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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
3
A humorous quotation about recognizing English titles and misused phrases. The foreigner asks about peerage recognition while Com rox jokes about family familiarity with nobility. The piece uses witty miscommunications to illustrate language quirks.
Promote liver relief and blood purification with Dr Caldwell's laxative Syrup Vepsin. It eases headache nausea bitterness and poor appetite, loosens bowels and cleanses the system. Sold by druggists at 50c and 1.00 with a money back guarantee if it fails.
Quote notes that firm rulers prioritize security over progress, seeing stability as the key to governance. The axiom from Lowell underscores the enduring tension between safety and advancement in political leadership.
In a Pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure corns bunions and painful smarting feet. Available at all druggists and shoe stores. 25 cents. Sample free address A S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
The piece notes a financier who dismisses the label dirty money and can obtain a clean checkbook whenever desired, reflecting a view of wealth and influence. The remark appears in a Washington Stax column offering a sharp take on money and power.
Robert Gold of Clayton Washington reports his headaches vanished after using Dr Pushecks ISuro. He praises the medicine as the best he has used and says he has informed many residents of Clayton about it.
A quirky Chicago Chronicle remark says microbes, as vegetable growths, should never attack anyone but vegetarians, reflecting a tongue in cheek take on science and diet.
Reader J F Boyer of Trinity Springs Indiana states on February 15 1900 that Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal for coughs and colds.
The piece recalls a Monte Carlo scene from the New York Tribune with ornate halls and fashionable players as a young American woman bets five francs on number 18. The croupier calls bien ne va plus and the ball lands at 28, prompting the girl to protest and a quip from her brother about betting age.
Mr William Jones of Oxford Michigan suffered three years of rheumatic pain after an ice-drawing accident. After six doctors failed, a friend recommended Dr Williams Pink Pills. By the third box he improved and is now entirely well, with the pills sold by druggists.
A detailed description explains a simple dead fall rat trap that has been used for nearly fifty years. The device uses a sliding platform and a hidden spindle to drop a weight, catching multiple rats at once and reportedly delivering swift kills with an innocent appearance. It notes effectiveness for mice when scaled down and praises its lack of a comparable patented alternative.
The illustration shows a primitive road scraper built from 3x12x8 foot runners with a beveled steel edge bolted to a 4x4 brace. Crosspieces of iron 1x4x30 inches connect with inch bolts, draft chain attachments, and a moveable guider. A seat board enables hitching and ditching, while the right ends slope 45 degrees to avoid ditch banks. when well made it lasts long and works nearly as well as a costly grader.
Advice on farming efficiency emphasizes sturdy wire fencing over wood and testing seed corn to know germination. It argues lime savings come from proper tools and ground preparation, careful planting, and ongoing cultivation, plus maintaining land to avoid costly corrective fertilization.
Maine experiment station Orono issues bulletin 109 on the apple maggot. Larval stage damages fruit. adults are small flies with four dark wing bands. Peak activity July to frost. females sting the apple skin laying 300 to 400 eggs. Maggots tunnel fruit, windfalls hasten ripening. control includes removing windfalls and grazing hogs or sheep to eat discarded fruit. Storage residues and boxes should be cleared of pupae. Pastured orchards report fewer losses than non pastured ones.
The author details a basswood go devil picking stool with a buggy shaft basket hanger. The 4 foot platform measures 4 by 15 by 13? inches, with braced ends and iron side braces. It rises three feet high and enables fruit picking up to eleven feet without ladders. The inventor reports safe rapid use on an eight year old 1200-tree orchard and favors stools over stepladders.
A farmer discusses advantages of low wheeled wagons for haying and stacking grain, noting their land-friendly wheels and tax exemption in the county. He cites four inch and 35 to 42 inch wooden wheels, narrow high wheels for hog hauling, and prefers low wheels for road preservation.
A farmer stands by a ship without a rudder, symbolizing aimlessness amid a stalled voyage. The image contrasts rural labor with nautical drift, suggesting uncertain prospects and an unsettled journey ahead.
A Pittsburg Post quip quotes a college student writing to his father about creditors asking for $20. The father replies with a witty twist noting he will take charge of the son’s customs house until debts are settled. The exchange lampoons financial pressure in a humorous context.
In a brief exchange from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune a father explains the difference between a lunch and a luncheon to his son, noting the cost gap of about a dollar and a quarter.
In Broadland North Dakota a sensational tale claims G W Gray recovered from Brights Disease after three months of treatment with Dodd's Kidney Pills. Gray and his wife searched for a remedy, and he attributes his recovery to the pills, praising them as a modern medical breakthrough.
College professors argue freshmen have declined in intellectual strength in recent years while freshmen counter that professors are not as capable as they should be. The exchange reflects mutual frustration between academe and students in Philadelphia.
An old promotional passage touts Cuticara Remedies as soothing infantile skin conditions. It claims relief for infant and childhood skin issues including eczema, milk crust, scalled head, rashes, and hair loss when other remedies fail, endorsed by Puck as a testimonial.
Article extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for painful irregular menstruation. It cites testimonials from Nellie Holmes of Buffalo and Tillie Hart of Larimore praising relief from period pain, headaches, and bearing-down sensations. It urges women to seek the remedy, notes free advice from Mrs. Pinkham, and claims the product helps with a wide range of female ailments.
An advertisement extols Pusheck's Kuro as the best tonic for general weakness, nervous prostration, fatigue, pains, and various ailments. It asserts it corrects deep-seated trouble and also claims to cure indigestion misuse and heart and kidney troubles. A quote from the New York Times appears criticizing men who ignore prudence.
Joseph McCauley of Chicago describes a two year health collapse with back pain loss of appetite and insomnia and credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with a complete and permanent cure after four boxes. He urges others to use the remedy and notes it is sold by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets the product.
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