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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1913
Page
4
A daily thought notes that being well descended is desirable, but the glory belongs to our ancestors as stated by Plutarch.
An advertisement urges mothers to inspect every Castoria bottle for the signature of Henry J. Barton claiming safety for infants and children. It notes the product in use for over 30 years and mentions that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A cartoonish exchange on rubber region sufferings hints at atrocities while a speaker jokes about moving rubber trees in and out of a house with the weather. The quip underscores the era’s colonial rubber trade context and local tensions.
A man who acquired 11 million dollars vows to pay only enough for a car to leave a prudent sum from the rest for funds. He insists the remaining amount must cover future costs through prudent investment, a stance that irks his wife yet marks his financial prudence as reward.
A customer asks what to do for dog fleas while the druggist remarks that fleas on dogs get along fine without help, delivering a dry curved joke about veterinary care.
A Western city bookkeeper credits Postum with banishing stomach trouble after years of coffee or tea. He and his wife say Postum, boiled properly, provides nourishment without caffeine and has improved their health.
Joseph P. Tumulty released the cabinet list naming William J. Bryan as Secretary of State and Lindsey Garrison as Secretary of War among others. The disclosure ends cabinet speculation and introduces three new names Franklin Lane David Houston and Lindley Garrison to national officials.
The United States files a Sherman act civil suit in Trenton New Jersey seeking dissolution of the Coates Interests British thread monopoly involving the American Thread Company and 14 U S firms. Evidence aims to show excess profits on spools and restrained trade by J P Coates Ltd and allied firms. The action, signed by Attorney General Wickersham and James A Fowler, was filed March 5 in federal court.
The county commissioners appointed John L. Clark a farmer of Steele township and treasurer elect to fill the unexpired term of Jones who shot himself in a state of intoxication. The note mentions Clark’s assignment and the tragic death of Theodore T. Jones.
New York March 5 John Brunnen a marble worker twenty six years old fell from the seventeenth floor to the bottom of an elevator shaft in the new Municipal building in Park Row Monday. An ambulance arrived from Hudson Street hospital with Brunnen sitting upright on a bag of cement sacks rolling a cigarette. He had fractures of the leg bones and a slight scalp wound.
Mexican soldiers on patrol fired shots over the international line Monday. Bullets landed in El Paso but no injuries were reported. Col. John N. Vasquez, commander of the Juarez garrison, says his troops were not in the area.
Raleigh March 5 Captain Randolph Smith designer of the Confederate flag died suddenly at his home Monday night in Raleigh He was in his eightieth year and had not been previously ill.
The Globe reports Sir William Manning, governor of Jamaica, obtained a decree of divorce from his wife in London on Monday. The main charge cited was misconduct.
Two American mining engineers, Guy N. Bjorge and William Leslie Taylor of Duluth Minnesota, were injured by Motilones Indians near Maracaibo Venezuela on Monday March 5 1923. The attack occurred as they worked in the region for mining interests.
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