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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
4
The Indicat or notes weekly notices from Westville Indiana dated July 30 1903. It lists obituary notices poetical ads pill advertisements and local items including politics crime and social commentary and a tease about a forthcoming marriage with secrecy about the couple. The paper critiques soda fountians and promotes various potions and local developments.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw lands totaling 11.6 million acres will be partitioned with individuals receiving farm equivalents and former slaves allocated land. Public sales could yield about 20 million dollars, with each tribe already holding wealth and futures shaped by government withdrawal.
Mrs Gertrude A Tucker wife of Rev Hibbard T Tucker pastor of the Greencastle Methodist church and Anti Saloon league vice president sues for divorce asserting abandonment and failure to provide She seeks custody of two children alimony of 5000 and 60 yearly maintenance It is claimed stronger allegations may follow Rev Tucker formerly in Valparano and lectured before a Westville audience.
The note lists five rural routes to open on Sept 1, two from Roli ing Prairie and one each from Laporte Union Mills and Mill Creek. It also questions Westville receiving similar services and criticizes an ad in a Detroit paper seeking washing from two sisters, plus a remark on a nationwide trend described as a game called Christianity.
The text notes girls on one side identified as the Chris tians and boys as the Heather. It mentions Mr and Mrs E L Raynolds and daughter Mildred returning from La Porte where he was treated at the Interlaken Sanitarium.
Two strangers hired a horse and buggy from Ryan livery stable and rode toward the east. In Washington township the horse lagged and a crowd stopped them prompting Dr Ryan’s notification. Sheriff LaCount pursued and captured one man near town while the other fled. It is unclear if a theft or horse killing was intended and the jailed man awaits investigation.
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