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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1931
Page
2
A survey cited by Dr. Theodore B. Appel shows 46 percent of injuries treated by visiting nurse associations in a metropolitan city stem from home activities, with falls and burns dominating. He urged personal caution and simple safety habits to reduce domestic risks and long-term disability.
The Central Charities Association discussed donations of food and clothing through county schools and calls for volunteers to collect items from donors. A plea to enlist school children to bring in donations was planned, with a later announced date for collection. Members thanked Mrs Adda F P Elkin and her son for aiding families during the holiday season amid reports of various relief efforts and investigations.
The Ritz Theatre presents Charley’s Aunt as a talking film and The Bat Whispers as a mystery thriller. Chester Morris leads an all star cast in a tense crime drama while Man to Man explores a son’s struggle with his jailed father. Lottery Bride in Technicolor features Jeannette MacDonald and John Garrick in a celestial wedding procession. Outward Bound screens at The Indiana Theatre offering a moral, supernatural voyage for couples in peril.
Printed on heavy paper or muslin the notices are offered at 6 for 25 cents on paper and 3 for 25 cents on muslin. Add five cents postage if mailed, and cash must accompany all mail orders.
Indiana County Farm Bureau executive committee outlines a yearly program continuing past activities. Key efforts include bull and cow testing groups, breed associations, calf clubs, milk marketing work, contagious abortion testing, feeding and management meetings, vegetable crop schooling, soybean and alfalfa demonstrations, seed corn sourcing, oats smut treatment, lime testing, potato work with disease free seed, and sheep and wool, poultry, fruit, forestry, beekeeping, landscape, and home economics programs. Local meetings will tailor projects to community needs.
John Paunk 18 Joseph Kolosky 18 and Benjamin Fulmer 16 all of Idamar county held at Kingman Arizona for stealing the Dixonville bank cash and a Hudson gerdan from City Motor Company. They are to be prosecuted in Arizona after authorities seized the car and recovered $60 and $7 from the youths. The case involved checks and pay slips, with insurance notified to hold the vehicle.
A 1959 Western Newspaper Union piece discusses the moral effect of telling children white lies. It uses a car ride anecdote where a mother misleads her son about stops, highlighting how children perceive truth and the impact of deception on trust. The essay argues understanding children’s minds requires honesty over convenient falsehoods.
Currys Run announces Sabbath school at 10:00, preaching at 11, and C. BE. at 7 next Sabbath. Mrs. Ross hosted guests including Mr. and Mrs. Clark Taylor of Indiana and Mrs. Carson with granddaughter Louise. The Shearers of Ise-On visited with the Carsons as Lawrence McGurdy and Delbert Alers called on friends in New Bethlehem. Perry McCreight attended Presbyterian Church business in Elderton on Tuesday.
Aunt Sue Willard Young, known as Aunt Eua, marked her 88th birthday Saturday with a dinner hosted by the Old Lang Syne club. Telegrams of congratulations arrived from Pittsburgh Greensburg Johnstown and others, honoring her youthful spirit and her longtime work at the Willard Home she founded and cared for.
An author urges readers to speak truth to power, quit excuses, and live by principle. He compares false charity to a saloon keeper’s sham generosity and insists honesty and action are needed to overcome gloom and hardship. The piece frames ads as both thought provocation and promotion.
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