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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1903
Page
6
The passage surveys differing historic notions of beauty from Byron and Spenser to Shakespeare Scott Jonson and Cowper. It notes specific facial features valued by each figure such as glossy hair pale skin sapphire eyes ivory forehead gold hair and damask cheeks.
Mrs Mixitt, whose husband recently gained wealth and bought 200 feet of books for his library, savors the dictionary and its value in conversing with cultured people. Friends bid the Mixtites farewell before their European tour, while planning to rely on landlords for their best anthogists in hotels.
Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee shares a personal tale from early ministry in Philadelphia. Facing discouragement over church finances and parish work, he sees a dirt stained laborer at the Brooklyn Bridge who recalls the beauty to come from their labor. The encounter renews his resolve.
English servants increasingly use county court summonses to claim wages or wages in lieu of notice against former employers. Cases often fail as plaintiffs do not appear, yet employers endure public exposure and legal costs, deterring legitimate disputes and encouraging false claims.
The London News reports that one in four and a half Londoners attend church each Sunday based on a six month canvass. Church of England leads in total attendance, nonconformists are second, Catholics third, with men’s attendance: 120,000 for nonconformists versus 98,000 for Church of England. There is not seating for a quarter of the population.
A good farm in Armstrong township, Indiana county, is for sale within eight miles of the county seat and one mile from the new Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg railroad. It is underlaid with a six foot vein of coal and well supplied with fruit trees and good water. A new house stands on the property and terms are favorable to the purchaser. For details call at the ProGrEss office. Reduced rail excursion rates to the Pittsburg Industrial Exhibition via Pennsylvania Railroad apply on select Thursdays in 1903. Tickets are half price with admission, valid as going passes and returnable next day.
W. H. Daugherty's planing mill supplies yellow pine ceilings and porch fittings while prices stay steady from last year. The piece then recounts a history of book burnings from 1527 to 1763, mentioning authorities and works burned, ending with an ad lure for a farm paper and Burdock Blood Bit.
The Dayton fair grounds host a two day public sale featuring Aberdeen Angus and Short Horn cattle English Berkshire and Poland China hogs and Oxford Down sheep. Breeders George Black W C Brown and A G Shaffer present high bred stock from noted lines with Berkshire sires Duke of Rockland and Victor Knight among the catalog. Sale begins at 10 a.m. each day with Berkshires and Shorthorns sold first.
Wagner and Cathcart real estate agents in Indiana Pennsylvania list a variety of properties for sale including dwelling houses and lots in Indiana and Creekside plus valuable property in Pittsburgh and nearby towns offered at low figures. They also market farms in good cultivation with special inducements for capitalists. Contact 647 Philadelphia Street Indiana Pa for descriptions and prices.
The largest life insurance claim ever paid by a single company is reported as about 750000 dollars re insured in other firms. It was paid to the heirs of Frank Hutchin son Peavey by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York on January 10, 1902.
A premium of 349621 dollars and 78 cents was paid in September 1902 to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York by Eben Smith of Denver Colorado.
The portion notes that the amount of assets held by any life insurance company in the world is held by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and exceeds.
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