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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
2
The Alpena region endures widespread destruction from forest fires with hundreds sheltering in fields and shacks. Governors declares aid while survivors recount cremations near Cathro and Metz roping in a relief train wreck where fifteen perished.
A nineteenyearold clerk Les ie E Whiting testified he signed notes for his employers at the Nations Bank of North America, sometimes borrowing 100000 or more weekly to back collateral. He admitted he could not have paid large notes and said he signed under instruction, not knowing all details. The trial also heard letters directing transfers and renewals.
In Altoona and surrounding counties a rush of brief items includes a designed heavier than air craft by J Farnsworth with patent pending, New Castle plans for plant purchases next year, farm horses killed by a boar in Greene county, a Titusville man’s suicide likely linked to ill health, and Philadelphia meter reader Samuel Williams taking his own life after a mail theft charge. Also reported are hunting mishaps, bank misappropriation probe, tin mill resumption orders for Shenango, a lunacy examination for a Perry county man, a Pine Grove hunting accident, a Danville resident’s beating after feeding a tramp, a dwarf at an Antonio hospital, typhoid fever in a Starrett family, a 101-year-old Altoona woman, an oil well blast injuring two, Verbal disputes leading to a Marion arrest, and Erie gang activity with a murder attempt on a junk dealer.
Local shop advertises basement specials for loose roasted coffee. Highlights include Hine Sterling Bantos Coffee 260 lb, Fancy Old Santos 200 lb, A No 1 Rio and Santos 180 lb, Victoria Santos 1 lb, and Special Rio 0. Special offer on refined sugar at $4 per bag.
Fragmentary OCR list shows varied groceries and provisions with weights and prices such as hams, shoulders, plows, sacks, oyster shell foul, apple butter, crooks, Mason jars, and dozen quantities. Details are incomplete with unclear units and pricing.
A fragmented advert lists department items and sale goods including slates tablets knives brushes and irons. It promotes bulk offers in 56 and 10e departments with quantities and pricing hints. The text reflects a mid century trade catalog style targeting household and kitchenware buyers.
A garbled OCR fragment lists assorted objects and prices such as Vaseline at 10e, handkerchief size wash boards, japanned hooded dust pangs, rower with saucers, and items priced around 200. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent context or identifiable entities.
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