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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1897
Page
3
Local items include Dr Miles pain pills for neuralgia, a Ray placing insurance with J B Green, Miss Etta Layman visiting Union Mills, and Westville K of P officers. Reports cover weather, berry crops, railway promos, band leadership, and a wide mix of community notices in La Porte area.
All persons knowing themselves in debt to the firm of Shafering and Rhem will please call and settle at once by cash or note. A. J. Rhem.
Nickel Plate Road offers excursion trips to Toronto on July 11 13 and 14 for Epworth League Convention travelers. Special fares apply for these group departures with return options to be announced.
The firm Shafering and Rhem is dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts will be settled by A. J. Rhem who will receive all sums due. SHAFERING & RHEM Westville July 6 1897.
A notice offers country homes along the South Shore of Lake Erie open to summer boarders. Mail requests to Lt. FE Horner, General Passenger Agent, Nickle Plate Road, Cleveland, Ohio, enclosing a two cent stamp.
A brief notice from T. B. Berrono invites wool raisers to call before selling to ensure highest market prices.
The Valparaiso Messenger reports a Westville man famed for chopping wood so quickly two axes were needed. One axe glowed hot while a second cooled in a creek, water near boiling as he worked, a tale used to tease the paper’s cadence and warn against risky weathering of headlines.
Reports from Tolleston say John B. Clough plans to blow the Calumet river dam near the Tolleston Gun club to destroy marshes that serve as duck and reed bird feeding grounds. Superintendent Wain Kunert warns that dynamite attempts to breach the dam will not be tolerated and may cause trouble.
A west bound Fort Wayne passenger cooled a quart whiskey in a water tank for a warm trip. A porter dropped ice into the tank, breaking the bottle and mixing the spirit with water. Passengers praised the resulting drink as remarkably refreshing and curative.
Try Allen's Foot Safe for swollen tired feet and tight shoes. It coats the feet and eases walking. Relieves swelling burning and blisters and calouses. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 1¢ 23c Trial package free. Address Atdhey Olmstead LeRoy New York.
Public notice announces two fast trains daily between Chicago and Duluth via St. Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Central Wisconsin. It also promotes thousands of acres of fine farming lands for sale in Northern Wisconsin and provides contact for details with Jas C Pond General Passenger Agent Milwaukee.
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