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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
4
The United States Food Administration designates October 28 to November 4 as Conservation Week with church services, meatless and fish friendly meals, and pledges. Activities include corn bread dinners, Meatless Tuesday and Friday, Conservation speakings, merchant displays, window cards, and reading Ten Lessons on Food Conservation.
Mrs A C Kirstein of Greenville Illinois reports Chamberlains Cough Remedy has been used for years in her family for colds and bronchial troubles and she finds it a quick cure and the most reliable cough medicine.
Charley Wight, manager of the Van Buren Telephone Exchange, announced a new five cent war tax on any telephone message of fifteen cents or more beginning November first. The tax applies to messages originating in the United States and is not graduated by toll amount. If a call is thirty cents or more the tax remains five cents only.
DePoy advertises a convenient Van Buren home and a 76 acre farm. He notes accepting farm listings weekly and invites others to list their property.
Readers learn of a claimed cure for catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. The ad states a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and invites testimonials, listing J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the makers and suggesting it is sold via druggists.
The Board of Town Trustees of Van Buren Indiana announces bids for an eight and ten inch sewer in the alley between Main and Vine streets to Roads Run Duets. Bids open 7:30 pm November 2 1917 at the town clerk’s office. A certified check of 50 is required with each bid. failure to contract forfeits the check as liquidated damages. The board may reject any bid and work is subject to civil engineer approval.
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