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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1903
Page
2
Retail promotion offers 60 dozen corsets at 10c, 100 wide fancy ribbons at 5c, lace edges and insertions at 5c, and 25c yard goods at 10c. Half price parsols, lace curtain sale at 2 quality for 1, plus hats at half price 2 and 3. Sale runs through June while supplies last.
In a Louisville courtroom, a defense attorney described jurors as equally convinced of guilt and innocence after closing statements. The judge ordered the jury to retire and, after deliberations, the defendant received a ten year sentence.
Congressman Cromer names Dr. B R Horton to the Board of Pension Examiners. A new board forms for Wells county and another for Blackford county is planned. Plans outline a new opera house costing $25 000.
Druggists Houseworth discuss Mi o na as a flesh forming food that aids digestion and health. They promise a money back guarantee if users do not gain weight or improve indigestion. They cite visible personal improvements and urge usage for those underweight.
Joseph Morland was arrested on forgery charges after a note offered for a loan bore the name William Kepple. The Mutual Aid Building and Loan Association declared a 3 percent dividend for the first six months of the year.
An ad style testimonial from Caspar Walton of Michigan City Indiana touts Dr A W Chase's Ointment as a certain cure for piles. Walton describes difficulty lifting and a severe outbreak of itching protruding and bleeding hemorrhoids that improved after using the ointment.
Wheat threshing has begun in the county with yields reported from five to twenty five bushels per acre. Local farmers note variable results and expect higher production with good weather.
A historic advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. The note urges readers to request testimonials and lists Toledo based manufacturers F L Cheney & Co. plus the claim that Hall's pills are the best, followed by an unrelated comic snippet on dialect stories.
An advertisement extols DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a remedy for bleeding, itching, and protruding piles, citing H. A. Tisdale of Summerton as a satisfied user and claiming two boxes cured him eighteen months ago with no relapse since, alongside other Dewitt's products and warnings about risky surgery.
The Pennsylvania Railroad reports a shortage of cars and asks to deliver 10 empty cars per day until further notice. the Panhandle Railroad cannot fulfill its order for cars in the meantime.
The railroad project at Hilltop Junction extends the Toledo and Ohio Central line with 1500 feet of new side track and one and a half miles of additional track, expanding junction capacity along Lake Erie.
Baltimore and Ohio lines acquire new Atlantic type passenger locomotives with eighty inch drivers. The company plans to receive twenty in total and notes all passes will be honored on the new trains. An order allowing clergymen tickets at reduced rates has been rescinded.
A fragmented lyric scene depicts a poet in moonlight at a desk pondering Griselda and longing for wealth. The narrator muses on glamour and the hour for sentiment while confessing a wish to escape meager living on milk and mush.
Fragmentary notes discuss irregular painful hearts due to nervous system issues rather than volcanic or structural disease. The passage hints at weakened motor power and stresses nervous involvement as a likely cause.
In a Chicago Tribune column, a playful skit contrasts old time romance with a dead lover’s memory and mock dialogue about skating and royal duties. The fragment hints at whimsy and irony through clipped lines and misread phrases.
In this brief exchange from the Cleveland Plaindealer George reveals a new kind of automobile. The conversation touches on hydraulic, electric, steam, sand gas, and gasoline engines with George claiming his vehicle travels on water.
A fragmentary verse referencing an old lady of Dover and the notion of turnover or overturn in a humorous or nursery rhyme style. The text is incomplete but centers on Dover and an elderly woman with a playful image.
The fragment shows characters Mee Hain Shem and a crew aboard an ark debating daily rain checks and a baseball game. Dialog hints at boredom and planning around foul weather and endurance aboard a vessel.
Fragmentary lines describe Kalakaua of Hawaii and an individual named Leite, with phrases suggesting departure or removal and reference to events preceding a death, in a fragmentary historical newspaper snippet.
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