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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1894
Page
3
A discussion of May nuptials noting that May is considered unlucky for marriage, with beliefs linking weather, fate, and the couple’s future. It covers traditions such as wearing something old new borrowed blue, shoe order, black attire for guests, best man mishaps, and the wedding ring’s eternal symbolism.
A historic anecdote recalls a stern Quaker elder who opposed church organs yet surprised a fund collector with a generous donation. He told the solicitor a believer may worship through machinery if it yields a first-rate instrument, reflecting old tensions over modern worship aids.
A Lincoln woman finds her canary safe and swimming in a tub as the room, heated by a coal stove, becomes a furnace. She returns to find the bird perched in its bath, ducking its head as the heat intensifies, a remarkable survival tale.
The author muses on food and taste with aphorisms about wedding cake, soup, ice cream, and cabbage as signs of occupancy or virtue. Professor Atwater at Wesleyan warns that indulgence and universal taste could ruin humanity, contrasting restraint with excess.
A humorous fragment from Newcastle Chronicla recounts a Bostonese exchange about a supposed smoking car with a train conductor. A passenger denies the claim, while a subsequent clash over the meal ends with a bold, comic retort about an oyster pie and personal discomfort.
An 1893 global beer tally shows Germany top with 1.202 billion gallons and 33 per head, Bavaria 62 and Lothringen 12 gallons per person, Britain second, America third with over a billion gallons, and total world use about 4.5 billion gallons excluding Asia and Africa. The item also reports on suffrage tactics, a Colorado congressman not seeking re election, a Western Australia wives export, and various health and science notes.
Dr King’s New Discovery is promoted for consumption coughs and chest troubles with a money back guarantee if no benefit after a fair trial. Trial bottles free at local druggists and large sizes 50c and 1.00. An anecdote from Chicago praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and lists Indiana Blairsville Homer City Des Moines vendors.
A mix of old ad copy and legal notices: an elixir claim promising curealls with 25 cent price and multiple sellers. testimonials from Anthony Iowa and others. school furniture auction by Indiana State Normal School. several executor and administrator notices for estates in Indiana County Pennsylvania. brokerage firm Herman Cohen & Co advertises stock and bond services with market letters on request.
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