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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1912
Page
5
A polished talking woman at a busy table navigates social pretensions and gossip. She notes the house's fine reputation and quiet air while criticizing manners, fashions, and fellow guests, revealing tensions between propriety and curiosity in a boarding house milieu.
An aging millionaire proffers gold and a diamond necklace to a famed chorus girl who initially resists his devotion. She finally responds, saying she is not stone deaf as the jewels glow on a satin bed, evoking her astonishment and a confession of feeling.
Miss Mary L. Read named director of the New York School of Mothercraft set to open on the West Side. The program includes classes lectures prenatal and post natal home instruction a library reading room and a family welfare information bureau focusing on marriage eugenics and child care with cooperation from physicians educators sociologists and club women. Read a Columbia Teachers College graduate who organized the home committee exhibit at the New York Child Welfare display last winter.
A cambric petticoat yellowed with age and edged in crochet has served 18 brides as the old-guard nuptial costume. Made 56 years ago by Nancy Emma Stroud of Atlanta, it first graced the altar when she wed Aaron Nunnally of the city. The heirloom also connected to Madison Georgia and later to Rose Belle Hines of McKinney Texas through Mrs Stroud's granddaughter.
The article notes that women have repeatedly received knighthood and membership in orders such as the Garter and St John. It cites Mary Cholmondelay’s knighthood by Elizabeth I for gallant action during Spain’s threat, and contrasts with stories of Tortosa’s women knighted for defending the city. It discusses shifts in recognition as queens and empires rose, noting Minglish law’s view of female officials and duties.
A New Yorker returns from Vermont extolling partridge berries as a striking centerpiece. Bright red berries against green foliage, grown in moss and kept moist, last all winter with minimal care. Native to both Vermont and New York, a note for future woodland rambles.
A faded snippet recalls a prodigal son returning as the family slaughters the calf. An old voice notes the father’s exclamation and the boy’s habit of being fond of tea and pie, reflecting a rustic moral vignette from a bygone era.
A Mountain Top hotel tale follows Miss Davis a chambermaid and Miss Davis—one of ten college students working as staff—whose accidental suspicion in a purse theft leads to a mistaken accusation. Mr Grant exposes the real thief a robber-great man and plans to marry Miss Davis.
Frederic Harrison, famed barrister, essayist and anti-suffragist, marked his eightieth birthday in London. He credits his health to Spartan rules of life, including abstaining from tobacco and alcohol, rising hungry after meals, walking two hours daily, sleeping seven hours, and contentment with what one has. He denounces nicotine and cards, while remaining noted as a leading disciple of Auguste Comte and a renowned Positivist speaker.
A Chicago shopper recalls visiting a Philadelphia store to map sales staff. She notes learning names of saleswomen, like Miss Barton, to secure superior service and prompt special attention when she returns to buy. The tactic aims to elicit better treatment by familiarity.
Professor John Spencer Bassett told a lecture tale about Stephen A Douglas and Adeline Cutts. Douglas woke to find a handkerchief placed over a sleeping Donuglaps by the compassionate Washington belle, who later became his wife. The closing moral: have your pocket handkerchief marked.
The Congo state may harbor a novel mammal called the water elephant seen by M. Le Petit of the Paris Museum. Five specimens were observed near Leopold II’s northern shore, noted for shorter bodies smaller ears longer necks and no trunks. The sighting resembles Dr Andrews palasomastudon from the Payoum.
A fragment reads a humorous exchange about a page missing from a China ephemera item. Characters joke about a list of insurgent generals and confuse it with a bill of fare from a Chinese restaurant tossed in the waste basket.
An auditor appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana County will distribute funds from the partition of Nancy McComb’s real estate. He will attend to duties on January 22, 191%, at 1 p.m. in his Sayings & Artist Building office in Indiana Borough Pennsylvania, inviting all interested parties and creditors to be heard.
Myors guardian announces to the Orphans Court of Indians that on Monday January 20 1912 at 1 80 p m an order of sale will be sought for the undivided one half interest of Nancy Mabel Lydie in a Washington township Indiana county land tract of about 50 acres. The sale price is six dollars and court costs are reserved.
Tom, attorney, administers letters of administration for the estate of Walter R. Treaster late of Bullington township who has died. Creditors must present claims duly authenticated for settlement and debtors must make prompt payment. December 23, 1971.
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