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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1898
Page
6
An excerpt from Barrett Esstmen in Chap Book laments sailors missing comrades as the ship sails, asserting it is useless to weep while a shipmate sleeps through the long dark watch. The speaker vows to remember with a stark, sparse quatrain of duty and loss.
An elderly Joliet narrator recalls Mike Halloran, a Union soldier from Company K, seen by his wife Ellen in 1861 as the regiment passed the hotel. The tale unfolds through wandering memory, war, loss, a wooden leg, and a cemetery board bearing Halloran’s name. The piece blends personal reflection with local history and suggests Halloran’s lasting legacy in the community.
A broad cure promotion promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney and bladder trouble including back pain lumbago and frequent urination. The ad claims stages from kidney to bright disease and asserts a free sample bottle and information by mail from Kilmer Co. and notes a second tonic South American Nervine for stomach weakness. Local sellers Hetrick Bros. Indiana Pa. 120198.
Ad claims headache relief in 15 minutes from Dr Devi Anti Headache with no suffering. Liss no equal and available at all druggists for 25 cents.
An old railroad man advises shifting from egg coal to pea coal for kitchen ranges and cellar heaters. He explains raking technique and maintaining a bed of ashes to prevent clinker drops, noting pea coal costs about $3.15 a ton and can match or exceed egg coal heat while saving about $1.50 per ton. He urges careful firing and mid day topping for steady warmth.
The page advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for digestion, malaria, kidney and rheumatic issues, nervousness, insomnia, and constipation. It also promotes Personally-Conducted Tours by the Pennsylvania Railroad for 1898 99 to California and Florida, with travel details and agent contacts, along with notices for a farm for sale in Armstrong township and a testimonial about an Indian Herb Rheumatism Cure from Big Ron, Pa.
The document lists jurors drawn for a special week of September court beginning Monday November 28, 1999. Names appear for various districts such as Armstrong Brushvalley Blairsville Blairsville Center Conemaugh Cherryhill Indiana Mahoning Marion Center Montgomery Mechanicssburg Rayne Saltsburg Wheatfield West Wheaifield East White and Young. It also lists grand jurors drawn for the first week of December court beginning December 5, 1593, with many county districts and numerous named individuals.
A Mrs Capt Peter Race of New York shares a testimonial praising Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. She claims it cured her dyspepsia and enabled her husband, age seventy, to recover from kidney pain and regain vigor. The letter extols the medicine as a kidney and bladder remedy that also treats rheumatism eczema scrofula and constipation.
An offer from Dr. David Kennedy Corporation invites readers to send their full post office address to Rondout to receive a free trial bottle prepaid. The notice claims the medicine is wonderful and urges proof to everyone.
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