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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1896
Page
5
Local items: Cassidy and Weston families visiting. health updates for Mrs Cassidy and Mrs Marshall. pension for James Weston. social and religious events at M E church and Bethel churches. Travel, hunting, and business tidbits from Smickburg and Rayne areas plus schoolpie social to fund a dictionary.
Mr Elmer Conner of Blairsville visits Wilson Conner. A teachers institute is set for December 4 at No 5 school house. John Coup nears recovery from quinsy. Agnes Donahey of Homer visits sister Mrs Myers. Two Mecfrea children convalesce from diphtheria. Mrs McCollough and Mrs Cook of Cookport visit Mr Isaac Buterbaugh’s family. Rev Cogley leads Presbyterian services as M E church repairs continue.
Mr Warren Thomas plans to move to Blairsville this week. Mr Sam Kinter of Shelocta visited friends here last week. The Risinger school festival last Friday evening raised 16.70. Grandpa Fulton, an elderly local resident, wandered off last Thursday afternoon toward Yellow Creek. A night search found him about three miles up Yellow Creek with the Shanks family.
Mrs. W. P. Hile is bedbound with lung trouble. A Thanksgiving service will be held Thursday evening at East Mahoning Baptist Church. All are invited. Cockport Baptist church members and Rev. Burrows and wife visited Rev. W. P. Hile last Thursday. A visit to Mr. and Mrs. William Rankin by several young people last Thursday evening was enjoyed by all.
Rev and Mrs Harvey Robinson, back from Chili, described their mission experiences last Tuesday evening at the Presbyterian church. They attended an institute at the McKissen school house last Friday. The neighborhood reports three fires in 24 hours near town last week. Rev Gealey of Allegheny Seminary preached at the U P church last Sabbath. Hood's Sarsaparilla touted as a permanent cure for catarrh.
Bertha Jane Griffith, eight year old daughter of Mrs and Mrs E W Griffith, of Second ward, died November 19 1896 of diphtheria. The brief notice adds a poetic verse on grief and faith.
David Ellis and Sons will pay 30 cents per bushel for good dry buckwheat delivered to Penn Roller Mills. The Indiana Tanning Company will pay the highest market price for hides delivered at their tannery on East Philadelphia Street.
For Women and Children. Frew quoted special $5 jacket. We feature Navy and Black Boucle Box Coats with high flare collar, hard to match under $7.00. Priced $7 to $10, a leader and rapid seller. Box Coat warm, soft rough material, half silk lining, top workmanship by men tailors. Cheviot Woven Scotch Cloth jacket with braided trimmings, fresh color ideas, front and sleeves, shapely and cheap at $8.50.
The ad touts silk curl Persian Lamb cloth jackets with taffeta linings at 10 to 11 dollars. It claims hundreds of high grade jackets priced at 13 to 16 dollars, a discount from former season costs of 20 to 25 dollars, promising quality material and workmanship.
The publisher claims recovery from a long lung illness and offers a free copy of the cure prescription. It targets consumptive, asthmatic, catarrhal, bronchial, and throat conditions and invites sufferers to write to Rev Edward A Wilson in Brooklyn, New York.
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