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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1907
Page
4
Sutton of Salem describes acute kidney disease and rheumatism disabling him for ten years. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he improved quickly, walked without two canes, and found lasting relief after three boxes. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y Oregon
A New York family tale recalls a young girl’s witty retort to three aunts who offered advice about her upbringing. She declares she has always been thankful that her father married the sister he chose. A light moral and humorous exchange caps a domestic vignette. Also an advertisement touts Defiance Starch for crisper laundry with less paste.
A method to gauge artesian well flow uses lowering aniline fluid to about 500 feet and triggering a cap to burst the bottle. The time until surface appearance yields flow velocity, claimed as accurate as a weir, from which the discharge rate follows using known pipe diameter.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet humorously contrasts a man seeking a cough cure with his wife’s concern. The exchange jokes about whisky as a remedy and questions how to start a cold, framed as light social banter.
News item notes a nurse delivering the news of a man becoming a father of triplets with comic misgivings. The other short paragraph promotes Defiance Starch claiming larger content per package for the same price, signaling a consumer notice.
A brief dialogue showing a woman asserting equality with a man in reasoning. The speaker argues the woman is just as logical and prepared as a man, prompting a quip about who should be credited for such prowess.
An ad for Allen's Feet-Ease promotes relief for hot sweaty calloused and swollen feet. It claims the remedy is a cure, offered by Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York with a free trial package and urges against substitutes.
A reflective line suggests traditional gender roles and the elusive moment of a husband repairing his wife's clothes after she sleeps, signaling deeper themes of duty, time, and intimate labor.
An advertisement offers Krause's Headache Capsules from Norman Lichty Miz. Co. in Des Moines Iowa claiming relief for head discomfort. The copy urges readers to obtain a box if they suffer head pains.
An advertising blurb promotes Lewis' Factory Lewis' Single Binder straight 5e cigars made from vextra quality tobacco and sold by a dealer from Peoria Illinois. It emphasizes craftsmanship and product quality to induce purchase.
A historical ad style notice touts Mrs Winsidy’s Soothing Syrup for teething children. It promises gum softening relief, pain easing, and wind colic cure amid a period voice and mock moral quotes.
A Norwich shoemaker named John Drakes buys cloth to imitate a knight's gown. The tailor makes both garments in the same fashion and cuts. The knight notices the similar cloth, and Drakes swears he was following orders. Drakes vows never to wear gentlemen's fashions again.
The piece explains that patent medicines show alcohol content on labels after the Pure Food and Drugs law. average alcohol in liquids about ten percent, tinctures and fluid extracts in prescriptions range from 20 to 90 percent. It cites Hartford pharmacist Rapelye’s study of 25 prescriptions with an average near 45 percent where Five contained no alcohol, notes alcohol as solvent and preservative, and references a London physicians manifesto in The Lancet praising alcohol as a restorative and life preserving in disease.
A Baltimore American note describes a small town boy, son of a distinguished lawyer, who declares his future pursuits. When asked what he will do as an adult he declares he will smoke, chew, and gamble, revealing his notions of true aristocracy.
In twelve Indiana cities seen as progressive a debate on municipal ownership spans five to ten years. Causes of hostility include alleged political spoils in plant control, graft or favors in billing and by product handling, and general incompetence in utility management.
Elwood Peter French on the Frankton road shows an apple tree bearing apples of the Early Harvest variety a large cherry limb and peaches from grafting. A peach limb grew into the apple tree after a prior cut and the tree produced ripening cherries and apples with late peaches showing advancement over the same variety on another tree attracting attention from local fruit growers and horticulturists.
Mrs. Charles W. McClosky of Lawrenceburg had been deaf for years and endured great pain. Doctors after X-ray examination removed bone and several cotton wads, likely implanted during childhood earache home remedies. Hearing was restored by the operation.
William Mcdonald, the alleged dynamiter arrested after last winter wrecks in Sandford, will be released on a $5,000 bond for grand jury appearance next September. Bond reduced from $10,000 on motion by attorney M. C. Hamil. Judge Piety granted the reduction.
Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, living near Brazil on Maple Lane dairy farm, gave birth to three boys and two girls. Both parents are under 30, of distinct opian type, and all five children are expected to live. The couple moved to the dairy farm five months ago.
Alma Petering eight daughter of Alexander Petering of Orinoco slipped into a deep hole while wading during a St. Bartholomew Catholic school picnic in Columbus and nearly drowned. Paul Richard fourteen steadied and pulled her to safety as she sunk a third time.
Evansville Mary E. McDevitt and August Brekwickel wed on the swing ring at Cook's Park in front of thousands who laughed and jeered while Squire Francke conducted the ceremony The attempt to have Rev C D Mitchell officiate failed The Ministerial association has issued a strong rebuke to such informal marriages as lacking solemnity.
Indiana appellate Judge Frank S Roby praises three reform bodies the juvenile court the state board of health and the state charities board in a speech. He argues it costs no more to rear a child than care for a dog and urges the poor to help the homeless waifs.
In South Bend the Kish estate suit against Western & Southern Life ended with the judge finding for the defendants. Steve Toth and Louis Sipotz were arrested on 12 charges including impersonation, forgery, and swindling an undertaker. Both men were released on $1,000 bond.
In Indianapolis the Odd Fellows building is being torn down and a large red sign proclaims Louis Baum the jeweler has left the structure after two weeks of exposure to bricks debris and weather. Baum plans to appeal to the courts as wrecking proceeds.
Danville's four saloons will close next week when the circuit court adjourns as required by law and stay closed until the appeal from the county commissioner's court granting license is heard. Charles Weible seeks a license to retail liquor at the Big Four station and faces moral character challenges at the county board.
In Columbus physicians warn Mrs Otto Lawless faces danger of blood poisoning after she spanked her four year old son George. The boy resisted and his pencil pierced her right arm causing a deep cut.
Boonville township welcomes 80 year old "Uncle Tommy" Young blood as the new justice of the peace. Once elected at 26 and famed as the "boy justice" he served until the recent Republican ticket defeat. He remains active mentally and physically.
Warden Reid of the Indiana prison in Laporte is reported seriously ill in a New York resort with Bright's disease. Doctors attribute his condition to mental strain from presiding over 13 hangings since taking office. He has been granted an indefinite leave of absence by Governor Hanly.
Indianapolis officials scrapped plans to build a city owned coliseum after spending about 30000 with no tax payer return. Ground was donated for a market and court rulings barred other use.
In South Bend George Rock, drunk and enraged, attacked his wife with a pocket dirk, severing her and inflicting fatal wounds before kicking her across the floor. The same report notes Eli Hart seven, son of farmer John Hart of Tennyson, killed in a runaway accident near Boonville when thrown from a water wagon and crushed by its wheels.
Fragmentary report notes a girl identified as Flora-Doughty died by her own action in Muncie. Details are limited and unclear from the OCR text.
A professional performer in a car reflects on past wrongs and tears, imagining pity from strangers. A woman offers help, but he explains his tears are from practice, not distress, and he continues rehearsing.
An old advertisement extols Defiance Starch as free from injurious chemicals and safe for fine fabrics. It claims strong stiffening power allows using half the usual quantity for a perfect finish, comparable to when goods were new.
A humorous remark notes a woman averaging expenses by merging her $28 bonnet with her husband's $2 lid to claim about $15 per item.
A Burlington North Carolina reader recalls a cousin with a birth skin disease lasting six years. After doctors failed, the Cuticura regimen was used for about two months and the child’s skin healed, leaving no scar. The witness reports the girl remained well seventeen years later.
A London letter extols the Sicily rooted mafia as the most powerful secret society founded to shield against foreign rulers. The piece contrasts the Mafia with the Naples Camorra the Paris Apaches and the Black Hand of America describing its 300 year history and swift silent operations.
In a sharp exchange a man sneers at a woman's bread and jokes about being an ostrich. She retorts that such a change would at least grant her feathers for her worn wedding-day hat. The dialogue exposes tension over pride and appearance.
The dean refused to admit a memorial tablet to Herbert Spencer into Westminster Abbey, citing his nonconformist Christian beliefs. A separate ad notes Defiance Starch products claim to stiffen collars and cuffs, with 16 oz for 10c, sold by grocers.
In the exchange Miss Sue Brette quips about carrying a heavy spear as a sisterly participant is noted in the new piece.
An advertisement promotes F I T S and Nervous Disease cures by Dr Kline of Philadelphia offering a free trial bottle and treatise. It includes a sales pitch with the address 31 Arch St and a theatrical aside about a heroine's death scene. It ends with a separate cigar plug from Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois.
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