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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1900
Page
3
A dying man apportions fractions to four sons but the sons cannot compute quickly enough. They fetch a lawyer to resolve the puzzling will, a joke on legal aid. The passage blends humorous anecdotes from Baltimore American and Tarper's Young People with a parable about fish and imitation to teach humility.
Grain O is praised as a nourishing food drink replacing coffee sold by grocers. It claims pure grain composition aids digestion and strengthens nerves, suitable for children and adults, costing five and twenty five cents per package. A second item retells Jim Bridger’s tale about moving east, railroad stations, and air quality.
Salem Massachusetts hosts East India Marine Hall with Essex Institute cabinets and Marine Society curiosities. A notable piece features a two hemisphere wood carving carved with heaven on one side and hell on the other, about 114 inches wide with 110 full length figures, attributed to a fourteenth century Indian monk.
Ear nose and throat specialist Dr o O W Sadler of Pittsburg has moved to the Capital Hotel in Johnstown establishing a permanent office after selling his Pittsburg practice. He offers eye and ear services with no charge for first consultation before December 1. He cites 28 years in Pennsylvania building his reputation and notes savings on travel to larger cities for patients nearby.
A humorous exchange from The Farring dons features Mrs. Bateson and Mrs. Hankey mocked husbands faith and appetite. They joke about ministers wrestling with dinners while Bateson daydreams about election doctrine and soda cures, revealing genteel mockery of domestic religion and self indulgence.
Arthur A. Leeds of Tioga met writer Stephen Crane on a Delaware Water Gap stop as Leeds carried a bag with a box of Laxative Bromo Quinine. The porter turned out to be Crane, who sat reading on a hotel piazza before Crane departed the next day, per the Philadelphia North American report.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo proprietors. Endorsers state Cheney honest in 15 years of business. Cure taken internally. price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
Two horse tread power almost like new will be sold at a bargain Call to see it at my residence one mile west of Mech anicaburg on the Homer City road George R Stewart Brushvalley Pa Fish every Thursday fresh caught from the lakes for sale by Frank H Daugherty
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