Special Homeseeker Excursion Rates via the Wabash
Tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Rates to Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma and Indian Territory about one fare plus $2 for the round trip. To gulf points Texas and intermediate points to Oklahoma 25.40 for the round trip. Rates to Colorado and other points on application. Tickets limited to thirty days with liberal stop overs. For information contact E. W. Richeson Agent.
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Missouri
Kansas
Okatoma
Gulf
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
E. W. Richeson
Agt
Special Rates Via Wabash Railway to the West
Special one way colonist rates via Wabash Railway offered at about half fare plus $2.00. Sales dates March 3 12 19 16 and April 2 9 16 23 30. Cities include Billings Mont Portland Ore Tacoma Seattle Everett Bellingham Ogden Utah Salt Lake City Helena Butte and Anconda Spokane Wash and Northern Pacific routes. Agent E W Richeson lists dates and destinations.
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Points
Northern Pacific Railway
E. W. Richeson
Indiana Girls' School and women prisoners reform move
Indianapolis and state officials advance a cottage plan for the Indiana Girls' School near Indianapolis. The site will separate girls from women's prisons, using the old buildings as a house of correction for county women. New laws also standardize child care, support, and education across counties.
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Indianapolis
Girls’ Industrial School
Indiana Girls’ School
Girls’ School
Woman's Prison
House of Correction
Indiana
Juvenil Court
Myers County
Marion
DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve Endorsed
A cleansing cooling healing salve for burns cuts scratches bruises insect bites and sore feet. Claims it is unequaled and best for piles. Warns of imitation and promotes purchase through Hedges Drug Co.
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DeWitt
DeWitt’s
Hedges Drug Co
Covington Horse Show Set With Music and Fireworks
The Covington citizens plan a big horse show on August 1 with music by the Newsboys Band, a fireworks display at night, and a $1,000 purse for owners of fancy horses. Montgomery county horses are expected to enter, as meeste readers note. Also mentions cold remedies and laxatives for sale locally.
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Crawfordsville Review
Covington
Indianapolis News
Montgomery County
Uncle Dan Glascock nearly choked on chicken gizzard
An account from Hillsboro Times describes Uncle Dan Glascock choking on a chicken gizzard during breakfast at his son in law's home. He collapsed and relatives failed to help until Dr. Faulkner stood him on his head, causing him to cough up the gizzard in seconds.
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Dan Glascock
John Glascock
Uncle Dan
Dr. Faulkner
Hillsboro Times
Stock Food Swindle Targets Farmers Across Counties
Two men run a stock feed scam by offering farmers agent roles for a ton of food and arranging a return of $180 note. The ruse ends with the farmer paying or losing the ton while the con artists vanish, leaving the innocent farmer at risk if the note is presented for payment.
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Promis Tee
Vintage Patent Remedies and Rural Opportunity Pitch
The ad copy promotes De Witt's Little Early Risers as a quick relief for bile and constipation, Woodford's Sanitary Lotion for itch, and a Covington Indiana druggist selling products. It includes a farmer’s success anecdote from Cashmere Washington, plus a prospectus offering the Great Northern Bulletin for farmers with a free sample and a Chicago address for subscription.
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Cashmere
Washington
W. B. Paton Great Northern Bulletin
Clark. At
Chicago
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Troy Township
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Wabash Railway
St.Louis
Cuba
Florida
Gulf Coast
California
H. J. Rhein
Cincinnati
Lican
Board of State Charities
Fairbanks
Ind
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Perry
National Irrigation Congress
Sacramento
Cal
Pergus Falls
Mina
Lord Macaulay
Rossevelt
Roosevelt
Grant
Covington Horse Show
Kennedy
Hedge’s Drug Co
RTA
de Witt
Wilmer Shaffer
Woodford
Geo. D. Cook
The
Naks
Coleman, Reeves & Coleman
Dalady
Richmond, Ind
E. W. Ross
St. Louis
Eczema Bogan
Zemo
T. Ny
Mary Perry Bellis
St. St
Manford VanDorn
Covington, Ind
General
Layton & Bilsland
SlSae
Maple City
Maple City Soap Works
Monmouth, Illinois
the Republican
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