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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1896
Page
3
Short notices on upcoming events, travel specials, local visits, business ads, and civic notes. Mentions include trains and excursion fares, regional promotions, municipal plans, farm reports, and social updates from Westville and LaPorte area towns.
On June 15 16 23 and 24 1896 The North Western Line offers round trip excursion tickets to San Francisco at half fare with return by 60 days from sale. For full details contact ticket agents of connecting lines or A H Waggner T P A 7 Jackson Place Indianapolis Ind 6 9.
Silver values fall and become impracticable for money while thousands with dyspepsia digestion and constipation find value in Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Trial sizes ten doses ten cents available from E T Scott.
Prospective buyers in Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and Nebraska are offered fertile land on reasonable terms with openings for farmers and dairymen. Free information is provided by W B Kniskern at 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago Til.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Mountain Lake Park Maryland from July 2 to 13 at one fare, with return validity until July 17 1896. Inquiries may be directed to any G and O ticket agent or L S Allen assistant general passenger agent Chicago.
The advertisement touts Mountain Chautauqua as America's premier summer resort with 300000 dollars invested in improvements, 200 cottages, and weeklong rates from 2 to 12 dollars. Sessions run August 5 to 25 featuring daily entertainments, lectures by Talmage Gordon and Vincent, under W W Davidson. Summer schools offer 20 departments with top university instructors and low tuition. Address A R Sperry Mountain Lake Park Maryland for full details.
A public admonition urges calm and restraint during political contention. Citizens are advised to take vacation, dress lightly, avoid politics, and remain calm until September when the campaign intensifies.
McClure's Magazine for July promises a portrait series of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from Miss Alice Longfellow and a Kipling feature by a former associate, with photographs from Kipling's family. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps recalls Longfellow Whitman and Holmes, plus papers on the horseless carriage and Lincoln as a lawyer. A Constancia Capture and a Robert Barr love story also appear, along with an ascent tale of a Matterhorn climber and other pieces.
May train movement on the B and O eclipsed April’s record with passenger trains arriving on schedule ninety five times out of a hundred. Fast Freight Trains between New York Philadelphia and Baltimore on the east and Cincinnati St Louis and Chicago on the west move with equal precision.
The North-Western Line offers low rate home seekers excursion tickets on June V and 23 1896 to many points in Northern Wisconsin Michigan Northwestern Town Western Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota linking to the Black Hills district. Details via ticket agents or A A Waggener at 7 Jackson Place Indianapolis Ind.
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