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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1896
Page
3
Readable fragments list grain and livestock prices including wheat oats corn and potatoes per bushel or per hundredweight. Also shows hogs eggs butter lard chicken turkey duck and bacon per pound with several incomplete figures.
Local notes include visits in Valparaiso and Michigan City, a charity maple sugar season, school entertainments, a Unitarian visit, political caucus notices, and community commerce updates. Mentions of doctors, auctions, and local business openings accompany social events and minor incidents.
Miss Anna Slater returns home to care for an ill mother while Miss Dell Posten improves slowly. Mrs Lew Davidson gains. Durham church social postponed to Friday March 27 due to storm. Benson Schoolhouse social earned over fifteen dollars to buy a flag. Quarterly meeting at Durham church Sunday at 10:30 with Rev Smith succeeding Rev Jenkins who preached his last sermon here.
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case despite Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Osrney and Co of Toledo as proprietors and lists endorsements from West Truax Waxpine Kinnan Marvin druggists. The cure is said to act on the blood and mucous surfaces and is priced at 75 cents per bottle with all druggists selling it.
An entertainment at the M I church in New Durham will take place Friday night with ladies serving chicken pie and accompaniments. All invited to attend and taste.
Beaverdam residents share family updates with feeble Grandma Martina and convalescing Andrew Johnson. Visitors include Will namb and wife from Grand Rapids to see H. Martins. D. McKellips visits North Liberty, infant Russell suffers croup but improves. Delbert and Harry Burner haul hay and wood from Ha Porte. Mrs. A Goodrich visits Chicago. Local youths attend School of Forty Years Ago at Door Village laughing over memories.
One thousand bushels of Rural New Yorker No. 2 potatoes offered at 20 cents per bushel in ten bushel lots. Located three miles south of Westville. Contact L. Small at 48 1O.
A coal miner William Gilbride of Assumption Ireland writes that Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the best remedy for stomach troubles. He says he never felt better and believes every family should keep it on hand. E. T. Scott.
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