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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1898
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows live price terms for poultry with unclear labels. Readable items include chickens and turkeys per pound and ducks per pound with incomplete unit details and stray codes.
Local brief items list shop ads harness repairs seeds and wallpaper. Notes include residents Huntington and Dick visiting, Wabash rail rates, a steam boat disaster on the Kankakee, a county Sunday school convention change, optician Allen of Valparaiso, and various notices from Scott and Scott’s shop plus Hood’s Sarsaparilla ads and pension news for Susannah Fuller.
Mrs. Irwin, wife of Jess Irwin of Noble township, died after a stroke of apoplexy. The issue lists a son Clint and daughter Mabel, a teacher who resigned. The column also covers state bond claims on a Laporte military company, payroll writing concerns, fish laws affecting St. Joseph and Michigan City, school fund distribution, and local business notes including a boxing contest plan and a photographer’s prize.
Daily weather log by Jock Cathcart with temperatures and conditions. Highest temperature noted July 9 at 102 degrees, lowest January 1 at 10 below, with a 24 hour change of 86 to 44 in October and a least change in November 7 to 15, indicating stationery conditions.
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