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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1889
Page
5
A brief fragment notes the Indiana Progress publication with a price of one dollar and fifty cents. The readable text is limited but confirms a weekly or periodical issue and its cost.
A crowded column of notices and ads from Mechanicsburg and nearby towns promotes clothing, groceries, oats and flour, restaurant specials, gas insurance, hotel work, and a fire at a local barn. It mentions Wegley's Restaurant, Cornucopia Restaurant, Hovis Truby, Pennington tailoring, and insurance pitches amid community notices and personal updates.
Jennie M Clark announces a dress cutting school in Indiana Pennsylvania teaching the Ella Newton system. The program promises thorough instruction to fit difficult forms and enable graduates to start dressmaking anywhere as first class fitters. It highlights unique curves including the bias under arm and French dart.
Look Here offers 101 acres in Center township among other farms such as 64a White 100 Cherryhill and 160 Rayne plus 80 in TM Center all well improved and sales on favorable terms with full particulars including owners' names and prices available from Joun McGaveney Indiana Pa. Notice to Tax Payers states Gurpin McHENRY will be at the Court House November 13 and 14 to receive the School and Poor Tax of White township for 1889 marking a last chance to pay.
On October 28 1889 Rev A C Ehrenfeld united Howard W George and Alice M Grimm both of Armstrong county. On October 15 1889 Hey N B Kelly joined D B Townsend of South Bend to Clara J Harbison of near West Lebanon. On October 23 1869 at the home of the bride in Young two by Ray D W Swigart, D H Wiggins and Jennia Lewis both of Indiana Co. On Friday October 25 1869 Joseph Fyock of Cherryhill township died of typhoid pneumonia aged about 33 leaving wife and three children.
Mr Burwell, known here as the boy orator, will address the people on Thursday evening in the Court House. Ladies and gentlemen invited.
Death of David Tomb Sr an East Wheatfield township elder on the family farm where he was born. Irish immigrant father and brother John once settled near Armagh. He leaves a wife and four children including D. H. Tomb Enq. This respected man died in his eightieth year.
Mrs Mary Trimble widow of Thomas Trimble died on Wednesday October 23 1889 at age 76 years 6 months and 23 days She was born in Ireland and educated in Indiana later teaching before her marriage to Thomas Trimble She leaves five children and was a faithful member of the Associate Presbyterian Church since 1839 The bereaved husband and children receive condolences while the death is described in reverent terms with religious reflections
The Joint Committee announces a stronger season with lectures by Bob Burdette Bill Nye and Whitcomb Reilly Boston Stars Emerson and the Gilmore band Rev Dr Heddley and a Home Talent finale. Tickets $2.25 for five entertainments 50 cents single seats 75 cents Nye Reilly reserved seats. Extra trains to Saltsburg and Blairsville and reserved seats for Indiana visitors. Tickets available after Nov 3. Joan A Scott T Chair. Kemp’s Balsam advertised with free samples and 50 cent to one dollar bottles.
A customer praises the “Perfect Bosis” and expresses desire for a Parlor Stove. The dealer Alex T. Taylor advertises a full stock of pokers, shovels, bird cages, fenders, and coal vases and invites inspection.
An ad touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughs colds asthma bronchitis and other throat and lung troubles. The proprietor offers free sample bottles to persuade customers. Large bottles priced at 50 cents or one dollar. Also notes business expansions by Remington Bros and a personal notice about leaving for study at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery with return plans by March.
Miss Annie Byers of Johnstown is the prest of Miss Amanda Christ of Liberty street. Rumor of a November 19 wedding on Main street stirs fashionable society as a rink entertainment on Thanksgiving draws drill practice by about fifty young ladies. Dr. R. M. Banks’s wife died after a hemorrhage. Mrs. Chas. Baldridge passed away on Liberty street. Town growth accelerates amid new houses and hunter exploits. Druggist Miller bags coons, a Virginia owl, squirrels, and pheasants. A humorous courtship mishap ends with a broken window pane and a family tense before harmony returns, signaling a bright bridal prospect.
A town column records A K Stoneback's serious illness and several diphtheria cases. It lists numerous residents visiting or traveling to Blairsville Johnstown Homer City and Blairsville again plus local church and Franklin Institute activities and a baby arrival.
Local notes report visiting relatives from Allegheny and Braddock, ill kin in Greensburg, and a council moving to renovate streets with asphalt or Belgian block. A wedding at the bride’s parents’ home is detailed with humorous anecdotes about John Lewis and the turkey. A Rochester woman claims Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy cured kidney troubles after two bottles.
In a bustling mid winter notice the advertiser urges careful merchants to prepare car orders for lines of goods. Some styles failed to sell due to various causes, prompting reevaluation of offerings and timely Bosing delivery to meet demand.
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