WAY BACK WHEN
(The Spirit is pleased to share with our readers vignettes of life in the 19th century as originally reported in past issues of the newspapers. These reproduced stories include their original headlines.)
March 18, 1896 New Grocery Store
Martin McNulty, proprietor of the Punxsutawney House, has transformed his room formerly used as a barroom into a grocery store. He has put in a complete stock of groceries, of the best quality, and you can buy anything in his line there at the lowest prices. Mr. McNulty is a genial man, and those who deal with him will find him straight and accommodating. Call and see his stock.
March 18, 1896 A Complete Job Office
The Spirit has added to its already well equipped job department all the types and the fine, large job press, recently used by Clark Bros., of Big Run. This gives us an assortment of type and material for all kinds of plain and fancy job printing such as few offices outside of the large cities can boast of. There is now certainly no excuse for anybody in this community who have any kind of printing to do to send it away. We will guarantee to do it as neatly and as cheaply as anybody else, and promptly, too.
March 18, 1896 A Marvellous Machine
Thos. A. Edison is now busily at work on a machine to utilize Prof. Roentgen’s X ray to the end that we may look through brick walls, and into the heart and lungs and stomachs of animals as easily as we now see in the open atmosphere. His machine does away with the necessity of a photograph, and by its use a physician can look clear through you and examine your works as easily as a jeweler can examine the works of a watch. This will be the greatest advance in medicine and surgery yet made. In fact it will revolutionize the profession. There will be no guesswork about it, and the average of human life will thus be greatly lengthened, because it will lead to an anatomical and hygienic knowledge compared with which our present information on those subjects will appear crude and barbarous.
March 25, 1896 Will Cultivate Wild Deer
W. M. Fairman, Esq., of this town, has started a little deer park. He has three of the fleet footed animals now. One is am magnificent doe from Michigan, larger and finer looking than our Pennsylvania deer, and the other two are natives of this State. He is enclosing six acres of woodland on his farm in Porter township with a strong and high wire fence, and will endeavor to raise a herd of deer. At present he has them in an inclosure near his town residence.