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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
3
The snippet shows unit prices for crops livestock and dairy goods with many OCR errors. Items include wheat oats corn clover seed butter eggs potatoes bacon lard chicken turkeys ducks and hides with per unit and per pound rates.
Local items report Miss Vinnie Allcott and others visiting, notes on church events, Eckley and Herrold families, and a Ghost Party at the Haus home. Travel ads promote Nickel Plate and Wabash excursions to Niagara Falls and Buffalo with low rates and sleeping car space.
The issue includes a special commissioner's first hand India famine account detailing twenty million starved in view of railways. It argues for urgent relief and global awareness. Also features Yale President Dwight on broad college education, Japan stage and actor, Porter on Rubaiyat, and a Crusader sketch.
Citizens in the United States buy Cascarets Candy Cathartic at two million boxes annually and expect three million by year end. The ad claims Cascarets are the most delightful bowel regulator for year round use and that druggists offer 10 25 and 50 cent boxes with a cure guarantee.
Advertises highest market prices for wool and invites callers before selling. H B Herrold urges wool raisers to contact him.
An advertisement touts Cas carets Candy Cathartic as a guaranteed cure for constipation and liver sluggishness. It claims relief for various ailments and offers boxes at 10c 25c and a sample booklet free with the purchase.
The undersigned announce a new feed mill established next door to S. G. Haas' blacksmith shop in Westvale. They invite the public to give a trial and promise to please customers.
An old advertisement extols Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a pleasant medical discovery that cleanses the system and treats kidneys liver bowels while dispelling colds headaches fevers constipation and biliousness. It promotes boxes priced 10 25 and 50 cents and guarantees a cure through druggists.
All persons knowing themselves in debted to the firm of Shafering and Rhem will please call and settle at once by case or nuLe. A. J. Rhem.
A Boston swimmer attempts to cross the English Channel but quits after covering eighteen of twenty one miles. He raises his hands in surrender as the effort ends.
Dr. Fred J. Smith of Chicago calls the Universal Laxative Pill ideal for a torpid liver and for constipation. He says they are mild and effective and notes selling through E. T. Seatt.
Professor H B Brown of Valparaiso Normal School lauds Last Resort as very satisfactory. The product claims to cure coughs colds La Grippe and consumption and is for sale by Ek T Scott.
An old ad claims Cascarets Candy Cathartic 1C and 25c will cure constipation and promises a refund from druggists if it fails to work. The copy emphasizes a guaranteed result and a money back offer.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a beauty aid claiming clean blood leads to clear skin. It touts liver cleansing and impurity removal with a ten cent price, plus 25 and 50 cent options, and guarantees satisfaction at all druggists.
Advertisers praise the remedy for constipation indigestion and sick headache after trial. A 10c trial size is offered with larger bottles at 50c and 1.00.
Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchausen, a Hanoverian nobleman born 1720 and died 1797, served in a Russian cavalry regiment before retiring to Bodenwerder. He entertained neighbors with extravagant tales of military adventures, later compiled in Vademecum fur lustiga Leute (Berlin 1781), later expanded in English works.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that Ireland was once called Juvenea by the Greeks ca two centuries before Christ and Hi bernia by Caesar and Ptolemy. It traces later shifts from Hibernia to Scotia and finally to modern Scotland, with the ancient name Hibernia revived after the eleventh century.
The Cleveland Leader quotes Harold and Clarence discussing quitting and a mysterious remark from Miss Clara's father about striking fire. Clarence hints at a hidden meaning behind the question and hints at leaving the Huntleys.
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