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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1913
Page
9
An Indiana student in Brazil describes adapting to local conditions, planning to try basketball and baseball, and notes the climate with daily rain. He praises the local peers as wiry and active, reflects on language practice, and hints at future writings about the people and customs.
News brief from Kellysburg and nearby places lists visits and travel among residents. Kurt Brandon of near Indiana stays with grandparents G. J. Potts and Alta. Ernest Condron and family guests of J. A. Condron. Local residents like Noman Lightcap, Martha Schurr, Sara McNoes, Hazel Condron, and Irvin Kooser are mentioned with several Indiana visits and returns. In Georgetown area Flore Hazlett visits Pittsburg. Park McMants, ex-Allegheny Valley worker, injured, leg amputated at Kittanning hospital. Other notes include relocations, births, hospitalizations, and upcoming church fair plans at Onberg, with local families and merchants noted.
The American Bell system report shows 7,456,074 telephone stations in the United States in 1912 up 822,449 from 1911, with daily toll connections around 738,000 and exchange connections about 265,572,000. The report notes 60,297 shareholders, 2,956 more than the prior year, and that women hold a majority of shares.
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