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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
2
The INDICATOR printed in Westville Indiana announces Thursday publication and rates for obituaries, poetry, and professional cards. Submissions must reach the office by Wednesday noon for publication consideration.
The Porte plant faces reactivation under a new industry, employing hundreds as overdue notes pressed for collection and an assignment occur. The Rural Free Delivery carriers gain vacations this year, costing about 500000 dollars, while Standard Oil avoids sidewalks by deeds to cities. Rockefeller is noted in satirical terms as a measure of broad reform.
John N. Pleasant of Magnolia Ind credits Dr King's New Life Pills with solving his periodic biliousness and constipation. The guarantee promises perfect satisfaction or money back. Available for 25c at E. T. Scott's drug store.
Evanville resident B Spiegel writes of years of kidney and bladder problems. After failing with three physicians and being given up to die, Foley's Kidney Cure, taken after the second bottle, cured him. Available at E T. Scott's.
All expenses of a guided Yellowstone Park tour from Chicago included in the initial price. Itinerary hotels trains baggage handling and schedules arranged in advance under the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western Line. Write S A Hutchinson Manager 212 Clark Street Chicago Illinois for itineraries and particulars.
The county fair will showcase a farmers race for pacers and trotters with best 2:50 times. A $100 purse awaits winners. Entries rise as owners must drive their own horses. Heats are best three of five half mile dashes. Secretary Mano plans to stage up to two hundred horses.
E W Goodloe of Dutton Street in Waco Texas praises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption claiming five years of safe health after a long cough. The ad notes it cures chronic coughs la grippe croup whooping cough and pneumonia prevention. Bottles 50 cents to 1.00 with a free trial bottle at FE T Scott’s drug store.
Major Hamm publisher of the Constitutionalist at Eminence Kentucky reports using Bucklen's Arnica Salve after a severe attack on his person. He claims it cured wounds in ten days with no trouble since. Sold at Scott's drug store and touted as quickest healer of burns sores cuts and wounds.
Notice is given that on Saturday September 1906 at eleven o'clock a.m. bids will be received at the La Porte County Auditors Office for constructing macadamized roads in New Durham Township. Bid securities equal to double the bid must accompany each bid. cash must be deposited in the County Treasury when bidding. The Board may reject any or all bids. Attest: Charles H. Miter. Hubert R. (or Hanner?) Minter.
A humorous, informal column discussing the 1900s presidential scene. Mentions Bryan Fairbanks Taft Hearst and Roosevelt, with Uncle Joe Cannon as a rising figure. The author riffs on party splits, Southern delegates, and shifting loyalties in a playful regional voice.
A Morgantown man suffered Brights disease after delaying Foley’s Kidney Cure, with a notice urging timely use. The ad touts Foley’s as a cure for kidney trouble and mentions a simple salve of zinc oxide and lard for erysipelas.
The Valparaiso Chautauqua runs ten days from August 31 to September 9 at Suger's Lake with the International Lyceum Association directing a program of lectures sermons concerts and entertainments. More than 75 speakers and performers including E D Crumpacker Edmund Vance Cook Rev Wm Sun day and Nat M Brigham appear. Season tickets are 1.50, single admission 25 cents, and lodging options are listed.
The Art Hall and tents will feature enhanced displays with gas and electric lighting and festive bunting. Eateries join improved venues as departments fill with high grade offerings. A Gentlemen's Trotting race and a Farmer's race for pacers and trotters under 2 50 aim for a $100 purse.
Four vaudeville companies from Barnes Theatrical Agency present free acts on a 40 foot square platform opposite the grand stand at White City. Prince Georgean Arabs perform acrobatics, the Christian Trio from the land of the midnight sun, Wheeling Wheelocks, Budd Brothers, and Harry Six dive from a 110 foot ladder into water, with the Ricardo Trio offering aerial trapeze. Free both day and night.
Thousands of electric and gas lights will shape arches and festoons transforming night into day. Don’t miss this fair and plan to attend daily and nightly to see all the attractions.
Arrangements with Hatch Carnival Company promise a grand fair with the Jungle of Paradise animal show as the highlight. Electric and Vaudeville acts, glass blowers, Katzenjammer Palace, and various midways will fill the grounds with Ferris wheels, merry go rounds, confection stands, and arcades for a memorable event.
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