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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1898
Page
6
An essay urges readers to value their local paper and support editors through subscriptions and timely notices. It traces how papers chronicle births, marriages, achievements, illnesses, losses, and community events, boosting readers and guiding commerce. It urges reciprocity, sharing news, buying ads, and using the paper for printing needs, praising the local editor as a faithful friend.
The article breaks down typical railcar types and their weights and prices, from ordinary passenger cars at 88 000 pounds to baggage cars and mail cars, sleepers, and freight cars. It estimates locomotive plus cars weighing 70 tons, and a 184 ton passenger train at 50 miles per hour, noting millions of freight cars in use and the variety of car types and costs across the system.
Admiral Sampson is ill in Havana as battleships Iowa and Oregon may not sail for the Pacific before Wednesday. Eli Shaw found not guilty of murdering his mother by a Camden jury. Commodore Watson injured in a California wreck. Chauncey Depew lauded on New York day at Omaha. Maxim arrested in New York on bigamy charges. Hall, former New York mayor, dead. War commission to tour army camps. Democratic assembly set for Wilkes-Barre on Oct 13. German press leans toward keeping the Philippines. Manila cable reports death of Charles Hennessy, Tenth Pennsylvania. Crete sees mass desertions amid unrest. Nancy Guilford in London claims Emma Gill murder link. No fireworks at conclave safety exhibit week. Schmidt of NY’s Company H dies of yellow fever in Philadelphia. Spain grants discharge to many Cuban soldiers preferring to stay. Oregon sena tor race settles with Joseph Simon elected. Atlantic City fire destroys $200,000 in property. Mississippi’s yellow fever area grows. Joan Bullitt named to Democratic campaign committee. About 24 Philadelphia sick soldiers reach New York and Port-of-Call ships. Simon Gugenheim withdraws as governor candidate. Banking subpoenas tied to Haywood case rumors surface.
Private Edward Nygran of Company B Twelfth New York was shot and killed by provost guards while fleeing to avoid arrest in Lexiveron Kentucky on October 11. Private Bailey of the Third Engineers was also shot and is in critical condition.
Guidance urges checking kidney health by observing urine sediment after one day. A sediment at the bottom signals possible kidney disease. Back pain, frequent urination especially at night, and a burning sensation during urination are cited as warning signs.
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