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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1899
Page
7
The text contrasts Paris hotel life with American comforts, noting fragile heating and scarce nourishing food. It critiques French hospitality, describing heated rooms, baths, candles, and toiletries as exaggerated luxuries, while American travelers endure cold, poor meals, and limited desserts in winter.
A Cornish Magazine piece notes a coat of arms applicant who could only recall no feats in his lineage, finding no honor in his debt imprisonment escape from Lud, while fashion slang from 1780s France is hilariously opaque to later readers as quoted by the San Francisco Argonaut.
The article describes bureaucratic overreach as ministers depart and travel across cities, triggering extensive notifications to the empire's officials and the sacred bodies. With 18 ministers making about three trips yearly, roughly 10,800 official papers are produced in a year.
Grain-O promises stomach relief and better digestion while advertising a home office managerial position with a $900 yearly salary. The notice also includes a testimonial from ex postmaster Ta. Promise City and mentions sale by druggists in Indiana.
In the article a wife’s waning interest after marriage is linked to physical changes. It praises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for curing languor headaches backache nervous weakness and restoring companionship. A Kentucky husband commends the remedy for his wife’s recovery from feminine irregularity after two bottles. The maker claims no alcohol narcotics or opiates in the product.
A land tract in Grant township Indiana County Pennsylvania begins at a stone on a public road from Richmond to Marion Center and runs through a series of bearings and perches to a concluding point at the starting stone, containing an undefined area.
A detailed land description lists 133 acres and 84 perches with a nine room dwelling, outbuildings, a spring, fruit trees, and mineral underpinnings of coal and limestone. Two adjoining tract descriptions give boundary lines by alley intersections and compass bearings, referencing a public road from Richmond to Marion Center, adjacent properties, and a United Brethren church.
Administrator notices announce estates of William Sell and Mrs Mary E Sell in Armstrong township Indiana county with payment and claim details. A sale of property is to be conducted by D A Gorman as administrator and G W Hood is attorney. Also filed is the first and final account of Charles J Stewart as assignee for creditors of Noah Seanor referenced by Elder Peelor Prothonotary.
Auction list for the estate of William Sell and Mary E Sell to be held Friday November 24 1809 at 12 oclock noon at the late residence in Armstrong township 24 miles north of Ipeia. Items include two draft horses two milch cows yearling bull two steer sheep pigs farming gear plows hay and grain household goods and farming implements with nine months credit on sums over five dollars conducted by Wy P Sell administrator.
An 1899 notice sets an auction for Tuesday November 21 at 1 PM near Indiana on Ebensharo Pike. Items include a work horse, a three year old cow, a yearling heifer, spring calves, a fat hog, a Jersey cow fresh in January, a five horse wagon, harness, plows, harrows, and various farm gear. Proceeds and terms to be announced day of sale.
A public sale is announced for Thursday November 23 1899 at noon in Wberryhill township four miles east of Indiana. The property includes two work mares with colt one year old colt one year old mule and other described items. Named as the property of a listed owner in the notice.
A detailed sale list covers livestock including steers heifer a sprite calf two sows and pigs plus farming gear such as mowing machine windmill threshing machine and pairs of plows and other implements and household items. Auctioneers J C Moore of Saltsburg Pa advertise winter readiness and hot air furnace systems with estimates offered across Indiana Armstrong and Westmoreland counties. A fourth adjourned sale of Irvin McFarland estate real estate to December 1 follows at the Court House.
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