Beaver Dam Community Notes From an Era
Local column recalls visits and gatherings in Beaver Dam including families visiting Laporte and Chicago, a wagon of news on wrecks, births, marriages, and social events. Mentions Dr. Schutt, attorney D. E. Kelly, and Evert Carver as Indiana’s tallest pedagogue with 6.5 feet. Also notes law firm changes and a wolf sighting near Union Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Ireland
Union Mills
Henry Fox
Michigan City
Indiana
Evert Carver
Truesdell, Sallwasser & Leliter
Laporte
H. R. Misener
Michigan City News
Ziola Hershey
Chicago
Rathbone
A. J. Shunk
Dr. Kennedy's Kidney Remedy Ad From Rondout
Advertisement touts Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy of Rondout New York as a universal cure for kidneys liver and blood claiming rapid results. The pitch emphasizes low price one dollar per bottle and six bottles for five dollars aimed at a broad audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Kennedy
Rondout
N. Y
Colonel Fuller Credits Electric Bitters For Cure
In a Honey Grove Texas letter Colonel John M Fuller says he was near death from liver and kidney trouble before using Electric Bitters. He bought a 402 bottle from E T Scott druggist at 50 cents and claims the medicine cured him, praising it as best on earth and a God given remedy for dyspepsia biliousness and kidney disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Fuller
Honey Grove
Texas
Waterloo
Thom
E. T. Scott
Chicago to Pacific Coast Sleeper Tours by North-Western Line
Tickets on sale daily March 1 to May 15 from Chicago to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle Victoria and Vancouver via Chicago Union Pacific and North-Western Line. Daily excursions in Pullman sleeping cars Chicago to Portland San Francisco and Los Angeles without change double berth $700 meals in dining car a la carte. Booklets mailed postpaid with 4 cents stamps. All agents sell tickets via this line. A H Waggener Trav Agt 22 Fifth Ave Chicago Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Victoria
Vancouver
Union Pacific
North-Western
Lacarte
A. H. Waggener
Trav. Agt
Fifth Ave
Ill
Pacific Coast
Fifth Avenue
Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Ad
J W McKinnon of Talladega Springs Alabama writes he was very ill with pneumonia under two doctors care before using Dr King s New Discovery. The first dose gave relief and one bottle cured him. Also advertised as a sure cure for sore throat bronchitis coughs and colds. Guaranteed at E T Scott s drug store. Trial bottle free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Scott’s
Kilmer’s Swamp Root Offered Free Sample Bottle
Readers are offered a free sample of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root kidney liver and bladder remedy. The ad touts cures for lame back kidney trouble and Bright’s disease and provides mailing details to obtain the sample and a booklet by writing to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Bright
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Bing &Hamton
N. Y
Swamp-Root
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beaver Dam
H. H. Martin
D. Noacher
James Herrold
Ben Hur
Chas. Goldsmith
Whiting
Cites
Haskells
J. E.cathcart
Jesse Irwin
Kingsbury
A. ©. Johnson
H. Rotzean
D. McKellips
Mrs. Chilson
Wm. Maxwell
Jas. Herrold
Astabula
Lowi
Waldo Standiford
James
Fuller
Miss Vail
Mabel Wickersham
Miss Burner
Tank
Walkerton
van Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Argos
Lake Erie Road
Charles Baird
South Band
David Tuley
Wm. Gaist
Union Mils
Mrs. Goldmith
John Cathcart
Wm Maxwell
Hubbard
Chicago & South Shore Railway Co
Pine Lake
Monon
Dr. Schutt
Michigan
de. Martin
D. E. Kelly
Valparaiso
A.C. Gridley
Benton Harbor
Mich
Gridley
Edith Iseminger
Wm. Niles
Laporte National Bank
City
Charlotte B. Loomis
Cincinnati
E Martindale
A. A. Ross
Westville
Insane
Southeastern
Girls’ Industrial School
Nortwestern
Marion County
Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Henry Langley
Reliance Manufacturing Company
Lake County
Porter County
Robins
John Hall
White and
Herrold
Christian Church
Ficder
B H S
Trewart
Maryland Jubilee Company
Lyceum Bureau of
Kankakes
Starke
L B Stillwell
Lay’s Opera House
Daily Papers
Jesus
Pacific Christian Advocate
Ore
M. E
A. F. Flegel
A. F. Flege
S. S
Flegel
Fiegel
Cal
W. Huntington
E. Main St
Valparaiso, Ind
Rogers Bros
South Bound
Indianapolis
Norte Bovu
T. T
Aber
aSaaeks
E. E. Nichols
Burcky & Milan
Clark Street
Chicago Hotel
Aner AK
Geo. W. Pitkin Co
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