Patient recalls prolonged cough from grippe two years ago
A narrator describes a two year lingering cough after a grippe and notes trials with various medicines prescribed by a family physician who changed treatments as prior options failed.
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1897
Page
3
A narrator describes a two year lingering cough after a grippe and notes trials with various medicines prescribed by a family physician who changed treatments as prior options failed.
The listing shows per bushel and per pound rates for Wheat Oats Corn Clover seed Hogs hides Tallow Butter Eggs Potatoes Bacon Lard Chicken Turkeys Ducks and other items with several unreadable entries. The data reflects historical market quotes and commodity values by unit.
Local items report spring signs and new insurance coming into LaPorte County. The LaPorte Farmers Mutual Insurance company begins with 216000 in coverage and aims for a million in the county. Other notes include court hearings, travel to Chicago, church services, school enumeration plans, and various local business updates.
The text presents a disjointed meditation on fear and discomfort, mentioning coughing colds and fatigue. It hints at a gun mechanism and delayed explosions as a metaphor for anxiety and weakness without clear narrative structure or named subjects.
Jacob Gingrich treasurer of Goshen Council No. 1186 Royal Arcanum received a $3,000 draft for payment of the benefit certificate of the late J. W. Bloomhuff who died by his own hand in Goshen on February 16. The widow and her three small children face hardship and were notified, having moved recently to Westville in LaPorte county.
An ad touts Electric Bitters as a universal headache remedy promising a permanent cure for all headache forms. It claims relief for habitual constipation by toning the bowels and urges readers to try a large bottle for 50 cents at Scott’s.
Mrs. George W. Travis of near Kingsbury died Friday after taking Paris green. Ill for a long time she grew worse, sent for a doctor, and before arrival became severely ill. She asked that pain be eased. she cited fatigue from illness as her motive. She leaves a husband and three children.
The Bureau of Animal Industry publishes a hog cholera and swine plague remedy with instructions to pulverise ingredients, give a large tablespoon per 200 pounds daily, and feed soft mixtures to appetite. Drenched seriously sick hogs receive medicine with care, and the remedy may also prevent disease by dosing the herd, reportedly curing many sick animals and boosting digestion and flesh. Iowa Homestead reports.
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