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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1889
Page
4
The nation faces dangers as immigration rises into the twentieth century. While many immigrants become good citizens, a significant portion are described as ignorant, lazy, or vicious, feeding anarchist and criminal threats. The speaker urges serious action to protect the republic from this perceived harm.
Readers urged to visit the Great Western Pennsylvania Exposition in Allegheny to see Boggs and Buhl's vast four-store display of dry goods cloaks suits and accessories. The feature is the goods not the case, with praised fabrics draping and display. The firm highlights low prices, mail order service, and a decades-long specialty in silks dress goods and seal garments. The State Convention of County Commissioners met at Allentown with nominees Kennedy Marshall Shields, and prices and laws discussed including road taxation and National Guard regulation. Giles D. Price of Erie named Meter Pennsylvania and Thomas Mer of Chester named President of the Association.
A crowded docket covers Verdicts in favor of plaintiffs in several cases against defendants including T. C. Swan v Davis and Anna Davis, Lippincott v Butterbaugh, and multiple assumpsit and account disputes. The record notes trials, continuances, settlements, and adjournments with numerous judgments for small sums and fines. Also listed are land, probate, and divorce proceedings, dissolution filings, and court-ordered sales and payments.
A Friday night entertainment by the King's Daughters of the M. E. Church wowed attendees at Library Hall. Capt. J. S. Hilberry directed nimble recruits and the elaborate costumes featured real colors and clever advertising themes for local firms.
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