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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1896
Page
3
Ice business expands with new opening and local trades. Names include Frank O'Brien Bertha Lawrence Mamie Hannon and H C Farwell. Marriages, church notes, ad copy for Hood’s Sarsaparilla One Minute Cough Cure and DeWitts products feature. Local deaths include Mrs Elda Oxford in Carlow Missouri.
The notice highlights Royal Baking Powder as superior in U S Government Reports and promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles. It also reports local health directions on diphtheria antitoxin and various community notices about elected officers, new births, revivals, and civic updates from LaPorte and surrounding towns.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Tadiare travel and references to the Dominion Wicca and Omaba Biden Chisars in unclear terms. No clear event or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
A column cites Dr Miles Pain Pills with claims of curing headache and neuralgia. It then recounts biographical notes on a formerly enslaved woman Isa bella Sojourner Truth, her activism and travels, followed by agricultural advice from Purdue on livestock shelter, ventilation, and winter temperatures to prevent disease.
One hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co, Toledo Ohio, claim reliability and financial ability. Endorsers West & Troax, Waxpine, Kinnan & Marvin, Toledo. Cure taken internally, price 7 50 per bottle, sold by all druggists.
An article describes nervous fatigue from heavy household duties as more debilitating than physical labor. It attributes the cause to blood impoverishment and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy, citing Mrs. S. T. Walker of Waverly, N.Y., who praises its effects.
The Monon road reports major upgrades under vice president and general manager W H McDoel. It notes 1 042 gross tons of sixty seven pound rails, 9 978 gross tons of seventy five pound rails on the main line, 3 300 gross tons of fifty two pound rails on the Bedford Bloomfield branch, 211 205 cross ties and 9 527 car loads of ballast. Seven new steel bridges and stations at Chalmers Kirkland Crawfords ville are built. Passenger traffic reached 808 744 and freight about 2 500 000 tons. The Lafayette shops soon reopen and Indianapolis terminals will finish in spring, boosting the line to double business. Indianapolis to Chicago now all steel, heavy main line engines in service. next year a number of freight and passenger cars will be purchased.
A dampened piece of flannel with Chamberlain's Pain Palm bound on the chest and another on the back between the shoulders provides prompt relief for chest pain due to cold and potential pneumonia. Sold by H. N. Nichols.
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