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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1891
Page
5
A historical notice outlines subscription rules and penalties for nonpayment. It warns that failure to cancel, moving without informing, or leaving papers uncalled for can imply fraud and lead to arrest and fines under new postal laws. It also states advance payers must notify when ending to avoid continued charges.
In Indiana PA area notices speak of Thanksgiving oysters at Andersons and live geese feathers at W M Cunninghams, plus Farmers Exchange ads for hay, butter and eggs, groceries, and selloffs. Sheriff Lewis attends Greensburg court. local traders tout boots, hosiery, and logging items. several community notices and obituaries appear alongside farm market chatter.
Ralph Walker and James S Black faced sums tied to B B Alexander Armstrong township affair. Alexander fled Pittsburg detectives pursued, leaped fences, and hid in an out house before capture. Police recovered a small cash amount, 38 caliber cartridges, and a watch. He is about 25 years old.
Town pastors arrange a union thanksgiving service on the 26th inst. Rev. N. G. Miller of the M. E. church will preach at 10:30 a.m. in the Lutheran church. A committee including John Bryan W. W. Brithart A. W. Wilson D. B Ree and J. F. Barnes will receive and distribute the collection to the needy. Remember the scriptural note the poor ye have with you.
In the home of Mrs. Samuel Grove this afternoon a marriage will unite J. J. McClellan M D of Columbus Ohio and Miss Annie L. Grove of this city. The ceremony will be at 2 p m performed by D Hall D D in the presence of intimate friends. The couple will depart tonight for Chicago and then make Buffalo their permanent home. The Progress offers congratulations.
The P R R schedule change delays the Johnstown Accommodation by about 25 minutes at Blairsville, causing missed connections with the Southwest branch at Greensburg and late arrivals to Pittsburg. A. W. Wilson led a Board of Trade meeting and a railroad committee petitioned the P R R. Judge White urged Pittsburg officials to act, aiming to improve Indiana Branch service.
Approximately sixty friends gathered at the Cockport home of Rev. 8. Krider for a surprise fiftieth birthday celebration. Hosts brought gifts as a testimonial of affection, and Krider expressed thanks in his characteristic cordial manner.
In reply to a recent Progress notice by F J Johnson I state my brief tenure ended last August I resigned voluntarily and never claimed ongoing employment I now work for a reliable firm selling planes organs sewing machines and music goods all guaranteed and ready to take orders
Fragmentary ad copy recalls Castoria usage for babies children and infants. The garbled text presents repeated phrases about relief for sickness teething and crying with Castoria referenced as a remedy. No clear event or figure names appear.
Blairsville notes recount visits by residents from Allegheny and Homer City, a new Blairsville Rolling Mill charter, local injuries from a buggy accident and a mine incident, a fatal illness and a prominent death, a large private company hire, and social events. The town reports typhoid cases subsiding, a turkey hunt, local church services, and upcoming lectures with community appeal.
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