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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1911
Page
4
Mrs J G Johnson of Scottville Michigan credits Lydia E Pinkham remedies with keeping her healthy while raising thirteen children on a farm. She and her daughter report relief from painful periods and irregularity, claiming the compound builds strength and happiness.
A survey of crop returns from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba shows strong yields despite drought in parts. Farmers from Laird to Strathclair report wheat oats and flax gains with many fields yielding 30 to 50 bushels per acre and top plots surpassing 100 bushels of oats per acre. The Canadian government agent offers information on 160 acre free homestead parcels in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
A fragmented note hints at an easier way to borrow resources and repay later. The text references a simple debt cycle and the notion of paying back what is owed, though specific terms remain unclear.
The Telepost automatic telegraph company has gained the lead in a two month battle for the Chicago to Missouri and midwest network. It charges one cent per word for unlimited distance and speed reaches 1000 words a minute, attracting 800 major corporate and private users from the Morse system. Rivals contend the shift saves thousands yearly and vows to fight the move as Telepost profits from cheaper, faster service.
A Washington Star anecdote recalls 60 to 70 years ago in Ireland when a poor family lacking a coffin led to the corpse begging for it. Thirsty O Grady and friends staged a beggar corpse to solicit money, and an old woman’s stingy sixpence provoked the corpse to protest the meanness.
A New York East Side night school principal enrolls a pupil named Tom Dugan. The boy arrives in a brand new suit bought for seven fifty, after the principal hears fire engines. He refuses to admit a fire, saying there wasn’t one.
An educator from Boston credits Grape-Nuts with improving health and digestion after nervous exhaustion. She details a four spoonful breakfast with hot milk or water and says her food assimilates better and constipation issues have lessened.
Standard Oil lodges libel suits for 250000 and 100000 against Hampton's Magazine and Cleveland Moffett over alleged link to impure candies in Philadelphia. Both parties sign retracting letters from Shearman & Sterling. Moffett admits error. Hampton's regrets the mistakes and pledges correction in March issue.
In Danville Judge O Kimbrough orders City Attorney Jones to answer all grand jury questions on vote selling. The circuit court rules witness immunity shields indictments and that the city election law is unconstitutional, limiting inquiry to past eighteen months. Investigators will press remaining witnesses. Indictments reportedly voted, fate unclear.
A wary note quotes a nurse fallen on the job and remarks on lack of insurance for working people. The passage questions what new domestic devices workers may devise to vex employers.
Mrs. I. J. Horton of Katonah New York recounts years of recurrent nail and finger inflammation with painful boils and nail loss. She found relief using Cuticura Ointment applied nightly after ineffective doctor prescribed cures. After a few weeks nails improved and grew out normally with no further trouble. She notes no recurrence as of September 21 1910.
A London Telegraph quote recalls a Scots coach’s response about a so called friendly match. The exchange underscores that in sport there is no truly friendly contest, only challenge and rivalry.
An advertisement extols Hamlins Wizard Oil to cure a stiff neck overnight. It also jokes that a great financier for a woman is one who can straighten her expense account.
The Taal eruption in the Philippines killed 700 people in Talisay, with five thousand families ruined. Governor General Forbes reported ongoing earthquakes and urged relief measures as mud and lava destroyed crops around the volcano.
An old advertisement from John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes mail order seeds. It lists a garden patch yield of 50 pounds per 10 by 10 area and ripening in 90 days in Wisconsin. It notes European usage, asks for 15 cents postage for full culture directions and the seed catalog, or 31 cents for 10 000 kernels of unsassailable seeds.
The late Hugh J. Grant of New York recalled a noted corporation lawyer at a political banquet. He praised the lawyer as a grand legal mind and remarked his mind was tortuous, joking that if he swallowed a wall he would bring up a screw.
A Baltimore man credits Resinol Salve with greatly improving a 15 year scalp eruption. He reports near cure after using the remedy and praises its effectiveness to Rev. H. C. Jones of Extension, La.
A kindly friend tells a listless man to travel for a break from city worries. He suggests Montana to shoot mountain goats, prompting the man to retort that he knows a mountain goat in Newark, per the New York Times.
Frank asks for the biggest thermometer at the hardware store to warm his bedroom, citing his mother’s directive. The scene captures a humorous misinterpretation of a tool’s use in a Success Magazine style.
A published exchange shows a man prioritizing personal bills over broader postal savings. The other speaker questions cheaper postage while noting few letters written, illustrating self interest in rate discussions.
Vintage ad copy touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with gums relief and wind colic cure at 25 cents a bottle. It adds a humorous note that even a stingy man loosens up when asked for advice.
A fragmented ad-text claims the drugstore sells a box of CASCARETS for treatment, suggesting dramatic savings and cures. The message promotes a guaranteed outcome with no clear evidence.
Washington correspondence recalls an amateur game in Charleroi on a wet field. An outfielder in a derby hat leapt for a high fly, watched a pond, and the ball struck his hat crown and lodged there. The base runner was out and the fielder never touched the ball.
A humorous exchange shows Uncle Josh quipping that women in the opera boxes should raise money from their diamonds to buy clothes, highlighting social expectations and gender norms in a playful family moment.
Health Q and A notes the common question of curing constipation. Dr Caldwell, veteran specialist, asserts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin offers the best claim to help constipated people after forty years of practice and field study.
New York reports Lord and Lady Decies now Miss Vivien Gould will wed and start a Egypt honeymoon, sailing February 18 aboard the Cunard Carmania. They will visit Cairo and upper Egypt, spending a few days in major sites.
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