Mrs Laura E Clark 74 Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Laura Elizabeth Kline Clark aged 74 wife of Thomas B Clark of town died Monday after a long illness Born Amityville Berks County June 27 1862 She married June 16 1882 and lived in Indiana A longtime Presbyterian and Eastern Star member survived by husband two sons Wellington B Clark of Mahaffey George K Clark of Indiana two brothers George K Kline of Johnstown Horace K Kline of Chicago Funeral Thursday at 2 00 pm at her son George K Clarks home with Dr Robert L Clark officiating burial in Oakland cemetery
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Thomas
Clark
Laura Elizabeth (Kline) Clark
Thomas B. Clark
Wellington B
Anna Margareta Kline
Amityville
Berks County
Indiana
The
Presbyterian Church
Order of the Eastern Star
Indiana Musical Girls
Wellington B. Clark
Mahaffey
George K. Clark
George K
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Learn held in Cookport
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at Cookport Lutheran church for Mrs. Sarah Jane Learn, lifelong Green township resident, who died Wednesday at her daughter’s Greensburg home. Born October 26, 1862, she was widow of A. S. Learn and lived around Cookport most of her life. Surviving children include Mrs. J. H. Orr, Indiana. Mrs. O. B. Henry, Lucerne. Mrs. R. W. Beringer, Commodore area. Mrs. F. W. Henry and S. B. Learn, Greensburg. also a brother and four sisters.
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Cookport
William J. Hileman Funeral Services Held in Gastown
Funeral services for William J. Hileman age 68 of Gastown were held in the Gastown Reform church with interment in the church cemetery. He died in a Kittanning hospital on Friday leaving a widow Ida Schrecengost Hileman and four children Frank McIntire of Indiana N B McPherson Hazel Hileman of Kittanning Charles Hileman of Akron OH eight grandchildren a brother Milo Hileman of Clarksburg and sister Ellen Shields of Lewisburg. He was known in Indiana where he worked as a carpenter.
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William J. Hileman
Gastown Reform Church
Gastown
Kittanning
Ida (Schrecengost) Hileman
Frank McIntire
Indiana
N. B. McPherson
Hazel Hileman
Charles Hileman
Albert G Clark Funeral Planned in Creekside
Albert George Clark of Creekside, 64, a railroader, died Monday in Indiana hospital from complications. Funeral services Thursday forenoon at Clark Funeral Home in Hiderton, with interment in Hiderton cemetery. Survived by widow Martha, daughters Lillian Caylor and Martha Clark, son Lester Clark, brother W H Clark, sister Emma Lafferty.
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Clark Funeral
Hiderton
Albert George
Clark
Creekside
Indiana Hospital
Creekalde M. BH. Church
Mre
Martha (McCreight)Clark
Mra
Lillian Ca
Miss Helen Powell Dies of Heart Attack at 30
Miss Helen Barbara Powell, 30, of Marchand, died Friday morning at home after a heart attack. Born March 10, 1906, she taught in Marchand schools and was a longtime member of the Marchand Evangelical church. Survived by brother Guy Powell of Washington, D. C. Funeral services were held at the Powell home Monday with interment in Marchand cemetery.
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Helen
Barbara Powell
Marchand
Levi Powell
Marchand Evangelical Church
Guy Powell
Washington, D. C
Powell
Marchand Cemetery
Mrs. Aiken of Marion Center Died After Illness
Mrs. Herman L. Aiken aged 41 of near Marion Center died in Indiana hospital from complications. Native of Pittsburgh funeral at St Andrews Catholic Church followed by interment. She leaves three children James Evelyn Betty Jane and siblings in Pittsburgh. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm.
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Herman L. Aiken
Marion Center
Indiana Hospital
Pittsburgh
St. Andrews ‘Catholic Church
Church
James
Evelyn
Betty Jane
James Lavelle
Ellen
Bertha
Bridget
Indiana County Subscriptions Three Good Club Offers
Offers for Indiana County readers list multiple publications including Country Home Poultry Tribune American Fruit and Pennsylvania Farmer. Promotions advertise one year or multi-year bundles with add-ons for subscribers outside Indiana County. Authority appears to be The Indiana Progress with payment details and order instructions.
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Indiana County
Indiana
Notich
Indiana Progress Iodiana
Fenna
Ladysmith Defended as Boer War Opening Feat
Detroit News notes Ladysmith’s defense in the early Boer War as the war’s most valuable military achievement. With 22,000 British troops in South Africa, Sir George White held Ladysmith against Boer siege attempts until relief arrived in February. Queen Victoria died January 22, 1901, and she had shown interest by visiting the wounded and thanking supporters.
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Ladysmith
Natal
Cape Colony
Detroit News
South Africa
Sir George White
Great Britain
Bulter
Lord Roberts
Dublin
Giving Cold Shoulder Figurative Origin Story
The article discusses the phrase giving the cold shoulder, noting two theories of origin. One theory cites medieval French hospitality and cold mutton as a sign to outstaying guests, while a more probable view suggests cold means unfriendly like a cold handshake and avoiding the person.
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France
Indianapolis News
Finger Test of Fabrics Grandma Knew
A folk method demonstrates how to tell cotton from linen by a damp finger. Linen absorbs water faster, creating an oblong stain on mixed fabrics, while pure linen yields a circular spot. Cotton shows a circular spot with water remaining on the surface briefly.
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Persnickity
The Wedding Cake Origin Story and Tradition
The wedding cake tradition traces to ancient Rome patrician weddings and later European feasts. A French traveler in England combined dough into one pan, inventing the modern cake. The bride traditionally cuts the first slice, believed to bring prosperity and happiness.
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Rome
Europe
England
Park of Its Kind Skansen in Stockholm Worlds Teeming Exhibit
Skansen in Stockholm is the only park of its kind worldwide. The 70 acre outdoor section reproduces Sweden in miniature with salient features flora fauna and peasant dwellings in district costumes as described by Glenn D. McCoy in Colier's Weekly via Washington DC.
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Nordiaka Museum
Stockholm
Sweden
Glenn D. McCoy
Washington, D, C
Colier
Making One's Opportunity In The World
The passage urges self initiative to succeed, warning that waiting for fate or others to offer advancement is folly. It stresses actively creating chances rather than relying on a fortunate seventh wave to bring wealth or influence.
Contentment in Work and Human Fulfillment
The passage asserts that without work the average man loses his way and needs love health and companionship to be whole. In work he finds contentment and the drive to act contribute for his world and provide for loved ones, achieving his dreams through effort.
Tony the pushcart peddler in Ninth Ward saga unfolds
A night shift peddler Tony sells ties and socks from a street cart near Ginsburg's Kash Karry. He endures rain, shrinking sales and rent worries, but a stray five dollar bill offers a glimmer of hope before a tense moral moment over ownership surfaces.
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Ninth Ward
Tony
Tony Po
Ginabure
Ginsburg’s
Ony
Lincoln
Fran
Importation of Merino Sheep Fuels Early U S Wool Boom
Historical note traces the 1802 importation of seven ewes and twenty one rams by Davis Humphrey of Connecticut as the start of major wool growth in the United States. It covers rising merino prices, embargo effects, 1800s mill openings, regional production, and the decline of wool growing after 1840.
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Connecticut
Carleton M. Allen
Boston
England
France
Humphreys
Dupont
Wilmington
Del
Pennsygenia
Steubenville
Ohio
United States
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Camel Hair Cloth Dates Back to Distant Past
An authority in the Boston Herald explains camel hair cloth stems from a distant past. The underball of camels yields the luxurious fiber used for one quality camel hair cloth. Historically valued, camel hair shawls were famed across the ancient world and resisted early machine weaving, leading to blending with other fibers in remote Indian and Chinese villages.
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Boston Herald
India
China
Fate of Alexander I Alleged Wanderer Legend Emerges
A Philadelphia Record writer claims peasants in western Siberia occasionally saw a mysterious stranger resembling Czar Alexander I, suggesting he did not die in 1825 but abdicated and wandered. Official reports said he died of a cold. His reign began in 1801 with reforms and education acts, including freeing serfs in the Baltic provinces.
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Alexander
Siberia
Alexander I
Russia
Philadelphia Record
Baltle
Custom of Bridesmaids in Weddings Through History
The article traces the bridesmaids tradition to medieval romantic affairs when knights seized their ladies. It explains bridesmaids symbolize the bride's defenders and groomsmen symbolize the groom's friends, with the best man once aiding the warrior friend in securing the beloved.
Grub Street and Milton Street in London History
Grub Street in Moorfields London housed writers of art history and dictionaries and gave its name to cheap literary writers. The Grub Street Journal ended in 1787 and featured Pope Swift and other wits. the street is now Milton Street.
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Grub Street
London
Moorfields
Andrew Muarvell
Pope
Swift
Grub Street Journal
Milton Street
Two Types of Dachshunde Described
The article explains two dachshunde varieties the smooth coated and the wire or rough coated. It notes the smooth type is most common in Los Angeles and suggests the other may trace to a cross with a Scottish terrier or a dachshund. The breed was popularized abroad around 1800 and quickly gained dog lovers.
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Stiles
Los Angeles
West Lebanon Social Notes and Flood Area News
West Lebanon reports include visits from Mrs Charles Framontano and Sammy of Buffalo, NY. relatives in flood zones and disaster scenes seen last week. Provisions sent to Apol lo. L A L to be entertained Thursday afternoon. Mack Miner and Mrs V J Miner of Mechanicnburg visited. Craig family welcomes Richard Lee Craig. J A Miller not well. H B Fulton improving in Indiana Gates hospital.
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West Lebanon
Charles Framontano
Sammy
Buffalo
N. Y
A Parenta
G. Bertolino
Nancy Devers
Mra
J. A. Patterson
Apollo
Alma Coulter
V. J. Miner
Mack
Mechanicnburg
B. B
Forquer
Louise
C. M. Millen
Dick Craig
Parkwood
Richard Lee Craig
Richard Lee Craig. Mrs.Craig
Ruth Scott
J. A. Miller
H. B. Fulton
Gates Hospital
Inndiana
Flood Sufferers Aid Effort Supports Local Families
Smicksburg report notes Edkin Edmunds and others visiting family homes. Flood last week toppled E A Stears grist mill. Albert Melburn family visited Indiana relatives. Crawford and Barrett called at Indiana. A house to house canvass collected bedding cooking utensils and cash for flood sufferers.
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E.A. Stears
Albert Melburn
Indiana
B. B.crawford
Herbert Barrett
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Engle) Sowers
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H. B. Strickland
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Harry Mauk
Punxsutawney
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R. D. Jacob
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Pitt University
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Kenneth Weston
Philipsburg
Bert Weston
Joe Stiteler
Zula Stiteler
BON Ton
Indiana, PA
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