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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1923
Page
5
An ad extols electricity as hidden magic in the home and invites readers to The Big Warehouse to see how electric power can lighten burdens, heat, cook, wash, and brighten daily life with many wonders showcased.
In New York a mercantile firm celebrated the vice president’s anniversary with a tale of a country youth who received a crate typewriter by a travelling salesman prank. The youth arrived in the city, claimed the job, and later moved to the boss’s private office, then to the desk, and rose toward the firm’s high ranks.
An enterprising Sardinian realtor tries to sell a Mediterranean island to an American woman promising a princely title for ten thousand dollars. The estate includes an old castle, several hundred acres of vineyard and farm land in need of modernization, five villages with about 500 inhabitants, and a well located site suitable for summer or winter residence. The sale includes the princely name and a guarantee of legal title transfer.
In Reykjavik authorities plan to heat Iceland with waters from local hot springs and geysers. Preliminary plans envision wooden pipes carrying sulphurous waters into the city to warm the country, reducing dependence on coal.
Coffeyville drillers for a laundry firm report a 1,000,000-foot gas well near the main street in the downtown business district and within 100 feet of Coffeyville’s first gas well drilled in 1892. The earlier well yielded about 2,000,000 cubic feet daily but was abandoned as unprofitable after years of operation.
Chicago widow Mrs Leo Garfinkle obtained a new husband through a strange prompt from William Printer, proprietor of a local shop. He urged marriage with the line that he would give her a good life if she chose him. After she weighed his offer, the pair married a few days later in a quick ceremony.
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