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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
6
Benjamin Holbrook, a business owner, hires Miss Holmes to replace a failed stenographer. After months of success, he falls in love and proposes, but she worries about risking the business. He jokes about seeking a male successor to avoid more romances in the office.
Benjamin Holbrook, a bachelor head of the firm of Holbrook & Co, contemplates marriage after years of focusing on business. An advertisement brings Miss Holmes, a handsome woman, to apply for a stenographer role and to meet his age requirement.
The text argues fever in early tuberculosis stems from a disordered digestive tract with toxins in the stomach and bowels. It claims cleansing the intestinal tract and digestive ballast can normalize temperature and improve outcomes, while later fever relates to absorbed lung tissue breakdown products.
A brief, incomplete dialogue among Mrs Willis and Mrs Gillis centers on expectations for attendance “in heavy n.” The exchange hints at disappointment about who might or might not appear, concluding with an abrupt expletive.
Holcomb, a bronzed prospector, travels with the Yaqui girl Chiquita after warning to avoid the sacred Three Spears. They escape with hidden horses, face pursuit, endure a perilous journey north, and stop in a valley town where Chiquita reveals a guarded affection ending with a declared love as a priest watches.
A judge fines Datking fifty dollars for speeding. Batkins protests the amount and vows not to return to town. The judge acknowledges the customer’s past conduct and asks the courthouse to hang crape in mourning as the scene closes with a saloonlike farewell.
American theatrical manager Marc Klaw reasserts his remark about the English being warm hearted though not demonstrative, clarifying a historically misquoted line about their emotions and humor. The dispute centers on a garbled phrase likening the English to a "Limburger cheese" and a later reformulation emphasizing restraint and warmth.
J T Campbell describes a movable portable colony house for farm flocks from New England Homestead. The design uses 48 inch square layout with 6 ft 2 in rear wall and 6 ft 10 in front wall, lightweight version possible, no upright frame, vertical siding, 4x4 hardwood runners, and a roof overhang. The unit accommodates 30 to 35 Leghorn hens and aims for easy seasonally movable operation.
The piece notes that selling eggs from pure bred fowls at $1.50 to $2 per dozen is more profitable than barnyard eggs at 26 cents. It claims 25 pure bred hens earn more than 100 barnyard hens, illustrating the greater return on investment.
Feed ime and charcoal liberally. Do not breed from fowls that are too old. Millet seed is an excellent egg producing grain. Many poultrymen raise lettuce for hen feed. An incubator will not trample on and break the eggs. A few undesirable eggs lower the price of a whole crate. Cut clover hay has helped revolutionize the poultry business. Feeds rich in protein should make up a large part of the ration. A male bird is past his best after two breeding seasons. A lousy hen needs daily attention to lice and mites. Alfalfa enhances yolk color when abundant. Eggs for eating should come from hens with no male birds present. Infertile eggs result. It pays to study yolk color and quality demanded by high-class trade. The poultryman should feed hens to consume and return profit. skill and experience determine the amount. Eggs are bought by the dozen. marketing large, heavy eggs yields premium. Demonstrating a well balanced ration convinces skeptics.
The New York City Railways company tests a new stepless street car designed for ease and safety in boarding and alighting with a ten inch floor. The torpedo shaped forty foot car features automatic doors, steel construction, a side-conductor desk, seat capacity for fifty plus thirty standing, and wheels tucked beneath.
A nine year old Bremen girl swallowed 40 pins and died. Initial lack of motive gave way to a claim the act followed attendance at a moving picture show. The theater owner was fined 25 dollars. The piece questions blame shifting by authorities.
B and B offers a thousand and more at a price with one piece dresses suitable for shopping tea picnics or travel. Materials listed include Dimities Lawns Flaxons Ginghams in various patterns and colors with open front or back styles, lace trims, and set in sleeves. Dresses priced at $2.75, claimed as the best value yet.
Clair Rinn and Co offer seed buckwheat in limited supply at 2011 1060 Water St Indiana Pa. They also wholesale and retail Golden Leaf Flour and flour grains hay straw with two phone lines. inquiries solicited. A Good Jack and Unique Lighthouse items noted with local names and places.
Great book sale advertised by Hetrick Bros druggists and stationers in Indiana Pa featuring cheap bindings, Bibles, poets, dictionaries, cookbooks and cloth bound novels, plus a new line of photo supplies and cameras. Sale emphasizes low prices as remodeling proceeds and space is freed. Items include 10¢ bindings and 25¢ bundles, with a full range of photographic materials offered.
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