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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
6
In a melodramatic scene Jill confronts Jack over trust and jealousy while Angelica and Ted maneuver through romantic entanglements. A crisis over dinner with another woman triggers vows to mend miscommunications as Jill counsels a caller and Jack seeks a path to reconciliation.
The Saint Louis Globe Democrat notes rivers across the plains carry vivid names. Cimarron Smoky Hill Washita Kiamichi Niobrara Nemaha Cheyenne Pembina and others echo Indian Canadian and pioneer lore, painting a wild frontier flavor.
The Montreal Herald notes Lake La Brea in Trinidad as a rare pitch lake in a volcanic crater. Fresh bitumen forms beds at about 130 feet, supporting horse and cart travel across a hard surface, while the lake expands to about 100 acres and is estimated to hold over nine million tons of bitumen used for road making.
The article traces the invention of the gasoline powered car from 1876 with Otto to early builders in Germany and France. It notes Mannheim’s Carl Benz and Cannstatt’s Gottlieb Daimler in 1885 1886 and Panhard and Levassor’s 1885 rights purchase. It mentions Austrian Siegfried Narkus and early American claims by Duryea Ford and Haynes with Detroit News as a source.
Field Museum News highlights a replica of Carnac Brittany menhirs in Chicago. The sun rises over a long stone alignment thought to be a cemetery used for honoring the dead and worship. Northern and western Europe feature tombs with massive rough stones weighing tons, moved by unknown methods.
The Australian podargus or frog mouth sleeps all day, reportedly in pairs in native habitats. Its enormous mouth aids catching frogs and rats, and the bird can be lifted from its perch without waking. Detroit News notes their profound slumber and deep bereavement reaction when one is shot.
The first attempt by Cyrus Field in 1857 failed when the cable broke. A successful 1858 link between Valentia Ireland and Hearts Content Newfoundland lasted about three months before breaking. In 1863 and 1865 two more cables were laid. the second proved successful and the broken 1865 cable was recovered to complete the laying.
Mrs L EB Deemer hosted the BKL M club at her home on Thursday afternoon. Jimmie Porter of Vandergrift visited grandparents Mr and Mrs R A Silvis. William Davia and 44 descendants near Vandergrift spent an evening at N A Davia’s home. Wendell Devers rested at Kittanning. Clara Townsend visited daughter Mrs Jim Phippa in Kent. Lewis Shellhammer near Vandergrift visited Hobart Shellhammer. The Montgomery people of Rapinwall were here on Tuesday. Farmers in the section are filling their ATLAS. Bob Townsend and Wendell Devery were business callers at Indiana. Mr and Mrs Harald McIntire were Friday evening callers. Relatives from Johnstown visited the Wilber Rearie home. Jane and Hazel Ruffner and Jean and Betty Weaver were Sunday callers with Virgie Alshouse. Calls to Mrs Clara Townsend home included Eugene Ralston and Jane of Elderton and sister Mrs Willis of near Beaver Falls. Harold McIntire and family, Mrs Wilda Anderson and Margaret Anderson were Sunday visitors at Mack Anderson’s Idaho. Alfred Sillis and family of West Lebanon were Saturday evening callers with their parents, R A Silvis. Hobart Shellhammer and family, Clara Townsend and Martha Townsend were Sunday callers with Lizzie Painter of Plumville.
Social notes list many visitors and relatives across Homer City Johns town and surrounding towns. Margaret and Kathryn Phillips visited Mrs Thomas George of Homer City while others stopped by J G Hendersons, Abe Phillips home and Walter Ewing, with several trips to Indiana Meadville Avonmore and Buffalo over the weekend.
Blacklick households report Labor Day trips to Cumberland Maryland and visits across New York City Verona and Grace ton. Guests include Mr and Mrs J A Shrom Margie Nell and Joe Shrom Kenneth Smith Norman Davis W W Fulton and daughter Marjorie Allee J H McCall from Indiana Mrs Robert Lewis and daughter Winifred Dorothy Martha Fulton Earl Nicholson newlyweds returning from the Century of Progress Eugene Schuman and daughter Dorothy Elizabeth and Emilie Stoneback with trips to Sulphur Springs and Washington DC.
Mrs Edldie Good remains a patient at the Indiana hospital. Numerous callers from Barnesboro Philadelphia and Pittsburgh visited relatives in Indiana including the Su tila Sickon Rennie Voter and Graham households. Several residents were admitted or discharged while others made weekend trips and social calls.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Rankin and daughter return to their home after spending the summer in Rochester New York Miss Alma Garrett comes back from a visit to the Worlds Fair Epworth League held a torn sandweiner roast at the Lemon Emp field farm Monday night Postmaster W T Bennett has a new Chevrolet car Mr and Mrs Alex Bennett of Indiana called at the W T Bennet home Monday Mrs Roy Stiles and the children visited her sister Mrs Harry Dearmy Miss Dorothy Bishop of Jobs town spent over Labor Day in the Mrs Elizabeth Troxell nom A Good Newspaper Offer The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette to R D residents of Indiana county 560 per year The price is 6 00 a year for out of the county residents Try cleaning your dust mops with the vacuum cleaner if you have one.
A last bow approaches for the one time giants of the steel rails in Wings of a Century, a Century of Progress pageant in Chicago. The scene replays the driving of the golden spike with the original locomotives as the fair nears its October 31 closing.
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