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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
4
The Four-Track News runs the August Lincoln feature titled Lincoln in Bronze. The article is noted as well worth reading and of special value to young people, highlighting enduring interest in Lincoln.
After the Chinese mission tours Europe and America for study the government plans to take over the entire postal system and abolish all post offices in China now run by foreign powers.
The Grand Trank RB Pailbway System opens a new passenger station at Battle Creek occupying the full east block between East Hall Street and Beach Street. It features special tracks for waiting trains, a modified mission style Maine granite building, red Spanish tile roofs, ample waiting and lavatory facilities, and a two story design with offices and baggage areas.
The text describes a pseudoscience linking facial moles to fate for men and women, claiming luck, marriage prospects, and life outcomes depend on mole location on the forehead or lip, including dire punishments and multi-husband prophecies. It notes widespread belief among Pennsylvanian dates and suggests inherent omnipresence of moles.
A reader testimonial extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a reliable female tonic. The letter describes relief from painful periods, nervous symptoms, and other female ailments after using the remedy, and recommends it to suffering women.
Tron W. T. Kellibaugh former WV legislator at 204 9th Street N E Washington writes that Peruna cured his stubborn cold and weak system, strengthened him, and saved money after expensive doctor bills.
Mrs Clara Litterst of Seafield Indiana says she caught a severe cold last fall and after taking Perrin felt improvement and regained strength to resume her work.
The piece compares Johnson’s Lives of the Poets with Boswell’s life of Samuel Johnson, noting Johnson’s straightforward narrative and Boswell’s dramatic method that lets the subject reveal himself. It argues Boswell created a portrait of personality rather than a mere character study.
In 1808 Napoleon proposed a portable library of about a thousand duodecimo volumes. The set would be compact in morocco with green velvet lined cases, and a catalog to locate works. Distribution favored religion and epic poetry, drama, poetry, history, novels, and memoirs. A closing aphorism notes a woman’s perpetual self-competition.
An individual recounts relief after stopping coffee and switching to Postum. He suffered lifelong indigestion and stomach irritation from coffee, was unable to finish meals, and felt misery after meals. He credits Postum with improved digestion and appetite.
Survivors and victims from the sinking ship are being gathered as Spanish and foreign vessels search the area. The captain reportedly refused rescue but was later saved. authorities seek funds to aid affected passengers and crews.
A six month old boy with widespread eczema improved after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Doctors failed, a European sea trip considered, but within ten days to two weeks the condition began to improve and by ten weeks the skin was smooth and clear. F Hohrath president of C L Hohrath Co. South Bethlehem Pa states this testimonial dated June 5 1905.
Travel to Colorado for pure air and grand sights with East Coast recreations including golf polo boating hunting fishing tennis riding. Low round trip rates to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo via Union Pacific with well equipped trains and good road bed. For rates and Colorado literature contact W G Neimyer G A 120 Jackson Boulevard Chicago Ill.
John Sargent's three offered pieces include a red shawl portrait fetching 3750 at Christie's, Ellen Terry portrait sold for 6000 and later 15000, plus a half length lady portrait sold in 1903 for 685. Illinois Central Railroad to spend nearly 400000 on new passenger train cars. Dion Boucicault ancestry traced to a French refugee. named after Dr Dionysius Lardner.
Dr Julian P Thom as of New York and aeronaut Roy Kanbenshue completed a landmark balloon voyage from New York City to Brant Rock near Plymouth Massachusetts. The trip covered over 225 miles of scenic land and sea, described as one of the most successful in the country and expected to aid aerial navigation development.
A quip laden page from the Atchison Globe offers humorous vignettes on vanity jealousy love and childhood singing. Witty observations about hair brushes bald heads cherries and funeral viewing mix light satire with dated social references.
An old ad promotes Lewis' Single Binder straight 5e cigar noting extra quality tobacco and referencing the Peoria factory. The piece ends with a line about money talking, especially when given to charity.
A compact musing on belief, prosperity of fools, original thought, the need for support, sudden morality, and the difficulty of understanding others. It toys with the idea that truth does not persuade, that the divine may be approached by thought, and that judgments separate sane from mad.
The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank in Chicago shut its doors after an examination by State Examiner C. C. Jones. Cashier Henry W. Hering is missing and an embezzlement warrant is sworn. Three bank officials are reported as unavailable to Examiner Jones.
Short collage item with whimsical quotes and ads from August issue. Mentions Four-Track News, Bjones, Lewis’ Single Binder 5¢ cigar, and Mrs Winglow’s Soothing Syrup for teething. Teasing social jests about self-conscious people and virtue beyond office hours.
Western Passenger association railroads have extended the reduced-rate ticket period from August 11 to August 10. This change lets visitors reach Minneapolis a day earlier than planned and significantly shifts the encampment committee’s arrangements.
About 150 Pulajanes breached the military cordon at Abuyon island Leyte burned municipal buildings fatally injuring the town ex president two former constabulary members and three policemen. One hundred soldiers and constabulary pursue the raiders.
Charles Thompson former local freight agent is named general agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in Milwaukee succeeding S C Shonway who moves to New York.
Lawrence True of Chicago fell overboard from the racing yacht Ste. Claire near Charity Island in Saginaw Bay while returning with several young Detroit men from the Bay City races at Tawas. He drowned in the incident.
A Cape Town dispatch reports serious riots by unemployed men, with white and colored participants looting shops and police largely powerless to intervene. The unrest reflects tensions linked to widespread unemployment and civil disorder.
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