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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1894
Page
6
Thousands of visitors learn how wheat traders move millions of bushels in seconds. Brokers use finger signals to show price changes and market direction with precise low gestures and a closed hand for bearish moves.
The Rev George Harvest a Thames Ditton minister and noted scholar and fisherman was famed for absentmindedness. On his wedding day he overstole the hour, his fiancée daughter of the bishop of London broke the match. He once fell from a punt while reading a Greek message, was fished out. He and Lord Sandwich shared schoolboy tricks and he once imitated a lion by placing six shillings in his mouth at Calais Paris.
A narrator recounts watching an Indian interpret animal signs in grass and woods. The Indian correctly notes bear, deer, moose, and other tracks, exposing an uncanny instinct while the hunter is teased by a friend who admits the hunt was a sham, and the day’s sport earned $2.50.
A Boston Post note explains a clever invisible ink method using thickened starch and tincture of iodine. The ink dries instantly and can be wiped away with a pocket handkerchief, leaving no trace on the paper.
A brief dialogue notes a widow and a lawyer unable to decipher a will. The exchange mocks the confusion of legal wording, calling a will unreadable a blessing and ending with the quip about heirs demanding their share.
All the Year Round contrasts urban slang with fashionable talk in a mock dialogue. It parries street idiom with refined banter as Lady Gwendolen Vere de Vere and Lord Adolphus Grandseigneur trade quips about manners and propriety in the drawing room.
By order of the Orphans Court of Indiana county dated September 3, 1844 the Executor will expose estate property at public sale on September 12 at 20 o clock P M On September 6 1894 a white boar pig weighing about fifty pounds came to Cherryhill township Indiana county Pa The owner must prove property pay charges and claim otherwise it will be astray The deed of voluntary assignment for creditors has been delivered by A T Lowry Co to the assignee Creditors must present accounts for settlement and those owing must pay promptly J A Findley Assignee September 19 Ss J Telford Attorney Auditor J J Will will sit October 12 1894 at 2 o clock P M to distribute funds in lands of Andrew Getty Assignee for creditors of Robert J Beck Saltsburg borough and all interested may attend The second auditor for W McMaster funds will sit October 13 1894 at 8 o'clock A M Indiana Borough John H Hill
A mix of anecdotes on extreme sensitiveness and its suffering, a praise for Chamberlain's Pain Balm with local sellers, and brief excerpts on flags, weddings cakes, Hood's Sarsaparilla, and a croup prevention note. The text weaves personal quips with advertisements and short foreign lore from the era.
Train timetable notes show Niagara Express, Titusville Express, Buffalo Express and various Accoms linking Pittsburg, Kittanning, Oil City, Emlenton and East Brady with listed departure and arrival times. Managers McCargo and Anderson appear as general superintendant and general passenger agent respectively.
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