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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1896
Page
8
Professor Hiram Wind known as Hi Wind recalls near disaster while ballooning in Indiana. With ballast spent he leapt with a rope tied to the balloon, calculating rope length to meet his fall. He dropped onto a straw stack while the balloon plunged into a pond, the act averting a fatal crash.
Brief world items note the Missouri river frozen bank to bank at Sioux City Ia for 11 years at this season. Flood devastation in Bosnia Austria with 13 drownings near Sarajevo. Also reports on legal cases, a planned Antarctic expedition start, murders in Ky and N H, a double tragedy in N H, and an industrial accident at Niagara Falls leaving multiple dead and injured.
In a letter to the Indiana Progress reader E. Littet of West Lebanon Pa asks when the country will address temperance and the money spent on liquor, noting foreign investments in U S breweries and the long delayed moral question. He recalls the first temperance meeting in 1648 and insists action is long overdue.
W S Daugherty, ex-Prothonotary, writes from IndiaANnA Pennsylvania that from 1877 to 1892 he suffered severe rheumatism, needing a crutch in May 1892, but after using James Anderson's medicine since then he has not felt the disease.
Old time ad from 1896 promotes Buecklen's Arnica Salve as best for cuts and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by T E Hildebrand Indiana and others. Office remaining in Indiana Pa November 17 1896. Postmaster Franklin Sansom.
Pittsburg market notes November 17 list prices for wheat No 1 red 92 93c No 2 red 86c to 90c spring 90 91c corn 32 33c oats 24 25c hay timothy 11.50 11.75, poultry prices and butter cherry Elgin 24 23 ¾c etc cattle hogs and sheep prices with daily changes and ranges.
Biber and Easton advertise a line of Navy and Black Boucle Box Coats with $5 jackets and values from $7 to $10. They boast warm, soft rough material, silk lined, high workmanship, and note hundreds of high grade jackets priced at $13 to $16, previously $20 to $24.
An 1870s reader describes a remarkable recovery in a young boy after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The letter claims the tonic purifies and enriches the blood and helped a severe leg ailment mis diagnosed as rheumatism or hip disease, restoring health.
A promotional note advertises all wool surfings described as endless varieties of patterns and shades, 50 inches wide, emphasizing broad width and fabric availability. The fragment hints at a textile catalog entry or sale notice from a period newspaper.
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