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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
8
Market prices list wheat at 8.80 per bushel and corn at 3.00 per bushel. Hogs at 450 per cwt live weight. hides 0.20-0.65 per lb. butter 0.22 per lb. eggs 24 per dozen. potatoes 0.50 per bushel. Live poultry rates show chicken 0.08 per lb, turkeys 0.10, ducks 0.08 per lb.
Miss Carrie Miles visits relatives in Michigan City for Thanksgiving. Judge Homer Ansley travels from Indiana Harbor to greet old friends. Mrs. Herbert Cathcart visits Chicago kin. A. J. Forbes advertises sale of secondhand stoves. Callander recovers to return to work in Kentucky. Frank Metcalf visits his brother Rev. Thomas Metcalf in Marion. A prune ad offers 100 for 25 cents, with a doctor advised dosage. Elkhart postmaster held government funds in bank that closed. Dr. L Sutherland assists case of D W Snively, who improves. Misses Millie and Elsie Smith home from Evanston for break. Alta Morgan of Aleda-Tilya at U of Chicago. Wolf hunt yields one wolf among many tracks. E J Nuddleman displays in window. Major Winner and wife featured as a curious ad venture. Levi Neyer to serve 2–10 years for Evansville riot. Meyers fourth from incident. Dan Leming very ill, age concerns, Waratah native. Michigan City investors in Chicago World’s Fair look for dividends. final payout upcoming, total per $100 invested.
A mix of brief items lists residents moving to Middleton and Los Angeles, visits to Chesterton and Hamilton, and local job changes. It mentions a Porter derailment, a bevy of California Prune Wafers ads, and medical tips for bowel regularity with Chamberlain's tablets. Also notes a gubernatorial staff appointment, a life sentence prisoner granted a Thanksgiving parole, and local horseman activities.
The ad denounces excessive medicine use and promotes California Prune Wafers as a natural dissolvent and laxative. It claims to cure indigestion biliousness and torpid liver by aiding digestion, cleansing the system and purifying blood with gentle bowel movement and no pain. It mentions a 25 cent offer and calls the product a liver tonic.
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