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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
4
An enduring traveling figure known as the old man with the fish promotes Seot’s Emulsion of pure cod liver oil as a tonic for consumptives and the weak, claiming it strengthens the body and restores vigor. He travels worldwide for nearly thirty years, helping children and adults alike with his nutritional remedy.
Public notices include Scott & Bowne tonic ad and prices, Miss Cora Hull clerking at Bevington store, and a Galveston LEADER gift note. Local social items report Virgil Berry visiting Marion with Geneva Conner, a camp meeting anecdote, a Universalist Cantata on December 24, and a Logansport High School Senior basketball game at Turley’s Hall Monday at 3 o’clock with 15 and 25 cent admission.
Excursion tickets sold December 2, 25, 31 1902 and January 1 1903 for Christmas and New Year Holidays. Return by January 2, 1903. Special rates for students and teachers traveling home. For details contact L C Osborn, Galveston Indiana.
Mrs. Elias Turley spent Friday in Kokomo. John Miller and wife spent Thursday in Kokomo. S. P. Bevencron, Mrs. Harry Elliott and Miss Emma Colter spent Wednesday in Kokomo. The annual Masonic dinner will be held in the Masonic hall at this place next Saturday. Miss Nellie Davisson, at Kokomo school, spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, north-east of town. Mrs. Dan fagiet and grandchildren Bulah and Hattie Sprinkle left Tuesday for Hudsonville, Ill., to visit relatives.
The Sabbath School plans a Christmas program this Wednesday evening with revival services set to begin the first Sabbath in the New Year. J W Bowen, Pastor, announces upcoming topics on revival work and urges mild laxatives like Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for gentle relief. The United Brethren Sunday School elected officers led by Superintendent J C Barron and Secretary Marie Wood, with installation of officers next Sunday evening replacing the regular preaching service.
“My wife was so ill that good physicians were unable to help her but was completely cured by Dr. King s New Life Pills.” They help stomach and liver troubles cure constipation and sick headache. 25e at Z U Loop s drug store.
Mr Dyer of North Dakota visits near Young Anetica. Mrs Tilly Davis returns from Logansport visit with Mrs Mary Delaplane. The LEADER family hosted at dinner by Fred Paulus. Advertises a Light Spring Wagon and a Phaeton. Turley Saulsberry hog deal case compromised after trial at Logansport.
An 1903 advertisement touts Chamberlains Pain Balm with a local plaster frame for back and chest pain and endorses Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets to improve appetite and digestion. Sizable astrology and celestial notes warn of eclipses and calendar quirks for the year, with local sale by Z U Loop in Detroit and brief patient testimony from J H Seitz of Detroit.
A damaged fragment describes partial proceedings in Logansport involving Carrie L Griffith and Ruf Griffith. It notes a company offering a lot near a farm residence and references a retired Kokomo resident, with scattered phrases about a magic remedy and transportation.
The text advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for wounds burns and skin troubles and mentions a sales position traveling for a well established house. It references a man with a lung disease and a woman with an invalid condition in terse, fragmented notes.
Monday marked the year's shortest day as Mr and Mrs Henderson Fickle spent the latter part of the week in Logansport. The Colfax Clipper reports odd anecdotes from Knoxville with William Hentico enjoying 28 bananas at Lamb restaurant and Chester White consuming corn pumpkins and swill, brushing his bristles by a fence.
The article explains croup prevention starting with hoarseness followed by a rough cough. It advises giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as hoarseness appears or after the cough begins, claiming it dispels symptoms and avoids danger. It notes widespread use by mothers and lists Z. U. Loop as the seller.
Through passenger service via Louisville Chattanooga Atlanta Macon to Jacksonville and St. Augustine will begin January 5 1903. A through drawing room sleeping car will depart Galveston and travel on the Florida Limited with dining and observation cars. Cities listed include Chattanooga Rome Atlanta Macon and Jacksonville or St Augustine with arrivals times noted. In return the through service will be equally convenient via Louisville and the Pennsylvania Lines. Details from L C Osborn ticket agent.
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