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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
3
A reminiscence of a sheltered family life in a snowy evening setting. Parents, children, and a warm parlor scene contrast with modern social changes like women’s clubs and suffrage. The piece recalls rituals, faith, and ordinary routines that held the family together before broader society shifted.
The passage recalls early teachers and the effort to fit a soapstone pencil, the influence of McGuffey readers, and a moral tale about an Indian encounter from a bygone American schooldays. It notes long-ago classroom rituals and the shaping of character through stories and examples.
An American Primary Teacher excerpt lists origins for many crops and plants. It notes the chestnut from Italy, tobacco from Virginia, citron from Greece, nettle from Europe, oats from North America, poppy from the East, rye from Siberia, parsley from Sardinia, polar and apple from Europe, mulberry from Persia, radish from southern Europe, sunflower from Peru, walnut and peach from Persia, cucumber from the East Indies, radish also from China and Japan, spinach from Arabia, horse chestnut from Tibet, and peas from Egyptian origin.
The piece describes a broad trade revival across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with farmers reporting record crops worth over 400 million dollars. Winnipeg bank clearings and grain shipments set records as commerce and lenders show confidence, while eastern critics praise the West for paying debts and expanding production into 1916.
A collage of wry observations on work, heaven, lectures, business, and everyday life. Noting the soap box, salve remedies, millionaire taxes, and camel speed versus endurance, with a closing quotation from Jay IX. House.
In Farm and Fireside a farmer sells his rural property to relocate to the city. He discovers city life costs more and limits freedom, with demanding schedules and constant vigilance. He notes city friends work under others, barely save, and blur luxuries with necessities, losing country spirit.
The readable line hints at a social aphorism about speaking twice before acting and the risk of laughter turning toward different fans, suggesting a spectator dynamic where support shifts between teams. The text is incomplete and lacks clear attribution or event details.
In a humorous exchange from the Sunday Herald a seller demonstrates a single tool with blades hooks and pulleys. The kit includes a can opener a pin lifter and a tack puller with a punchy sales line about buying three to perform multiple tasks.
An advertisement extols Jad Salts as a harmless remedy to flush and activate kidneys and ease bladder disorders. It claims to neutralize urine acids and prevent backache headaches rheumatic pains and sleeplessness by daily use, touting Venezuelan coal as high grade.
A humorous notebook fragment features repeated Denison's Coffee slogans and a string of life jokes. The lines include Life is just one darned thing after another and a dancer upset over needing to relearn on skates.
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a remedy for biliousness, headaches, and digestive woes. It claims the product cleanses the stomach, removes sour undigested food, reduces foul gases, and purges poisons from the bowels while you sleep, with a 10 cent box promising morning relief.
A dad wired money to his son to hire tutoring help but the plan backfired as the son instead hired a chauffeur claiming it was the suitable tutor. The tale centers on misused funds and the unintended outcome of the hiring choice.
Promotes Cuticura Ointment and Precede shampoo for dandruff itching and scalp irritation. Claims as best for complexion hair hands and skin with super creamily emollients. Free sample by mail with book via Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere. Inevitable. I saw stars in that railroad collision. Naturally when the cars were tele scoped.
A vintage note urges inspecting Castoria bottles for the correct signature and warns that Fletcher's Castoria has served infants and children for over 30 years. A witty hospital exchange follows about a new ward patient described as light-headed and the doctor debating delirious or blonde.
An advertisement touts one dose to cure a cold in one day. It urges contacting for the full name Laxa Tive Brom o Quinine with a signature line by E. W. Grove and a price of 25 cents.
A fragmentary line captures a tense exchange about a car and coal supply. The speakers declare being deeply involved as circumstances collide in a moment of urgency.
Readable text describes a French inventor’s frog leg device used to receive wireless signals. The quirky claim links coffee from Denison’s to a strange tech experiment. Further details remain unclear in the fragmentary OCR.
A crowded trolley full of women causes a man to claim he is not asleep. The conductor wakes him and he explains he kept his eyes closed to avoid seeing women stand. The exchange ends with a sharp remark about the crowded car.
An Italian immigrant browses in a shop but cannot convey his need to the clerk. He rejects several pans, then imitates "water go ahead, the macaroni stop" to request a colander, suggesting language barriers in everyday purchases.
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching blind bleeding or protruding piles. First application gives relief. Sold for 50 cents.
Fragmentary lines reference a lack of presence and the need for an oculist. A motif of love and coins appears, suggesting testing or value through a ring. The text conveys intimate dialogue and symbolic objects without a complete narrative.
Advertisement extolling Anuric as a superior eliminator of uric acid from Dr Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York. It credits Anuric with treating backache scalding urination sedimented urine and uric acid in blood linked to rheumatism and gout. It promises strong results in acute rheumatism gravel and related pains and invites readers to request a 50 cent bottle or a trial 10 cent sample and to mail water samples for free analysis.
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