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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1921
Page
3
Mrs Margaret Reese of 1212 W Mulberry St touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription to restore health and nervous strength. She cites liver trouble and stomach disorder improved by Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and recommends consulting a neighborhood druggist for tablets or liquid remedies.
A high school freshman describes a late blooming crush on his algebra teacher. He confesses intense affection after hours spent in the classroom and is invited to visit the teacher at home, where she hints he would like her husband and two boys too.
Conversation reveals Mary explains the vase fell from its pedestal after a chair bumped it. She claims she only moved the sofa against the table, while the table and other furniture are blamed for causing the accident.
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a home remedy to cleanse the liver and bowels in infants and children. It claims a teaspoonful relieves fever, colic, and sour bile, promising a quick return to a well and playful child with a note to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup from the druggist.
A correspondent notes a tombstone at St Marys Acton West recently renovated bearing the inscription She was Ah what was she What a wife and mother should be This line from London Tit Bits reflects on the value of motherhood and womanhood in a concise commemorative motto.
Webster-Yes, his wife is suing for a divorce.
In a Riverside club story a golfer Howard Folwell woos Beatrice Jackson with a vacuum ball ruse. A crafty caddy exposes the bluff yet boosts Folwell’s confidence, leading to a dramatic payoff as Beatrice agrees to marry him.
The local theater's musical director despises a popular song and the composer who appeared at the theater reveals he earned only 500 dollars. He suggests he was cheated out of profits, as the orchestra played the song during performances.
A correspondent observes the Greek royal family highlighting Constantine with tall stature and regal bearing. The description notes his buckle boots, broad chest adorned with seventeen pounds of jeweled decorations, gold braid, and assorted regalia.
A London Post note quotes a visitor astonished by the quiet barbershops in Scotland. He says artists and clients exchange only needed words for the cut. A Scot confirms the hush stems from thinking about tipping.
Queen Sophia displays regal poise as princesses ride stylishly in royal motorcars. Greeks gather on street corners and wait hours to glimpse his majesty pass at thirty five miles an hour while crowds cheer and salute.
A warden jokes about bringing two visitors to a jail cell as a cracksman asks who the visitors are. He hopes the pair are uplifted ladies and mentions reading a Bible to prepare, hoping for a chicken dinner from the outside.
In a bustling stage scene, Hoof or Mouth tests new lines and visual gags in a musical comedy, prompting questions about audibility and visibility.
A fashion feature outlines autumn to winter fur wraps for women, highlighting capelets and shawl-like wraps in peltry such as broadtail and sable. It notes straight-line silhouettes with belts, mole effects, and novelties like mole shawl-capes, mole envelopes, and embossed wire braid trims paired with tailored suits and accessories.
When faced with a unfamiliar sewing machine set up, break the thread near the spool and tie on your own. If the knot is small pull the original thread to guide your thread through the machine. Break the threads at the needle eye and run your own through to finish threading.
Instructions describe turning worn pillow slips into dresser scarfs by cutting across the middle, slit one side, facing ends and back. For plain hemstitched edges crochet a narrow border around the scarf.
A fragmentary dialogue presents a dream and a sardonic aside about hiding a million dollars. A pessimist responds that waking would reveal it was only fifty. The excerpt hints at themes of illusion and disbelief.
A Diamond Dyes ad touts simple directions to dye or tint worn clothes at home. It claims wool silk linen cotton or blends dye evenly without streaks fading or running and guarantees perfect results with a purchase from any druggist.
A small country school near Janesville Wisconsin has been dedicated as the Frances E Willard museum by temperance movement supporters including former pupils from Wesleyan seminary and Northwestern university. The modest building, once called a big ground nut by Miss Willard, honors her path from pioneer childhood to Hall of Fame recognition in Washington as the only woman so honored.
A local paid notice in the Genesee News titled Eight Months Warning quotes doctors W. H. Ehlen and H. Rouse warning, after October 1, about babies. The item mirrors a public health appeal inserted by the Genesee medical fraternity with reference to Pullman Washington Herald.
A terse exchange notes a noisy disturbance during church hours and questions attendance. The speaker questions a neighbor’s assumptions about churchgoing and cites improper behavior as the basis of a complaint.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap as doubling razor efficiency and promoting skin purity and health. It claims no mug, no slimy soap, no germs, no waste, and no irritation even with twice daily shaving, suitable for shaving bathing and shampooing.
A minor altercation between three marines at boot camp leads the commanding officer to question two principals and a lone witness. The witness denies witnessing the initial clash but confirms being present when the fight began, as reported by The Leatherneck.
Muriel runs to her mother crying about a ladder falling from a window. The father was washing the window when it slipped, breaking three flower pots. The child fears a scolding while the mother hopes no injury occurred.
At a Brooklyn Plymouth church dinner Newell Dwight Hillis, famed eloquent pastor, quipped on income and principle. He quoted a boy who said a man earning $200,000 yearly lacks principle, labeling such a person a profiteer.
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