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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
4
Old warning about using authentic cream of tartar baking powder and avoiding alum based powders. Cites a scientist claim that alum-containing foods pass to the stomach unchanged and are partly indigestible and unhealthy.
Westville Indiana weekly newspaper announces publication Thursday with post office entry, annual subscription 1.00 in advance, advertising rates on request. Obituary notices pay by line, obituary poetry billed per line. All submissions due by Wednesday noon.
W. W. Huffman of Anderson is a well known directory man nicknamed Stuff who built a political career in Indiana. He faced federal charges after inviting price holders to support a campaign and was arrested in Indianapolis. A Michigan City hardware store was burgled with about $300 taken. A dispatch notes that Dwight Furness was displaced as U S consul at Guanajuato and only later a Chicagoan named Daniel M. Jackson faced a color dispute over the appointment.
The column ruminates on police limits and public order during winter, cites a marriage license refusal for Ernest Speare and Wavie Whitwell, and mocks university and city officials. It highlights a Turkish claimant George Abraham in Michigan City, relief funds for Russian Hebrews, a new substation for Michigan City, and upcoming stone road elections across Porter County townships.
The Epworth League social in the church parlor was enjoyed by attendees last Friday evening. Local ads promote Toyland displays at Scott's and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea products priced at 35 cents with claims of health benefits and vitality.
An advertisement claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs colds and lung troubles with a note from J N Patterson of Nashua Iowa praising its effectiveness after trying many remedies and physician treatments.
Advertising claims la grippe coughs are cured and pneumonia prevented by Foley's Honey and Tar. Testimonial from Mrs G Vacher of Chicago states a 50 cent bottle cured her cough after a severe la grippe. Warns against substitutes.
M A Miller Auctioneer of Valparaiso Indiana invites inquiries by telephone to learn dates and details. The office operates with Rockwell and Stockman Attorneys and is located over Leatherman's drug store.
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