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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
2
The Indicator at Westville Indiana publishes Thursdays with editor Martin. Subscriptions cost 1.00 yearly, ads rates available on request. Obituary notices over ten lines priced at one line per ten cents. professional cards 5 per year or 3 per quarter. July 16 1896 edition.
The ticket lists William McKinley of Ohio for president and Garret A Hobart of New Jersey for vice president in the party slate.
A speech urges patriotic unity across sections to defend the government credit and currency from depreciation. It argues for a sound financial and industrial policy, protecting labor and industry, preserving the home market, and expanding foreign markets through reciprocity. The speaker condemns free trade and inflated currency.
A Chicago testimony portrays Bryan as winning the nomination through sheer oratory, outpacing Tillman and Altgeld. The piece contrasts flashy rhetoric with предпочтения of statesmen from Bismarck to Gladstone and deprecates the primacy of speech over brains in leadership.
The passage rails against empty rhetoric and urges cultivation of wisdom and honesty. It targets ostentatious claims of genius by figures like Wendell Phillips and Henry Ward Beecher, calling for scrutiny of speakers and ideas. Bryan Boru of Nebraska marks the moment as a turning point.
The piece extols courage and principle during peril, condemns the Democratic party's alleged corruption in 1896, and argues Republicans must defend the gold standard to protect laborers from forced devaluation of silver. It calls for unity, patriotism, and opposition to Greeley’s and the 1896 Democratic platform.
A historical advertisement offers one hundred dollars as a reward for any catarrh cure that fails with Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice, signed by West & Truax and Waxpine Kinnan Mangin, touts the remedy taken internally and sold at 75 cents per bottle by Toledo druggists.
A report argues laborers refused silver for pay in gold, stating the silver dollar remains worth 100c in purchasing power while bullion value lags. It defends the Republican stance to maintain the gold standard, warn of a cheap money push that would erode government protection of silver dollars.
Alexander B Bruner sends letters from Winfield Kansas describing crops including corn oats peaches and fruit, Chautauqua Assembly earnings and events, local colleges and camp meetings, political views and voting habits, mentioning pastors and open election opinions. He notes farm yields and community signals with affectionate personal observations.
A Silver Lake Indiana man claims his wife suffered four years with rheumatism affecting her shoulders arms and hands and occasionally the heart. After two to three months on Hood's Sarsaparilla she was completely free and has remained well for a year and a half with only slight recurrence after colds.
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway promotes a three week tour titled Wonderland of America led by J J Grafton. The trip departs Chicago on Tuesday evening July 21 by electric lighted train with dining car. Alaska via Yellowstone Park option offered same date. For details contact Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent Chicago Ill.
The final note by Harriet Beecher Stowe, written days before her death, thanks readers for affectionate remembrances on her birthday and will appear in facsimile in the Ladies' Home Journal, reflecting her gracious nature.
Keaver Dani visits Mrs Fogg in Iowa to see cousin Brrs Andrew Johnson last week A man and woman on wheels travel from Sheffield Illinois to Ohio for the Fourth Dave McKellips injures a foot on barbed wire while valuing a Morgan stock inheritance from Vermont over sixty years Roy McKellips joins the North Liberty Fourth celebration Families from H Martins Johny Cathcart Ed Hixon Wanatah Lon McKellips Michigan City Mrs Herbert Cathcart’s relatives visit Chicago Mrs Tom Cole moves to her father P Williams Rhoda Windle Chicago visits her sister Geist Charlie Wolfe family Michigan City weekend Ed Posten in Horton Kansas welcomes a son born July 9.
The letter found among Benjamin Huff's effects explains the motive for the shooting of Cora Huff at Bootjack LaPorte County and his own death by suicide. It describes overwhelming misery and mental collapse with a farewell plea to friends and a note signed 3B. H.
From July 2 to 13 the Balti more & Ohio Railroad offers one fare round trip excursion tickets to Mountain Lake Park Maryland for the camp meeting. Return is valid until July 17 1896. Inquiries may contact any B and O ticket agent or L S Allen assistant general passenger agent Chicago Illinois.
The August issue of the Delineator is called the midsummer number and showcases superb colored lithographs of dress modes and millinery from July. It highlights writings by Prof Xaver Scharwenka Julia Magruder and Mary Cadwalader Jones plus pieces on music for women beauty hair and interior decoration.
The text notes warm dry conditions as farmers work haying and harvesting oats. It mentions multiple local residents visiting family in various towns including Chicago, Independence Missouri, Whiting, Westville, and Valparaiso. A June 7 excursion ticket sale by the Baltimore and Ohio line is announced, with one fare round trip and date of sale restrictions.
Stephen Fiske, familiar with Dickens at Gad's Hill, writes The Personal Side of Dickens for September Ladies' Home Journal. He will describe visits, home life, working methods, and pastimes, noting Dickens used dummy books as satire and source of amusement for guests.
Morris Hartnett aged 71, a watchman at the Nickle Plate crossing near the Cosmo factory Valparaiso, was arrested Friday evening on warrants from Justice Dille. He faces a shocking charge based on affidavits dated June 17 with two young witnesses Ruby May and Tda. case continued to Monday at 10 o clock due to illness. Hartnett posted two bonds of 500 each and is described as a father of a large family.
A copy of McKinley’s Grand March composed by M. R. Rishell is circulating with wide band use. The title page shows a portrait of McKinley. Priced at 40 cents. readers can obtain a copy for 20 cents by mail to Union Mutual Music Co. 265 Sixth Avenue New York.
Rudyard Kipling completes a fifty thousand word novel about Gloucester fishermen and Grand Banks life. The American characters and seafaring plot promise new ground. McClure's Magazine gains US serial rights with publication set for November.
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