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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1916
Page
8
A National Museum textile division exhibit details hat making from fur to finished product. It shows fur sources such as beaver nutria hare coney and the process including carroting washing brushing felting on a copper cone and hot water shaping and blocking into finished hats for domestic and export markets.
An offbeat account describes National Geographic editor John Oliver LaGorce at a crowded White House reception. A rival officer blocks entry to the blue room. LaGorce asserts entitlement with imperial humor. Val Ridsdale and companions attempt to follow.
A British visitor lauds Washington as the world’s fairest city at twilight on Massachusetts Avenue. The article credits landscape gardener George Hay Brown and later George Burnap, noting Washington’s shaded beauty, skeleton lines, and need for funding to realize its city beautiful potential.
Fragmentary text hints at culinary cravings and religious phrases in a distorted 24 hour snippet. It references appetite, god, and a porte te phrase while blending stray words into a puzzling, unreadable line. The readable pieces suggest a fragmented diary-like musing.
An select correspondent aboard a cruiser at Afizab Bay reports that Australian and New Zealand troops withdraw from Gallipoli under moonlight. Signals, torpedo noises, and heavy gunfire mark the retreat with Beachy Bill batteries firing to mask movement. The evacuation completes by dawn with wounded and guns moved off and Suvla and Anzac lines abandoned.
The sturdy mirable looking youngster Alexander Ferdinand, seen with his mother Princess Victoria, is the only son of Prince August William, fourth son of the Kaiser. He was born in 1915. his mother, before marriage, was Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
A kitchentable ad recommends daily hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels from the prior day’s waste. One week of this practice supposedly sharpens appetite calms bilious attacks eases constipation and improves skin and complexion.
An advertisement describes kidney and bladder weakness from uric acid and offers Jad Salts as a simple remedy. It explains taking four ounces of Salts dissolved in water before breakfast to neutralize urine acids, claiming quick bladder relief and no adverse effects.
Letters from Saint Morrow Miller and Horace Blake praise northern plains farming. Reports cite high yields of Marquis wheat 49 55 bushels per acre and oats around 80 bushels per acre, with several farmers detailing acreages and total yields across Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan districts.
A home remedy advises mixing Bay Rum glycerine and Barbo Compound with water to darken gray hair. Apply twice weekly until the shade deepens, claiming dandruff relief and improved hair texture without scalp staining or greasiness, with low cost and easy preparation.
An old ad touts Bromo Quinine as a remedy to “remove the cause” of grip and other ailments. It references HB W Grovh’s signature on a box and makes broad claims about marriage being both illusion and disillusion in a fragmentary tissue of promotional copy.
An old advert urges mothers to inspect a child’s tongue as a sign of digestive trouble and promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowel regulation. The copy warns of constipation from play and promotes a quick laxative remedy.
The text presents a garbled historical note about printers and twilight work. It hints at a setting on Third Street with references to a galley and form making. The exact meaning remains unclear, preserving the fragmentary nature of the source.
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