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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1933
Page
8
Harrisburg special reports a coal truck narrowly escaped disaster when a double arch stone bridge on State Route 90 between Henryville and Mt Pocono collapsed after Paradise Creek floodwaters. The eight inch concrete slab held, allowing light traffic with caution while crews inspected damage.
Local Parkwood readers recount a busy weekend with visits to Butler New York and Indiana. Families including the Craigs, Cunnnings, Shireys and Millens attended church services, gravesides, and social gatherings. Fifteen new Armstrong Grange members joined after a contest, and Emma Lee Little returned home from Indiana hospital after a mastoid operation.
Indiana callers visited and local residents hosted guests through the week. Notable names include William Sides Gomer Smith Alma Vazer Esther Patton and Pete McDermott who spent time in town and moved his family to Loupereaux Pennsylvania.
A University of Virginia psychologist reports total color blindness as exceptionally uncommon with only 126 cases worldwide and 11 in the United States. The subject failed all color blindness tests, sorting hues into five piles by brightness and perceiving colors as blacks, grays, and whites, indicating rod-dominated vision.
Siberia Verkhoyansk claims the world cold record with frigid winter conditions noted as a comparison point for other measured regions. Vladimir Zenzinov in The Road to Oblivion describes ice forming water droplets into rings, spittle freezing midair, and animals seeking shelter as frost grips the landscape.
A Danish zoologist says the deepest ocean bottoms are nearly lifeless. Only bacteria and tiny marine plants survive there due to pressure darkness and near freezing temperatures. Fish could adapt to pressure and darkness but food is scarce and growth would be slowed. No legendary monsters have been found.
The ancient Egyptians prized embalmed ancestors and used them to pressure debtors. A debtor could be compelled to give a bond to surrender a living parent’s body when unembalmed. The practice aimed to force repayment by exploiting the parental body as collateral.
Chronicles severe winters through history noting the Baltic crossing by sledge in 1269, mass frost deaths in England in 1339, Danube ice filling from source to estuary in 1409, Prince vines killed by frost in 1400, Marseilles port iced over in 1809 and 1030 with widespread distress, and France becoming ice-bound in 1709 with miles of sea frozen.
The 1928 American Industries data show softwood consumption exceeding 28 billion board feet versus 6 billion for hardwoods. Southern pine accounts for over 10 billion, Douglas fir about 8 billion, and oak less than 2 billion board feet. The figures illustrate hardwoods are far less used than softwoods.
The kingfisher and other fish catching birds show unlimited patience. The heron stands motionless for hours, waiting for a meal, remaining still by the riverbank so fish fear him as part of the landscape.
Miss Rearick from near Plumville visited Miss Mary Ellen Bates over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sutton spent Wednesday in Indiana. Mary DeHaven and Albin Johnston shopped in Indiana Saturday evening. Mrs. Francis Dixson visits Frank Dixson for two weeks. Abijah Steffy visited his mother. D A McKee improves slowly after illness. J C Walker was in Indiana Thursday. Young folks conference to meet at Crooked Creek Baptist church on October 28. Attendees from here at Wallace Shaffer weiner roast include Burleson, Ronald Johnston, Randall DeHaven, Joe and John Nesbit. Mrs. Elmer Boreland and Mrs. Longwill visited Mrs Carney. Dwight Byers spent weekend with family. Mrs Carney visited sister Mrs Cravener. Epworth League held a weiner roast at the park Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Robert Johnston visited Mr and Mrs James Fairman. Archie Riddle visited daughter in law Mrs Tilby Johnston last Sunday. Mr and Mrs Sunday moved to Clair Bothells house.
Adams and Alfred Overman of Johnstown attended the Conrad Sleppy Kane event Saturday evening. Friday morning Buddy and Dolly Jacobs were in Glen Campbell for callers. Howard Willard returned to Indiana after days with local friends. Jesse Oher is employed by Bruce Patterson. Mrs. Jennie Coy and Mrs. Carl Ganoe visited Mrs. Charles Ganoe at Newtown Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George Greene of Belsano were guests of Mrs. William McCullough Sunday. Elmer Detwiler was a Sunday visitor in the D H B Detwiler home. Irvin Greene of Belsano spent Friday night here. Mrs. Ruhl Patterson visited her sister Jesse Oher one day late week. YW L Adams and Alfred Overman of Johnstown called at John Overman’s Saturday. Wilmer Muckle of near Indiana called on friends here Saturday evening.
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