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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1931
Page
4
Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward described a “musical telephone” that could fill a room with music, fade to an echo, and be adjusted so one listener could hear while another slept. He noted a clockwork alarm and sermons heard from an acoustically prepared chamber, with voices sounding as if from an invisible presence.
A Johannesburg businessman pursues a final search for Lo Bengula s buried hoard valued at £2 000 000, said to contain ivory, raw gold, diamonds, and sovereigns. The tale centers on Lobengula and John Jacobs, with indunas and Matabele members who helped bury the treasure and were later slain.
The Sydney ducks were bands of criminals from the penal colonies of New South Wales. In spring 1849 they formed the Regulators to protect the weak but became a robbers’ band. They headquartered in a large tent in the plaza and conducted nightly depredations until citizens expelled them.
A historical notice from 1834 records a trout kept by W Hessop of Bond Fall, Bond Puriness, living in a well for decades. Fed by a boy named Ned, the fish died when the spring dried up, its spa and gills described as perfectly white.
The United States Department of Agriculture clarifies that bees reach up to 25 miles per hour in peak flight, with usual speeds around 15 miles per hour. A laden bee travels about 10 miles per hour slower, whether gathering nectar or returning to a favored flower site such as a garden, orchard in bloom, or clover field.
In 1941 a Gypsy clan forms in a hillside camp led by Hal McWhorter. Sula McMurrah and Hal exchange gifts and vows as a magical dukerin binds their fates. Tim McMurrah, wary of suitors, watches as a voiced omen shapes love. The lovers confess under a moonlit grove as kin bless their union.
The article explains long standing Friday fish preference rooted in religious fast rules. It notes Jesus crucifixion on Friday and Pope Nicholas forbidding meat on Fridays, prompting Christians to choose fish. It adds modern factors like market demand and shipping advances, and cites New Testament allusions and resurrection stories as further associations with fish as a fast day dish.
The leaning tower at Pisa remains standing due to statics principles and a gravity center within its supporting foundation. Its spiral stairway is built with asymmetric step heights to counterbalance the lean by increasing weight on the side opposite the tilt.
Lawrence H. Baker highlights laboratory food experiments in Hygeia Magazine. He notes that natural forms contain body benefiting substances often mixed with impurities that hinder effectiveness when ingested. He describes scientists seeking to isolate native principles and simplify them for medicinal use.
The Indianapolis News weighs life as a vapor and breath, contrasting St James and Swinburne with ancient views. It notes scientists pursuit to create life in labs, acknowledging their many successes yet doubt about life’s origin and nature.
An overview of an Indian arrow's six components: Head, shaft, foreshaft, shaftment, feathering, and neck, with variations by locality and tribe. Arrow heads consist of body, tang, and barbs, with blunt and sharp types. Southwest uses a hardwood sharpened foreshaft for the head, Arctic and northwest coast use ivory, bone, wood or copper heads, while elsewhere stone is common. Attachment methods include sinew lashings, riveting, or gum.
The text discusses the equity maxim clean hands, stating a plaintiff with inequitable conduct in the same matter cannot obtain relief. It cites a case where a false and misleading trademark would bar restraining relief. It also references do equity as another related maxim.
The text traces the origins of workmen's compensation in the United States from early cooperative insurance efforts in Maryland in 1902 and their 1904 constitutional collapse, through 1910 acts that faced constitutional challenges, notably New York's Tees decision, to later state constitutional amendments and a 1908 federal plan for industrial accident compensation.
The October 6 date recurs in political history with events such as Gladstone denouncing Parnell in 1881 and Parnell’s death in 1881, Rosebery’s leadership retirement in 1896, Liberal League presidency resignation in 1909, and W H Smith’s death in 1691. The Loudon Mail cites Chamberlain’s 1903 Glasgow tariff reform kickoff.
Paul Wendell Lynn aged 87 of 287 Cooper Avenue Johnstown collapsed while on an insurance assignment in Moxham Ward died shortly after being taken into a nearby home. Son of Justice Thomas S Lynn and Priscilla Mack Lynn he previously lived on the William Penn highway near Clyde and worked with Prudential Life Insurance. Survived by wife Irene Adams two daughters Joyce and Wanda May. father Thomas S Lynn sister May Lynn Tomb brother K Dean Lynn. Funeral held at his residence officiated by Rev Nicely and Rev Bayha with interment in Grandview cemetery.
Weekly Health Talk cites Dr Theodore Appel urging balance in health study and prevention. He warns that health fanatics and neglectful readers both misplace priorities, urging sound knowledge, sane habits, and avoidance of medical hype and quack pamphlets. The piece contrasts extreme attitudes and stresses a rational, moderate approach. It ends noting a shift from trench warfare rhetoric to curbing retreat and retrenchment among youths.
Indiana and surrounding communities mourn the deaths of Mrs. W H McNees of Imperial Pennsylvania and others. Survivors include husband David L McNees and children Patay Yvonne and a five year old son. funeral in Ambridge Beaver cemetery. Also noted are the deaths of Byron B Kime of Struthers Ohio and George S Cribbs of Derry plus Esther B Dickensheets of Detroit and James L Clark of Blairsville, with service details and surviving relatives. Bobbie Glenn Lowman, 15 days, dies of pneumonia. funeral at Deckers Point Oakland cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Conner were held at the Uniontown church, with interment in the church cemetery. Born April 8, 1871, she lived in Uniontown for years after earlier stints in Freeport and Indiana where she worked as a seamstress. A Presbyterian, she was married to J. C. Conner and survived by family members in Armstrong township. The services were led by Rev. Anderson of Cherry Tree.
Funeral services for H. H. McLaughlin were held Saturday at Sagamore Presbyterian Church with burial in Smicksburg Cemetery. The Sagamore resident died Wednesday at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh. He is survived by his widow Nora Lewis McLaughlin a son Lewis two brothers and a sister Jerry McLaughlin Mrs John Shaffer of Sagamore and Simuel McLaughlin of Ernest.
Mrs Ann Hastings aged 94 a long time resident of northern Cambria county died Saturday at her daughter Mrs Isaac Browns home in Barnesboro after an illness of two years She leaves a son James Hastings of Homer City and two daughters Mrs Isaac Brown and Mrs Agnes Cummings
E W Shields physician 73 dies at home in New Alexandria after brief illness. He practiced medicine in Pittsburgh and is survived by sisters Rebecca Huffman and Annie Shields. William E Loughner 52 of Grapeville dies after extended illness in Greensburg hospital. survived by brothers Millard and James, widow, son Harry, daughter Ida. Clyde Donahey couple welcome daughter Roberta Jean on Sunday.
A compact note reflects on trust, noting that a supposed sterling friend often proves plated. it contrasts pre marriage outings with the idea that after marriage the male shares the exchange with her, hinting at evolving social expectations.
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