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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1909
Page
9
A disjointed, archaic lyric voice laments a child’s suffering and loss. Imagery of air, petals, and a mystic signal shifts between longing and accusation. The speaker questions who stole days of joy and pleads for a rescue that echoes from a distant, enduring strife.
The report notes Timms in Burbank progressing on crosses between binary milkweed and bute to produce a tasty sap that may churn into butter. Timms plans further crosses with king Aspen, claiming families could grow their own butter at home if successful. Other locals like Mrs Carson pursue electric and ice plant ideas, while anecdotes recount failed radish crossed with chickweed experiments and whimsical attempts at tastier watermelons and odd vegetable drinks.
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a father and child discussing a puzzling one-eyed man. Incomplete narration mentions sleep patterns and attempts to identify the figure, suggesting a suspenseful riddle or character clue within a larger story.
A series of marriages is reported with details from Indiana towns to Colusa California. Couples include McConiish Wickersham and Dorothy Wickersham of Marshalltown and other unions such as Melinda Long and Clifford McFadden. Also listed are Lydick Nupp, Ressler Spackman, Cassiatore Potts, Kopp Wilson, Raleigh Cooper, Stewart Hancock, Clark Sickenberger, Johns Trimble, Sowers Albright, Pierc Gillen among various brides and grooms with locations, dates, and officiants. Public sale notices and farm auctions accompany the social notices.
A long list of auction items includes two brood mares saddle horses draft cattle pettigreed Showthorn cattle Berkshire hogs farm implements wagons sleighs sleds scales and machinery. Upcoming sale at Mrs Della Little’s home on the upper Homer Road October 28 at 12 30. Also sale postponed from Lucas farm due to weather rescheduled to October 29 at 12 30 featuring ten dairy cows two horses and farming tools. Also report of Vincent Pearce crushed to death in a coal washer in Greensburg and burial arrangements. Furnishings polish and coats advertised along with trespass notices for property protection printed under machine worded to comply with new law.
Public sale ordered by Orphans Court of Tuithane Vermty for Conrad Fritz estate. Property near Isacklick in Pennsylvania includes coal and pyrites rights, with extensive mining privileges and surface reservations. Sale set for Tuesday November 2, 1909 at 2:00 PM, with terms centered on purchase price and deferred payments.
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