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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1904
Page
8
Mrs P L Cordier of Mannington Kentucky reports her three year old daughter survived a severe croup attack after taking Foley s Honey and Tar. The ad warns against substitutes and notes a fire engine trust collapse implying pumps failed with large water volume.
The passage promotes Scott's Emulsion of pure cod liver oil as a health tonic. It claims it strengthens consumptives, nourishes weak children, and renews firmness and blood. It targets children, the elderly, and the ill, praising its restorative effects.
An article by Earl D. Barry in the Chicago Record finds the nickname origin in a financial push to merge routes. William H Vanderbilt argued high figures, prompting the retort that the Nickel Plate must be nickel plated, a name that stuck for the Lake Shore line hawked in self defense.
Mr and Mrs Gist of Beaver Dam called on friends. Lewis Dividan and family visited. Jock Cathcart served as a Superior Court juror. Two houses to be occupied by Michigan City families. A musical evening at Mrs Brooks. Merrick Baird recovers from grip. Frank and Will Garwood at a funeral. Playgoers attended Sam T Jacks in Laporte. Dinner for Mrs Stormer birthday. Mail carrier Burlingame keeps all trips in cold winter. Funeral for Mrs Martha M Herrold at Westville. pallbearers were Merrick and Tom Baird.
A mix of front page notes shows international mail flow dominance with Britain and the United States handling more letters and periodicals than the rest of the world combined. Other items include a Berlin laundryman offering to wash shirts for customers and a World’s Fair season ticket note.
A.E Allen spent forty hours a prisoner on an ice file on Lake Michigan fifteen miles off Muskegon harbor. He reached shore at 3 a m Saturday. The wind shifted west frost and thaw saved him from crossing to Milwaukee. He wagered he could walk across the lake if intact ice held. The ice broke after he left.
Interlaken Sanitorgium in Laporte Indiana promotes an ideal home health club for invalids with full equipment and special appliances for rheumatism and nervous diseases led by superintendent H Waerdner.
An advertisement extols California Prune Wafers as a natural laxative aiding digestion and bowel health. It promises relief from constipation, biliousness, and indigestion, claiming cures and smaller medical bills, with a 100 wafers for 25 cents offer.
This office plans to place all longstanding accounts with a lawyer on March 1 after exhausting patience and courtesy to collect. With the money due and no progress, we will pursue judgments in court if needed.
Elkhart authorities reveal the mystery behind the music haunting the town’s high school. A broken string exposed the truth as teachers watched the pageant move through the day. The girls had been wearing bells and singing choruses, enchanting the school and town.
Article asserts medical trend toward prevention and credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with preventing pneumonia born from colds or influenza. Warns that pneumonia follows unnoticed colds and urges taking the remedy early, with E. T. Scott as seller.
A Syracuse church minister preached on pride and, after listing faults, urged sisters who did not look in a mirror before church to rise. One woman stood, and the preacher said softly, Lord bless you, sister, I don’t blame you.
Mrs J A Moore of North Star Michigan says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best cure for coughs colds and croup her family has used. She trusts it completely. For sale by E T Scott.
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