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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
3
Corrected weekly prices list for Westville Market covering commodities such as wheat oats corn clover seed and hogs with unit prices per bushel per pound and per dozen or per unit for items including butter eggs potatoes bacon lard chicken turkey duck and hides
100 acres east of Michigan City and north of LaPorte with 15 acres of orchard 70 acres under cultivation and 15 acres of timber. Contains a large first‑class house and a substantial barn. Priced at 38500 half down balance to suit purchaser.
The Westville INDICATOR advocates a new hotel in town, while local notices tout early potatoes, farm sales, ads, and district events. Community updates include health remedies, fishing laws, lectures, and a May 17 dance at Cattron's Hall.
In a calm Monday vote 130 ballots were cast. Citizens reelected most officials except marshal and clerk. Trustee 1st Ward W W Williams 88 votes. A S Culbertson 36. Trustee 2nd Ward S G Haas 95. Trustee 3rd Ward A M Brewer 78 and Andrew Young 48. Clerk F R Jerome 59. R E Hubbard 67. Marshals J M Hill 61. T W Hoard 68. Treasury J Gardner 96. Haus and Hubbard were re elected. new officers will take control. Election board members included Judges J McGinnis and Walt Davidson.
The M. E. parson of this place gives notice to all Westville residents to collect their cats from the parsonage. The notice mocks cat noises and urges owners to fetch pets, promising no cats were brought or sold by the speaker. Also mentions a pamphlet about Francis Scott Key and a monument fund.
A 19th century promotional notice offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case, cites F J Cheney and Co of Toledo as the makers, and includes endorsements from local druggists Wrest Truax Waxorina Kinnan Marvin. It states the cure is taken internally and costs 75 cents per bottle sold by all druggists.
The piece urges expressing love and kindness to friends while they are alive. It laments postmortem kindness and argues that preemptive affection — spoken words and flowers before death — brightens households and eases sorrow. It warns that delaying sentiment robs life of sweetness.
J A Richardson of Jefferson City Missouri, chief enrolling force for the 38th Missouri General Assembly, testifies to the cure’s rapid relief and speedy recovery after other treatments failed, endorsing One Minute Cough Cure.
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