08 Dec 1892
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1892
Page
1
Westville directory items list W Hollenbeck physician at residence with focus on chronic diseases. E S Emitil proprietor note. money loans on end security. exchanges brought and said. stock kept complete for hardware tinware paints oils glass field seed and grain dealer brothers yearold dealers in hardware and field seed.
Newly painted inside and out and repapered in a prime Westville location. The 32 by 20 foot structure is offered for 590 dollars. Also a clearance sale of holiday goods with watches clocks diamonds jewelry silverware and pianos and organs at reduced prices. Cholera remedy claims relief and cure in hours with anecdotal testimonials. For sale by E De Scott druggist.
An assortment of local ads highlights Chamberlain's Pain Balm praised by Dr. P A Skinner of Texarkana for rheumatism and Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy noted as effective in severe dysentery cases. E T Scott Drugist markets both products alongside Philadelphia and Helmetta area notices.
A chaotic Washington style bulletin lists crimes fires and catastrophes from Chicago to New York. It notes Anthony Dougherty’s Chicago arrest and discharge lack of evidence, a Chicago woman murdered by a jealous husband and a child death in Chicago. It covers deaths from governors generals and college heads and mentions an Italian lynching and a cholera tally in Holland. It reports a Montreal convention vote split over Canada’s government form and a New York cathedral cornerstone pledge. It also cites a New Castle meteor discovery and a Galveston bank safe theft among many scattered items.
Friday reports state a Japanese warship sank after a collision with a British steamer, resulting in eighty five fatalities. The rest of the brief notes a Louisville Tennessee man assaulting his wife, a daughter’s fatal intervention, a cleric arrested in Champaign Illinois for fraud, a 137 percent quarterly dividend from Delaware and Hudson, Huntsville Alabama mills suspending work, and a Democratic state committee’s campaign expenditures.
Reports describe a grave near Sidney Iowa opened for Mrs Mayher No 4 where no body or sign of a body was found. The case aims to determine possible poisoning of this wife as well as No 3.
Quotations on board of trade with stock trades and animal prices from Chicago and New York. Wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley futures listed with openings and closes. Live stock at Union Stock Yards shows higher hogs and steadier cattle and sheep prices, with detailed ranges for pigs, light and heavy packing, and veal calves. Prices from East Buffalo and Milwaukee noted for cattle, sheep, hogs, and dairy items.
In Joliet Illinois a run on the Stone City bank led to a policy of paying deposits until 9 35 am then halting withdrawals. By evening an assignment to J L O Donnell and appointment of George I Monroe as receiver followed, amid wider public concern and idle mill labor unrest.
A blaze in the basement of 319 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn at 1 am trapped residents. Father Michael Doyle 40 and daughter Nellie 3 died after Doyle leapt from a window with two children. Several others injured including Murray family and Grimes. Fire under control. panic and rapid spread hindered escape.
A Muskegon spiritualist plans to seal his spirit in a sealed glass cylinder just before death and use copper wires and a telegraphic device to communicate with friends during the afterlife. If successful, he will be unsealed after three days and the body buried. The report also notes the death of Mary Allen West in Tokyo, and highlights a 99 year old woman in Scranton who has smoked a pipe for decades and drinks whisky daily.
A discussion on strict social rules and etiquette via anecdotes about George Stephenson and a courteous reception. It contrasts formal dress with natural demeanor and notes the social value of civility even when knowledge of rules is imperfect.
A young woman disciplines a chatty guest at dinner by signaling and kicking under the table. She later discovers she herself misread signals when her younger sister reveals the guest misunderstood her actions, leaving the family in amused confusion.
At an art exhibition a visitor asks if a gentleman is an art critic. The response says the man is an artist, not a critic, from the New York Weekly.
Dialogue between a couple about finances and wardrobe choices for the first year. She asks to select seal skin style for a cloak while he agrees on economy and one garment, referencing a trousseau. Period prose tone implied.
Charles H. Hoyt, away from his wife while supervising a performance, habitually sends long telegrams recounting his success or failure. On a disastrous trip out west with a failing show, he sent a telegram saying I cannot send you from this town a telegram fit for a lady to read.
A French journal recounts a man obsessed with shooting waking his servant at dawn and ordering a firearm despite the hour. The servant cautions it is five o'clock in the morning and everyone is asleep, yet the man insists on firing on tiptoe.
The text presents a fragmented quotation involving Horatio and Mercutio with archaic phrasing about time and life. It appears as torn lines referencing time, mortality, and dialogue between the two figures. The readable content is limited and lacks a coherent narrative.
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