Obituary and political notes from Westville Indiana
Entered at Westville post office second class. Obituary notices priced over ten lines and poetry by line. Frank Hanly leads in senatorial race. Indiana awarded $107000 for Spain war aid. hold ing sessions scheduled for April and October in Hammond. Utah women vote cited. Roberts elected amid suffrage debate. Hobson kissing rumors deemed unfounded and mild.
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Westville
Ind
Indianapolis Journal
Utah
Roberts
Oil Tests For Better Roads In Center Township
Trustee Burns plans spring experiments on a bad road using crude oil to shed water and prevent dirt from clumping. The piece notes prior eastern tests claim a 12 foot wide road can be built for 90 cents per hundred feet, with Burns testing oil coatings.
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Trustee Burns
Center Township
Burns
Hood's Sarsaparilla Restores Health for Workaday Life
O D Elbel of 714 Marieta Street South Bend Indiana recalls years of scrofula and a bone discharge from a leg limb. He credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with his cure and regained ability to work daily. Hood's Pills claim to cure liver ills and sell for 25 cents.
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Hood
O. D. Elbel
Marieta Street
South Bend
Indiana
Grain O Try Grain O new food drink replaces coffee
An advertisement touts GRAIN O as a coffee substitute for all ages. It claims a rich mocha like color, is made from pure grains, and gentle on delicate stomachs. Packages sell for 15c and 25c at grocers.
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Indiana
Hernly
Mount
Federation of Labor
Labor Commissioners
Pennsylvania Railroad
Engineers Move 220-Ton Bridge on Milwaukee River
December 18 engineers of the Chicago and North Western railway relocated a 220 ton single track draw bridge on the Milwaukee division. The bridge crossed the Kinnickinanic river and was moved downstream 250 feet to a new foundation in two hours and forty seven minutes. The operation used two “ools” and a float technique.
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Chicago & North-Western Railway
Kinnickinanic River
Milwaukee
Chicago
GOAT CAPERS Officers Elected For the Ensuing Year
Local lodges announce new officers across multiple groups including Eastern Stars Martin Post 216 Maccabees No 31 and Daughters of Liberty. Named leaders include G L Thompson Jr Jared Gardner and Hollenbeck with posts as president treasurer chaplain and guard in various orders.
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J. W. Cattron
H. G. Martin
Asso
Hollenbeck
Adah
Jennie Gardner
Ruth
Esther
Mary Crumpacker
Martha
G. C. Flegel
Martin Post
C. D. Hess
Wm. Mannering
Andrew Young
Joseph McGinnis
Francis Brown
Jane Herrold
Lina Webster
I. O. Maccabees No
P. R. Iseminger
P. C
Henry Michael
Ladies OF the Maccabees
Belle Clark
Emma Berrold
Emma Nichols
N. G
G. L. Thompson Jr
W.G. Homer Herrold
Sec
F. P. Herrold
Treas
D. L. Crumpacker
John Herrold
Christmas Prosperity In Michigan City Markets
The city saw an exceptionally strong Christmas season with merchants reporting peak sales and stock running low. Workers remained employed and spending on gifts indicated broad prosperity across retailers wholesalers and manufacturers.
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Michigan City
Peggie
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted With 100 Dollar Reward
A Victorian style advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from Toledo O wholesalers West Truax Watorna Kinnan A Rvix, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, price 75 cents per bottle, and broad druggist availability.
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Hall
F. J. Owenex & Co
Toledo O
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Toledo O. Watorna
Kinnan & A Rvix
Toledo
O. Hall
Electric Bitters Proclaimed Cure by Barcelona Visitor
Mr. R. P. Olivia of Barcelona spends winters in Aiken. Weak nerves caused severe head pain which vanished after using Electric Bitters. The medicine claims to cure liver and kidney trouble purify the blood and strengthen nerves. Guaranteed full bottle 50 cents sold by B. T. Scott, Druggist.
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R. P. Olivia
Barcelona
Spain
Aiken
S. O
America
All
T. Scott
Call on E. E. Nichols for prices on cutters and sleds
It will pay you to call on E. E. Nichols and get prices on cutters and bob sleds, also on horse blankets, before buying.
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E. E. Nichols
Pricea
Companions 1899 Calendar Promises Finest Edition
Leslie Dodd returns from Des Moines after visiting friends and relatives. The Youth's Companion promotes its 1899 calendar as the finest yet with deluxe design and coloring. New subscribers receive November and December issues free, plus upcoming calendar content and sample copies from Youth's Companion, 211 Columbus Ave., Boston.
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Leslie Dodd
Des Moines
Iowa
Companion
John D. Long
Clements Markham
David Bispham
William A. Hammond
Russia
Poultney Bigelow
Carroll D. Wright
Columbus Ave
Boston
Mass
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