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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1898
Page
3
A garbled list shows prices for Clover seed Hogs Butter Eggs Potatoes Bacon Lard and various live poultry items expressed per unit weight or per bushel. Figures appear numeric but many entries are corrupted or repeated with stray letters.
An old advertisement promises a cure for colds in one day using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It claims druggists will refund the 25 cent price if the remedy fails. The line reads 20-46 as a catalog or page reference.
District notes report St. Patrick's Day in Westville, school year progress, nurse and legal notices, a harbor appropriation effort in Congress, founding of Kankakee Reclamation Co, new city clerk L. Krueger, updates on local merchants, births and anniversaries, weather and farming easing into spring, and municipal appointments in Michigan City and Porter County communities.
Westville hosted a district Odd Fellows meeting with Laporte Valparaiso Michigan City Union Mills lodges in force and Hanna Wheeler smaller delegations. Deputy Grand Master O N Cranor and Mrs Carter presided with degrees conferred by Chequenck Lodge 56 and Mary Hilton Lodge 359. speeches praised Rebekah progress and Odd Fellows home plans. The event featured two banquets and social hours, with 650 meals served, and concluded with a doxology.
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion with cod liver oil in a cream form, urging readers to ensure the product name and fish are clearly shown on the wrapper. It claims value for debtful prices and lists Scott and Bowne chemists in New York as purveyors available at druggists.
W HIBBARD advertises strawberry plants with 12 varieties priced at 25 cents per 100 and 2 dollars per thousand. Located three miles east of Westville, listings note dates 47 49 D.
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