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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
3
The notice lists various agricultural prices including wheat oats corn clover seed hogs hides tallow butter eggs potatoes bacon lard chicken turkeys and ducks per bushel per hundredweight per pound and per dozen for dairy items and poultry with figures partially obscured in the OCR. It records market rates for farming goods and live animals.
Local items include visits and social notes from Elkhart to Warsaw, Lake county and Walkerton. Updates cover council contracts, court actions, farm talks on hog cholera and sugar beets, beekeepers, real estate, and planned lectures. Highlights feature O. H. Demming selling brooms, a Y.M.M.E.A. room in Laporte, and discussions on farming education and beets with Purdue input.
The Union Mills News debates marriage as a social fix with Justice Ephraim Kelgwin and Dr. Edward B. Foote urging early marriage and citing studies on insanity. They quote figures claiming higher insanity risk among singles and praise marital restraint and responsibility.
An old advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Oneney Co as proprietors in Toledo. West and Truax pledge trust in F J Cheney’s honesty and financial ability.
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