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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1896
Page
3
Local brief mentions insurance, piano tuning, employment trips, residence updates, medical cures, the Grand Lodge visits, road races, reunions, storms, theater plans, and community notices across Valparaiso and nearby towns. Notable items include wool insurance payouts, a murder verdict, and various social engagements in Porter and La Porte counties.
A historical note explains alteratives restore health when organs underperform. Scott's Emulsion of Cod liver Oil with Hypophosphites is highlighted for its iodine and bromine content. Endorsed by doctors for twenty years, it claims to aid those not fully ill or well.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. West Truax Watovina Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists endorse the firm. Cure taken internally and sold by all druggists at 75 cents per bottle.
County Superintendent O. L. Galbreath reports complete school enumeration totals for LaPorte County. LaPorte falls about one half and Michigan City also declines, with the county total dropping from 14 253 to 11 974, a loss of 2 779.
In LaPorte the circuit court hears a suit to break the will of the late Le roy D. Webber valued at 200000 dollars. His daughter by marriage to F R Whittaker died leaving Maybel Whittaker, once considered to receive a large bequest, but the codicil now faces contest.
McClure's Magazine June includes Stephen Crane's battle study praised as dramatic and humorous in its finale, Kipling's In the Rush among strong early stories, Cy Warman Locomotive that Lost Herself, and Anthony Hope Phrase. It also offers Lincoln reminiscences, Grant anecdotes, a Mark Twain portrait series, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps reminiscences, and a Pre-Raphaelite critique with illustrated Rossetti and Burne-Jones works.
The ad mentions One Minute Cough Cure as a standard remedy for coughs and colds and promotes a Monarch wheel for sale. It cites Ohio Farmers Insurance Co reporting 1895 losses of $626,056 with surplus and assets rising to $1,016,282 and urges readers to see A J Stahl before renewing insurance.
Advertisement offering patent services with 35 years of experience. Examinations and reports free. Prompt attention. Requests drawings and descriptions to be sent to L. Bagger & Co at Washington.
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