Grain-O tastes like coffee, suits nervous persons and children, and invites readers to buy at grocers or rent a farm inquiry from A Steffy in Indiana, Pa.
An old playgoer recalls the first hansom cab on stage appearing at the Olympic early in 1841 in Laman Blanchard's drama The Road of Life or A Cabman's Career, challenging Clement Scott’s note of 1867.
A brief clipping notes a boast about a doll that can sleep flawlessly versus another that never sleeps, described as having a “sumner.” The item also mentions routine Suez Canal navigation disruption by sand storms and reports in Malta of fowls being plucked alive in the open market.
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