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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
6
The piece warns of Spring Fever and related tiredness caused by indoor winter living. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierce's Anuric tablets as tonics to purify blood and relieve neuralgia backache rheumatic pains and tiredness with concrete branding and pricing.
An advertisement touts Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion, cleanses the stomach and alimentary canal, and stimulates bile flow from the liver to aid blood purification. Sold worldwide with a call to trial.
The head of a London family writes that his wife and four children have lived 14 weeks on raw vegetable salads and fruit, with toast and porridge, avoiding tea and coffee. They grow their own vegetables and claim increased strength and health, defying food queues and Lord Rhondda.
A caution to mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature Fletcher’s Castoria promises a trusted remedy used for over 30 years and aimed at infants and children.
Rancher J. W. Fountain of the Mc Kenzie Valley near Walterville Oregon brought to Eugene a giant black wolf pelt trapped by him. The animal measured over eight feet tip to tip, with broken hind legs from two adjacent traps. Ranchers report multiple wolves in the area preying on cattle and sheep.
An 1890s advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine promising cure for catarrh with internal intake and blood action. Mentions 75 cent price and over forty years on the market, with testimonials offered. Also notes a discussion from Manufacturers' Record on rethinking the phrase His Bit to express total effort in the world war.
A promotional ad touts Cuticura Ointment for dandruff and prescribes a hot shampoo with Cuticura Soap. It notes a gendered claim and offers free samples from Cuticura Dept Boston, with Soap prices 25, Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
In a sharp exchange quoted dialogue, Senator Sorghum refuses temptations to retire from politics, saying the issue concerns compulsion rather than temptation. The remark highlights his stance on continuing public service despite pressure to step down.
In a St Louis morgue a preserved twenty year old woman rests in a glass coffin. A secret lover visits nightly to lay roses and gaze on her face, maintaining a quiet vigil since her death fifteen years ago. Her Illinois husband abandoned her amid business demands and she died estranged from him. Her former lover, a penniless aspiring lawyer, sustains the memory with discreet visits.
A doomed romance ends with a man promising burial rites for his former lover. The woman dies of a heart ailment, the husband vanishes, and for 15 years the embalmed body remains unburied with fresh flowers and notes arriving periodically. The undertakers wait for the lover’s identity or return. In Oswego, Otto Mott is rejected from army service for poor health after weeks of nail biting.
Dolly the fawn of Webb y Wilcox mothers a pair of pets kittens. The creature shows attentive care and guides the young ones as they grow under her watchful presence.
A letter from A C Gilbrath of Erie Pennsylvania thanks Peterson's Ointment for curing a yearlong running sore after three weeks of use. The ad touts quick healing of eczema wounds piles pimples and blackheads with a 30 cent box price.
Two girls discuss a possible courtship with Charley as they pace a suburban avenue. They tally visits and flirt with family commentary, concluding marriage is the outcome, while a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph note ends with a Dr. Pierce’s Pellets advertisement for liver and bowels.
A local draft board questioned a young Black man from the South seeking registration. He answered “Highteen.” Police threatened to beat him if he did not register, prompting a confrontation over who must register.
A dated advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a universal backache cure. It claims daily use ends back pain, notes a 1696 heritage, and urges buying only the genuine Gold Medal with boxed packaging and a money back guarantee.
A mother explains dog tails show pleasure and cat tails show anger. Elsie watches her cat Silver Belle purr by the fire and swing its tail, then asks how it can be glad and mad at once. The moment captures a child’s puzzled curiosity about animal behavior.
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