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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1900
Page
3
A Jersey City to Baltimore train tale recounts a whistle obsessed passenger and a conductor who fix tickets mid journey amid a storm and a wary superstition about whistling. The baldheaded passenger proclaims luck changes with carmus and heaters, delaying three hours to Baltimore as Philadelphia is teased.
The thirteenth Franklin dinner of the Chicago Typothetm highlights Benjamin Franklin as America’s first “bad boy” and recalls Ex-Governor George W. Peck of Wisconsin praising Franklin’s spirit. Peck notes Franklin’s refusal to be overworked for minimal pay and references the playful tramp literature that followed.
Former Promise City postmaster T. F. Anthony endorses Mystic Cure rheumatism remedy and offers a frame house with nine rooms, pantry, cellar, water, slate roof, porches, and lot at 6120 West Church Street. Cash or easy payments. Enquire on premises at once.
A review from Citations in Trade highlights hesitation in business with shrinkage in volumes, alongside price shifts in steel, coke, and wheat markets. Forecasts note potential foreign demand for wheat and rising ore and coal activity, while New York tenement reforms reflect broader urban improvement trends. Disturbances in London wool sales and recent factory failures are also reported, with emphasis on dividend and stock movements.
Question reappears daily in families asking for a quick dessert solution. Jell O offers eight desserts prepared in two minutes with no boiling or baking required by adding boiling water. Flavors include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. Grocers sell at 10 cents. The EWeswu Academy promotes business courses for teachers and youths seeking education.
The Ohio Food Commission and other experts list alum-containing powders and urge plain warning labels on packages. Brands named include CALUMET and DAVIS U. K. along with several others. Grocers’ private brands are common, with alarms that powders under 25 cents per pound often contain alum and may harm health.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers two ten day excursions from Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania to Washington on March 15 and May 10. Round trip, with through parlor cars, on special train or Train No. 4, leaving Pittsburg 3 30 P M, with returns allowed on regular trains to March 24 and May 19. Extras include connections to Richmond and Old Point Comfort, with additional Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company offers. Tickets available at Union Ticket Office and stations. full details from Western District agents.
In a Washington Star style exchange, Mr Blykins questions political scolding while a gloomy friend admits preferring politics. The pair debate politicians being essential to progress and hype in public life, with the remark that without them there would be only prizefighters to excite the masses.
The Chicago Post notes a dialogue where one person asks if a fortune teller told them what they wanted to hear. The reply acknowledges mixed feelings, suggesting the teller predicted timing but not the outcome, leaving uncertainty about conclusions and emotions.
A humorous exchange between a father and daughter about consent to marriage. The father scorns Saphead as poor, while the daughter touts railroad stocks. The father retorts stocks pay no dividends and he earns good wages, highlighting class and wealth contrasts.
The institutes list sessions at Pineton schoolhouse on March 31 with A J Farabaugh and A F Roser leading talks on civics and education, recitations, and debates. A second program at Dry Knob schoolhouse spans March 30 31 1900 with J E Dickey T B Bell and others presenting talks on public school influence and home school relations, including a Saturday quiz and music. SADIE ALLEN, Teacher.
A discussion contrasts a man made star with the biblical Star of Bethlehem, citing historical notes from New Lippincott’s about Herod and the magi. In a separate item, 17 year old Nora Jones in Bosque county deputy clerk swears in Judge Poin Dexter after Judge Hall’s illness, in a district court scene.
Fragmentary OCR piece hints at a conversation about who should be president. Names and clear events are not readable. no verifiable entities or actions present to summarize with accuracy.
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