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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1901
Page
6
A bishop hosting a dinner encounters a poverty stricken man whose dying wife seeks a prayer. The bishop offers aid and takes the woman into the hall, then with unspoken joy stays by her side as she recovers comfort in his embrace. The scene ends with the bishop leaving the dining room for his own lonely life, sensing a wedding night he could not reveal.
A nostalgic poem recalls a worn checkerboard on the farm used by Cynthy and Reuben as farmhands gather. The old man demonstrates skill while winter nights pass with quiet spectators and lively play, contrasting lively games with gossip about their checkered lives.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat piece recounts Peiker’s method for sunfish using hamburger beef on bootleg lines and red flies. He claims sunfish bite best with tough beef and recalls crappie by crawfish tails, katydids, and even tripe for catfish, framing fishing as comic, boots-on approach.
In 1842 Joseph Henry first noted oscillatory discharges and showed they could be detected at a distance with suitable receivers. He built an apparatus respond to distant lightning discharges, revealing his lasting impact on wireless telegraphy and electrical science despite being overlooked for a national Hall of Fame.
The article notes the open bay as a universal bathing facility for Filipinos, highlighting a water loving, amphibious community. It cites large Binondo tobacco factories with 10,000 workers whose after work swims show a communal norm of daily cleansing and refreshment in the sea.
A New York Times anecdote recalls a first week transfer pupil Wilhelmina who tells a teacher she likes the school and “you too” because she always liked a bossy teacher. The tale underscores childlike wit in a classroom setting.
A fragment sports quotes from Detroit Free Press and Chicago News. It pairs a jab about an indigestible man with a note that the first theater opened in New York a quarter century before the Declaration of Independence. The Chicago line quotes fortune and misfortune.
An old poker dealer recalls card players paralyzing hand, caused by repeated dealing. A doctor diagnosed card players paralysis after a hand failed to move. electric treatment restored motion in three days, but the man then quit heavy dealing.
The Ku Klux Klan traces its roots to Pulaski Tennessee in May 1866 when a group of former Confederate veterans formed a loose club. They chose a name from Greek terms kukios and kuklos signaling a circle, with playful mischief guiding their early branding before broader activity emerged.
The Salton basin in southern California sits 200 to 200 feet below sea level and holds about 1 000 acres of salt. Salt is formed into ridges by a special plow on a dummy engine, then stacked into cones and sent to a drying house and crushing mill. The area yields about 2 000 tons annually, continually renewed by salt springs. June heat reaches 150 degrees, endured by Indian workers.
London Zoological Society observer notes a tiger ear marking, a bright white spot on the back of each ear. When facing forward these spots may resemble watchful eyes in dim light, potentially startling attackers. Also quoted is a humorous reminiscence from retiring Harvard professor W. W. Goodwin at a dinner.
An advertisement promises full dinner sets and open stock china to outfit households for threshing season. It lists complete sets priced at 5.67, 8.75, and 10.00, along with cups saucers plates fruit jars jelly glasses and stone crocks in various sizes.
An old advertisement promotes a large fertilizer shipment for fall crops from Armour's and Sister's, urging customers to view goods and compare prices. It also touts Timothy Seed at bottom prices and highlights the Hoosier Grain Drill as a leading light draft machine, plus the Deering Corn Harvester Husker and Shredder for reducing labor.
A notice warns bidders that at least 100 will be required on sale day unless the purchaser is the sole judgment creditor, with balance due by the second Wednesday of September. Sheriff D. E. Thompson of Indiana IA sets the court dates. Also published are Pennsylvania Railroad stop schedules and routes from Blaresville, Butler, Pittsburg, Indiana via Blairsville, and via Altoona, with listed times for weekdays and Sundays and contact details for Thos. E. Watt and J. B. Hutchinson.
A brief note from a business directory lists name Biska in association with reliable companies. The entry mentions room 15 at Farmers' Bank Building in Indiana.
Notice of application to the Governor on September 5 1901 by Elkin Shawfield Creps Leech and Elkin for incorporation under the 1874 act to form the Kiskiminetas Quarries Company engaged in quarrying dressing crushing manufacturing and working of rock stone shales clays and sands solicitors Leech and Elkin August 14 1901 and court accounts for final confirmation on September 7 1901 including the second account of James McGregor as committee and trustee of Jonathan D Ferrier Prothor W R Calhoun.
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