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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1903
Page
3
Poem tribute excerpt from the Baltimore American praising wounded flags and their enduring colors through war. The verses celebrate bravery, nation’s heart, and the flags’ beacon through smoke, cherishing heritage and memory.
An anecdote attributed to Frederick Douglass recounts a negro regiment sentry who refused to reveal a password to General William T. Sherman. The tale features an exchange about vanity and discipline as Sherman presses for the password, asserting authority and cautioning against compromising lines. The story is framed as apocryphal but deemed instructive.
The Seventh Michigan infantry attacked across the river at Fredericksburg as sharpshooters covered the opposite bank. Pontoon bridges were abandoned and volunteers crossed with empty pontoons to drive Confederates from the riverbank and nearby houses. Two Massachusetts regiments supported the assault and helped hold the line.
The Twenty fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade suffered the greatest casualties of its regiment at Gettysburg. It fought on the first day in Mc Pherson's woods near Willoughby Run. From 28 officers and 468 men it lost 363, with 69 killed 247 wounded and 47 missing. They captured the colors of the Forty-eighth Virginia at the Wilderness.
Treasurers notice lists a week’s extension to June 6 1903 for tax collection and details fee-free eye treatment offered by Mr. and Mrs. Mahaffey with their fogging method. It includes patient testimonials from Indiana Pa and a long schedule of tax collection sites and times across Indiana county. The notice emphasizes honesty in business, modern eye care, and the firm’s successful fittings.
Whereas letters of administration on the estate of CO M Altman late of Canoe Township deceased have been granted to the subscriber all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment and those having claims or demands against the estate will make known the same without delay to ADAM STATES administrator Y 6 19
Executors John D. Garman and Jeremiah Garman must appear before the Indiana County Orphans Court on the second Monday of June 1903 to show cause why a contract from 1893 between Jacob Garman and Rebecca E. Stiffler and Hills W. Stiffler should not be decreed as specific performance. Personal service within Indiana and four weekly publications in the Indiana Progress are required for those outside the county. Witness Hon. Harry White, President, dated May 4, 1903.
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