Personal Briefs of Local Guests and Travelers
Mrs Grant Smith and daughter Harriet of Chicago visit Mr and Mrs Harry C Christy in town. Mrs Byron Stewart and niece Helen Speedy stay with Rev and Mrs J J Broadhead of Boston. J W Harry and family return home to this county after months in the west. Mrs Herman Maartin and daughter Glenn Dilts return from visiting Pauline Carney. Mrs C G Shea and two children visit the Hasinger home. Dr Hay Speedy opens Hast Street offices after interning in Pittsburg. Miss Mary Cunningham visits with Mrs Edmund Kuhns in Wilkinsburg. Mrs Matilda Guist of Shelocta comes to Indiana to live with daughter Emma Jobe. Guist is 82. Mrs George A Reeves of Oak Street visits Saltsburg. Edith and William Reeves accompany home. J L Ray of Railroad Avenue and sister Matilda Ray visit Johnstown. joined by Mrs I L Ray and daughter Viola, returning from State College and Williamsport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Smith
Harriet
Chicago
Harry C. Christy
South Seventh Street
Byron Stewart
Helen Speedy
Town
J. J. Broadhead
Boston
Mass
J. W. Harry
Cockport
West
Herman Maartin
Glenn Dilts
Pauline Carney
North Ninth Street
CG. J. Shea
Wilkes-Barre
Mra
Shes
J. C. Hasinger
School Street
Hay, Speedy
North Highth Street
Pittsburg
Hast Street
Allegheny
Mary Cunningham
Church Street
Edmund Kuhns
Wilkinsburg
Kuhns
J. M. Cunningham
Matilda Guist
Shelocta
Indiana
Emma Jobe
Water Street
Guist
George A. Reeves
Oak Street
Saltsburg
Edith
William
Apollo
J. L. Ray
Railroad Avenue
Matilda Ray
Locust Street
Johnstown
J. C. Ray
I. L.'‘Ray
Viola
State College
Williamsport
Recent Deaths in Indiana Area Forty Five Years of Life
A sequence of local obituaries notes Margaret Reading Neal, widow of John W. Neal, dying of pneumonia in Pittsburg on July 10 after a week of illness. She was born April 5, 1842 in Trade City, Pa, married after the Civil War, and leaves two sons and three daughters. Interment was at White Church, Hamilton, with Rev. Frampton officiating. Also reported is the death of Sylvester Houck after an operation for appendicitis at age 50, survived by wife Alice and four children, plus siblings. Adam George, 85, Homer City resident, died recently after long illness. he was a Blacklick township native who had lived in Homer City nine years and ran a milling business with his son. Surviving children listed include J. W. George, Mias. William George, Mrs. George R. Stewart, Mrs. R. M. Miller, Thomas K. George, Mrs. William Craig, and Effie McHenry Craig, widow of William Craig. Efie McHenry, formerly of this place, died July 16 of scarlet fever, survived by husband, two children, and siblings. Mrs. Mandana Osgood, 72, died July 15 at Dixonville and interment planned at Maching, N. C. Remains for several entries. A feature notes Frog Raising Not Profitable with State Zoologist Surface stating frog farming has not proven profitable despite interest, citing a reader question and Surface’s reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Reading Neal
John W. Neal
Pittsburg
Clyde O
Grace A
Maude I
East Liverpool
Ohio
H. D. Brady
DuBois
White Church
Hamilton
Frampton
Oil City
Sylvester Houck
Rayne Township
Alice Widdowson Houck
Ord
Don
Niagara Falls
Jay
Detroi, Mich
Ray
James Houck
Indiana
Levi Houck
William Long
Xtayne Township
Adam George
Homer City
Blacklick Township
Lutheran Church
J. W. George
West Point
Mias
William George
Springdale
George R. Stewart
Brushvalley
R. M. Miller
Thomas K. George
William Craig
Effie McHenry Craig
Vandergrift
Effie McHenry
James McHenry
Surface
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Wall Street
Harriman
Jones
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Maria
Bat- Hing Nelson
New York
Frog raising and pest control notes spark debate
An article discusses the impracticality of frog farming due to cannibalism among confined specimens and criticizes overoptimistic claims. It contrasts views on the house fly and bed bug, citing health bulletins and medical journals to urge practical disease prevention and public education. A separate item reports lightning striking J C Tomb's Armagh barn, destroying the structure and hay with two workers stunned. loss about 2500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina State Board of Health
Cyrus Thompson
Wilth
Journal of
The
American Medical Association
The Country Road Morristown Poem and Moral Quotation
A Morristown New Jersey poem by WM L Stanton celebrates a country road meeting path, goldenrod and daisies, birds and cattle with lovers speaking through silence. It pairs a moral on education from Locke about gentleness, reading, good company, and reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locke
New Lumbermen's Association Opens Hospital Building
The Maine woodsman daily reports at 2 pm the opening of the Lumbermen's Christian Association building in Greenville. The third floor houses a hospital with expert attendants to save injured lumbermen, while staff will be sent to camps to teach safer logging practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Great Northern
Lumbermen’s Christian Association
Greenville
Lewiston Journal
The Call of Duty Parable Recalls Duty and Duty Reminders
A fragmentary excerpt presents a dialogue about duty with contrasts between a sincere person urging others to fulfill their responsibility and an easygoing counterpart challenging or provoking the sense of duty. The text shows casual, incomplete phrasing and uncertain attribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eltigen
What Happened Then Jones Left in a Quiet Haste
Jones endures a tense family dinner in New York as Mrs. Jones probes his day and a wary silence follows. After a quarrel over a gossiping companion, he storms out, seeks distraction at a corner store and bowling alley, then returns home to a restless, fear-filled night.
Fastoric Utterances and Archival Snippets of Wit
A fragmented satirical piece references historic boasts from David to Napoleon and Caesar, noting how writers mocked victories with terse messages. It shifts to a humorous exchange about Horace and a wooer, then feints toward a labored chemistry anecdote before ending with a solitary man alone with a ring on the floor.
Aggressive salesman pledges hair growth guarantee
A man in a sales pitch locks Time by the fore lock and offers a money back remedy to cure baldness in thirty days, pockets the cash, and returns to his rounds, illustrating aggressiveness as a key sales tactic in the manual.
Health food quip hits at digestion joke
Labor Saver. Mr. Meddergrass notes a health food that you do not have to digest, while Mrs. Meddergrass quips that the next inventor will offer a food you do not eat but must buy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Saver
Mr. Meddergrass
Remembering a relative and the will's omission
A speaker reflects on being remembered by an uncle in life but omitted from the will. The paradox highlights family dynamics and unresolved ties as memories linger after the relative's death.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mandana .Osgood
Mandana Osgood
William Osgood
Dixonville
Maching
J. C. Tomb
Armagh
WM. L. Stanton
Morristown, N. J
Home Journal
Loughry
Sterling
Lot
W. R. Loughry & CO
David
Goliath
Cyrus
Babylon
Napoleon
France
Julius Caesar
Gaul
Rome
Cassar
Rawat
Perry
Lake Erie
Horace
Shallows
Yrooma Sibatargs
al Gosay
Reingylvania
Conservatory of Music
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