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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
7
Readable fragments show prices for wheat oats corn seed hides butter eggs potatoes and lard plus local notices of travel offers horse trades and personal visits. Mentions E Ansley Lenox soap wardrobe items Hood's Sarsaparilla testimonials fireworks and a local assault case in Porter County with a court note.
Advertises Scott's Emulsion as nourishing for sickly babies and delicate children. Claims 15 to 20 drops in a bottle several times daily improves nourishment when other foods fail, noting benefits in summer and winter.
Two good driving horses to be taken in exchange on pianos or organs. If interested, look after this at once. W. Huntington, 1718 Walparaoso, Ind.
Fred Ohine warns the public not to purchase a promissory note given by Chris Michael dated May 27 1898 for 100 dollars payable after one year. The note was stolen from Ohine.
General Greely recounts the 278 days of hardship faced by his small expedition in the Arctic realms. He reveals the death of his companions and his own survival, detailing the feared ordeal for the October Ladies' Home Journal after years of silence.
The North-Western Line ends excess fares on the Colorado Special with daily Chicago departures at 10 00 a m reaching Omaha 11 55 p m and Denver 2 55 next afternoon. Through sleeping car service is added to Colorado Springs on the Colorado Special and a 1030 p m Chicago departure also offers through sleeping cars. Tourists' tickets via the Chicago and North-Western are on sale at major U S and Canadian points.
The North-Western Limited, leaving Chicago at 6 30 p m daily and arriving in St Paul and Minneapolis by morning, is praised as the era’s top railway advance. It features buffet, smoking and library cars, sleeping and dining cars, and speeds travelers to Wisconsin summer resorts via the pioneer Chicago and North-Western Railway.
The article highlights postwar attention shifting to domestic affairs, focusing on the Trans Misssissippi and International Exposition in Omaha. It notes comparable merit to Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition and mentions reduced rates via Nickle Plate Road with forthcoming special train excursions.
On the first and third Tuesdays in July August September and October 1898 the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway offers round trip excursion tickets from Chicago and other points to many western states at about one fare. Travel west to view crops and land purchasable for little money. For rates routes and land prices contact W E Powell Gens Immigration Agent 410 Old Colony Bldg Chicago H F Hunter Immigration Agt for South Dakota 291 Dearborn St Chicago or Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent Chicago Illinois. July Aug Sep
The Laporte Bulletin condemns traveling eye doctors for overcharging customers. It argues glasses can be fitted by any person with average judgment and warns locals in Laporte to consider buying spectacles from home merchants to save money.
Crown Point Star reports Jake Steele found a well preserved red clay Indian pipe on the Kankakee river at Red Oak during a recent camping trip. The pipe features hieroglyphics and carved sides, likely left about 60 years ago near Red Oak Island, once a notable Indian camping ground, near the old Indian Garden across the river.
The annual report of Commissioner H. Clay Evans shows that at the close of fiscal year 1893 the pension rolls numbered 903,714. The figure marks a net gain of 12,960 from the prior year with 33,069 deaths and 12,960 pensions discontinued for remarriage and other causes.
Report cites New York Chicago and Pittsburgh capitalists backing a plan for an inland harbor project. Simeie is named as leading advocate in the discussion of a potential transcontinental trade hub and hub development.
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