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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1892
Page
5
Memorial Day is upcoming. notices urge sidewalk repairs and premises cleanup. Several local items mention residents in West Indiana, Alliance, and surrounding townships, with health notices, market tips, farm updates, and community events. The column notes railroad rate talk, post office efforts, school examinations, and local business ads.
A Blairsville notice touts growth with attainable plots, a small cash payment, and a future rise in values. It highlights Tin Plate and Glass Works completing soon, expected to add 200 jobs and a $750,000 annual payroll from public works. Inquiries directed to Blairsville Land Improvement Co.
The advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier with a long record of cures for blood diseases and urged trust in its merit. It also recommends Hood's Pills as a general family cathartic, suitable for every home medicine chest. Includes a post office letter listing for Indiana Pa with advertising notice. Also promotes rheumatism cures, English Spavin Liniment claims and druggist offers with bold health claims.
Blairsville notes a strong building boom with houses rising in all directions while Miss Aggie Simpson lies ill with pneumonia. The region hears of a coming circus, wedding attends and sermons exchanged between ministers, and a new Asa G. Neville Glass Works opening planned.
Memorial Day observances across Indiana and neighboring communities call veterans, local clubs, and women relief groups to decorate graves, present flags, and hold services at library halls and cemeteries. Details cover gathering times, processions, cenotaphs, and floral contributions, with a call for volunteers and donations to wreath-making committees.
Market quotations corrected weekly by B Mack Farmers Headquarters list prices for lard tallow country soap beeswax country hams sides shoulders potatoes per pound and per bushel.
Charles Mull at the Clannon Houses seeks a carload of horses and invites calls to get top prices. The page lists buyers and sellers across Indiana Pa for mills, lime, clothing, hats, shoes, buggies, farm equipment, and a variety of groceries and household goods with numerous local merchants and sales.
Store advertises May discounts with new waists priced at 44c to 1.00, China and India goods 40c to 48c per yard, ladies fine dress shoes and hats, men’s dress and work shoes, and Grand Army suits. Cash terms, all goods plainly marked, large stock across ages and sizes, emphasizing low prices and timely sale.
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