Indiana Progress records social events and club notices
The Indiana Progress reports Elks social at the Elkin building with about 100 attendees, rabbit dishes and dancing, notes a Cosmopolitan Club banquet planned for Library Hall on Friday evening December 8, and an Odd Fellows smoker slated for Monday evening November 27. The piece reflects local society coverage and community notices from Indiana, Pennsylvania.
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Elks
Elkin
Elks Orchestra
Cosmopolitan Club
Library Hall
Odd Fellows
Rev Lee Perry to Return and Resume Pulpit Duties
Reverend Lee Perry of the Christian church returns home this week to fill the pulpit on Sabbath after a three week absence in Pittsburg where he helped lead a large Christian revival. Pie socials are planned in Mechanicsburg and Keller school houses in Cherryhill township on Friday evening and a Kellysburg schoolhouse pie social on Wednesday evening to benefit the local school.
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Lee Perry
Christian Church of Town
Pittsburg
Mechanicsburg
Keller
Cherryhill Township
Kellysburg
Where Children Are Sold on a Steamer to Benguela
Witness Sleary W Nevinson describes five native boys aged ten to twelve sold by a Portuguese trader within a week of arriving at Benguela. The boys, thin and small, were priced at 50 milreis each about £10, with buyers passing on offers as New Year gifts among Portuguese contacts. The article notes higher-than-expected prices for human beings across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venguela
Benguela
Lins
Sleary W. Nevinson
Slurper's Magazine
Sleeper Confesses Staging Company Tactics On Stage Falls
A stage driver explains to an anxious passenger that the company uses fear and a hatchet to deter lawsuits. He claims staged accidents occur to eliminate damage claims, saying drivers threaten and push passengers off precipices to avoid legal action. Sent from Merced to Chicago.
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Kaly
Dimuages
Merced (Cal
Chicago
The Arrogance of Poverty
A dialogue depicts class tension as Mr Dustin Stax patronizes a poor man reading about tainted money. The exchange highlights social judgment and contrasts between wealth and need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Dustin Stax
Appendicitis cure claims with colloidal silver solution
Consul General Guenther reports on a new treatment for appendicitis using a soluble silver colloid in water. Dr Moosbrugger in Leutkirch reports rapid improvement in incipient cases and cures in most without surgery, though long-term results and safety require further observation before abandoning operative care.
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Collanges
Gener
Guenther
Trankfork
Germany
Mei
Tie
Tie Trent
Moosbrugger
Leutkireh
Munich
Civilized Murder and the Cost of Prosperity
An English woman in Borneo argues that head hunting is murder like Western industries and vice. She questions if civilized nations can claim moral high ground while drugging society, gambling, drinking, and factory toil destroy bodies and souls. She contends that fighting reveals nobility, whereas civilized murder brings misery and decaying homes.
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Borneo
Young Girls Taught Simple Cookery in New York Schools
A Leslie's Weekly excerpt notes programs in New York on teaching young girls to buy and prepare wholesome foods for family meals. It highlights daughters serving as meal planners, shoppers, and helpers for working parents in crowded districts.
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New York
Great East Side
Italy
HtWechel
Leslie's Weekly
Bishops in July Tour Share Mixed Tones
The Bishops Wilwer of Louisiana Wilmer of Alabama travel together in July. The Louisiana bishop praises architecture with boredom while the Alabama bishop terms the scene agreeable, adding humorous regional quips about Italy and a cousin.
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Metort
Joseph Wilwer
Louisiana
Edehard Wilmer
Alabina
Alabwini
Alabama
Joe
Italy
Commissioners' sale trims tracts. eight left for public bid
At the commissioners sale of unseated land, all advertised tracts sold except eight. These will face a public sale immediately after sheriff's sales on Friday, December 1. The notice includes various local price listings and market quotes for agricultural products and livestock.
Public Auctions and Property For Sale Across Indiana Area
Auction notices list multiple November 1905 sales in Homer City Shawnee and Shelocta with D M Caldwell Company and others exposing personal property including horses, cows, wagons, harness, and farm implements. Credit terms and auctioneers John Runyan Suaree Peitimqanw Gilbon Gretan Cal vary. Indiana Provision Company sells a building and grounds suitable for manufacturing or storage with railroad access.
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Sarah McGee
Homer City
Center
I John Runyan
Suaree Peitiqanw
D. M. Henry
Shawnee
Mitchells Mills
Ong Sorrel
Surrey
Syracuse
Gilbon
J. Elder Peeler
James Walker
Shelocta
Conklin
Cal
Gretan
Indiana Electric Company
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Young Township
Momlay
Clymer Manufacturing Company
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Fittsburg Mark
Ohio
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Indiana Foundry Co., Ltd
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World
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Daily Gazette
THE
Penna
Penn Run
Oliver
American Reduction Co
Paramount
Loughry’s
Reliable Corner
Court House
H.S
W. R. Loughry & CO
D. M. Caldwell & Company
Kirschbaum
Holiday Travel
Indiana Provision Company
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