17 Jun 1891
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1891
Page
1
A fragmentary legal notice from Indiana Pennsylvania references an attorney and public buildings on Sixth Street and Konth Sixth Attreet. The garbled text mentions Electric Light building and a promised response or attention, with unclear lines about statements and recipients.
A Chicago Post tale reports a street prank where officials including the Mayor's Private Secretary O'Neil Deputy Comptroller Barrett Alderman Summerfield and Deputy City Clerk Van Cleave each carried a bar of soap as they encountered a mysterious man with a bat like vampire cage proponing soap as a cleaning product. The scene ends with a public demonstration prompting the officials to rub their hats with the soap, illustrating a humorous expose of gullibility. The piece also touches on coal formation science and a Dublin seance anecdote about Bertram and Archbishop Walsh.
Walter Campbella recalls a remarkable late rally at Jarvis Field in June 1882 where Yale trailed Harvard four to two entering the ninth. Wilcox reached base, Campbella hit a game winning drive as an overthrow spurred a tie then a decisive run, sending Yale to victory over Harvard in front of about 7,000 spectators.
A reporter describes an Italian boy eight selling papers at a city stair station at 10 p.m. He feigns sleep as strangers, including a benefactor Amaji, slip coins and papers to him. Passengers, from prim spinsters to glamorous women, donate generously, while the boy calmly pockets the money and resumes business. The scene highlights urban charity and manipulation amid metropolitan life.
A Boston woman offers per lifestyle guidance on marriage citing let each allow the other to know something consult feelings realize they are one and share duties. She urges courteous behavior at home and after marriage, mutual confidence, and home as love and rest, not discord, with partners supporting and pleasing each other.
A column discusses a moving kitchen business promising on demand meals delivered from mobile wagons. It envisions urban kitchens replacing home cooking, with hot and cold ends supplying hot coffee and ice cream, and imagines street scenes of children and families reacting to the new service.
May Thank Her Stars recounts a near death experience from heart trouble in Elkhart Indiana. The woman credits Miles New Heart Cure and Restorative Nerve and notes improvement after one bottle, with a sales pitch for the drug and a free heart and nerve book. Also advertised Bucklen's Arnica Salve and a Pittsburgh hotel offering modern accommodations and European plan services.
Druggists report daily calls seeking a new constipation and headache remedy said to be discovered by Dr. Lane in the Rocky Mountains. The product, a grape root based herbal mix, is claimed to aid Starplaints and related ailments, with deer ingredients noted in early descriptions.
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