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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1895
Page
4
Anxious passengers endure a mountain gang hold up as the railroad manager negotiates over moonshine. He risks $400,000 to prevent bloodshed, then secures surrender of whisky stock and safe passage for the train, sparing violence with a blunt display of force and wit.
A recent letter to his mother from a boarding school pupil recalls a boating accident, a burial, a crying mother, a fight for money to pay a head injury, plans to burn an old barn, loss of a watch, and promises of mud turtles and a tame woodchuck upon return.
A girl at the post office loses a stamp to a dog and then a passerby’s boot. A philanthropist’s coins save the day as she mails a new stamp. A penniless suitor laments love and inheritance, while a will is deposited and lovers plan in London and Cross Lanes. The Paddington piece teases a continuation.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only proven cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. The ad claims internal use targets blood and mucous surfaces, builds constitution, and offers $100 if it fails to cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents with testimonials available.
The state statistician reports postal card returns from about a quarter of township assessors. May activity shows roughly 150000 acres of wheat plowed up and land planted in corn, with an expected state yield near 28000000 bushels.
Letter from Rev J Gun derman of Liamondale Mich recalls dramatic relief for his wife with pneumonia and grippe using Dr King’s New Discovery. Trial bottles free at ee drug store and regular sizes 50c and 1. July 3 4 1895 Wabash offers round trip tickets within 200 miles. Individuals advised to send drawings to L Bagger Co. for patents. Envelopes printed names sold at Indicator office. Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy praised for rapid relief in bilious colic. E T Scott druggist sells it.
A Lincoln Call report profiles Dr Samuel L Brown of David City claiming his partial paralysis diabetes varicose veins and Brights disease were cured by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He cites Postmaster Augustus Talbot of Brainerd as another successful case and promotes the medicine as a blood builder and nerve restorer available through Dr Williams Medicine Company.
Testimonial notices praise Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for children teething and bowel troubles. Customers claim quick relief from bloody flux rheumatism and coughs and recommend keeping the remedy at home. Sold by E. T. Scott and I. T. Scott.
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