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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1895
Page
6
Professor Colestin Sellers notes that perpetual motion claims recur in exhibitions that rely on panicked credulity. He warns that promoters profit while investors risk small sums, as real scientific methods rarely justify the extravagant results claimed.
A century of Magyar statehood will be marked by a year long millennium celebration in Hungary starting January 1, 1896. Events include parliamentary ceremonies in Budapest, the Pantheon with busts of heroes, a new Museum of Art and History, construction milestones on Danube bridges, and the opening of 500 new public schools nationwide.
In Longman's Magazine, the first bank of Marseilles is sketched as a busy hall where clerks and patrons smoke, with each step of cashing checks passing through multiple guichets and a livery porter. The system lacks a clearing house, banks levy charges on interbank cashing, and small balances earn little interest, forcing frequent partial payments or awkward exchanges.
The New York Sun notes a two year decline in women's wages with more men and foreign workers taking roles once held by women. Employers use holiday cheap help to depress pay, then replace older staff. Reports say some women earn 30 to 60 cents a day while unemployment rises.
Remedy touted as permanent cure for headaches and habitual constipation. Encourages trials with large bottles at multiple hometown outlets. Spavina liniment claimed to cure horse blemishes and injuries with strong guarantees and discount.
A compilation of local anecdotes and advertisements includes a preacher editor exchange about steep mountain lot prices, a druggist in Beaversville praising Dr King’s New Discovery for La Grippe, and various testimonials for eye and throat treatments. Also noted are a state-mokery political flourish, farm mishap with sawdust and turpentine, school reports and a health remedy for coughs and colds.
Spectacles fitted by Apple and local optician offer free examinations and a one year warranty on watch repairs. Pennsylvania Railroad timetables show weekday departures from Blairsville Intersection at 5:25, 8:00 am, and 4:30 pm with Indiana connections. For details contact Thomas E. Watt, Passenger Agent Western District, 110 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh. Also notices for John H. Pierce Attorney at Law Philadelphia Street Philadelphia. Jane Indiana, Pa.
Train schedule for the Allegheny Valley Railroad showing passenger northbound service starting Sunday July 29 1894. Contains stop order times and station names for the northward route.
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