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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1899
Page
7
President McKinley names November 30 as a national day of Thanksgiving and prayer for the United States and its territories. He notes prosperity, peace, and recovery from recent calamities, urges religious observance, and calls for labor relief and charity on the day.
The second and most extensive attraction of the People’s popular course arrives Monday November 20 with seats reserved from Friday November 17 at 9 am. Limit eight seats per person and admission is 75 cents. The Boston Ladies’ Military Band, praised by Greensburg’s daily Tribune, is hailed as divine music and an honor to American ingenuity and the female sex.
The People's Popular Lecture Course opened Friday with Prof. Thomas H. Dinemore Jr delivering an engaging talk on A Wonderful Structure. An intelligent, attentive crowd enjoyed over an hour of simple yet elevating science aided by brilliant chemical demonstrations. Library Hall hosted a high-spirited program leaving attendees pleased with the evening. Hall's Catarrh Cure ads offer a 100 dollar reward for cures and praise from West Truax Walpine Kixnan Marvin.
A claimed one to three day cure called Mystic Cure is advertised as a radical remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia. The promotion asserts immediate system-wide action and rapid relief after the first dose, offered at 75 cents with distribution by druggists in Indiana.
Public sale bulletins announce dates, times, and locations for on farm auctions in Cherryhill, Pine Township and Blacklick Township Indiana County. Items include mares cattle sheep hogs grain hay equipment wagons plows harvesters and farming gear with credits and noon lunches. Auctioneers James McFarland D T McGruner and R N Minurg/Gibson coordinate sales.
An advertisement claims a cure named New Great South American Kidney Cure relieves kidney and bladder pain within six hours. It asserts rapid relief from water retention for adults and children and lists Hetsick Bros. druggists in Indiana, Pa as sellers. Adjourned sale notices Irwin McFarland estate real estate delayed to Friday after sheriff sale at the Court House with administrators James McGeregor and Mrs. S. A. McFarland signing.
By virtue of an alias order of the Orphans Court the following real estate will be exposed to public sale on nine r cents and the date and full parcel details will be announced in the official notice.
Half a dozen Boers toured Pretoria and met President Kruger who hosted them at the government buildings. A lamp stayed lit as men blew harder with puffed cheeks, then Kruger covertly blew to extinguish the light, delighting observers who noted the glass enclosure around the lamp.
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