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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
4
A quarrel erupts over gambling and wash-tubs as Schaefer presses a game of chance at a resident's home. The lady refuses gambling, citing policy, while Schaefer persists asking for tubs and a watermelon to set up a three-shell game.
The ad promotes Cuticura Soap as pure gentle and refreshing for babies with emollient properties to ease irritation redness roughness and itching. With Cuticura Ointment it aids eczema rashes and infantile eruptions and lasts longer than ordinary soap. Samples are offered with a 32 page Skin Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
A playful exchange between George and a fiancée centers on evenings out after marriage. George, who plays poker, asks for prayers as he contemplates staying in, hinting at temptations of late nights and social life.
An old advertisement touts Pepsetts as a dyspepsia remedy with a 50 cent price and money back guarantee from Druggists or Dr. Itts Drug Co Chicago Ad content also includes a flirty line about flattering a married man to test attention.
An old patent medicine ad touts Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It promises gums softening, inflammation reduction, pain relief, and wind colic cure. The note hints luck may be a matter of not being found out.
Testimonial from Mrs. Artie Hamilton of Warren Indiana and Mrs. Anna Han BEN of Esmond Rhode Island praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from female weakness bearing down pains irregularity headaches and fatigue. They report improved health and vitality enabling daily work and homemaking tasks. Both note renewed well being and encouragement for other women to try the medicine.
In Washington Frank B. Willie, rising Ohio statesman, faces a sharp rival in Wrisley Brown special assistant attorney general. The piece notes Brown’s front row smile at the spelling bee and recalls a taft era letter claiming crime waves arose from detectives’ actions, referenced to the senate committee hearings.
The text recounts a satirical letter by Winsler Brown mocking a formal judicial report. It parodies grandiloquent phrasing, jokes about Taft, and critiques the third degree. It describes supposed effects like man ia and cognitive dissociation, humorously overstating criminal psychology.
John Burroughs with Ernest Thompson Seton and Glenn Buck visited the capitol to push bird protection legislation. He recalls sleeping in a small dry state after finding no lodging except a blind tiger, where he cleaned a bed and woke refreshed at dawn.
A boy named Bobby Blank from Georgetown took a pet lamb he found at a cousin’s home. The lamb pulled away from the wagon and rampaged through the street, but a large man’s kick failed to stop it as the animal fled, leaving Bobby to confess and receive a reprimand from his mother for stealing the lamb.
A fragmented caricature notes Tom Martin of Virginia as radically different from southern statesmen. It praises his quiet demeanor likening him to a sphinx and hints at his sincere belief in constitutional amending. The piece contrasts his silence with the loud orators of the era.
The Senate lobby investigation resumes as Henry Cabot Lodge confronts Martin Mulhall who denies his earlier testimony. NAM turns over about 200000 letters to Washington, including payments to McMichael and McDermott, with Mulhall criticizing labor legislation and noting a labor lobby in Washington. The group ships the full correspondence in sixty file cases by special express.
Cleveland report describes Mrs. T. H. Street of 11448 Euclid Avenue battling a vicious dog that attacked her maid and daughter on a New York limited train platform. Patrolman Skala intervened as owner Lucy Dornis protested, and the dog was sent to the health department for observation.
Quoted lines reflect a casual remark about preferring the cooling comfort of an office over outdoors. The speaker links enjoying a picnic to recognizing the value of indoor workspaces and their climate control.
Kelsey Brewer and Company bankers of Grand Rapids Michigan have issued a free distribution leaflet. It covers public utility securities their stability and market value.
A legislative scribe asks a police reporter how the rough necks and crooks are. The reporter replies he meant the ones who get caught, and the exchange ends with weary humor after a session at the general assembly.
Christina O'Brien identified a Newark hospital death as her brother James J. Keily and arranged funeral plans. A painter, John Thompson, alerted Keily at the house, where he denied the corpse as his kin. The siblings embraced and the body awaits claimant at Harrison morgue.
An insurgent report from Nogales on July 30 states the federal gunboat Tampico was destroyed by a bomb dropped from an airplane over Guaymas harbor. French aviator Cridler Masson reportedly conducted three flights before striking the vessel. Tampico, built in 1902 at Elizabeth N J, is 200 feet long, 33 feet beam, 10 feet draft, armed with two four inch guns six six pounders and two torpedo tubes. crew of 100.
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage won Sulzer's endorsement for a petition circulating in New York urging the U.S. Senate to approve a constitutional suffrage amendment.
Miss Florence T. Brown a stenographer for a Dallas realty firm was found murdered in the company office. Her throat was cut ear to ear and her left arm was injured. Twenty five suspects were arrested.
Clearfield Pennsylvania reports a dog named Tippy, a small grel mongrel, saving master Frank G Harris during a Moose Creek fishing trip by attacking a large rattlesnake that threatened to strike.
The Krupp works in Germany manufactured paper field pieces for infantry use. Caliber under two inches and very light, enabling soldiers to carry them easily. They resist more than steel guns of the same size, but are not meant to replace steel artillery. They are for operations where moving heavy field pieces is impractical.
A customer worries colors will run as she samples ribbons. The salesman protests and the exchange ends with the woman buying 45 yards, proudly displaying a tiny American flag.
A North Adams Massachusetts church cat was found to have swallowed a seven inch hatpin. The incident prompted a remark about removing the hatpin from sight.
Sanguinetti labeled as 50c appetite candy claimed to cure hay fever with money refunded if it fails. Advert appears from Dr Etts Drug Co Chicago. Note suggests whisky improves with use when given a chance.
A concise observation notes that a level headed man is not inclined toward reckless or improvised drinking habits, contrasting steadiness with a stereotype of a rounder.
Esculetts sold as candy 50c. Money refunded if not cured. Dr Etts Drug Co Chicago advert.
A brief dialogue notes a baby’s loud crying and explains the reason Patrice suggests both parents are hard of hearing, highlighting a humorous, everyday scene.
Egbert notes in Franklin New Hampshire the site of Daniel Webster’s birth has been found. He comments on locals being careless about mislaying things while Bacon questions the site’s location.
A man carries an express package to a New York theater bar window and asks for anyone named Fragile. Frank Loomis says no, then reads the box addressed to the manager of the London pictures with Fragile written on it.
Rathenow a quiet market town in Brandenburg lay in path of Prussian political change as Otto von Bismarck arrived to seek election during Prussia’s first parliamentary contest. Voters showed early foresight by backing the man who would soon help forge a united German empire.
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