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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1898
Page
7
Medical authorities argue that disease spreads through communities via soil and grass contaminated by infectious agents. Dr Harry notes modern science traces origins of mysterious diseases to earth and microbes. supports cremation to prevent spread and accelerate return of elements to nature.
IS0S the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul airway offers round trip excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of July August September and October. Travel from Chicago Milwaukee and other lines to South and North Dakota and other western states at about one fare. Obtain rates routes and land prices from coupon ticket agents or Immigration Agents Powell Hunter Heafford at Chicago offices. July Aug Sep
The Graphophone offers extensive entertainment value by reproducing any music or sound, from bagpipes to grand military band, and can record and immediately replay user words or songs. Readers are advised to write to Columbia Phonograph Co. at 211 State Street, Chicago, for a catalog and price information.
A prominent New York chemist T A Slocum offers readers three free bottles of his New Discoveries claimed to cure consumption and bronchial diseases. He cites letters of gratitude from Europe and America and urges sufferers to request the medicine by mail, noting the promise is a professional duty to humanity.
Advertisement from Chicago based H E Bucklen and Co promotes Dr King s New Life Pills promising free samples by mailing address. Claims include relief for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles with a vegetable formula and no harmful substances. Regular size box 25 cents. Mars by Scott druggist.
Announcement urges readers to save money for upcoming August events as The Indies v the Home Library Association plans entertaining performances.
A visitor hoodwinked a man into handing over $150 after posing as a businessman and asking for his money and a watch. The ruse hinged on a staged story of a prior theft and a brush against the victim, who later found his watch had been taken again.
Expert stenographers discuss speech rates in Congress. Fred Irland notes Representative Lewis of Washington did not speak at 800 words a minute and warned that such speed would be unreadable in reports. Johnson of Indiana preached 13 ½ hours at about 220 words per minute.
The 85 foot chimney weighing 100 tons was moved intact over rough ground with grades up and down. It stood 7 feet square at the base with outer and inner walls 8 inches thick. No cracks appeared when set on a new foundation, marking it as the tallest and heaviest chimney moved to date. Another 52 foot chimney was moved safely, making two such relocations possibly unique.
A traveling circus in Lancashire set a contest to pull the ugliest mug with three tries. Contortions amused and horrified spectators as the clown judge singled out a man in the audience and awarded him the prize, noting he had not tried.
A newlywed wife accuses her husband of indifference just weeks after their wedding. He insists he loves her more than ever, noting her meals at his home before marriage and now bickering over breakfast. Pearson's Weekly reflects the domestic exchange.
In London Tit-Bits a comic exchange features Merritt proposing marriage to a one eyed man and Cora rejecting the idea with a witty reply. Merritt then jokes about carrying her parasol in the humorous dialogue.
News item notes that Silver forks will be used at Rockaway and West Point hotels during the upcoming summer season. The brief announces a change in dining service practices at two named locations.
The article recalls September 27 1825 as the locomotive birthday with George Stephenson as the father, noting the Stockton and Darlington line built with iron rails and Stephenson's persistence in gaining the owners consent to run a steam train despite initial skepticism.
The North American Review notes how political economists opposed railways and engines as a reform risk, threatening livelihoods of stage drivers and innkeepers. Yet Stephen-son and a few persistently pursued the railway, establishing it as a nationwide institution despite widespread opposition.
Professor Thomas Davidson argues in Forum that Germany's future hinges on socialist moves. Three paths emerge: continued opposition weakening the state, socialist absorption creating a feudal liberty threatening, or concessions leading socialists to support the empire as a pillar of strength. Such a shift could end autocracy and raise liberty and culture for all.
A New York Tribune anecdote describes a hotel clerk's method to rouse late-responding guests. A boy delivers a telegram at the door and, when the guest discovers the time, the clerk obliquely prods the guest to hurry downstairs. The tactic reportedly costs the traveler nothing yet yields prompt departures.
The account recalls Thaddeus Stevens trapping Horace Maynard in a Senate or congressional exchange. Maynard, tall with long dark hair and a hint of aboriginal blood, boasted Latin learning. Stevens mocks Maynard claiming not to understand his Choctaw English.
The whale spouts in triumph as Jonah refuses to relent. He vows revenge on the creature and heads toward Nineveh in a dramatic desert exchange reported by the New York Press.
In a brief exchange from the New York Journal Jones asks about the saying Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth and the reply questions the virtue of spending money both right and left.
English anecdotes claim natives spin flax and wool by turning a wheel from left to right, while foreigners allegedly spin flax left to right and wool in the opposite direction. The statement couples cultural lore with a technical tidbit about textile spinning.
The phrase credits Samuel Lover with remark that circumstances govern the weak and serve as tools for the wise, reflecting a musing on power and insight.
A merchant argues that long in-business workers outperform newer hires. He notes 30 years in commerce and the value of occupation-specific training over general adaptability, admitting some crankiness but defending deep trade mastery.
Fragmentary OCR shows a dated quotation praising a pronounced success with the phrase as all other things being equal attributed to the New York Ledger. The readable text provides little context about author or event and no clear names or dates.
The New York Post warns that refined milling is stripping bread flour cornmeal brown sugar and molasses of their historic qualities. Modern cornmeal cannot match ancient pudding and brown bread recipes and darker brown sugar is hard to find forcing cooks to improvise with altered flavors.
The note describes that many plant species open with flowers bending southeast. The compass plant Silphi um Inciniatum grows mainly within two to three hours after sunrise. Growth then stops until the next day, suggesting light and heat after sunrise influence directional growth.
Max Muller recalls the poet Tennyson before and after giving up smoking. He notes a day of charm followed by moodiness, and a third day of difficulty, then a disturbed night led to a return to breakfast after a brief ritual with pipe remnants. No final decision to quit tobacco was reached.
A London manufacturer and his wife both sought help for domestic service. A clerk’s ad drew hundreds of applicants while the wife found no suitable candidates. A young married applicant with two children tried housework and proved so successful that other households emulated the plan.
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts a telegraph operator who aided a friend's courtship by impersonating a rival suitor. He discovers the friend’s marriage and ends up pursuing the woman himself, noting she is worth a carload of his friend’s wife. The anecdote blends humor with romance and old time industry detail.
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