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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
1
County correspondence lists residents traveling to Milwaukee and Chicago, fishing trips, family visits, and minor misfortunes. Notable items include Oscar Garwood’s boy injuring himself, John Edenburg injured on a weak bridge, a Hartford area resident recovering from leg injuries, and a Grand Trunk official losing valuables during a trip.
Mrs Minnie Waterman visited Mrs Gene Beach and Miss Estella Calin visited Bob Cavns family last week Frank Baker is the happy father of a baby girl The Ladies Aid Society met at the Alutope school house Mr and Mrs Wm Wood have one baby boy There was a crowd of Gypsys passed through here last week
Mrs Cora Shreve and children visit R J Shreve in Wooddale IL. Miss Myrtle Williams of Chicago visits Mrs Robert Shreve. Miss Hattie Bevington returns to Chicago. The Medothiats host an ice cream social Thursday. Mr and L White plan to attend Valparaiso. Anna Loring returns home. The little son of Mr and Mrs Harry is ill. LeSourd of Scleet visits D T Keith. Miss Panny Huot returns to Chicago. Vanzee Schiffer visits Ruth Fitzpatrick. Archie Orr and daughter visit John and Mrs Wahl. Mrs Noggle of Medaryville visits Rev H N Campbell. Dora Huckins visits Lottie Redington in New Carlisle. Ladies meet for sewing for Mrs James Flood. Oscar Peterson, Geo Kimball, Frank Cooley and Gust Peterson visit Eugene Hickman in Rolling Prairie. Louise White visits grandparents Simon White Union Mills.
The article notes Mr and Mrs Bramer moving back to town. Dr Callahan was in town Friday on business. Mrs Fred Jentzen and Mrs Laula Jentzen were out for a drive Sunday.
Burdick area residents make short trips and family visits over the week. Henry Badenkop’s house calso mined by Chas Allison. Mrs Amos St Clair and son Nelson from Center township visited the Brooks family. Mrs Thomas Copenock and Stanislaus Dolute wed at St Pauls church last week. Various residents traveled to Michigan City Chesterton Chicago and Valparaiso for work visits and social calls.
Mr Peterson moved into the dwelling formerly occupied by Mr Zellers. The Misses Mattie Terry Neal Richardson Cora Barber and Oral Richard spent Tuesday in Thomaston as guests of Mrs F H Richardson. The balloon ascent last Saturday drew many spectators. The ball game last Saturday favored the Union boys. The youngest child of Mr and Mrs Emerick was buried Monday. Edith Patrick Emma Gyat of Knox visit Miss Gulu Spahr.
An 19th century advertisement claims eight tenths of American ailments stem from constipation and asserts Baxter's Mandrake Bitters keeps people well or helps them recover quickly. It promotes the product at 25 cents per bottle and guarantees satisfaction with money refunded if unsatisfied. Henry Johnson & Lord sell and guarantee delivery in Burlington Vermont.
A dense historic ad claims Cascarets candy is cathartic and the most wonderful medical discovery of the age. It touts gentle action on the kidneys and liver, a refreshing taste, and claims to cleanse the entire system and cure headaches and fever habits.
Very Rev Urban Raszkiewicz born in Szaule Lithuania July 22 1824. He studied at Kowno and Plock and was ordained September 8 1848. He served in Prussia during Kulturkampf disguising as laborer to dodge authorities before moving to the United States as pastor of St Marys Otis. He has labored eighteen years there and is the oldest active priest in the state.
An advertisement claims Cascarets clean the blood and improve skin, promising pimples boils and blotches vanish. It markets tablets at 10c 25c 50c with guaranteed satisfaction and notes travel rates to Omaha and Kansas City for the International Exposition through Oct 15 1898.
To introduce our new monthly publication American Popular Music offers sixteen pages of latest popular songs with full sheet music for piano or organ. Send names of three or more performers and fifteen cents in money or postage to Popular Music Pub Co Indianapolis Ind for three months.
Heavy rains revive vegetation and save crops while country roads stay wet and dust-free for some time.
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