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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
3
OES Westville Chapter No. 133 holds stated meetings on the second and fourth Fridays each month at the Masonic hall. Members visiting town are cordiality invited to attend. Mrs. Belle Miller, Co.
A fragmented price row lists commodities such as wheat oats corn clover seed hogs hides bone tallow butter eggs potatoes bacon lard and poultry. Values are partial with many figures missing while some lines show per unit pricing and weights.
The piece speculates that if the initial April days prove true, a mild sequence of April May and June will follow. It notes potential potato market shifts, a Catholic school building plan in Chesterton, and local officials discussing a two story brick schoolhouse with basement playground and three classrooms.
The issue flags Belle Bloomhuff’s spring millinery line and announces new Easter styles at the home shop. A collage of ads and notices follow, including property sale terms for the Zener place and local business health hits.
A 5 cent universal headache remedy card offered at the European Hotel Laporte Indiana. Local notices include Mullaney trial verdict of no verdict after 14 hours deliberation, Laporte County Agricultural Society appointments, Odd Fellows anniversary plans for April events, church services in Jackson Center, and road gravel guidance from Steuben Republican.
Washington George Wheeler born August 24 1870 at Mequoketa Iowa died April 3 1898 at Peru Indiana aged 26 years 7 months and 10 days. He worked as a fireman for the Wabash railroad and married Grace Herrold on October 24 1894. Funeral at the Christian church in this place and interment at Westville cemetery. Relatives and railroad men attended from Ashley Chicago Detroit and Elkhart.
A dark bay horse colt with black mane tail and legs and a white star on the forehead strayed from the R M Boone farm fourteen miles west of Otis on April 2 or 3. Rost R M Boone.
Health advice linking appearance to organ health. Electric Bitters advertised as a tonic improving stomach liver and kidneys to purify blood and treat pimples boils and complexion. Sold at E. T. Scotts drug store at 50 cents per bottle.
Chesterton Tribune reports a gang led by Cummings Laplin and Wagner from Hobart used the high bridge north of town as a headquarters to rob trains. They boarded trains via rope ladders, broke car seals, dumped goods, hid them, and returned the next night for the loot. The Michigan Central suffered losses as the gang was dismantled.
Miss Annie Swan of Petersburg Virginia reports her brother recovered from a bad cough and cold once thought to be consumption after using Dr Bull's Cough Syrup. The letter praises the syrup as the best cure in the world and notes it sells for 25 cents everywhere.
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