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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1935
Page
10
Beasley and Pruitt star in a campus tale at State University, where the small, sharp Beasley mentors the towering Beasley in study and sport. A gymnasium showdown and a tense coat room confrontation lead to a dramatic charge over a girl and a pledge of competitive resolve.
The New York Herald Tribune notes that talking animals are extremely rare with three dog cases using a loose definition. Dr. W. Reid Blair says dogs’ talking is more obvious to owners than strangers, while the Indian Myna surpasses parrots and crows as the best conversationalist among birds.
Ancient writers linked sulphur to fire and magic noting its volcanic origin and ubiquitous use. The element, condensed from subterranean fumes, gained industrial demand around 1500 with the rise of gunpowder and broader applications.
The 21 gun salute became the universal naval and military greeting, copied from Britain. Early salutes ranged from seven guns between ships to three per ship from shore batteries as powder became more available. Once potassium nitrate entered general powder manufacture, the naval salute matched land forces at 21 guns.
Charing Cross emerged in London before Charles II era from the Saxon term charrynge meaning turning. Edward I erected one of eighteen crosses in 1291 for Eleanor of Castile as her funeral procession route, later removed in 1647. A modern memorial stands in Charing Cross station yard. Eleanor is said to journey with Edward to the Holy Land and to suck a potion from a Moor wound.
Katherine Gardner reports from Rapid City on how discarded gasoline cans are repurposed across Asia and Africa. People use them to carry water and milk, store clothes and money, and in some towns flattened tins become music instruments or bird cages. In Tibet stamped cans service as incense tremble devices for sacred animals.
The spiritual is a unique religious folksong evolved on southern plantations. It is rendered without instruments, featuring fervent hand clapping tapping and foot patting in a rhythmic shoutin style. The true spirit differs from trained renditions said to lack genuine qualities.
JOSEPHINE GIBBON offers a cool weather menu for hot days featuring chilled tomato juice and a platter of cold meats with potato salad. Recipes cover horseradish canapés, cauliflower with cheese sauce, frozen prune whip, and a light dessert, all aimed at easy summer meals.
Mrs Elizabeth Harman visited the Cribbs family in Washington Township. Many visits and calls described among Harman Boyer Blystone McIntire and related families with friends at Willet Indiana Pitcairn Greensburg and Vandergrift. Several births reunions birthdays and hospital stays noted along with travel to Indiana and Rustic Lodge events.
The piece argues the public talk favors abolishing interest as humanity's main problem. It proposes a plan to remove the interest one must pay and to let the accumulating interest due to us remain.
Preaching will be held next Sunday at 2 30 Sunday school at 1 30 and C BE at 8 00 Mrs Carson Mrs John Shearer and Louise Carson spent Monday in Kittanning Mr and Mrs Harry Richarda and family of Mt Union called on Mr and Mrs Carl Fleming last Tuesday evening Rev John Walker and Carl Fleming spent the first of the week fishing at Medix Run Mr and Mrs I J Sell and family called on Mr and Mrs Ralph Lynn Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs McCurdy had as guests last Sunday Mr and Mrs Dale Shaner and two sons Mr and Mrs Lawrence McCurdy and daughters Theresa Billy and Myrtle May McCurdy A homecoming has been planned for our church on July 28 in the afternoon Nyle Fulmer is busy painting the Roy Fulmer building Don t uncover dumplings from the time they are put into the pot until taken up for the table if you would like to have them light the way Uncle Eli likes them Some people prefer heavy dumplings as they will stay by a person longer
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