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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
8
In the LaPorte Circuit Court December Term 1X3, Francis Coup sues Louise Elizabeth Coup in a divorce matter. Proceedings focus on marital dissolution and related relief in Indiana court.
Rhoda M. Wood estate matters noted with executor Otis. Social scenes include sleigh party and pie box social at Smoky Row School House. Illnesses and visits from Laporte Milwaukee and South Chicago residents. Death of Louis Sheir followed by funeral at German Lutheran church. Community updates on school and local events.
Local updates list residents visiting relatives, travel notes, social events, and small town happenings. Names include Chas. Baird Leo Glutz Mrs D Pease A W Cole Bert Taylor S B Reynolds Nellie Hannon and many others with Thanksgiving gatherings, visits, and household notes.
Snow quails and heavy snows give good sleighing while school progress resumes after Thanksgiving. Farmers halt corn husking to stockpile wood and coal for winter. James Alexander is clearing land on Desh er place. Grant Pettit returns from South Bend to live near Haskell station with family. Many residents suffer colds. Wm Nickells and wife visit Union Mills neighbor Rude Akers. Emery and Ernest Cites and wives visit Valpo.
An ad extols seasonal fruit and California Prune Wafers as laxatives that prevent and cure constipation and related ailments. It promotes wafers to regulate the liver cleanse the system and purify the blood with 100 wafers for 25 cents.
A local market column lists livestock and produce prices including wheat oats corn clover seed hogs butter eggs potatoes bacon lard turkeys ducks and chickens. The column adds a health tip recommending water before breakfast and warning against harsh purgatives, endorsing Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by T. Scott.
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