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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1909
Page
4
The Indiana Progress notes obituary notices and policy details with pricing and submission rules. It lists editors Moorhead, contact information, and a Wednesday morning publication schedule. The paper mentions a quoted witticism about graduation and the undertaker, reflecting local press tone.
Leechburg resident Major Beale testified with a Washington press corps group about the time in Libby prison during the Civil War. He described crowded conditions, a guard who fired at him after he looked from a window, and a comrade dying nearly at 4 PM, highlighting the harsh treatment in Confederate captivity.
Obituaries for Mrs. A B Gressly aged 49 of Cockport and Henry Grott 77 near Chambersville, with brief survivor lists and burial places. Also Mrs Elizabeth Chambers of Georgeville dies in Punxsutawney aged 82, plus Judge O Connor praises Indiana’s future in a Pittsburg Dispatch letter. Church entertainments announced for Marion Canter Sagamore and Plumville. Hotel Indiana’s census shows 25 000 to 26 000 annual travelers from many states. Hogs poisoned at Burnetay town guest house. collection of stuffed birds gifted to Normal school by W Wehrle valued at about 500.
Local institutes at Hawthorne school house Rayne township and Kettering school house Washington township feature schedules of talks on education methods, government in schools, and teacher attitudes with multiple names including Mrs Nelle Stuchell Rebecca Blue Harry Lambing Jan Wyncoop and more. Greenville Summer School promises large enrollment and credential prep while Dr C J Cameron departs for Philadelphia for a six week post graduate dental course.
In a brief note from Center township, Koeppls expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness shown during the illness and death of his wife Mrs. Mary Kapple. The clipping shares a playful travel of a man answering how he won by bustling, and promotes H H Johnston's carpet business in Indiana Pennsylvania with advertised specials.
Spat money placed in our Savings Department bears 4 per cent compound interest. Deposits need not be renewed and interest accrues daily whether you present or not. Withdrawing part of the deposit does not affect the remainder. Interest is credited every six months and may be withdrawn or left to accumulate. Bank's capital and surplus exceed four million dollars.
In Indiana farmers and markets confront a banking shift as financial strains emerge. Officials from Farmers Bank of Indiana weigh options amid regional economic pressure and potential regulatory actions affecting lending and community support.
Gertrude Rhoden, a 19 year old Cincinnati girl, serves 60 days in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge while battling morphine addiction. She begged pedestrians to inject her, cried for relief, and a passerby finally complied, underscoring her desperate grip and the social response.
The Progress introduces a new cash in advance policy. Stubs are stopped at expiration. notices go to subscribers days before renewal. If you do not renew in time, your name is removed from the list. Check your paper’s tab date and renew to avoid missing issues.
The international waterways commission reports that diverting 8,000 cubic feet per second by two American plants lowered the river level by two-fifths of an inch at the falls and four-tenths of an inch at Grass Island, with the intake near Ontario affected and more water drawn from Canadian tributaries than previously estimated.
Miss Mary G. Donovan of Philadelphia died after an operation eleven years earlier when surgeon's forceps were accidentally sewn inside her abdomen. A high‑repute Philadelphia surgeon who performed the operation has since died. The forceps were found embedded in the intestines during an X ray revealing the hidden instrument.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the men s building of the Mahoning county infirmary at Canfield Ohio and fifteen aged inmates were burned. Inured men Stephen Kelly Dennis Mahoney John Davis Charles Williams John Davies Arthur Evans John Horn Philip Eckart Henry Hurd Jacob Baumgartner Elmer Lungrist Caris Shrub Charles Daly Thomas Pritch ard Joseph Alexander were injured as they tried to fight the blaze at the stair foot and wind drove flames down upon them. They crawled to safety and were treated at the infirmary hospital.
Harry Stonng assistant fire chief of Scranton Pennsylvania was badly injured after a seven story fall down an elevator shaft at Traders bank building while loading men for a drill or rescue. His condition was described as likely fatal by medical staff.
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