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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
4
Westville town board votes to transfer the high school to township management signaling the end of nearly fifty years of town schooling. The piece reflects on past glories and future state oversight while noting community figures and local events.
The report notes heavy rainfall across the county with widespread lightning and thunder. The Otis schoolhouse gable end was raised four inches at the ridge and damaged. A tree in Gardner woods east of town was struck and an adjoining oat shock burned.
The notice reports Perry Wolfenberger has left his wife and baby in Michigan City. His wife was visiting her parents in Walkerton at the time. The piece questions the man’s character for abandoning his family. It also credits Senator Parks of Kosciusko with authoring the Indiana cigarette law, correcting an attribution by the Laporte Argus Bulletin to Ananias Baker of Rochester.
The Brunswick Baike Collender group accepts a site at Muskegon for their Chicago factory and Michigan City is seen as losing the likely plant. Frank J Cheney of F E Cheney Co sworn in Toledo Ohio offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cured only by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Chattanooga hosts a September 18 to 20 reunion at Chickamauga National Park for veterans from twelve states including Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Missouri along with Kentucky and others. The event marks the forty second anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga and aims to educate youth about the battlefield with veterans guiding visits to markers and sites of historical significance. A single cent per mile fare offers broad public access to the reunion promising the largest gathering of regiments in the South.
An appeal urges veterans to attend a battlefield reunion using the Louisville and Nashville Railroad route. It promises six months of schooling value for students and urges purchasing tickets through regional railroad agents, listing several D. P. A. officials in Louisville Cincinnati St. Louis and Chicago. The message emphasizes limited future opportunities to participate.
E. T. Scott promotes Roley's Kidney Cure as a relief for many in the community suffering kidney complaints and at risk of fatal results.
A sale on men’s black and brown Hoss shoes lists 10 cents per pair, with a brown option at 7 cents. Three pairs are offered for 20 cents.
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