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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
2
A Westville Ind paper analyzes Republican gains in Congress and the Pennsylvania race. It criticizes Democratic tactics, questions trust regulation proposals, and argues for political change in Pennsylvania while contrasting southern Democratic control with Republican strength.
An extended column touts Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder troubles and offers free samples. It shifts to a political critique of the Democratic party, accusing leaders of outdated ideas and unreliability, with insults toward congressmen and party figures.
Gen Jasper Packard died Thursday at the Soldiers Home in Lafayette where he was named commandant. He had a brief illness from a mix of diseases and had long served Floyd County in public life, including three terms in Congress and a stint as county auditor. He helped start the Daily and Weekly Tribune in New Albany and held state political influence as a Republican and Civil War brevet major general. He also served as a regent of the Indiana Soldiers’ Monument before his retirement.
In February 1900 the first tour departs Buffalo Chicago and St Louis on the 14th while a second tour leaves Toledo on the 28th. Travel in special Pullman palace cars with library and observation rooms drawing rooms and sleeping compartments. The seven thousand mile route covers principal points of interest near the Republic offering thirty days of recreation and sight seeing.
An advertisement touts a line with forty different patterns in Laporte. It promotes a special window display and a sale price of 3.98 for ten days, with the store listed as Davidson & Porter.
All parties knowing themselves in debt to me are requested to call and settle without delay and oblige L. C. Miller.
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