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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
7
OCR fragment shows prices for wheat per bushel Clover seed per bushel hogs per cwt hides per pound tallow butter eggs potatoes bacon chicken live turkeys live ducks live and garbled trailing text with unclear values and extra letters. The readable items include wheat at 8.67 per bushel and hogs at 3.00 per cwt among others.
Scott's offers books games toys and Holiday Nations with a wide doll assortment. See bouquet and vase lamps and note postal cards to Canada. Local notices mention residents visiting and moving plans, a 2,000 acre real estate deal near Walkerton, and community events in Michigan City and Laporte.
Beech maple basswood elm and ash wood cut 16 inches offered at 5 cents to 1.00 per rank. Trade for corn hay or cows. Lumber sawn to order for barn sills posts and plates. Delivery on the ground two miles northeast of Westville.
Mrs. Jacob Herrold nurses a lame back as the ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for purifying blood and curing various diseases, asserting strong health benefits through this tonic.
At Kingsland the telegraph operator B W Sayer reportedly found a way to send the sound of the human voice over telegraph wires. He issued a test during the night and the offices along the line heard his singing of On the Wabash and a Hot Time. The men listened in astonishment and praised the novelty.
In Three Oaks a temperance effort gains ground as the Warren family runs the Featherbone works and half the town works there. Mr Warren offers $250 to the town treasury to bar a saloon, hoping to keep saloons out. there is fear the works would relocate if a saloon opens.
Ada M. E. Hart of Groton South Dakota writes of a narrow escape from a bad cold that settled on her chest and left her thankful for her recovery and health.
Woman ill with consumption endured four doctors giving up. She found salvation and health after using eight bottles of Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. Trial bottles free at E. T. Scotts drug store and guaranteed or money back.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co offers an up to date atlas of colored maps of the world the United States and new possessions with related information. Free by mail for six cents postage to Geo H Heafford or E G Hayden. Dr Miles Pain Pills advertised for headache relief.
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