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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1919
Page
9
In Siam royal women of rank were kept from public life while polygamy prevailed for rulers. The bachelor king declares he will marry one wife, rejecting the thousand-or-more harem practice. This excerpt from The Land of the White Elephant by Frederick Dean in Asia Magazine.
A Philadelphia elderly man Samuel Mickle warned a new printer his city was sinking with false signals like rising rents that would ruin the venture. The narrator recalls Mickle’s long reluctance to buy, then paying five times the original for a lot. A military tale follows of a major berating a lieutenant for saluting and later fearing a dentist’s amusement as the officer recognizes him.
Dialogue shows Mrs Portleight boasting about a new town car order while Mrs Skalpell expresses faux sympathy. The exchange traces vanity and social pretensions with humor. A playful skit-like scene centers on appearance and status without broader context.
A fragmented exchange discusses naming a person as relatively respectable, contrasting with Bolshevik labels. The speakers then consider managing the rental of a houseboat this summer, pondering options like a household sale.
Notice announces examination and scheduled confirmation of numerous administrator, executors, guardians and trustee accounts. Names include Jobe Henry Calhoun Morrid Kuckenbrod McNeel Telford Ans lay Barbus Trust Co Indiana Savings Trust Co Curfman New York Hart Widdowson etc. All accounts listed with counties townships and attorneys.
The document lists first and final accounts for multiple estates in various boroughs and townships. Included are The Savings & Trust Company as administrator for Annie Meanor of Marion Center, Raymond J. Murray for Mae B. Cobes of Blairsville, J Frank Miller for Noble G. Miller of Burrell township, and W G Lions with Anna M Tdgeett as executors for Martha Lucas of Tomer City. Commonwealth clerk cites attorney names and the register date May 7, 1919.
The text notes a conveyance of coal mining interests and related waivers from Melita and Wulverd to D. Waytor and Prater, via deed in deed book A, Vol. 79, with cash on confirmation and delivery of deed. Sale to be conducted by Samuel Pury man, executor. By order of the Orphans' Court, T. Clay Longwill, Clerk, May 7, 1910.
The Ludington township school board invites bids on building and furnishing for three light new houses at Janean Barkly and Bennett schools. Work includes roofing five buildings and painting five stories plus outbuildings across Ting Bennett Barkley Redbank and Dunenna schools.
Lk Walker Stith attorney issues Putors notice for the estate Moyle late of South Maloning Montana. Creditors must present substantiated claims for settlement and those indebted must make prompt payment to M. C. Mogla.
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