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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1900
Page
7
A frugal birthday gift, Susan buys a $2.50 umbrella, the $3 model wins, and its self opening mechanism delights her. A sudden rainstorm leads to a failed closure on a crowded train platform. The umbrella remains stubbornly open, soaking passengers and delaying their departure as they retreat to the shelter of the station.
In London Answers a man recounts battling a malfunctioning umbrella from a cloakroom. After a crowd of street urchins jeers, Susan gracefully closes and reopens the umbrella, ending its long pattern of failure and prompting a vow never to trust patents again.
The article contrasts the new X ray endoscope with Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters, praising the older remedy as the proven cure for dyspepsia indigestion and related ailments, while noting the Bitters’ private revenue stamp on the bottle and its wide adoption by Americans.
Pennsylvania Railroad offers a personally conducted Old Mexico tour by special Pullman train leaving New York and Philadelphia on February 12. Five days in Mexico City, round trip all expenses included for 300. Tour agents listed in New York Brooklyn Newark Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also advertising healing syrup for liver bowel and skin diseases with pamphlet. Sold by Wa. Roundess Beringer Pa.
An advertisement touts Myatic Cure for rheumatism and neuralgia claiming cure in 1 to 3 days. It asserts immediate disease disappearance after the first dose, costs 75 cents, and lists Indiana as the selling location with druggists carrying the product. It also mentions rental and other miscellaneous notices and a candy cathartic product with a refund if it fails to cure.
A long voiceover extols farmers as tireless workers who must nourish their bodies as they nourish the land. It praises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for restoring appetite, sleep, and vitality after indigestion and liver torpor, citing a West Virginia testimonial and detailing a months-long recovery.
An alias order of the Orphans' Court of Indiana county schedules a public sale at the decedent’s foundry and machine shop in Allotment No. 1 at Indiana borough on Saturday February 17 1900 at 1 PM. The tract lies in Indiana borough bounded by Philadelphia street Cunningham’s lot an alley and a 10 foot alley with 127 feet frontage and 185.6 feet depth and a large building on the property.
Brick Foundry and Machine Shop bounded on the north by Philadelphia street on the west by lot of C. O. Gessler on the south by lot of W. S. Daugherty and on the east by an alley ninety feet front on Philadelphia street and extending back of equal width one hundred and eleven feet with thereon erected a building.
Describes multiple allotments bounding School Street with coordinates and frontages. Includes details for Allotment No 2 and No 3 along with adjacent parcels, rows along Washington Street and properties owned by Mrs Folsom H P Lewis and A L Smith, and Children’s Aid Society. Distinct parcels measured in feet and directions, totaling irregular plots.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a 46 day Mexico and California special tour leaving New York and Philadelphia February 12. Stops include San Antonio Tam pico Guanajuato Guadalajara Queretaro City of Mexico Cuernavaca Los Angeles San Francisco Salt Lake City Denver Chicago and more. Fourteen days in Mexico and nineteen in California with a $550 round trip rate east of Pittsburg and $545 from Pittsburg.
Dr Dunving editor of The Congregationalist visits friends whose dining room displays two samplers of churchly thrift. One reads The Lord Will Provide, the other shows a dog as man’s best friend. Breakfast features sausages as the doctor critiques the motto and gazes at the dog. A sharp quip follows about a jeweler’s will and a family item.
A Millwood, Pennsylvania reader reports relief from rheumatism after three months of using Andersons Indian Herbs, noting improved ability to perform household duties. The text also references a public sale of the late May I. McFarland estate including foundry, machine shop, and town lots scheduled for February 17 at 1 o'clock p.m.
Terms of sale require half cash on confirmation and the balance in one year from confirmation with interest from confirmation. Deferred payment to be secured by bond and mortgage on the premises. parties include Mrs 8 A McFarland James McGregor Ada irs. Irwin McFarland deceased.
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