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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1936
Page
4
Gov Alf Landon enforces utility rate reductions in Kansas saving the state about 1,000,000 dollars annually. The move aims to ease consumer bills and bolster public confidence in state governance.
The article by M. H. Etcennans discusses medieval hospital closures under King Henry VII as a contrast to modern medicine. It notes life expectancy rising from under 30 to about 68 and cites 6,867,870 U S hospital admissions last year with about 6 65 percent surgical cases and 6 65 million returning home. It asks how many would have died if hospitals had shut down.
More than one hundred attendees including former teachers and students gathered at Manor School in Cherryhill township for a reunion on Saturday. After a noon picnic, Edward Simpson of Penn Run and Sutton Glassford of Indiana spoke. Simpson was re elected president and J M Glassford was re elected secretary for the 1937 reunion to be held on the first Saturday in September. The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette to R D readers five dollars and fifty cents.
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Stahl of South Thirteenth street marked their 25th wedding anniversary with a surprise home party on Wednesday evening. Friends dropped by unannounced bearing gifts and treats, sharing a joyous social hour with many attendees including Charlies Duman, Walter Malcolm, Walton Wolf, George Thompson, Steel Kerr, Bert Good, Elvin Gross, Cresa Hairie, Merle Switzer, Sharp Beck, McKinley Adamson, Walter Hile, Earl Miller, Harry Hart, Harry Ross, Lawrences Shoemaker and others.
William Eugene Tate of Pine Flats posted $1000 bail as a coroner's jury recommended further Grand Jury investigation after a highway patrolman charged him with involuntary manslaughter in the August 26 wreck that killed Earl Lamareaux. Lamareaux died at Indiana Hospital next morning.
Public sales announce liquidation of household goods from Mrs. Sarah J Bowers deceased at 244 Hast Church Street Indiana on Saturday October 3 at 9 30 AM. Items include stoves, furniture, sewing machine, rugs, linens, kitchenware, spinning wheel, lawn mower, tools, and more. Terms cash. sale by Bowers Heirs and R W George Auctioneer.
A fragmented teaser lists multiple periodical bundles offered by The Indiana Progress. It promotes one year access to several publications including Country Home Poultry Tribune McCall's Magazine and others, with prices and note about outside Indiana County residents.
WPA bosses in Pennsylvania plan to drop 20 000 to 26 000 relief workers after election. A sweeping questionnaire demands full household, income, assets, and real estate details, with a $2 000 fine and year in jail for false answers. The plan targets 150 000 project workers though 18 000 political appointees escape the questionnaire.
A week of weddings roots in Indiana leads to marriages for Sophie Pribicko and Joseph Krupar at St Bernard church. Sophie, long a household helper to Attorney William Pierce, wed Cleveland mechanic Joseph Krupar. The couple heads to Cleveland for their new life.
Archie Perry and Miss Rose Mi Cale Zafutti of Clymer wed at St. Anthony's in Clymer on September 25. Father Karabinos officiated. The groom is a salesman, son of Anthony Perry of Clymer. The bride is daughter of Mrs. Sarah Morabito Zaffutti of Clymer.
A room in the restored Donaldson home at Hiders Ridge becomes alumni headquarters for Eiders Ridge Academy graduates. It will also serve as a community library and repository for souvenirs programs and records from the February fire. A committee led by Miss Mary EB Guthrie of Indiana lists members from Pittsburgh Avonmore Meadville and other towns to collect materials and funds.
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