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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1891
Page
4
A fragmented survey blends political hopes for Gregg and Verrieon with Democratic unity talk across states, alongside local commerce notes praising merchants, new shop fittings, and music instruments at Johnson’s store. It references Blaine Wafers and Marvin’s Oyster Crackers as promotions amid the chatter.
Judge White addresses constables on liquor sales by druggists. He argues liquor laws restrain consumption, not merely raise revenue, and explains how prescriptions must be used in good faith to allow medicinal sales while prohibiting beverage use. The ruling emphasizes evaluating surrounding circumstances to determine intent and penalties.
At a September legislature session a 350000 appropriation funds 500 acres to establish an Asylum for the Chronic Insane. A commission led by Hon. Jnc. B. Storm and others will visit sites, including Indiana area farmland, to decide the best location. The Board of Trade plans surveys and urges citizens to aid in securing the institution locally. Court business covers roads, liquor license enforcement, guardianships, divorces, land sales, and numerous estate matters in the September term.
The Indiana Normal School advertises a faculty of twenty experts and strong departments in mathematics science classical English and music plus business handicraft and kindergarten. It promises high salaries for graduates good positions pleasant homes with furnished rooms steam heat gas lighting steam laundry and well kept grounds.
Those needing brick for building or paving will do well to call on Lowman at the works south of town.
Pittsburg Exposition opens its third season amid heavy activity. About twenty thousand visitors fill the halls as exhibitors praise the displays and a New York Seventh Regiment band captivates the crowd. The writer lauds the exposition as a monument to American achievement and urges methodical viewing to glean its full value.
Tuesday sessions include multiple criminal cases such as Com va George Weaver surety of the peace and Com va M E Brown A B with hearings set next week. Alias sale ordered for Wm Spencer real estate. estates and inquiries noted. Local judges, jurors, and costs outlined amid continued and settled cases plus agricultural ad notices.
Market quotations corrected weekly by Johnston & Mack list prices for country soap beeswax hams sides shoulders potatoes white beans coffee sugar tea and poultry by the pound and per bushel. Flour and grain prices corrected by Wiles Rowe Hetrick include flour per sack retail and grains per bushel with oats rye buckwheat corn wheat and oats.
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