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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1871
Page
5
An 1871 Indiana County directory fragment lists weekly train and stage schedules, passenger departures and arrivals, and local church notices. It cites passenger routes to Blairsville and Allegheny City, with timetable references and street locations.
COUNT: NEW AGAIN Une athedecedy oe debinquenie is called to the lavel on their papers and we hope will pay up. Several have done this. many still owe. The weather is changeable. next year is cheap. The old skates come out with cold weather. The baby with smallpox is shent. Job work offered at Piso GRESS Office. Washington trip then New York feast for Mr. Jon Hexprick. A grocery store bought out by ALM, dielt in Whissel's Guilding. Take wheat, rye, oats, and buels for highest price. Brookville organizing hook and ladder company. Mention of race Uaan Lindt and Davis of Blairs. J. Agsley, Esq. revisits customers. Geo. Houck builds new barn after fire. A. assisted neighbors after loss. Highest price for poultry paid by Cunningham Bros, West Indiana.
Our traveling correspondent notes a late flood and timber market activity along with many swans killed or captured in various parts of the county. An attempted shooting of Julia Witteck of Pittsburgh Leader led to an arrest. Church temperance movements arise as debates on county politics and reforms stir local sentiment.
Community notes from Marion recount social life, church affairs, a literary society, construction projects, and local business growth. Mentions include school departments, a Presbyterian church elder election, a Literary Society, new factories, and shop signs. Also covers county events, tavern expansion, and local correspondence urging turnout for an upcoming trail event.
Bewildered swans headed south fell to ground near Conemaugh river and Blacklick creek where locals began slaughtering them. Reports claim over twenty shot around Blacklick station with some swans weighing thirty pounds. The piece also notes weather, local commerce, a porch of ads, a missing turkey, vaccination work, and upcoming lumber and goods sales at Moorhead’s Indiana yard.
Wheat and oats terms appear as fragmented market notes with other grain names. The line reads unclear values and mix of spellings including wheat oats cornmeal and a price-like fragment. No clear transaction details or entities emerge.
A broad mix of reports covers hog cholera and smallpox trends in Sullivan and Altoona, religious revivals in Huntingdon, and official commissions for October judge elections. Bears roam Allegheny mountains near Kittanning Point. rail workers gain control of the system. Huntingdon teachers shoot two bears weighing 18 pounds. Weather turns cold in the north. deer drives near Oil City bolster sport. Altoona Sun links revivals to smallpox spread. Michael Millard survives a gas incident in Scranton. Lumber estimates top 31 million. whiskey dealers push to curb unlicensed sellers. Philadelphia Athletic Club reports 1871 receipts and expenses. roster for 1872 includes McBride and Anson. Tragic accident near Pleasantville leaves a man dead. Indians in Pennsylvania donate to Chicago relief. Yellow ochre vein found by water-works workers in Harrisburg district.
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