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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1913
Page
6
Severe frosts damaged fruit and early vegetables while residents report steady measles recovery. The piece notes social visits, community events, and local happenings from Dixonville to Punxsuttawney, including church and school activities, a baseball game, and Memorial Day planning.
The first and only big show to come to Indiana this year brings Vernon C. Seaver's Hippodrome and Col Cum fis' Far It to Indianapolis for two performances on Saturday May 17. The event features forty cars in two trains with ten thousand seats, waterproof canvass, and a traveling company of seven hundred, plus cowboys, cowgirls, scouts and plainsmen in a Western exhibition including Wild West displays and a new hypnodrome attraction.
A vast program blends Russian, Arabian, Indian, Japanese and other acts with sensational feats of strength and agility. Acts include The Dance of the Jungles and The Bounding Hayrack, plus Annie Oakley and Young Buffalo in the wild west segments. A stream parade of over a mile precedes performances with doors opening at 1 and 7 pm.
Dr. Kahn the eye specialist of Pittsburg will be at The Moore Hotel on Friday offering free eye examinations. He comes to Indiana highly recommended and will be available for consultations.
Horse breeders Thorne King Gideon Belgian and Howard Belgian with David Wadding Jr a fine jack will begin the 1913 season on April 21. The first three days weekly at the owner near Ouberg and the last three days weekly at the stable on Hamer City road opposite the fair grounds, Indiana. DAVID EDWARDS, Owner and Keeper.
Product list details damask table line at 72 inches wide priced 1.25 per yard, napkins with stripe patterns, hemmed ends, Turkish bath towels pure white, damask tray cloths hemstitched 18 by 27 inches priced 35, damask border huck towels hemstitch ends sized 24 by 40 inches priced 3.
Curtain scrims in white cream or arab 86 and eight inches wide priced eight cents per inch scrims 12 to yard curtain nets quality 40 cents imported madras white or ecru 6 to 26 cents to 150 per yard all over curtain nets in white cream arab 70 cents 25 35 cents to 150 yard muslin bed sets with roll cover color band borders dainty color combinations full size two dollars or two fifty per set
The piece urges pure air and proper breathing to keep blood clean and bodies healthy. It stresses working the lungs and stomach, warning that overeating and shallow breathing cause illness and higher medical costs.
Rossmoyni Miss June Diltz of Punxsutawney hospital returns to work after two weeks vacation. Many visits and calls across Smicksburg Blairsville Johnstown and Homer City noted. Local figures include Mrs Lula Ackerson Mrs Annie Johnston and Mr Edward Domka. Brick for Sale G Mazza buys Penn Brick stock Blairsville Intersection.
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