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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
4
An odd mix of an advertisement for the Photo-Play Association promising easy success and a wartime scene at Ft Harrison. A Black cook jokes with a the soldier about meals and tipping as a longshoreman’s memory of tips is referenced amid the Indianapolis News fragment.
A vintage ad instructs apply Cuticura Ointment to the face then wash off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Continue for ten days to see skin changes. Claims no better toilet preparations exist. Free sample by mail with Book from Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
A health conservation board is urged to oversee conditions in government and private plants under contract with the government. Dr. Frederick Martin is recommended to head the body, with minimum standards for hours wages and shop conditions tied to munition contracts. The piece argues workers will push to near exhaustion in war time while the nation cannot afford fatigue-related loss.
The piece rails at the perils and pleasures of vacation season. It observes how families budget for trips, gear, and luxury items while debt and court matters hover. It contrasts city grandeur with rural weariness and hints at the pull of escaping daily life.
A Pennsylvania woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing female troubles and nervous weakness after doctors failed. The ad urges readers to seek free confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co and mentions sample offers from Dr Kilmer & Co for a different medicine.
London pays policewomen six dollars weekly while Texas grants pensions to dependent mothers. England nears full female farming by year end. The Philippines boasts Teodora Zavilla as top rice farmer. Edith Rosecrans named attorney for Blairstown New Jersey. Women outnumber men in US navy enlistments. Twenty five American women drive ambulances in Saloniki Milo. Jeanne Tardy appointed attache to French finance ministry.
An aged voice reflects on vacations from Safe Bud to Minnie the canoe and a first divorce. The piece wryly notes department store gaggles planning Put-in-Bay trips while wives visit kin, children brace for air, and workers fear disrupted routines. It muses on change of scene as remedy for worn souls and irons out welfare concerns with a crusty realism.
Miss Fawn Lippincut extols week end escapes to the countryside offering relief from city crowds and indoor dullness. The piece highlights egg hunts hay mows cream separators and field work as lure for families including Uncle John Aunt Lide Master John and Annie amid rustic scenery and simple pleasures.
A New York letter notes big banks facing staff losses as men join military service. Banks report dozens to hundreds of vacancies expected. plans arise to fill many departments with women who perform repetitive, steady work.
A reflective piece urges readers to live purposefully and improve what remains of life. It quips that a supposedly wise husband is only boss at home when away, and notes a young man’s fixation on a girl’s image versus her authentic traits.
A jumbled excerpt discusses wealth by size of currency and the cost of living. It mentions a silver dollar and a ten dollar gold piece, then shifts to wartime gardens, prodigal sons, and vegetables. The piece notes marriage as a path to happiness for some men.
A brief dialogue captures a playful exchange about shaving direction. One speaker asks if shaving up or down. the other answers down and notes the sensation. The exchange emphasizes a simple, humorous observation.
A mix of wartime proverbs and a Canada wide farm outlook notes spring seeding for wheat barley and oats is complete. It highlights rapid growth drought-resistant plains in Western Canada low rail rates and favorable shipping. It urges farmers to capitalize on high wheat prices and offers land options from 15 to 25 dollars per acre plus easy terms. It also promotes cattle grazing opportunities and government calls to produce food stuffs to avert famine.
A humorous slice of farm life urges rest from busy work and details etiquette for weekend fans. It contrasts quiet naps on a barrel stave hammock with the farm’s clatter of cash, typewriters, and woodpeckers. Practical travel tips for a country weekend visit follow, including packing a travel bag with essentials and a quirky joke about aunt and talcum.
Alfred James of Cynwyd recalls a tale of a rat convention near a grain box where a large lazy black cat named Thomas Atkins sits inside. He claims a rat circle of five or six surrounds the cat, suggesting a dramatic scene or warning in the story.
Product puff claims quick relief by applying drops then lifting away corn or callus with fingers. No explicit caution or evidence, no medical claims, and wording emphasizes ease and instant action.
An advertisement extols Freezone as a new ether compound from a Cincinnati chemist available in small bottles at low cost. It promises painless relief for hard or soft corns and calluses by shrinking them until they lift away with the root, with no burning or irritation.
The remark mocks British habits of stiff shirts and starch as a defense metaphor. It contrasts American beef prices in Paris with the perceived cost of Parisian disdain in the United States.
Antiseptic powder shaken into shoes or sprinkled in foot baths relieves painful swollen and smarting feet. Used by British and French troops at the front and marketed as a sure relief for tired aching feet sold everywhere.
A probate lawyer described as a man of deeds and words. The remark highlights the lawyer’s dual strengths in action and speech.
Fragmentary quotes reveal a father lamenting his daughter’s condition and a search for relief. The text contrasts others' eccentricities with perceived genius in the daughter, urging the present joys over past sorrows.
A reflective note on bearing no malice after war and the harm caused by prejudice to individuals and government. The text urges forgetting past injuries to find peace and improve governance.
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