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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
4
The narrator recalls a tense chase aboard a bark carrying convicts, guards, and passengers. York’s covert maneuvers, a calm that lulls mutiny fears, and a suspected smallpox ruse threaten the voyage as Captain Clark and Dr Haxton brace for a possible breakout. A whaler presence and suspicions about Miss Foster and York heighten the danger.
Fragmentary record notes a captain deciding to proceed with convicts and crew while seeking an outbreak within an hour. It suggests fear of a whaler's return influenced the delay, with Williams, Bertigreed, Saunders, Smith and two single women remaining aboard as WO were divided.
The article outlines window gardening tips focusing on temperature light and moisture. It details plant classes for indoor warmth from 50 to 60 F at night with day rises and cooler alternatives, lists suitable species, discusses moisture via open water vessels, and recommends tobacco dust against pests. It covers soil mixes two parts loam and one part leaf-mould manure and sand, plus liquid manures from cow and sheep dung with ash, cautioning on dosage and dilution.
A Chicago and North Western baggage check No 7201 shows Hermann Radtke from ChicagoIL checked baggage to Council Bluffs IA February 12 1890 and never claimed it. A brass baggage tag found on Coal Bluff Alaska December 1892 raises questions about his fate and why the trunk was left behind. The case unresolved for years remains a North Western mystery as inquiries fail to locate relatives or trace Radtke’s movements.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat offers a sixteenth page weekly issue for one dollar a year. It claims Republican alignment yet provides early national news, useful to farmers merchants and professionals. Includes mention of samples and De Witts Little Early Risers pills as a health product.
An advertisement notes Wisconsin Central Lines with service from Chicago and Milwaukee to St. Paul Minneapolis and Duluth touching many cities. It praises elegant trains and accessible schedules with agents ready to provide tickets and transit through.
The advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a rapid growing remedy for constipation and indigestion. It notes children enjoy the taste and promotes trial size at 10 cents, regular size 50 cents, and a dollar of E T Scott.
In Lena Illinois Rev Joseph Sechler recounts fifteen years of severe rheumatism with night pain and limb wandering. He says Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People relieved agony after three months and eradicated the disease in six months, enabling him to resume duties.
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